Monday - Rainy with some clear times
It was an odd day today. I got up at a reasonable time, watched a bit of TV and then went back to bed for a while. I was tired and just couldn’t get motivated to do anything. However, when I got up, I did three loads of laundry and hung it all up.
I watched some of The Road this afternoon. I had been planning to go out, but I got caught up in the movie. However, I have to say that the film was such a downer. It was really sad and depressing so I finally left. I didn’t see the end of it, but I doubt it was a happy ending. Shudder. I know, I know, movies don’t always have to have a happy ending, but I don’t have to watch them either!
I rode off to the post office, mailed a postcard and bought a box for my sister’s present. I was going to box it up there, but I looked at the clock and it was about 3 minutes before they closed so I took the box and the present home again. I used to hate it at the bank when a customer with a million things (or something really complicated) would rush into the branch at the last moment. I’d always get stuck with them, and I was supposed to finish up quickly. Anyway, I couldn’t do that to someone else. (F never understands that!)
I biked home again and waited for F. When he called to say he was coming home, I asked if we could go to the main post office, and he said yes. Yay! He came home as I was finishing sealing the box and we drove off. They were open later than my local branch. It wasn’t too difficult to do, but it was expensive. Sigh. My own fault for not sending it earlier.
We came home again and I started getting dinner ready. Tonight we had a pork stirfry with couscous on the side and it was yummy. I did it all from scratch tonight, no pre-cut vegetables at all. We both enjoyed it. F did the dishes (yay) and then we settled in to watch a little telly. F watched boxing (yawn) so I put some new readers in my school’s database, then started my list for Christmas cards. I still have to write a newsletter, but that hopefully won’t be too hard. I try and keep it short. Every year I receive a very long Christmas letter from an old acquaintance that is 6 pages double sided in excruciating detail about her year and I have yet to read it all the way through. I think the people that know me keep in touch by email or Facebook and the others maybe don’t care that much! Not quite true…I know I’m exaggerating…I have a friend without email, but everyone else has it, more or less.
Anyway, that’s it for me for tonight. Tomorrow I don’t have a class at the moment, although I told a student that if she books before noon I’ll be happy to see her. I guess that means I have to stay around the apartment for a bit. Oh well, talk to you tomorrow? Night.
2 comments:
Hi Helen,
"Anyway, I couldn’t do that to someone else. (F never understands that!)"
This really struck a chord with me. There have been countless occasions where I have not done something simply because I hate to have the same thing done to me and wouldn't want to do the same to another.
J. also doesn't get this.
He also does his best to prevent me from helping another stranger for whatever reason...more about that later.
Also, The Road. Ugh. I haven't seen the movie, but I read the book and I found it to be so draining. A friend highly recommended it to me and I was really looking forward to something good, but I regretted reading it.
Oh well, I guess we all experience things differently.
Take care :)
I haven't read The Road, but I am a fan of Viggo Mortensen, so thought I'd watch for a while. I think I left for the post office a little before the end, but it was literally such a dark film that I don't mind missing the end!
I'm not sure why Japanese people don't have a lot of empathy. Usually my hub is on my case about not caring about other people (like when they walk into me, or when they get too close), but about things like closing times he doesn't care.
F actually does help strangers quite often though. Maybe that's part of him being a small town boy? He's helped women with their cars, and a couple of years ago helped a man who had fallen in the road. For him, I think the thing is he has to notice that people need him! He doesn't notice a lot that's going on around him.
Love to hear more from you!
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