Cheering up

This morning I decided to cheer myself up by venturing out to take a walk to the supermarket. The wind had stopped and the sun was out. It looked very nice, but it turned out to be much colder than yesterday. I had to rush back home to get something warmer. Jenny's jacket was hanging on tha back of the chair, I left Jenny a note then went out again with her coat.

When I reached the school, I knew I was in the wrong direction. I now realized I had completely forgotten the way Jenny showed me. I turned back and walked along Moore street till I saw more traffic in the street ahead of me. That must be Hillside street, i thought. This time I was right. Turning onto Hillside, I had no trouble finding the Met Market and the Korean H mart. Ah, this is the Met that Jenny's Mom was telling me about, where I could get naturally grown chicken with no hormone injection. So I went in to take a look. The price of sweet yam was not bad - 39 cents a lb, so I picked some. Banana too, I picked a small bunch. Then I found the cabbages that I intended to buy to make soup for alvin. All the cabbages were in giantic sizes, I searched for the smallest one, still its felt like a ton. Next I had to get some cooking oil, since I used up all theirs. I was happy that I was able to get all these, even though they were quite heavy. Echerd is right across the street, I crossed over the busy street and went in to look for a hair dye. then I began to head back to the house.

Baby was sleeping when I got home. Jenny asked if I had any dirty laundry. Of course, I had been waiting for this opportunity, because with all the yard work I had to change my clothes and shower more often and pretty soon I was about to run out of underwears. So I gladly accepted her offer.

After lunch, Jenny had to feed the baby, so I went downstairs to put the washed laundry into the dryer. I tidied up the shelves and cleaned the top of the washer and dryer. The sink was really yuckky with lots of brown stains. After scrubing it the best I could, I settled down to dye my hair. As there is no mirror in the laundry, it was quite difficult to do a good job by myself. Luckily Debbie showed up at the right moment. She came to deliver some dumplings that she made for us. Unhessitatedly I asked if she could help me. This was the first time she dyed any hair, not too experienced or careful, but still I appreciated her help very much. With my hair looking much better after the dye, I managed to cheer myself up today.

In the process of making myself happier, I tried to find somebody to talk to. First I called Daniel. He was driving the senior people for their Thursday Meeting, so we did not get to talk much. I also called Amy around her lunch hour, but got no answer. Lastly, I called Ivy. She was not home, I left a message telling her that perhaps we could get together for lunch on Saturday since Alvin would be home to help taking care of baby. Jenny told me before feeding baby that she had to take baby to the nursery tomorrow. I blurted out at once,"Oh, I could meet with Ivy tomorrow then." Right after that, I thought of may be she needs my help going out with the baby. So I asked if she need me to go with her or not. After hearing what I said about going with Ivy, of course, she would say ," Oh, no, I think I can manage." Just then, Ivy returned my call, and agreed that we would meet the next day. Unfortunately, when Alvin came home, he mentioned that I should offered as Jenny did not want to ask and wanted me to have some free time. So I guess I made another boo-boo.