Monday: started early and fizzled
Nov. 18th, 2024 08:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutI got up earlier than usual because A. had her annual today. It went fine. The usual concerns about is she getting enough calcium, a mild concern about the vitamin K supplement we give her because of occasional nose bleeds and the picky eating means probably not enough vitamin k from veggies. I checked; the supplement is in mcg and the recommended max is in mg, so we are for sure in the green. No worries. One shot, for meningitis. We even got her to school in time!
I walked with M.
I finished reading Susan Orlean’s The Orchid Thief for book group, which is now delayed until next week. Orlean is usually fun, and this is no exception. I have no idea why I never read it before, but it is absolutely hilarious to think of Laroche, who is really only a few years older than me, and given the time frame of the book and Laroche’s get rich quick obsession and obsessions in general and what was going on in my life in those years, the whole thing just struck me as absolutely hilarious. But then again, doesn’t everything about Florida feel hilarious, once you’ve got a little distance from it. In the moment, not hilarious at all, mostly infuriating.
I do find it a little astonishing that I’m in Florida twice a year, for a week or more at a time, almost every year and that’s been true for over a decade now. Not how I really expected my life to go, but it’s nice to get more historical background and more of a sense of place for more of the state. My perspective on Florida has been very Central Florida centric (Disney, obviously, but also The Villages), with little appendages for Cocoa Beach and Sarasota. My interest in doing anything else in Florida is not non-existent, but nearly every other vacation idea has more appeal. Still, it’s nice to read about. It’s also nice to get some breadth and depth on people and orchids (and bromeliads and ferns and and and), because that’s popped up in JAK a bunch, and much less commonly in people I’ve encountered in my life and it’s always a little confusing, the intensity that people have about certain plants, and that they expect me to somehow share it? Or be impressed by it? It’s good to have some detailed background.
I made apple crips. Yummy.
I’m going to try to go to bed early, because I have a bunch of driving to do tomorrow and I’m already tired.
ETA:
I also read Casey Blair’s Consider the Dust, which is probably a novella? It’s a ton of fun, the story of friends or rivals or who really knows, and what happens when they reunite after more than a year apart and a whole lot of changes and growing up and yet somehow no changes at all. It has a great sense of humor, and wonderful fight scenes and the incisive political commentary isn’t too heavy handed. Loved it!
I walked with M.
I finished reading Susan Orlean’s The Orchid Thief for book group, which is now delayed until next week. Orlean is usually fun, and this is no exception. I have no idea why I never read it before, but it is absolutely hilarious to think of Laroche, who is really only a few years older than me, and given the time frame of the book and Laroche’s get rich quick obsession and obsessions in general and what was going on in my life in those years, the whole thing just struck me as absolutely hilarious. But then again, doesn’t everything about Florida feel hilarious, once you’ve got a little distance from it. In the moment, not hilarious at all, mostly infuriating.
I do find it a little astonishing that I’m in Florida twice a year, for a week or more at a time, almost every year and that’s been true for over a decade now. Not how I really expected my life to go, but it’s nice to get more historical background and more of a sense of place for more of the state. My perspective on Florida has been very Central Florida centric (Disney, obviously, but also The Villages), with little appendages for Cocoa Beach and Sarasota. My interest in doing anything else in Florida is not non-existent, but nearly every other vacation idea has more appeal. Still, it’s nice to read about. It’s also nice to get some breadth and depth on people and orchids (and bromeliads and ferns and and and), because that’s popped up in JAK a bunch, and much less commonly in people I’ve encountered in my life and it’s always a little confusing, the intensity that people have about certain plants, and that they expect me to somehow share it? Or be impressed by it? It’s good to have some detailed background.
I made apple crips. Yummy.
I’m going to try to go to bed early, because I have a bunch of driving to do tomorrow and I’m already tired.
ETA:
I also read Casey Blair’s Consider the Dust, which is probably a novella? It’s a ton of fun, the story of friends or rivals or who really knows, and what happens when they reunite after more than a year apart and a whole lot of changes and growing up and yet somehow no changes at all. It has a great sense of humor, and wonderful fight scenes and the incisive political commentary isn’t too heavy handed. Loved it!