Monday March 7 2011

No kidding. You don't have to guess- a beach weekend. What novelty in Hirose household.

We've even got lazy enough to forgo exploring as we have done for the past two years- 

no more up trips to Malibu and the rest of the million miles of California beach- this one 5 minutes by car has been the staple recently, frankly, as good as any other and not so many people- which makes it even more attractive. Gasoline is getting too expensive.

Talk about expensive, I was just trying to contact the California Gas company with not too much success- you see I've given up for the moment- ludicrous, I know my daily routines and how much I use of this and that, how come that in a coldish winter all together (been using heating during the evening for quite some months now) November and December was 80 dollars each, January some 120 dollars (understandable) and today I got a bill for February- 380 dollars! And it's even been WARMER if anything, it's ridiculous. Or the meter guy was stone pissed. 

Been quite a normal time, kids kids kids, what can one say. Bit of a disappointment at gymnastics today, her teacher left to make a selling kids gymnastics DVD and the new one is behaving as if she's teaching 1 year olds. For Leo this would have been great but for Nea, it's really not worth the 240 dollars per 10 sessions. I'll try and flick her around a bit and see what happens. Apparently somewhere around the mass of Broadway gymnastics coaches there is a great one named Geo. sounds mind boggling.

Oh as you see we were lucky enough to get yet another package from Lisa of Twins out-growns clothes, Hannah Anderson at that, I'd never have the guts to plop the cash on those. I'm so grateful to everyone always that I hardly ever have to get anything for her- there is always a benefactor somewhere, when I do get a tad it's pure splurge. I know it won't go on for ever but am enjoying  it while it lasts!

.... water gun fight as usual ( Leo broke his as usual too) 

Weekend and one of Leo's block creations;

this one named the

"fantastic eco-powerplant with under
ground resources " 

(???? Where does he get these things from???!!)

... So much entertainment that they have together, these days Leo doesn't even want to be read to but enjoys reading to her more, or teaching stuff. Unfortunately gives me ample time on a Saturday night to get thoroughly pissed. 

.... and in the end I don't want to forget that I have quite a poser, tell her to stand on her head for a picture and she'll do it. Hi hi. This one by the way is her own pose, she told me how to take it. Very Japanese-gaarl looking.

That

That's one she took of yours truly, you can see all the freckles, chapped lips, crows feet and all. Good you don't see the teeth. 

Oh FRIDAY night was GREAT- we went to the faculty follies, which means a show that happens once in 3 years at Leo's school- teachers put on a two hour performance for the kids for fund-raising. I'm sorry I didn't take my camera- it was so FUN for the kids and me alike, even Nea stayed there till 9pm ( no and she doesn't nap anymore) kneeling and attentive the whole time.  It was also so much fun for Leo to see that his teachers were young and in school once, that they had to practice for a long time for all the shows and put themselves out there.... laughed almost the whole time, althogh I must say that the Spanish teachers were a bit more (even the principal) entertaining than the Japanese ones-predictable.

 Maddening thing end of last week though with teachers; his is altogether not too bad, strict as hell but not actually a hell-bender,  obviously got pissed off or was tired from practicing the faculty follies; namely I am talking about one of Leo's homework brainworks from English/science which went  something like " Imagine that you are a scientist working in the desert looking for fossils and clues of life long ago for one year. Describe whether you would like this or not and explain the reasons "-- approx.
IN any case Leo wrote a kids but honest view of the negative preference,
since he would get hot, it would take a long time, he had a feeling there would be flies around, ending that  he was rather clumsy so he would probably end up losing a piece of evidence and get kicked out anyway ( it was rather humorous actually)
all this was reviewed by teacher, there WAS admittedly one spelling mistake but still,
in any case at the end of the piece she put in Bold  red capitals "BUT YOU HAVEN'T EVEN BEEN HOW WOULD YOU KNOW".   And gave a " re-do" and bad mark.


???!!!!  Need I even explain. I was rather pissed off to say the least. WHAT???
In any case I wrote her an uncharacteristically firm email demanding justice or offering retribution, after which she calmed down a tad.


Gosh I haveta go. LOve all round