thursday. somehow i felt it’s gonna be a good day. especially with the promise of the start of our basketball league game later this evening. and it sure is. having no obligation to do anything at all gave me the option to either laze my day away in my room sleeping, or to do something that i wanted but usually wasn’t able to because i was so involved in other stuff. i chose the latter. coming home in the morning first thing i noticed was that empty garbage container standing outside the garage, and i was thrilled by it. so happpppy! i don’t know why but there’s always so much trash from our house… everytime i couldn’t wait till the next wednesday evening to take them out so that they would be gone. and for our recycling bins, they were still full from 3 weeks worth of recycling stuff… goodness. and they kept mounting up since there’s always so much stuff we had to recycle. well i’m proud of that. florence and i had to use the chinese way of stepping onto them repeatedly so we could stuff everything into the bins. didn’t take them out yesterday since we found out that they are collected every wednesday morning, from our neighbor next door. i’ve seen him a few times working outside his house, an asian man who seemed to be working hard at something everytime i see him. i said hi to him a couple of times and yesterday he came over with a pit bull puppy to tell us about the trash and recycling schedules, while we were trying to pull out the trash and stuff from the garage. i felt pretty stupid but then it’s good to know the right schedule finally. the pit bull’s only 2 months old and it was so cute! pretty ugly so i guess that’s why it’s cute. it tried to jump towards me and i was patting it and it was trying to play and everything, my heart really went out to it! i so want to have my own doggy.
 
so back to today, i was hanging out in florence’s room and she was trying to take her nursing test online, while i looked over her bookshelf and found some recipe books. all of a sudden i felt as though i was back in pennsylvania when i started copying recipes into my notebook, all handwritten too! felt like back to those days of having nothing to do in PA where i borrowed recipe books from my brother-in-law and copied them down. and hey i cooked from them too! i remember it was fun. i know i’ll be doing so much more cooking from now on, now i’ve got alittle more time. maybe it’ll be different when work starts in august but then it’s all about prioritizing. nothing gives a better sense of accomplishment when results can be seen from trying and doing and hard work. that goes for a lot of stuff i do.
 
especially running and basketball.
 
save that for next time i write, there’s so much i can write about something that i grew up with.
 
so what can i learn from today?
take out recycling stuff on tuesday evening, trash on wednesday evening.