What kind of errands....

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What kind of errands....
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Wed, 08-31-2005 - 1:41pm

Do you run on a daily basis? Weekly basis? Monthly basis?

I've often heard people say that they need a lot of time during the week to run errands and that those errands would otherwise take up their evenings and weekends if they had to WOH ft. It made me curious because I just don't seem to have many errands to run at all. Are we just lazy :-)?

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Registered: 07-16-2005
Wed, 09-14-2005 - 10:50am

Good points. Also, the school most certainly has an interest in getting a child with a stomach virus off the premises ASAP. Obviously, there can be other children in the nurse's office for treatment or awaiting pick-up. Now those children also get an increased risk for puking for a day or 2. Lovely!

And certainly it's not within the nurse's job description that she should accept being exposed to the stomach virus unnecessarily longer than need be. Those things are wicked contagious! But I get the impression the nurse is the adversary here, she's not a part of the parental team, so who cares about her health, huh?

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Wed, 09-14-2005 - 10:54am
He might. On the other hand, he really wants to pitch. And he's one of two back-up pitchers on his recreational team (every kid plays every position at least once in the season, but they kind of have "starting positions" as well). He hopes that with hard work, he'll get to be a starting pitcher. I kind of think shortstop is probably his natural talent -- he does have an incredible field sense, much more than most boys his age -- some of them will do stuff like automatically throw to first even if there is a better play on second or third -- but he really wants to pitch. He's nine. Right now his career plans include playing professional baseball until he is 35 and then being part of the first manned mission to Mars and then retiring and buying a farm where he will open a no-kill shelter for abandoned cats. I am not going to tell him yet that he's better suited to shortstop.
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Registered: 08-22-2005
Wed, 09-14-2005 - 10:56am
Cuz, yeah, no nurse's office in the history of the known world has ever had a room with a door where a sick child can be separated from those coming in and out of the nurse's office.

Karen

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Registered: 01-05-2005
Wed, 09-14-2005 - 10:56am

I was covering the activities that might be persued in a variety of team sport. Ok, lets do just softball because you seem to unable to think in broader terms. What do you do, and why do you do it, in persuit of your goal of having fun while playing sofball. How does what you do relate to your goal of having fun.

With soccer, fun sometimes involves a restaurant or bar, food and beverage, casual conversation and socializing. My friend who plays softball is off to a cottage weekend with her team. For fun. So why bother showing up at fields at specific times with specific people and doing some very specific thing...on a regular basis. Why not just go have fun. The field, equipment and rules are not required. What is fun about it? Why not - show up at the field and play cards? Why do softball teams always seem to end up doing a very specific thing when then show up at those fields? Does noone ever think to bring maybe a kite to fly, instead? Any idea? Whatsoever? Why do players on one team so rarely help the other team - do particular types of things? Or do you really have no idea where the fun is and you just kind of show up because its cool, or something?

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Wed, 09-14-2005 - 10:59am
"Impressed" is not quite the word I was thinking of to describe my reaction, but it will do.
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Wed, 09-14-2005 - 11:01am
I don't know. Is "sarcasm" considered a language now?
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Registered: 07-16-2005
Wed, 09-14-2005 - 11:01am

Helloooo, Donna. Let me break it down for you. You are indeed correct that the Martha show is not a sport. There we agree. But women - for some unknown reason - watch it to better themselves. You with me still?? Yet, there's no winning involved. Therefore, in conclusion, to sum up, it is possible to do something to better oneself without feeling the desire to win. Or to have the goal of winning, should you like to parse words here.

That penultimate sentence actually sums up my entire Division I career in softball as a benchwarmer. Yes, yes, make fun. But daily practices alone were so grueling, absolutely every bit of my playing improved, though I knew I'd sit on the bench with a good buddy of mine who shared the bench with me. I would have to check my photo album to even tell you where we finished and if we ever won All Ivy. Winning was not important. Nor was it my goal. My goal was to survive running up and down the stadium stairs without my heart giving out and collapsing so as to be a complete embarrassment in front of everyone on the team! I call my college career a complete success - for me.

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Registered: 03-16-2005
Wed, 09-14-2005 - 11:02am

"Also, the school most certainly has an interest in getting a child with a stomach virus off the premises ASAP." Oh, the school sure does. Never said the school didn't. I'm sure it's more fun to pretend I did, though, so don't let me stop you.

School nurse is most definitely not an adversary. What she is, is a grown woman and a professional trained in illness prevention who certainly doesn't need me to fly into a panic over her well being if my child pukes in her vicinity.

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Registered: 01-05-2005
Wed, 09-14-2005 - 11:03am
What - and leave my other child alone in the hospital emergency room?
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Wed, 09-14-2005 - 11:07am

"You are indeed correct that the Martha show is not a sport. There we agree. But women - for some unknown reason - watch it to better themselves. You with me still?? Yet, there's no winning involved. Therefore, in conclusion, to sum up, it is possible to do something to better oneself without feeling the desire to win." Yes. I know. But we were talking about sports. Not whether it's possible to do anything without wanting to win. So it's irrelevant.

So, you warmed the bench. Thus you have as much experience actually playing competitive athletics as QM does.

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