ScreechingCoot of Bliss
May. 9th, 2017 09:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ismoTrying not to stop posting . . . The weather is sunny though cool, and I've been trying hard to walk every day, pursuant to my goal of getting back into some semblance of normality. I'm dismayed by how hard that is. Not happy about that. Today I saw ducklings with their mother on the lake for the first time. They were still tiny balls of fluff, so I don't think they could have hatched more than a few days ago. The swans haven't hatched yet. The mother swan is still valiantly guarding the nest, and the father swan has started hanging around anxiously, too. Maybe this means the cygnets will be out soon!
I edited a few more pages today. I bought a clock for my mother--a cheap knockoff of a Baby Ben. I worry that it looks kinda cheap, but her clock stopped working. She wants a windup clock with big numbers so she can see them. This one was available at the drug store, so I bought it. Available is better than perfect. The Duchess said she was thinking of just bringing dessert to my mother's place on Mother's Day, and said I didn't really have to come. That would have been restful, since I was there last week and will be there again next week. I thought, "How nice! The Duchess decided to do something with Mother on her own! Things must be taking a turn for the better." However, my mother invited us to have dinner with her on Mother's Day, and I didn't want to turn her down, so I agreed to come. I told the Duchess this, and said we'd be happy to stay and visit with her over dessert after dinner, and she said, "Oh, as it happens, I decided to go to Ikes' house in Chicago for Mother's Day." So how convenient that I'm going to see our mother--otherwise she'd spend Mother's Day alone, I guess. Sigh. Not judging--just puzzled as usual.
Started watching The Handmaid's Tale. Wow. It's pretty damn triggery. The Sparrowhawk started reading me some of the negative reviews--"tired feminist tropes," "not believable," "anti-Christian propaganda"--and I asked him to stop, because it was making me feel homicidally enraged. My inner Colonel wants to start assembling the rocket launcher.
I edited a few more pages today. I bought a clock for my mother--a cheap knockoff of a Baby Ben. I worry that it looks kinda cheap, but her clock stopped working. She wants a windup clock with big numbers so she can see them. This one was available at the drug store, so I bought it. Available is better than perfect. The Duchess said she was thinking of just bringing dessert to my mother's place on Mother's Day, and said I didn't really have to come. That would have been restful, since I was there last week and will be there again next week. I thought, "How nice! The Duchess decided to do something with Mother on her own! Things must be taking a turn for the better." However, my mother invited us to have dinner with her on Mother's Day, and I didn't want to turn her down, so I agreed to come. I told the Duchess this, and said we'd be happy to stay and visit with her over dessert after dinner, and she said, "Oh, as it happens, I decided to go to Ikes' house in Chicago for Mother's Day." So how convenient that I'm going to see our mother--otherwise she'd spend Mother's Day alone, I guess. Sigh. Not judging--just puzzled as usual.
Started watching The Handmaid's Tale. Wow. It's pretty damn triggery. The Sparrowhawk started reading me some of the negative reviews--"tired feminist tropes," "not believable," "anti-Christian propaganda"--and I asked him to stop, because it was making me feel homicidally enraged. My inner Colonel wants to start assembling the rocket launcher.
Re: not judging?
Date: 2017-05-10 02:37 pm (UTC)