Thursday, October 26, 2023

day twenty one ten minute recollection

Got me a tiny lil notebook, mini-composition book kinda look, I’m into the trappings.

I remembered it when I went to write this recollection and found myself with mind blank. Got it out, I wrote it - the sum total of what I’ve written in it so far - “accidentally drove thru construction site” and “BK drive thru backlog.” My wife wanted to take two of the kids to the library last night, one didn’t want to go. I drove home from work and the most direct route has a ‘no through traffic’ sign but it goes through and I’ve been going that way. I assumed it was fine because it was like ten after six, I figured everything would be done for the day since that’s how it’s been previously, but turns out there was extensive road construction underway and I felt like a huge jerk for getting in their way.

That route lets out onto a big street with a Burger King on the corner and I thought of grabbing fries to bring home for the kids but there were three or four cars idling in front, which is a bad sign. Sometimes that BK says ‘okay just pull around front and we’ll bring your order out to your car’ at the drive through and the delays can get kind of long. I didn’t want to burn my kids’ library time. So it’s a raincheck on fries I guess.

This lil notebook served its function this time, two bits to foster the old recollecting. I supposes the memories are metaphors: what is life if not a construction site people keep driving through? What is adulthood but parking and waiting? Hell yeah this shit is deep, you know it and I know it.

Got a headache today and it’s humid to a degree that ought to be illegal so I’m ickily damp, that combination is easy to mistake for being feverish, a nice excuse to play a fun round of ‘could be nothing, could be covid!’ Good times. Tryna recollect further but coming up kinda short, damn.

The 14yo and I started watching Stranger Things together. It’s not appropriate for the youngest and they got home a lil earlier than planned from the library so we had to turn it off. 14 rolled with that with great patience, I was impressed.

My wife measured the 10yo on the wall - we have a patch of wall where we mark their height with dates - and she’s grown a ton in the last year. She’s about four foot eight. My wife’s only about five one or five two, so it’s likely 10 will be taller than her in the near future, 14 already is. Their grandma on my wife’s side is even smaller than my wife, they were all speculating when 10 will be taller than grandma. It was fun to see the look of surprise and ‘wow!’ on 10’s face about her growth spurt. She was small for her age for a long while and isn’t anymore, I think that’s an adjustment to her self concept. I was like that, small for my age and then not, I remember that being a little disorienting.

day forty three, only sort of a recollection

 I haven’t written a recollection in a while.