all grown up

Been having a "i hate China day." It started when I woke up at 6 per my alarm, and promptly returned to sleep. I want to get up early one of these days and spend a peaceful morning at the beach before the throngs of tourists cover every open area with tents (yes, tents). But I decided today would not be that day. however, around 7 i hear this "waaaawaaaawaaaawaaa," no not a baby, but a cicada. As I remember Cicadas in NE Ohio, they sound like loud rustling of leaves in the trees, not so annoying. but here, from sun up til sundown (which is like 4 am to 7 pm these days more or less), it sounds like a police siren with a smokers cough. so ridiculously annoying. and this morning it sounded like one was right next to my ear. I finally got out of bed at 7:30 because i felt my eardrums vibrating and sure enough, right on my screen, waaaaaawaaaaaaaaawaaaaaaa. it took three flicks to get it to fly away. ugh! so now i'm up, ok, i'll be productive, did some laundry, a couple other things, and made a to do list.

post office, work to drop off my time sheet, bank, gym, supermarket.

first two no problem. i go to the bank, one i don't use very often, and enter the wrong pin and so my account got locked. As soon as i got home i remembered the right one, but can't try to fix things til tomorrow.
-why is this a "i hate china" moment? because in the states I could've gone intot he bank and clearly explained my problem, but my chinese isn't that good, at least i was pissed off and so had no desire to attempt to stumble through.

okay, no problem, off to the gym for a nice swim. usually no more than 4 or 5 people in the pool. today there were about 15 kids learning how to swim and 10 lap swimmers, ugh. I got through about 15 laps without anything more than having to swim around kids, which is less annoying because they're kids. But then, all of the sudden there were two dudes swimming straight at me! adults. they should know better. If you swim laps, you know how annoying it is to have to concentrate on things other than swimming. so the guy stands up sees me, and move aside, for the moment. I get to the end, turn around, and the second guy has moved right in front of where i was about to be swimming. Now there' just not enough room for this bullshit. I started to try to swim, but then this other guy starts too. That's just too much for me. I stomped out of the water with an angry look on my face, hopefully triggering some sort of guilt for being inconsiderate swimmers in these two guys. More likely though they were just happy i was gone so they could swim. I realize it was such a passive aggresive thing to get pissed off and leave instead of confronting them. but once again, i was too pissed off to try to explain to them pool etiquette. On my way out i asked when swimm classes were. Every day 9-11,1-3.3-5, basically all day. going to try 9 tomorrow, hopefully fewer people.

walked to the supermarket in a huff, blew off some steam and felt a little better. Got potting soil to repot my plants, but they didn' thave any enpty pots, wtf! thankfully i had a few takeout containers at home I used. So, a few repotted plants, chocolate chip cookies and a mountain dew later i'm not so pissed anymore. here are my plants!! Look at Spring Sprang Springto see them when i first got them


so pretty!