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Day 863: D's 22nd
Jul. 29th, 2022 11:54 pmToday was D's birthday, and I inexplicably slept for nine and a half hours, so by the time I eventually woke up, I was in quite a rush! First I made an apple pie - even though I'd made the dough yesterday, and even though I was using store-bought largish apples rather than smaller apples from my friend's tree, it still took the better part of an hour. I also did a ton of cleaning, which I hadn't wanted to start yesterday because he was home all day.
Meanwhile, he and S. had gone to a fancy arcade place at the mall, and they missed the connection for their bus home by a minute. Then, when they got the next bus, a woman kept making the bus stop because she didn't know where she was going, exactly, and then had the gall to be belligerent with the driver... so that all took extra. But they got here, and D. opened his birthday gifts, and S. opened her graduation gift, and then I served up the apple pie and we sang "Happy Birthday," and then J. and I dashed back to his house so as not to miss the movie night film, which was Miyazaki's The Wind Rises. It was a fine film but I don't need to see it again - it was very much in line with the traditional Japanese aesthetic intertwining love/beauty with death/loss.
It sure was great to relax after all that cleaning! After that I went to the store, and then J. and I did a walk in the dark (the temperature having dropped from today's high of 101 down to the mid-80s). Then I relaxed with a book. :)
Meanwhile, he and S. had gone to a fancy arcade place at the mall, and they missed the connection for their bus home by a minute. Then, when they got the next bus, a woman kept making the bus stop because she didn't know where she was going, exactly, and then had the gall to be belligerent with the driver... so that all took extra. But they got here, and D. opened his birthday gifts, and S. opened her graduation gift, and then I served up the apple pie and we sang "Happy Birthday," and then J. and I dashed back to his house so as not to miss the movie night film, which was Miyazaki's The Wind Rises. It was a fine film but I don't need to see it again - it was very much in line with the traditional Japanese aesthetic intertwining love/beauty with death/loss.
It sure was great to relax after all that cleaning! After that I went to the store, and then J. and I did a walk in the dark (the temperature having dropped from today's high of 101 down to the mid-80s). Then I relaxed with a book. :)