Happy Toosday!
It’s a chilly 45 degrees this morning, supposed to get up to 57 and be cloudy all day.
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No playdate today, and the dogs have been bratty.
We were out of dog treats (still had some biscuits), all their treats got delivered yesterday - da jungle subscribe and save.
Ripple came in this morning so I gave him one of his favoirite treats, but Ripple will not just take a treat. First I have to ‘beat’ him with it, smacking it up and down his back, then I have to tease him by holding it in front of him and pulling it back, then I pretend to eat it, throw it on the floor and run and grab it before he can get it, lather, rinse, repeat. He loves the game and as long as Echo is still outside we can play.
For whatever reason today, instead of running off to eat his treat he dropped it in front of Echo, and so we had to start the game all over again. Then when he finally took the treat, Echo was done with hers and wanted his, so I gave her a few biscuits. Only I was sitting at my desk and she got tangled in all the cords and pulled everything off the desk, including my laptop, which fell face down.
It seems to be irking - so far.
Cupcakes I had a bat in the house a while back. Ripple caught it, had to take him in for a rabies booster the next day.
It took us an hour and a half to get it out of here, don’t know if it survived I think Ripple did some damage to it.
I wish the damn dog park would open.
I like spam, can’t find it though. Also can’t find baked beans, ramen noodles, or dishwasher detergent. Ramen noodles aren’t very keto, but I would have loved them for my sore throat last week. Wonton soup is better when I am sick, but the Chinese place is so busy they won’t deliver. I wish I had bought a freezer so we could stock up on meat, but I let my son talk me out of it.
I need to go to the grocery store today. I have a list but no guarantees I can get everything on it.
Nuts, my son also had to write about when he learned from the team assignment. He was going to mention that he already knew he didn’t like team assignments and this assignment reminded him why.
Nellie, all of his upper lever managment classes were mostly team assignments, I think it is designed to prepare them for real life in the business world.
There are always slackers on the team though. My son is never the team leader, but he is always one of the hardest workers. Last semester he wrote all the reports, and even when other members contributed, he did all the editting and rewrites. He is very anal about it though. This class he did all the power points, and all the editting and rewrites, and well as contributing to a lot of the writing. His strenghts are writing and editting, and paying attention to details.
Five more assignments and he is done. Three of those are final exams. He has one last paper for Jazz, which he was going to not work so hard on as he can get a low grade on it and still get an A in the class, but his professor gives him nice comments on his papers and told him how much he appreciates the work my son puts into them. Now my son feels like he can’t let the professor down by turning in a crappy paper.
I told my son that a lot of students take these music classes thinking they will be an easy A, (I had a client who was a Jazz professor and he told me a lot of his students thought his class would be an easy A and how it annoyed him that they werent serious about learning. They also found out pretty quickly that it was not going to be an easy A.), so he probably appreciates students who do take the class seriously and put some effort into it. I’m sure the music (and art) professors would rather be making a living off making music and art rather than teaching, so to have students who aren’t passionate about the subject is probably disappointing to them.
Ten more days and school is over, he should get his diploma sometime in July.
I can’t until he is done, the yard needs a good trimming and mulching. I have a new window blind that needs to be hung. Pita because it has to be cut to fit, it takes two of us to cut it. He can hang it without using the step ladder, so better for him to do it. All the windows need to be washed, that is his job as well. I have furniture to move that I can’t move by myself. A new shower head that needs to be installed. The truck needs a washing and he does a better job than I do. I noticed the car wash is open and seems to be a place where people are meeting up. I have bags and boxes of stuff sitting around waiting to be donated or given to family/friends who can use it. He can get all of his books and school stuff out of the living room, all the clutter makes me irritable. I also have a big box of electronics that need to be recycled. I don’t know if Best Buy is taking them now, or I guess it can wait until November when the city takes them.
My stimulus check is supposed to be mailed on Firday. After all the trouble of being told I wasn’t eligible or my eligibility hasn’t be determined, to finally saying I was eligible and to enter my banking info, and now I’m getting a check anyway. I’ll have to keep an eye out for it. That is one piece of mail I want to get before the dogs get it. Ripple is good about bringing me the mail in good condition, but sometimes Echo grabs it and she can get it a bit soggy. Or she won’t bring it to me and drops it somewhere in the house. At least neither of them will chew it up.
Ripple also likes to bring me my slippers, but he usually only brings one, so one will be upstairs and one downstairs. Which is better than Echo, who likes to carry one outside and drop it on the deck. I think she thinks if I have to go outside to get it, I will stay outside. If she had her way we’d all live outside.
But hope they can clear it up for you.