We did plenty of stuff this weekend. It was a busy and productive set of days. And I have yet to do any coding on my project.
Let’s see …
We got Joseph’s glasses ordered. We got his exam & new prescription back in December, and we have been saying how this is our top and first priority ‘just as soon as the ranch stuff is done’. So it’s been a long time he’s been waiting for decent glasses, and it’s nice to finally have taken this next step. They should be in end of next week or early the week after that.
We took Eleanor to the doctor and went to the pharmacy and sat up fretting over our feverish child. She is absolutely fine now. It’s a little strange to think we have to give her antibiotics for the next nine days when she’s so evidently recovered. Was it just last night that I was up at 2am giving her Motrin for a spiking fever and wondering if I needed to bring in the ice packs?
We took Eleanor to the jumpy place and let her run around for at least an hour and a half, in those last fading hours before we considered that she might be sick instead of merely alternating sweet and cranky, probably tired, and picky about food. Because those preliminary symptoms could also have been any day of the last year and a half. To all the other parents taking their kids to the jumpy place for a final romp at the end of spring break: We are so sorry. We really didn’t have any idea she could be sick.
We spent the frivolous part of our tax refund (we split them, as one does, and do the sober responsible thing with the first portion and some agreed upon frivolity with the rest. It’s not always half and half.) We went to Wimberly Glass Works and special ordered a beautiful dust catcher. It’s been three years that we’ve been eying this particular pattern and this was the year. It will likewise be a couple of weeks before this one is ready. I am really, really, really looking forward to it.
We mowed the yard. This was complicated by the fact that the mower was buried under several layers of ‘just stuff it in the garage; we’ll sort it all out later’ deposits. So we excavated the mower, and then moved the yard. This was the first mow of the season, delayed (like everything else has been delayed) till ‘just as soon as the ranch stuff is done’. (a certain personality type would have made an acronym of that phrase by now)
We picked up. I shudder to think of how long it has been. We still haven’t had a day to really dig in and clean. But you know – just as soon as the ranch stuff is done.
Joseph went to a nursery and priced out the frames we’ll need for our growing, and possibly (given a critical eye) scraggly roses. There is so, so much that needs to be done in the lawn just as soon as the ranch stuff is done (don’t you wish I was the type of personality that made up acronyms?). Our roses never got trimmed this winter, so they all have a certain wild-grown look to them. AKA ‘scraggly’.
You see how much of this weekend was devoted to me finishing up this school work?
Well, I did get all of the regular homework done. And I finally keyed in on how to approach the project in the first place. You know how you can try all you’d like but when it’s just the wrong goal so you’ll never seriously get started? Yeah; I was there till late Saturday. But now that the goal finally clicked, I got the scaffolding all set up and have most of the concept detailed out. I just haven’t done a lick of coding. I have examples to follow. It will just fall into place, right?
It’s not like last time where I could keep working on it for a week and a half after the due date. The course ends for good on Wednesday.