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Aug. 28th, 2025 05:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
noadvertising It's rain, precious rain of which we had so much this summer that hubby's favourite occupation was pump the excess of pool water out into the canalisation and do a better roof for the tomatoes so that they won't drown. In knowledge that our weather was about to change from mediocre last summer days to autumn during afternoon I got up early, did the daily housecleaning chores then told hubby to ready the pool for me. I meant him to uncover it and maybe fish out dead spiders. He took the robot and let it run its course- one and a half hour of frolicking in the water missed- that's the time robby needs for cleaning. We had a swim after hubby returned from biking to the grocery shop, I took my throw-in-spe, managed one long row (yes, I do crochet even though my hand is still hurting) when strong winds began to bring in the clouds. I did not even manage to finish cooking lunch before the rain started. I threw a tantrum, had a short, last swim (why is it so hard to let go of pool time, and this year it's even worse, because there's been so few of it, not that it's ever enough), took a shower to warm me up then took my plate with rose tteokbokki and had lunch on the terrace, morosely watching the rain pouring down. At least there's now a glass roof between me and the rain water...
In the afternoon I had a phone call with a friend who will leave for another vacation tomorrow. Now one week on a sailing ship would not be my first choice to spend a holiday, but it´s still better than staying at home and babysit the grandchildren, which hubby and I did all summer long. Now that Cassian will start school we fear that the situation might even worsen- DiL has made us known that school is school and being home means leisure time. I think she will be in for an unpleasant surprise in form of homework her son has not done during after school care. Then what, dearest lady? Oh yes, I see it coming, hubby picking the boy up in the afternoon, to oversee homework getting done and picking the other boy up, too, because kindergarten is next to the school- even less inconvenience for the stressed mother! What will she do with her free time then- do more paintings? Watch Romanian TV? Phone calls with friends (in Bucharest, she does not have real friends here)? I think it will be number three followed by two. Definitely not doing dinner, because that´s daddy´s job, as well as being in charge of the boys when he is back from work. It´s pathetic! Most of all because my former colleague told me the same family situation is happening with one of her sons, who even has to bring offspring to school before he goes to work, because mummy is in the gym already. Today´s women are strange, very strange...
Our internet is not working properly. PC is running okay, that one works with cable. Mobile internet is teetering between on and off, which affects my tablet PC. Not good, when I am at the beginning of the crossing of the stitches in the throw and have to listen what the lady in the video is telling me to do. I fervently hope that husband mine will figure out what's wrong...
In the afternoon I had a phone call with a friend who will leave for another vacation tomorrow. Now one week on a sailing ship would not be my first choice to spend a holiday, but it´s still better than staying at home and babysit the grandchildren, which hubby and I did all summer long. Now that Cassian will start school we fear that the situation might even worsen- DiL has made us known that school is school and being home means leisure time. I think she will be in for an unpleasant surprise in form of homework her son has not done during after school care. Then what, dearest lady? Oh yes, I see it coming, hubby picking the boy up in the afternoon, to oversee homework getting done and picking the other boy up, too, because kindergarten is next to the school- even less inconvenience for the stressed mother! What will she do with her free time then- do more paintings? Watch Romanian TV? Phone calls with friends (in Bucharest, she does not have real friends here)? I think it will be number three followed by two. Definitely not doing dinner, because that´s daddy´s job, as well as being in charge of the boys when he is back from work. It´s pathetic! Most of all because my former colleague told me the same family situation is happening with one of her sons, who even has to bring offspring to school before he goes to work, because mummy is in the gym already. Today´s women are strange, very strange...
Our internet is not working properly. PC is running okay, that one works with cable. Mobile internet is teetering between on and off, which affects my tablet PC. Not good, when I am at the beginning of the crossing of the stitches in the throw and have to listen what the lady in the video is telling me to do. I fervently hope that husband mine will figure out what's wrong...
