*sigh* I feel like the past few days have been difficult. My son and I did not have a good day together on Tuesday. There are 3 adults in this house, yet I am the only one who ever pays any attention to the child. And he needs CONSTANT attention. He follows me downstairs when I hang the laundry; if I am speaking to another person, he interrupts and won't let up until I acknowledge him (even though I have repeatedly told him that it's wrong and he needs to wait his turn).
My mother, for some reason, gets mad at me every other minute. I don't know what I did this time. One minute, she's talking to me just fine; the next, even if I'm not in the room, she starts slamming things, muttering under her breath, exasperated sighing, etc. She will be going out to Illinois in a few weeks to care for my aunt (who was recently diagnosed with ovarian cancer, completed her chemo, but still needs surgery) and my uncle (who has COPD). I think we're all looking forward to the break from each other - although this morning, when she said we had to stock up on laundry detergent for me for a month, I said (gently), "It's okay, we'll have to go out for food anyway, we can get some," which apparently offended her. She stared at me for a minute, then rolled her eyes, sighed, slammed the grocery store ad on the counter and stormed off
We actually ventured out to 2 Kohls stores this week - Tuesday, we went to one a few towns over, and today we went to ours in town. The one on Tuesday was much more pleasant. Today in our town, there were huge lines, I got a lot of dirty looks from people when they came toward an area where I was and saw my son in a stroller cart next to me, Josh then had a meltdown when I wouldn't buy him a Hershey bar (like we don't have candy at home), snotty people making snippy comments at the door as we were trying to leave...And for some reason, I felt like I was suffocating in my mask today. It's not the first time I've worn it, and I've never had a problem before, but today I was having a very hard time breathing in it.
My husband has tomorrow off from work. The bank where he works is located next door to a police station and a protest is scheduled for tomorrow. In the interest of keeping employees safe, the bank has decided to close for the day. He said as he was leaving, a chain link fence was being installed around the perimeter of the police station.
Question of the day 6/3: What is something you still want to learn to do?
Honestly, I'm having trouble with this. I've always wanted to play the guitar. About 13 years ago, I tried. Seriously tried. But I don't have the patience to learn at this point. I know you're supposed to "never stop learning," but I'm just not feeling the urge to take on anything new. I wonder if that might change when Josh gets older and I have some time to think about it.
Question of the day: 6/4 What's the best piece of advice to give new college graduate?
It's the time of year where the young and some not so young are launching into the world, what would be the best advice you could give someone starting in this world?
If you can still live at home, don't be in a hurry to move out into your own place. Work for a while, save up your money. Don't spend it frivolously. Start a retirement account ASAP. And don't expect to get your dream job right off the bat, or get hired at the top immediately - we all have to start at the bottom and work our way up. It takes time.
I did when much younger take flute and for a very brief time tenor sax lessons. I later realized as an adult woodwind instruments are extra difficult for me due to TMJ. It was good to have tried 
I can get by with what I do know to read some and to understand a little when someone is speaking (very slowly). The little I know even helped a little when I was in Italy because some of their words are similar. My grandparents spoke Spanish, my mom's mom spoke Spanish when she was in school and kids made fun of her 
so she didn't want to teach her kids. My dad was bilingual when he was younger but just stopped speaking spanish in jr high or HS so we never learned. My niece is 4yo and is bilingual and learning another language at school. Its amazing. 
