Tracks to Clementine

Old Habits

In the olden days, when I did everything at once, I had a few regular absent-minded activities. The two most regularly repeated were Putting a Tea Bag in a Mug to Steep and then Never Drinking the Tea and Making Toast and Forgetting I Had Thus Leaving it in the Toaster.

I'm no longer doing everything at once (Yellow Dog may disagree), but I did something today reminiscent of old: I turned on the wrong burner and burned the shit out of our one baking sheet. (Dear Husband, this is the only thing you should find out about via the internet about me today.)

So, y'know. Stupid. And momentarily scary because the fire alarm went off while I was changing N.'s diaper. From the look on her face (and probably because of the look on mine) she recognized it as a Something is Wrong Sound but didn't start crying or anything close. This was unsurprising as she is a very calm kid. I picked her up, nakey baby all, located the problem--glowing red burner under a baking sheet--put her down and dealt with the problem, even remembering to use a potholder. (That might sound pretty obvious, but all bets are off when you want to hurry back to a baby.) I turned on the correct burner and returned to the diaper changing task.

The sound of the kettle whistling made N. smile. Nice big baby grin.

It sounded like a train whistle, so maybe she thinks we're going on vacation...which we are! (How's that for a segue?) On Sunday I purchased plane tickets to fly to San Diego to visit my father and his wife.

I think the point of this post is that I wish I were there right now or that it were sunny here. Let's make that sunny here: there are certain things happening right now that would be better dealt with in good weather. (Even if grey skies plus warmth makes me want to kick it in my track cleats.)

Another old habit being practiced today? Being incomplete in my writing and forgoing editing.

FORGONE!

Posted by Ida at May 6, 2008 04:02 PM