Each Wednesday (or thereabouts) I’ve been recording a Curiosity Journal to recap the previous week using these tag words: reading, playing, learning, reacting and writing.
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Reading
This isn’t a very interesting week for my Curiosity Journal. For starters, I didn’t get much read this week, though I’ve done some research for a client that has me browsing lots of articles online.
Playing
I bought a Groupon for half-price bread and pastries from a local bread store. Looking forward to a day I can head over there and make my selections.
Learning
My daughter is experimenting in the kitchen, learning to prepare recipes from the The Redwall Cookbook. 
I’m impressed with several of the dishes she’s tried, as they are all vegetarian and use wholesome, basic ingredients. We’ve enjoyed a vegetable soup, a cheesy potato side dish, a fruit-filled pastry, and shortbread.
Reacting
My son has wanted to buy a friend of his an obscure Nintendo 64 game. It’s hard to find, because the company no longer makes games to work in that system. He found several used on eBay, however, and begged me to help him bid within his budget.He gave me the links, but one was gone before I could log in. Tonight, one of the auctions was wrapping up at 9pm our time, so I sat at my computer, logged in, and invited him to stay up a little late and watch the countdown with me. I explained how to plug in a maximum amount and how someone could automatically outbid me or swoop in at the end with an unexpected submission.We typed in an amount and the minute we submitted it, the automated announcement popped up that we were outbid. We tweaked it a tiny bit higher, and it said that we were the highest bidder, but only barely. As the last minutes ticked down and then shifted to seconds, he remained calm. I managed his expectations, reminding him that we could continue to look if someone outbids us at the last minute. He he was doing remarkably well for a person who feels intensely every single event in his life.The clock ticked down to five, four, three, two, one.He got it!The game is his, to give to his friend. He danced down the hallway and ran to tell his papa. He hugged himself and spun around in circles. He told his sisters about it and considered how he would wrap it when it arrives. He said thank you to the Lord when he prayed before bed.I’ll bet he can hardly sleep tonight.
Writing
Proposals for a client kept me busy this week, as did some material I prepared for our homeschool co-op.
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Note: Affiliate links included. Forni, P. M. The Thinking Life: How to Thrive in the Age of Distraction. St. Martin’s Press: New York, 2011. Print.
My son also is “a person who feels intensely every single event in his life.” Kind of exhausting sometimes, but also exhilarating, especially in moments like the one you described.
And there’s a Redwall cookbook? Oh, I devoured those books for an entire year.
E-Bay can be fun! One time I found a new pair of SAS shoes my size about 1/3 the price that the persons elderly mother said they were not the right size and would not return them. So that was fun. Also some gold hoop earrings that I love.
Those N tendo games are fun. Years ago I purchased one for myself and had so much fun in my spare time playing Doctor Mario. Then when we had children visitors they could play too, but finally due to inactivity, it went the way of all discarded things. Now I blog for fun.
My sister bought a Joe’s Gizzard City Groupon for my husband that he never used, even though he loves gizzards. Yuck. He didn’t realize she’d actually purchased it. And then the place–just up the road from us and we have never, ever gone–was featured on Diners, Drive-ins and Dives.