Saturday, March 22
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Waking up today, and not waking with the "emotional hangover" that I've had this past week. You know what I mean. When you wake up and you are already feeling some kind of stress/exhaustion from recent events that hasn't cleared yet.
Today I was very pleased to just feel "awake" and nothing more.
Having the time to have a lazy start to the day, and to spend it with my Sweetie.
When we got motivated to get going, I did chores, we got cleaned up, and we headed to town.
Our main goal today was to get our taxes done, which we did.
Turns out I had checks from LAST year (I don't even know what they are for, carbon rebates?) sitting at the tax office, but why didn't they tell me to come do that? I guess now the process is for the government to mail the official checks to me. Weird.
So we got everything done and up to date, and all that's left is for my husband to pay what we owe, which he says he can do this week when he picks up the mail.
I also asked our tax prep person about moving a 401K from the U.S. to Canada, something we haven't been able to get any good advice about on how to do that (it's from when we lived in Wyoming). She gave us an idea that no one else did; to talk to an actual investment company in Canada. I personally DID suggest that to my husband, but you know how it is, it's better coming from someone else.
Hopefully this will get the job done.
Then we went to pottery. We both had a good session of throwing.
One of the "new" people was there too, just finishing up. We had a conversation about some of the stuff I've been so worked up about. She's everything that bothers me about the new students, though it's not her fault.
She thinks everything is up to S, that S is in charge (she's not). She doesn't seem aware that we even HAVE meetings, and doesn't know anything about how our studio is run, or how we need more involvement. She wasn't even reading the emails. She doesn't even realize that she's a full member of the studio who can voice her opinions and vote on things. She didn't know that she was free to leave the beginner's class and work on another class time.
YET, first thing out of her mouth is how she wants more help learning to throw and use the studio, and how crowded the beginner's class is, and how she can't get help with her issues because there are too many people.
She very quickly demonstrated her own lack of very basic skills and information about the studio, like how to reclaim clay (and how to use a drying block, where the boards are for wedging, and on and on).
She knew very little.
All of this is exactly what I've been trying to talk to the board about, and trying to do SOMETHING to address these issues.
So, while I hope that our conversation "woke her up" a bit, it doesn't make me feel any better about the situation at our studio.
It's becoming a day care.
After we finished up at the pottery studio, we went to get groceries.
I made my husband treat it like the full "Monday" run, so that I don't have to do it after pottery on Monday. If I hadn't insisted that he do this, he probably would have done the "just what I think I need today" run, and picked up some bananas for baking.
When we got home, I wanted to try a recipe for granola bars that didn't have flour or processed sugar, in part because of a conversation that I had with R about her diet.
My husband made raspberry scones, something he takes to work, since the oven would be hot.
The granola bars taste good, but they aren't really firm bars. Sort of gooey chunks. I won't be eating them all, I want R to try some, and I guess my husband can have most of it.
They're good, but they still have a ton of sugar from honey, and LOTS of calories because it's basically peanut butter and honey with some oats and nuts mixed in.
Then we had supper and watched an episode of "Fringe".
Waking up today, and not waking with the "emotional hangover" that I've had this past week. You know what I mean. When you wake up and you are already feeling some kind of stress/exhaustion from recent events that hasn't cleared yet.
Today I was very pleased to just feel "awake" and nothing more.
Having the time to have a lazy start to the day, and to spend it with my Sweetie.
When we got motivated to get going, I did chores, we got cleaned up, and we headed to town.
Our main goal today was to get our taxes done, which we did.
Turns out I had checks from LAST year (I don't even know what they are for, carbon rebates?) sitting at the tax office, but why didn't they tell me to come do that? I guess now the process is for the government to mail the official checks to me. Weird.
So we got everything done and up to date, and all that's left is for my husband to pay what we owe, which he says he can do this week when he picks up the mail.
I also asked our tax prep person about moving a 401K from the U.S. to Canada, something we haven't been able to get any good advice about on how to do that (it's from when we lived in Wyoming). She gave us an idea that no one else did; to talk to an actual investment company in Canada. I personally DID suggest that to my husband, but you know how it is, it's better coming from someone else.
Hopefully this will get the job done.
Then we went to pottery. We both had a good session of throwing.
One of the "new" people was there too, just finishing up. We had a conversation about some of the stuff I've been so worked up about. She's everything that bothers me about the new students, though it's not her fault.
She thinks everything is up to S, that S is in charge (she's not). She doesn't seem aware that we even HAVE meetings, and doesn't know anything about how our studio is run, or how we need more involvement. She wasn't even reading the emails. She doesn't even realize that she's a full member of the studio who can voice her opinions and vote on things. She didn't know that she was free to leave the beginner's class and work on another class time.
YET, first thing out of her mouth is how she wants more help learning to throw and use the studio, and how crowded the beginner's class is, and how she can't get help with her issues because there are too many people.
She very quickly demonstrated her own lack of very basic skills and information about the studio, like how to reclaim clay (and how to use a drying block, where the boards are for wedging, and on and on).
She knew very little.
All of this is exactly what I've been trying to talk to the board about, and trying to do SOMETHING to address these issues.
So, while I hope that our conversation "woke her up" a bit, it doesn't make me feel any better about the situation at our studio.
It's becoming a day care.
After we finished up at the pottery studio, we went to get groceries.
I made my husband treat it like the full "Monday" run, so that I don't have to do it after pottery on Monday. If I hadn't insisted that he do this, he probably would have done the "just what I think I need today" run, and picked up some bananas for baking.
When we got home, I wanted to try a recipe for granola bars that didn't have flour or processed sugar, in part because of a conversation that I had with R about her diet.
My husband made raspberry scones, something he takes to work, since the oven would be hot.
The granola bars taste good, but they aren't really firm bars. Sort of gooey chunks. I won't be eating them all, I want R to try some, and I guess my husband can have most of it.
They're good, but they still have a ton of sugar from honey, and LOTS of calories because it's basically peanut butter and honey with some oats and nuts mixed in.
Then we had supper and watched an episode of "Fringe".
