Life/this weekend/1st day of school

[zestfive]

Teh boy started school today. I can't believe he's a junior in high school. When I got home from work today we ran to Target to pick up some school supplies and etc. He's okay with Target tennis shoes so I won't complain. I did end up buying him this brown leather zippered planner (which he will take out the planner part and insert his school planner). I think he just wants to have a zippered planner with little tablets for taking notes with). I enjoyed hearing about his classes.

This weekend was good, we camped out at our friend J's house along with 3 other couples and a handful of kids. P wasn't feeling so good after pushing herself too much the last couple of weeks at work so she slept in the last couple of mornings. We had good times with friends we haven't hung out with for a while. She did her watercolor painting and I assembled some peace signs that I'm going to send to family and etc to honor my Dad.

Monday we went to the state fair. I didn't think that we'd have lots of energy especially with as hot as it was. We volunteered with the Sesquincentenial booth for a few hours and then had some food (cheese curds, slice of pizza, ice cream, lemonade, corn dog) attended the Toby Keith concert. We had great seats, 5th row center. I just hated sitting next to the lady who sat too close to me (I tend to have big private space). We got some really fun pics. I'm not much of a Toby Keith fan but P chose to surprise me with a date night. I like it when she plans things for us.



On a sad note, her friend J (who lives in Iowa) lost her sister on Sunday. She had late stage brain cancer and lost the war. She was younger than P which makes me worry a little bit. J is also chronically sick with wegeners disease. P wanted to go down there but J didn't want her to do. I feel bad for P because she obviously cares deeply for J but she keeps everyone at arms length. I met J once when she came up here, she's a riot but I do get a sense of sadness about her.

Comments

[allenjaphy.livejournal.com]

I always get squirmy when people refer to a disease as a war. Maybe I'm just a semantic snob but one of my best friends died of leukemia when she was 17, she was diagnosed when we were 11. She talked about it being a war in the beginning, and in the end she talked about the cancer as a presence that was just unhealthy or incompatible.

Your kiddo made it further in high school than I did. Go him. Go you!

[zestfive.livejournal.com]

Wow, I must be really out of it, I read your response and didn't even realize that I wrote it like that. Your perspective makes sense, I think I'll chew on that for a while. Thanks for your perspective.

High school, meh...I think it's mostly training the masses, if you're beyond that, skip out. I did that my senior year. I don't know if he'll do that or not. He chose to take Spanish I instead of German II even though I told him he should get 2 years of language out of the way in high school if he wants to go to college. I'm a little apathetic about high school. I didn't fit in and neither does he, he comes from a long line of square pegs. Although, if you put us in a room full of square pegs, we'd probably look pretty round. GRIN

[morningloryblue.livejournal.com]

Congratulation mamma for the successful start of another school year...and YYAYYYY for date night! Gotta keep it lovey-dovey to keep it alive!

[zestfive.livejournal.com]

yeah, seems that things are going really well between us. I love it when it happens like that, GRIN.