more bits

 We've been looking into getting another car, but haven't yet.  The other little car is still running so far, and we came up against a snag in getting a newer one, although we had found several we liked and could technically swing through and get.  The insurance price on a newer car is twice as high as all of our insurance combined, and that has to be figured out as a monthly cost along with the car payment.  We've always got around that before by buying much older beater cars, which came with low insurance payments and not much if any monthly car payment.  So, regrouping and rethinking, and hoping we have enough time to secure something else or work the budget around.

 I burnt my hand the other day with hot water, but it is getting better.  I stopped myself before I began to fret on it, and that helped a lot because in the past I've actually made the burn worse, Mark said at least, by getting all the stress hormones running etc.  I put it in cold water immediately and then some burn ointment on it after about five or six minutes.  It was a coffee machine that was stuck and I didn't even think properly - I just grabbed the filter cartridge which happened to be full of boiling water and all of the water came out of it luckily just onto my knuckles, and not on to my face or anything else.  And I will say - it would have happened to someone else, and who knows how they would have reacted to it.  I'm such a strange creature when it comes to skin that it could have went terribly bad as well, but luckily it hasn't - there is just a little bit of redness left now after two days and there weren't any blisters at all.  I've cut myself before and pressed it together and it has sealed back up, and I've also had just the opposite - a tiny cut tear and become a larger one.  There is little rhyme or reason except for the stress reaction.

Nothing else to report, except continued work on Japanese. I am doing the Duolingo on both the mobile and pc profiles and then the wanikani as well.   I keep staring at my Amelia book and not furthering.  I also noticed it will be Esme's birthday in two months.  It's a big one, and graduation not long after that.   

 I reminded Esme of the book Alice in Wonderland which she read as part of homeschool - and that there was a sequel.  I showed her the little cartoon again that was made by D - with the mouse - and she barely remembered it.  She said she thought most of the rest of her generation had read the first book at least, and I had to tell her that no, I don't think they have.  They may have read a picture book, but very few of them read the original text from beginning to end.