Did the postal route today, mostly normal bumping along and got done about three o'clock. I started doing some more Czech again with the Japanese, because my grammar on that always starts to invert when I stay away from it too long. Not much else. I'm still pretty sure I have tomorrow off, but not sure what else I'll do. Need to finish more laundry, and clean a few areas. I'm pretty sure Mark wants to do some more grocery shopping - I grabbed a few things that can only be gotten at the one store in the post office town, in anticipation that we would get more at the other town tomorrow.
Made tacos for dinner, or at least - a semblage of them... also want to go have a bath with the V05 coconut stuff I like and got some of today.
I've been having some pretty odd and very realistic dreams. One of them the other night was drawing out 52.00 from a bank just before closing time, and trying to count up what I was given, which was a large array of very non-standard coins as well as some bills. One of the coins looked like a silver walnut shell. I was asking the bank teller, who wanted to go home, how I was supposed to add all this up and know I had the right amount? There were also three dollar coins and even a 2.50 coin which I thought simply had to be complete fantasy - but no, there really were some three dollar and 2.50 dollar coins back in early America - although they were gold, and the ones in my dream were silver, with a face on the front and a bird on the back though, which was accurate and probably robbed from my brain actually knowing that quarters are like that (and the other coin types were modelled onto the quarter dollar, 'quarter eagle' is the 2.50 and the 'eagle' was a ten dollar coin!)
I doubt Esme will read the blog, but I did buy her one specialty coin for her birthday- a real coin from a foreign country, as a sort of souvenier. I'm hoping it will come in time, it's not expensive at all but it looked cool and I saw something about it being a modern coin but resembling 'remarkably' the ancient variety of coin from the region in an archaeology article. As in it was kind of lost knowledge that the ancient coin had a drawing on it so very similar to what they picked for the modern coin.. but people in 2024 are still pretty amused by the similarity.
I know that this is more for 'I would like her to have it' than her actually wanting it - but it's something that could last compared to a new stuffed animal (she has a thousand) etc etc..and it is harder to buy for a teenager, especially when they 'don't want anything' everytime you ask. I've gotten her 'numismatist' things a few times over the years, some just because they were cool (the Dutch coins), one (the mercury dime) for nostalgia because my grandmother had given me one as a necklace, the pennies I had saved as a young child that were wheat backs and then one year we even gave her several rolls of 50 cent pieces and a collector book for them just to prove to her that they were indeed real and still quite available. Her grandmother gave her a few that she had brought back from Germany and Japan as well. So, even though she's not really interested in coin collecting, she's mildly interested in the fact that I've made her a coin collection over the years *ha* and we put it in a nice glass display case that she keeps, along with ticket stubs and other bits like iron patches or cards etc. from places we have went over the years.
I also ordered her a book I DO think she will like, that I saw in a scientific article about foxes. And she did pick out a game on the computer that she did want, and I got that for her.
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