Travel before holiday weekend

[ljwrites]

The top of this week was taken up with preparations for travel to a different city with the family. We used to live there and my husband has family living there, so he took kiddo to visit his dad and sister while my dad and I took care of business. The business part went well, husband and kiddo had fun on their family visit, and we traveled back without incident. The upshot should be that we can worry significantly less about money starting in November, especially if I can get some work to tide us over.

I had a slight misadventure on the way when I thought I might miss the train out and had it canceled in advance, giving my apologies to Dad. Unexpectedly I ended up arriving at the station a little earlier and ran up to grab a standing ticket last minute to make the trip after all. That was a bit of a surprise for Dad when I called him from the same train he was on lol. I'm still so bad about time, a trait that has not endeared me to employers over the years who have had to deal with me.

We had scheduled the trip on Wednesday because Friday was Independence Day and there were no train tickets to be gotten on Thursday, the day before the start of the long weekend. After the trip we rested and slid into the holiday weekend, spending it at home watching the celebration events and venturing out on walks. Today the husband went out to GM a tabletop game so kiddo and I were on our own, cooking and eating Japanese-style curry befor we went out walking. We're all showered and relaxing now, and I wiped down the bedroom floor. Showers feel extra fulfilling if I get a cleaning task in beforehand! :D

With the weekend drawing to a close, next week will be more waiting and looking for work in between rest and chores. Going to be poking a couple of people on stalled publishing projects and putter around on editing and technical tasks. Maybe some creative tasks too if I can hack it. It's still sticky and unpleasant outside but there's a bit of autumn in the air, and we'll be feeling the chill before long.

Comments

[profiterole_reads]

What matters is that you got that train in the end, instead of having to wait for the next one.

I assume you don't need Korean practice, but feel free to come chat with us here when you have some free time. (Sometimes there are other people hanging out, but it's usually 2 or 3 people per post, so it's pretty low-key.)

[ljwrites]

Yeah and it wasn't a good day for trains at all, the train we booked left at noon and the next one was at past 2 p.m. I got lucky with arrival times and saved a little money by turning in my seating ticket and getting a standing one later. (My returned ticket was snapped up more or less instantly, it was gone by the time I was at the station.)

I stayed away from the practice posts because I thought a native speaker being there might make things awkward for the learners, but since it's okay I'll hang out from time to time! ^_^

[profiterole_reads]

The beginners have already more or less disappeared since I ran out of ideas for the 3 questions (beginner/intermediate/advanced) and switched to an open chat. Beginners are of course welcome to leave any kind of comment, even just one or two short sentences, without joining a conversation thread. You can for sure reply to china_shop and me, we're both more or less high-intermediate and have already interacted with native speakers.

영어도 ljwrites의 원어예요? 아니면 학교에서 배웠어요? 정말 잘 말하기 때문이에요.

[ljwrites]

Sounds cool! It's generally a good idea to group people of roughly equal, or at least mutually comprehensible, levels together anyway.

원어는 한국어인데 초등학교 2~3학년 때 미국 동부에 살았어요. 학교 공부보다는 한국에서 영어 책이랑 텔레비전 보면서 영어가 더 늘었는데, 좀 특이하게 잘하는 케이스라고 하더라고요.

[profiterole_reads]

아니요, Dreamwidth에서 많은 유럽 사람은 학교에서 조금 영어를 배우다가 인터넷에서 연습했어요 (제가 프랑스인이에요).