Cloudy Day......

The sun tried to shine today, but didn't quite make it. Not raining, just cloudy, and warm and very humid. A bad-hair day, to say the least.

We went out for lunch this afternoon, to the local Thai restaurant. Such delicious food, and such gracious, quiet service. Excellent service, just like our favorite Italian restaurant. The only difference is that in the Italian restaurant, you feel like you're at a party, and in the Thai restaurant, you feel like you're part of a serene celebration of food. I ordered my usual (Shrimp Pad Thai), half of which is in the fridge for tomorrow.


We got a surprise phone call from our young friend C this afternoon...... she wanted to know if I would pick her up from school. Usually, C walks home with friends, but I didn't ask for her reason for the call, I just asked her where she was and off I went. When I got to the school, I found out the reason-- she had to stay after school for a tutorial class, so all of her friends had already left. Plus, her book-bag weighed a ton..... had to be at least ten heavy textbooks in that bag. Given her small size, I don't know how she would've easily carried that all the way home from school.

I picked C up in the "cool" car (mine) and asked her if she wanted to go to her house or mine. She chose mine, and I made sure she called her mom. Her mom works till four o'clock, so she told C she'd pick her up on the way home.

C was hungry when she got here.... she was reading a book during lunch-time, and the book was so good that she forgot to eat. By the time she realized she was hungry, lunch period was over. I looked in the fridge and told C her options........... she chose a fresh "spring roll," then she had some spinach-spaghetti with meat sauce. After that, while the three of us played a game of "Blokus," she had some chocolate. C is such a tiny thing.... I don't know where she puts it all.

C's dad will be coming home from Vegas this weekend. Today is his last day of work out there, and he'll either start driving home tonight or early tomorrow morning. C is all excited... she has really missed her dad. Needless to say, she's even more excited that they won't be moving to Vegas after all. There are four or five more weeks of school left, and she's got most of the summer planned out already........ things to do with her friends, part-time jobs to make some spending money, and she's still hoping to go away to the "WakeBoarding Camp" for a week. She's been saving her allowance and gift-money since last September, so she could do that this summer.

C also plans to get her learner's permit once school is over, so she'll be wanting driving lessons during the summer. C is going to take to the car as naturally as she takes to water. She's a smart girl with a calm head on her shoulders. She's already made a list in her head of friends that she knows she would not want to get in a car with, either because they're too silly or not very careful with their bikes, so can you imagine the damage they'd do with a car?!

I sincerely hope that C keeps such a calm, clear head as she gets further into her teens.