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Weekend stuff
Sat, Aug. 9th, 2003 11:37 pmThe boy is here (again). Apprently he's going to be in Cleveland for the rest of the time doing his internship, so he'll just be hopping over to CA every week instead of back to Texas. This is of the good. He says the company pays for all the food for the business trip in Cleveland, dry cleaning, hotel, internet, everything. And for the tickets here. I am very impressed. Then I calculated and found he is making $25 an hour! I then very briefly reconsidered idealism and owning my own bookstore until realizing that while he's accumulating all sorts of miles and money and whatnot, his job is not interesting and he gets to spend no time doing things he likes. I then very quickly regained my mind.
We went to visit his grandma, and she makes her own jam! She was very nice too when I asked her how she did it, and she lent me some jars and recipies. So now I shall have to find some place that sells fruit pectin (can I get that at Safeway?) and buy loads and loads of fruit! The only regret about that is I'll be tempted to eat all the fruit instead of cooking and jamming it.
My roses have also started to bloom! Well, the Golden Halo and Gala are sending up flowers, but some of the others (Julie Ann) are doing not so well, with yellow leaves. Sigh. Well, we'll see.
My dad is coming over on Wednesday for a business trip, and so he can visit me and my lovely apartment ^_^. Unfortunately, he's going to be busybusy up until the weekend, but he says he'll take me to Monterey so I can see the aquarium. Sometimes (very rarely) I like being a tourist. Then my sister is coming on Sunday just as he leaves, but they'll get to see each other enough to eat dinner together. Then she's going to be here till the 23rd, yay!
And my friend's memorial gathering of people in the Bay Area will be two Saturdays from now. Sigh. None of us could really make it to the funeral in Vermont I figure. It still gets to me, and now I'm more paranoid about driving than ever. It's strange. The older I get the more I figure just how idealistic and starry-eyed I was... it's been hitting me more and more since I've graduated that not everything turns out happily ever after, that people can make choices that screw up their lives and not rectify them in time, and that sometimes, life just sucks and there's nothing you can do about it. This really brought it home, that someone nice and wonderful who was going out for a new job and probably optimistic and happy can have bad things happen to them in the blink of an eye for nothing more than being at the wrong place at the wrong time. And now I'm scared that other people like the boy or my family could just suddenly have something bad happen to them too. It's not a nice feeling.
We went to visit his grandma, and she makes her own jam! She was very nice too when I asked her how she did it, and she lent me some jars and recipies. So now I shall have to find some place that sells fruit pectin (can I get that at Safeway?) and buy loads and loads of fruit! The only regret about that is I'll be tempted to eat all the fruit instead of cooking and jamming it.
My roses have also started to bloom! Well, the Golden Halo and Gala are sending up flowers, but some of the others (Julie Ann) are doing not so well, with yellow leaves. Sigh. Well, we'll see.
My dad is coming over on Wednesday for a business trip, and so he can visit me and my lovely apartment ^_^. Unfortunately, he's going to be busybusy up until the weekend, but he says he'll take me to Monterey so I can see the aquarium. Sometimes (very rarely) I like being a tourist. Then my sister is coming on Sunday just as he leaves, but they'll get to see each other enough to eat dinner together. Then she's going to be here till the 23rd, yay!
And my friend's memorial gathering of people in the Bay Area will be two Saturdays from now. Sigh. None of us could really make it to the funeral in Vermont I figure. It still gets to me, and now I'm more paranoid about driving than ever. It's strange. The older I get the more I figure just how idealistic and starry-eyed I was... it's been hitting me more and more since I've graduated that not everything turns out happily ever after, that people can make choices that screw up their lives and not rectify them in time, and that sometimes, life just sucks and there's nothing you can do about it. This really brought it home, that someone nice and wonderful who was going out for a new job and probably optimistic and happy can have bad things happen to them in the blink of an eye for nothing more than being at the wrong place at the wrong time. And now I'm scared that other people like the boy or my family could just suddenly have something bad happen to them too. It's not a nice feeling.
