Since I haven't seen anything, and we have similar taste in movies, why don't you just pick one? And don't forget we'll see Date Night in 2 weeks.
Ok, yesterday was a long day. Had the orientations for both kids. D16's was scheduled from 8:30 to 10, but checked their website the night before and they'd changed the time from 8 to 10, so I got there at 10. Apparently, there was some kind of email or info re: schedule snafu, they hadn't gotten mailed as they were supposed to so we were supposed to be there at 7:15am. I never of course heard anything about that, so X did show up at that time and get the schedule. S16 goes to the biggest high school in town and it was a mess-no parking, people standing in long lines for schedules. We started to go to the presentation we were having, but it was packed, not even any room to stand. X, who hates crowds, ducked out and said he'd be waiting outside. We went out too as it was too crowded and X was just sitting there kind of in a snit I think. A year or 2 ago, I would have just looked for him to "lead" us around-I tend to be a total follower. But this time I think I did a 180, and I just took the kids and said let's go find all your classes, which was what my son was really concerned about and meeting his teachers. I guess at some point X joined us, and we went through and met all the teachers. It was ok. At one point we couldn't find one of the classes, and we asked the 3 or 4 helpers and they'd all given us different (mostly wrong) advice. S16 was upset, and then X just got all angry and kind of yelling like he does. I was thinking so glad I don't have to deal with that on a daily basis anymore. I def. feel more detached every time I see him now. He was kind of friendlyish so that was good.
The afternoon we had D10's orientation, X walked up and I was talking to a good friend of mine, who is also knows X. He did come up and say hi and then stood to the side. D10 was still just talking to me (really complaining b/c we were waiting), and I told her to go talk to her dad. She ignored me though. We met her 3 teachers, and they all seemed fine. X was ok, on his phone with work part of the time, D10 and I just walked around together and found her classroom and I focused on her. Dropped off the kids around noon today and then took my dog to the forest for a hike/jog.
I'm trying to think of my next galing activities: one I want to do for sure is run or at least jog a 5K. I've wanted to do that for a long time, so I'm going to work up to that. I want to do a women's weekend my birthday weekend in 2 months, which has a bunch of wilderness activities for beginners: shooting, kayaking, archery, fishing, and that kind of stuff. Should be fun and different. I've never done any of that really. Not big in south Florida where I grew up. And then I'm thinking about taking an art class or something; that I haven't done for about 30 years. Hope everyone's having a good weekend!
