Trip to Idaho (Day 2)
I had forgotten about one little thing about my kids. They get up very very early. I didn’t get much sleep at night, on account of my penchant for going to bed late, but I managed to take a nap a couple of times durig the day.
I volunteered to get some things for Grandma, so I got to take my kids grocery shopping. They, of course, wanted more pizza, so we ate the second most disgusting pizza ever created, and then headed to the grocery store. Saw my ex briefly and cleaned off the laptop for her use (removing my mail and passwords and bookmark files) and ran into a couple of other former classmates at Wal-Mart. I am feeling so very very attractive now.
Very few of the people with whom I graduated from high school ever left the town we went to school in. While I could never have been voted “best looking” in high school, had I gone to my 10-year reunion in 1999, I certainly would have been. It turns out that middle age in Southwestern Idaho starts around age 22. I can’t even relate how many scrawny guys in wifebeaters and Ore-Ida ballcaps I saw running around and how many of the former cheerleaders are now frumpy housewives with no plans for the future other than watching television. I am so glad I escaped.
I conversed quite a bit with my children, played with them, then put them to bed at 9:00, as usual. I was so exhausted by the end of the day that I went to bed quite early (2:30 or so). Whew.