Friday, August 12, 2016
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bearshortyWe are leaving for Long Island tomorrow to visit Bear's family until Monday. We come back Monday night, and then Tuesday morning my Mom will whisk Tanya and I away to their house, while Bear starts his work meeting season and will be away until Saturday. So a week of travel. We are going to try to leave early to beat the worst of the heat - New York is in the middle of another heatwave. This summer has been very hot and humid. I left the house for maybe ten minutes today at 9am to go to the post office and bank and the walk was a bit too much already.
This week has been pretty ordinary. My Mom came over on Monday morning and both my parents were over today (Papa was just working from my place) but otherwise it was just the usual schedule of breakfast, playground, lunch, nap, hanging out, cooking etc. Today we stayed home all day because of the heat, so it was nice to have parents around.
I've been watching Olympics in the evening. (I haven't had the TV just on for a long time. I usually watch just very specific shows and often on my laptop. Or a specific movie on DVD. It's a little weird to just have it on) I only have regular antenna, no cable, so I have to suffer the Primetime Coverage. It has mostly been gymnastics and swimming, which was fun to watch but I wish they showed other sports too. This afternoon, we actually turned the TV on and watched a little trampoline, which was fun, and led to Tanya jumping on the couch for bit. (I let her watch like 10 minutes occasionally. Her favorite was diving. I made a fake pool out of her box of shapes and a fake tower out of a zombie bowling game carton. She made her toys do some diving :) )
I also, kind of, accidentally got a tutoring job, I think. We'll see. These two little kids come to the playground with their nanny and their speech therapist. We've been friendly all spring/summer, but not really getting too personal. In June, after Tanya started stuttering a bit, I even sought the advice of the speech therapist (she said it is a totally normal phase and not to worry or correct her). Anyhow, last Thursday a week ago, my Mom was over and came to the playground with us. The next day, the speech therapist, Anya, randomly asked if my Mom was coming again and I explained that she comes occasionally but will be here more consistently once I start work again in September. Which led into her discovery that I teach college writing. She has a 5th grader and an 8th grader and she is looking for a new writing tutor for them as they don't click with their last one. So she immediately wanted to hire me. I thought about over the weekend, since I haven't taught kids that young in a while, but I think it should be fine. And it won't hurt to try. Anyway, we will see. If it doesn't work, no harm. It would be nice to have extra money though. And it is really good money.
Last weekend was nice. I didn't have to go anywhere. I did have a big list of things to do. I've done everything on it, so I felt pretty productive.
Read She Wolf 2 chapters +
Read Gaiman 2 chapters +
Read Hugo 2 chapters +
Write 2 pages +
Watch some Olympics +
Finish watching Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell +
Book post +
Finish leaves on cross stitch+
Wash floor +
Clean bathroom +
Change sheets +
Wash hair +
Shave legs +
Pedicure +
Make grocery list for Bear +
Make zucchini stir-fry +
Make Rice and beans with pepper +
Make soup for Tanya +
Call grandparents +
Exercise bike +
Ab exercises -2 times +
Tanya made up laugh this week. It was close to bedtime and we were just done with the bath and she was making some monkey noises. Bear asked her in Russian, "Tanya, ty obez'yana?" (Tanya, are you a monkey?) and she said, in a very firm voice, "Nyet! Tanya ne obez'yana. Tanya Tanya." (No! Tanya is not a monkey. Tanya is Tanya). My little philosopher.
This week has been pretty ordinary. My Mom came over on Monday morning and both my parents were over today (Papa was just working from my place) but otherwise it was just the usual schedule of breakfast, playground, lunch, nap, hanging out, cooking etc. Today we stayed home all day because of the heat, so it was nice to have parents around.
I've been watching Olympics in the evening. (I haven't had the TV just on for a long time. I usually watch just very specific shows and often on my laptop. Or a specific movie on DVD. It's a little weird to just have it on) I only have regular antenna, no cable, so I have to suffer the Primetime Coverage. It has mostly been gymnastics and swimming, which was fun to watch but I wish they showed other sports too. This afternoon, we actually turned the TV on and watched a little trampoline, which was fun, and led to Tanya jumping on the couch for bit. (I let her watch like 10 minutes occasionally. Her favorite was diving. I made a fake pool out of her box of shapes and a fake tower out of a zombie bowling game carton. She made her toys do some diving :) )
I also, kind of, accidentally got a tutoring job, I think. We'll see. These two little kids come to the playground with their nanny and their speech therapist. We've been friendly all spring/summer, but not really getting too personal. In June, after Tanya started stuttering a bit, I even sought the advice of the speech therapist (she said it is a totally normal phase and not to worry or correct her). Anyhow, last Thursday a week ago, my Mom was over and came to the playground with us. The next day, the speech therapist, Anya, randomly asked if my Mom was coming again and I explained that she comes occasionally but will be here more consistently once I start work again in September. Which led into her discovery that I teach college writing. She has a 5th grader and an 8th grader and she is looking for a new writing tutor for them as they don't click with their last one. So she immediately wanted to hire me. I thought about over the weekend, since I haven't taught kids that young in a while, but I think it should be fine. And it won't hurt to try. Anyway, we will see. If it doesn't work, no harm. It would be nice to have extra money though. And it is really good money.
Last weekend was nice. I didn't have to go anywhere. I did have a big list of things to do. I've done everything on it, so I felt pretty productive.
Read She Wolf 2 chapters +
Read Gaiman 2 chapters +
Read Hugo 2 chapters +
Write 2 pages +
Watch some Olympics +
Finish watching Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell +
Book post +
Finish leaves on cross stitch+
Wash floor +
Clean bathroom +
Change sheets +
Wash hair +
Shave legs +
Pedicure +
Make grocery list for Bear +
Make zucchini stir-fry +
Make Rice and beans with pepper +
Make soup for Tanya +
Call grandparents +
Exercise bike +
Ab exercises -2 times +
Tanya made up laugh this week. It was close to bedtime and we were just done with the bath and she was making some monkey noises. Bear asked her in Russian, "Tanya, ty obez'yana?" (Tanya, are you a monkey?) and she said, in a very firm voice, "Nyet! Tanya ne obez'yana. Tanya Tanya." (No! Tanya is not a monkey. Tanya is Tanya). My little philosopher.