Question and Whine
July 24, 2006 at 5:24 PM
by Ashleigh
Why is it that when things seem decided upon, something always happens to change them?
Today at the gym the mom of the other gifted kid in the class Seb is going to told me that her son is actually leaving the school because she doesn't think he gets enough extra care and because he is bullied. He and his brother are two of the five gifted kids in the school, so now there are only four! And worst of all, the 'buddy' that Seb was supposed to have in the class is now gone, so he will be doing his work alone.
She told me that she is sending her son to another school nearby where there is already one gifted kid in the class and asked me to consider moving Seb there if it doesn't work out this year wth Seb at his current school. It's too much to think about right now.
Why don't things stay the same?
I telephoned our friends in the UK yesterday and they told me one of our neighbours who used to be a friend of mine has gone all loopy. She used to be really houseproud and crafty and now apparently her garden is full of trash and the house looks dirty and uncared for from the outside. This offends my sensibilities because I like to remember it as it was.
I also talked to my mom today and she says she got a letter from my daughter with photos attached. Arianne will be 14 this year. How can I be the parent of a 14 year old, and even more alarmingly, a 14 year old with breasts? My mom says she really looks like a teenager. How come having a teenaged daughter makes me feel even less grown up than I usually do?
It gets interesting because my mom says that in the letter Arianne told how she is staying with an old lady who looks after her and her adoptive sister since her adoptive mom died. They no longer attend the private school they were at and instead go to Boksburg High School in Johannesburg. Their adoptive dad is working in Mozambique. This worries me.
Why can't I get enthusiastic about going on holiday?
We hadn't planned to go, for lack of cash, but I think it would be good for us to go somewhere at least for one or two days. I just can't get enthusiastic about it. I don't know why, but it all seems like a huge chore. Looking it up, paying for it, actually going. In fact, all of it seems like a chore. So we'll just stay here, unless someone else wants to do all the chore part and leave me to just be there?
How come everything that's cool that I intended to do and then becomes sold out seems so much cooler because I didn't do it?
At the gym today we were watching the kids enrolled for the summer camp. It looks SO cool. And I dallied too long about enrolling Seb and Joe so they couldn't go. And they would have loved it. The enrolled kids all had special t-shirts and hats and were doing all kinds of cool things. We had lunch at the gym, but it wasn't enough to console the two poor left-out kiddies.
Why does everything salty also contain lots of fat?
Everything I could eat, that I want to eat, that is salty, is really high in fat. I'm drinking bouillion instead. Yuck. And tomato juice. Yum.
Why is my achilles tendon still sore when it should be healed?
I went to the gym today and ran for the first time in 6 weeks. Very slowly I might add. Very carefully at 5.5 km/h and only for 27 minutes of which about 10 minutes was a powerwalk. But it still hurts. The physio did nothing for it and the dr is worse than useless. And I can't not run. I will get fatter and fatter until I explode.
I updated my weightloss blog today by the way.
Why does Ebaying stuff take so much time?
And lastly, big pile of things to ebay, but why oh why does it take so long to get them uploaded? I use turbo lister, but still! Man oh man, what a tedious job.
The problem is that it's too damn hot outside and inside and everywhere we go and this is why every minor annoyance in our lives looms large. We're grouchy!
What we need is a few days of grey skies and rain to put us in a good mood. Did I just write that? Oh no Ash, we've adapted too well to life in the Low Countries!
July 25, 2006 8:27 AM