I coulda been an accomplisher!
Jun. 30th, 2007 11:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsThis morning we fed the girls and then got ready for the day. Yamaraashi-chan was going to her sister's house to attend a wedding shower; Kouryou-chan's dance class was having their end-of-year performance at the local Performing Arts Center. And for a huge chunk of the afternoon, from 1:00 until about 4:30, I was supposedly without obligations.
I dropped Omaha & Kouryou-chan off at the PAC first, then drove Yamaraashi-chan to her sister's house. I started down the road to the mall, where I wanted to do some shopping, when the phone rang. I pulled over to answer it. Kouryou-chan was hungry, and she might not have anything to eat during the performance, and could I pick up some fruit and string cheese for her?
I abandoned my shopping plans, turned the car around and did the shopping that Omaha requested. Then I went home. By then it was already 2:30.
Since I was stuck at home and had two hours to spare, I figured I'd do some housework. I spend a chunk of it cleaning up the kitchen: I'd forgotten just how many dishes macaroni & cheese generate, and even if they are nonstick they all need to be cleaned. For the record: three stovetop pots, one casserole dish, two bowls, assorted measuring and stirring devices. I should just make Kraft, ne? I also fixed the back screen door, the handle of which had broken off.
While I was doing that the phone rang. It was my mother. Now, I love my mother, I really do, but she can really talk my ear off. About my brother, about her financial situation, about her hips, about how much she misses her grandchildren and on and on and on. Oy vey, indeed! I don't mind talking to her, but it another hole blown in my day. I feel like I got very little done.
That conversation ended, I had about five minutes before it was time to pick up Kouryou-chan and Omaha. I drove to the few computer shops in my small town, all of which are clustered near the PAC, and discovered that none of them had a hard drive for sale for less than $100, and I didn't need anything bigger than, oh, 80GB. I put my OS's on very small, fast drives for swap space and then use Very Big, Slow, Reliable drives for storage. Bleah.
Oh, well. I felt very grim and frustrated.
I dropped Omaha & Kouryou-chan off at the PAC first, then drove Yamaraashi-chan to her sister's house. I started down the road to the mall, where I wanted to do some shopping, when the phone rang. I pulled over to answer it. Kouryou-chan was hungry, and she might not have anything to eat during the performance, and could I pick up some fruit and string cheese for her?
I abandoned my shopping plans, turned the car around and did the shopping that Omaha requested. Then I went home. By then it was already 2:30.
Since I was stuck at home and had two hours to spare, I figured I'd do some housework. I spend a chunk of it cleaning up the kitchen: I'd forgotten just how many dishes macaroni & cheese generate, and even if they are nonstick they all need to be cleaned. For the record: three stovetop pots, one casserole dish, two bowls, assorted measuring and stirring devices. I should just make Kraft, ne? I also fixed the back screen door, the handle of which had broken off.
While I was doing that the phone rang. It was my mother. Now, I love my mother, I really do, but she can really talk my ear off. About my brother, about her financial situation, about her hips, about how much she misses her grandchildren and on and on and on. Oy vey, indeed! I don't mind talking to her, but it another hole blown in my day. I feel like I got very little done.
That conversation ended, I had about five minutes before it was time to pick up Kouryou-chan and Omaha. I drove to the few computer shops in my small town, all of which are clustered near the PAC, and discovered that none of them had a hard drive for sale for less than $100, and I didn't need anything bigger than, oh, 80GB. I put my OS's on very small, fast drives for swap space and then use Very Big, Slow, Reliable drives for storage. Bleah.
Oh, well. I felt very grim and frustrated.
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Date: 2007-07-01 01:58 pm (UTC)