I only trim my own bangs (and probably not super well at that).

I'm also here to tell you that reheated tater tots are soggy. Boo.

Well, no clean house and no exercise for me today. Blew a tire this afternoon on my way to pick up my mother for lunch and errand running. Hit a rock and within the span of 400 feet and one minute the left rear tire was flat. Two plus hours later, the car was towed and I was back out trying it again. Lunch turned into dinner, and a three hour Target trip. Didn't get home until almost 10.

Yay, Rome! This international trip planning reminds me that I have to renew my passport. My Italian one is valid, but my American one expired in September.

Just reading about all this travel is making both tired and a little jelly. But in a good way. Well, not the tired part, that's just tired.

So went to the intermediate Tai Chi class today. Was a bit lost but didn't really mind as I was able to learn the parts when she slowed things down and went over some of the sections. I am okay with waiting for it to all become clear eventually. I think I just like the names and then movements and thinking about the implications. Like Change is Difficult. And today we did something about monkeys. Monkey See, Monkey Do?

Oh, I remember having a teacher who would say the names of the postures as we went through the forms. Poetic, as I recall, and often helpful for remembering what I was supposed to be doing. Cloud Hands. Play the Lute; Strum the Guitar. Something about cranes. And horses. And, yes, monkeys, though I forget what it was.

Right, passports, mine expires soon. Should definitely renew.

Said by Ryan tonight: "I love apostrophes." (He was writing out a sentence containing there/their/they're, and was most pleased to discover it was they're.)

Yes, Cloud Hands, they did that one today too. I was going to say I learned it but I'm pretty sure I don't really know it yet, I've just swooshed my hands while the others were actually practicing. Today's class is way ahead of my regular class so it's a little like getting random spoilers out of place. Like I said, it'll all come together eventually.

That sounds very cool.

Oh no, Maria! What a bummer for you.

Hee, tai chi spoilers, I like that. Trying to do the form in the park always felt like that - I was learning a long form and I don't think I ever got all of it.

I meant to say earlier, what a drag to get your day so disrupted, Maria!

Aw, Ryan I like 'em, too.

I went camping with the girl scouts over the weekend, and one of the other parents is miffed at me because I made one of the girls cry. After supervising the cleaning out of our cabin, another girl started running in to "dance" I asked her not to, then told her not to, since the cabin was already swept and everyone's shoes were muddy. I told her she'd lose one of the bracelets the troop leader had given us to hand out to helpful girls, and take away for girls not listening. She went in, tracked in dirt, and I told her she owed me a bracelet and then she cried for over an hour. One of the parents (not of the girl from whom I'd claimed a bracelet) pulled me aside to say, "with some children, you just can't tell them they did anything wrong because they are too sensitive." I just pointed out that I used the discipline we'd all agreed to at the beginning of the trip, girls included, and walked away.

So, long story short, we aren't going to be buddies that mother and I.

Also, K's troop leader is also president of the PTA, troop leader for her older daughter's troop, class mother, and has a baby at home. I'm impressed and scared of her.

Oy, Sparky.