July 22 2009 Making my own amusement

A day with no one to entertain me is what I imagine being single must be like. It is remarkable how much my general happiness and well-being is dependent on the proximity of the man I married, hence the aforementioned super-hero identity Proximity Girl. On the other hand, it is a relief to be free of the simple restraint of coordination.

So for my day, which included three child-free hours, I had to entertain myself. I went swimming for the first time in maybe two years. I like swimming, it is a great sport with the ability to strengthen my muscles without aggravating my hip injury, and I think I may do it more often (except that my tolerance right now is about 30 minutes and admission is five bucks).

This evening was the Weekly Fiber, or knit group, as it's less comedically called, and I had to have the kids entertain themselves because I couldn't very well leave them home. They did great, with a brownie and a hot chocolate piled high with whipped cream and their stencils and writing FanFiction (Junie B. Jones episode, anyone?).

Any way you cut the day, it was slightly more demanding than most days to stay happy. It's okay, I can do that.



Macro auto + flash from across the table.

Tomorrow's word: Form