Day 1011: Two months and counting
Jan. 5th, 2012 08:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nagi_schwarzMy laptop, which has been grievously ill and full of misbehavior lately is in the shop, so for the next week I am running on mobile devices only. We will see how well this business goes. So far I have successfully managed to answer long emails and also update my weekly comic (although if I don't get my laptop back soon I will run out of new comics to post).
Life is going pretty well. Last night Cody and I celebrated our two months by cracking open the bottle of bubbly I think my mother intended for new Year's and making a succession of increasingly ridiculous and sentimental toasts.
I am getting over my cold, and I have finished one baby afghan already for the new year. I have some other baby projects to make and send, and then I can get into the whole bobbin lace business for serious. As it turns out, my dad can make bobbins for lace on his shiny new Christmas toy, so I may have to ask for some. Till then, fumbling along I shall be.
I am slowly making progress on my novel - slowly, since I'm writing it by hand, getting ink all over my fingers, and getting interrupted by things like life and chores. But progress is good, and writing gives me purpose, so I am happy. Cody is sleeping better at night now, and I'm the one suffering bouts of insomnia, so I use my awake time to do research for my novel, because as excited as I am to write a novel, research will always make me sleepy.
Cody started school yesterday, and he's already ready to be done. He's taking scary science classes, scary math classes, a programming class, and a PE class so he has enough credits for his scholarship, and he is also working as a tutor and lab assistant, so he will be super tired. He was tired last night, and he didn't even have much homework. When that starts getting busy, it will be a wonder he sleeps at all, I suspect.
I went to Kenpo with Cody on Tuesday night. I've gone and watched before, and some of Cody's Kenpo friends were at the wedding open house, so I knew just about everybody. It's very different from what I'm used to, a different pace and philosophy, and I think Cody's Sensei thought Cody had taught me more than he has, so he just sort of threw me into the deep end, but everyone assured me I'm picking it up fast. It was fun, and last night I had Cody teach me all the basic strikes and stances for my first rank. And I did something I haven't done since I was eight - corkscrew punches from horse stance. It's going to be a wild ride.
Half of the fun of Kenpo looks like it's going to be how all of the defense techniques have awesome names. Even a little white belt like me learns flashing swords and destroying wedge and all number of fearsome but, in the end, deceptively simple techniques. Makes me sound much scarier than I am.
I have been cranky about living in Idaho, but I think, now that I have a purpose, even if I don't have a job, I will be happy.
Life is going pretty well. Last night Cody and I celebrated our two months by cracking open the bottle of bubbly I think my mother intended for new Year's and making a succession of increasingly ridiculous and sentimental toasts.
I am getting over my cold, and I have finished one baby afghan already for the new year. I have some other baby projects to make and send, and then I can get into the whole bobbin lace business for serious. As it turns out, my dad can make bobbins for lace on his shiny new Christmas toy, so I may have to ask for some. Till then, fumbling along I shall be.
I am slowly making progress on my novel - slowly, since I'm writing it by hand, getting ink all over my fingers, and getting interrupted by things like life and chores. But progress is good, and writing gives me purpose, so I am happy. Cody is sleeping better at night now, and I'm the one suffering bouts of insomnia, so I use my awake time to do research for my novel, because as excited as I am to write a novel, research will always make me sleepy.
Cody started school yesterday, and he's already ready to be done. He's taking scary science classes, scary math classes, a programming class, and a PE class so he has enough credits for his scholarship, and he is also working as a tutor and lab assistant, so he will be super tired. He was tired last night, and he didn't even have much homework. When that starts getting busy, it will be a wonder he sleeps at all, I suspect.
I went to Kenpo with Cody on Tuesday night. I've gone and watched before, and some of Cody's Kenpo friends were at the wedding open house, so I knew just about everybody. It's very different from what I'm used to, a different pace and philosophy, and I think Cody's Sensei thought Cody had taught me more than he has, so he just sort of threw me into the deep end, but everyone assured me I'm picking it up fast. It was fun, and last night I had Cody teach me all the basic strikes and stances for my first rank. And I did something I haven't done since I was eight - corkscrew punches from horse stance. It's going to be a wild ride.
Half of the fun of Kenpo looks like it's going to be how all of the defense techniques have awesome names. Even a little white belt like me learns flashing swords and destroying wedge and all number of fearsome but, in the end, deceptively simple techniques. Makes me sound much scarier than I am.
I have been cranky about living in Idaho, but I think, now that I have a purpose, even if I don't have a job, I will be happy.
