1am to bed after mixed success
up at 7am, tired but considerably better - but gd had been up since 3am and mr smear had apparently been sleeping on the floor
mr smear and his two friends going crazy when they saw each other
the horror of my computer shutting down mid interview when it needs a literal half-hour to restore and realizing that there were two extension cables lying side by side and i'd plugged in to the one that was disconnected
picking up mr smear and a "purim bucket", getting him home awake, emergency dumpling, daal and burger shopping, a big lunch then feeling lousy then heading out to the hospital to visit our friend who'd just given birth
mr smear's tantrum beginning when we left, and turning into a half hour of him crawling and twisting around on the ground outside the hospital entrance
eventually taking my tantrummed-out and visibly filthy boy up to the maternity ward, tag-teaming with gd to say hi to the newborn and sharing an amusing moment with our very-stoned friend and her mother
mr smear passing out on the way home, a much-needed ten minute downtime before yang knocked on our door and a very pleasant cup of coffee after not having seen him since before mr smear was born (well, everything was pleasant except for the "it's not really french" comment about quebecois)
another little tantrum when dropping gd off at her class in sudden snd heavy winds, feeding mr smear in front of the lego movie and howl's moving castle before showering and putting him to bed - surprisingly easy, considering the rest of the day
lying down for a couple of hours
wednesday 21st:
starting to work while still feeling off, a long chat with horseman (who i'm glad to learn is in a very positive place), gd's brother's "complications", working hard until 2.40am and realizing just before crashing that the likelihood of me finding three full hours to do a test anytime soon is very small
feeling much better, another tantrum on leaving the house to drop mr smear off (though he gave up pretty quickly), getting some work done at my mom's coffee shop, learning that the company i did the go project for is interested in making me an offer but can't afford me
mom's potentially good contract news
picking up mr smear and suspecting that awkward mom's daughter is the one who scratched his face, the car cd getting stuck for a quiet ride, a mini tantrum on arriving home, mr smear pointing out three big afrikaners getting into the elevator, telling them he's iron man then shyly refusing to hit the older man's hand - i told them it was because he didn't want to hurt anyone, that i've been teaching him to hide his true power :P
burgers, naps and the nanny's perfect slap chips, heading to my mom's for an hour's work, coming home and picking up cardboard boxes from pick 'n pay - meeting some creepy looking bugs along the way
taking mr smear out for a walk that included paying my cousin a surprise visit on the treadmill and showing mr smear around the gym, then a fun time at the baby park with a runner who didn't care if he was the flash and a little german girl
the wind coming up strong again, taking mr smear home and doing a grocery run while the new art gallery pumped music at its visitors so loudly that nobody could talk - why is this normal?!
showering mr smear who threw a tantrum because he didn't* like the music he asked for, showering a struggling two and a half year old on shampoo night was an interesting experience
* or did? i couldn't tell
fighting over dinnertime entertainment (or misunderstandings surrounding it)
me falling asleep reading to mr smear, both of us going down easily but when i got up a couple of hours later and checked on him i found him wrapped up in his super-warm blanket sweating profusely
thursday 22nd:
working until 3.15am with some distractions, up at 7.15am with a little sciatica
fun with hackerrank, but twenty minutes for the test? my ass!
signs that this world is f***ed and that we need to start culling #158324: wtf is wrong with the people who install public toilets?! how is it standard practice to have doors opening inwards, forcing people who've just washed their hands to touch the same objects as those who didn't???
picking up mr smear and getting him home into bed, completing the "20 minute" three hour test with ten minutes to spare
apartment exit pre-inspection, taking mr smear to the aquarium, coming home in time to shower and hand him over to my mom and go to gd's class
learning (kind of) how to build a mikveh followed by a long and interesting discussion about the middle east situation with one of gd's classmates
a rush to the pharmacy, then ordering dinner from ubon, watching the emerald city and snapscan fails
friday 23rd:
a full night's sleep, mr smear appearing in our bed at some point; gd having an emotional morning that developed into a neck spasm
gd feeling every bump on the drive to drop off masks at the school, hamentashen concerns and workarounds, back home to get an hour's work done before heading off to the chiropractor, a post office visit, a doctor's visit and straight back to the school to pick up mr smear
home into bed, a mission to the chinese grocery to pick up nothing, a pick 'n pay stop and veggieburger patties and crashing for a bit, then back to the doctor to be sent for a blood test, then home to pick up some gear then to my mom's to work
CRA payback pressure, cancelling dinner plans at the last minute, gd's phone dying, the company i did the go project for getting back to me to decline my application
functional test mysteries
picking up meds in the rain, awkwardly passing our friends on the way to the car, coming home to some serious unpleasantness that got far too intense, a good shower experience then running off to mr chan
devouring a lot of singapore noodles before putting mr smear to bed and crashing ourselves
saturday 24th:
up around 1.30, starting to chat with horseman, mr smear waking up at 2am and taking an hour to go back to sleep, back in bed around 4 and up at 7 to deal with a "settled" poop
being caught unprepared for the couch hoisting, which was handled quickly and professionally
a long wait for the @home guys to arrive, an hour later than their latest time, then taking mr smear to the waterfront for a harbour cruise and a visit to the aquarium
the moment that made my day: walking across a pedestrian crossing with mr smear giving a big thumbs up to everyone who stopped for us
mr smear passing out as we got in the car, coming home exhausted and napping for a while
waking up mr smear from heartbreakingly beautiful slumber, his initial upset quickly turning to excited curiosity when he heard mozart coming from the kitchen
taking a couple of things to my mom's - my left arm weak and tingly from a nerve problem - learning about my uncle really messing up his final days (to be in johannesburg when your great-grandchild is born and to find a really stupid reason not to spend time with them)
bringing my mom home for dinner, which was delicious and funny as hell - mr smear didn't want my mom to talk unless she was speaking directly to him so she explained the local process of cleaning and interring a body to us via him, and whenever he was upset he'd mew like a kitten
dropping my mom at home while gd put mr smear to bed, watching a bit of the cloverfield paradox before gd went to sleep and alternating between working and doing hackerrank challenges
sunday 25th:
intending to "go to bed soon" but getting so into my work that soon suddenly turned into 3am
mr smear walking in on us talking at 8.20am doing his "police car" (robocop, though he's never seen it) impression: "what - is - going - on - here?!"
a little sunday morning work and breakfast, mr smear's long bath and arriving at the cemetery (only) five minutes late
mr smear behaving really well, visiting our dearly departed, gd suffering on the way back to sea point so i dropped her off, picked up a laffa for mr smear, picked up my great aunt and went to my cousin's sister's to spend time with her family and introduce mr smear to his third cousins, one of whom was born only two weeks after him
the kids getting along (mostly) wonderfully, really enjoying the afternoon even if i did have to constantly keep an eye on them
drawing cash for my great aunt on the way to dropping her off, bringing mr smear straight to bed and taking advantage of the opportunity to rest and eat the laffa before gd and i got on a call with horseman
taking some stuff to my mom's, home for shower and bedtime with mr smear giving us the run-around until i eventually explained to him that if he didn't sleep he wouldn't be able to play with his friends in the morning
monday 26th:
two days until moving
a long night of learning to play with c# .net mvc interspersed with hackerrank challenges, going to bed at 3.20 having completed the task but realizing that it would've been better to stop halfway and get a couple more hours of rest instead
when you're so tired that in your dreams you need to put your head down and rest
up late, bike tantrum, school late but mr smear seeming okay
finishing the test and realizing while submitting it that it would've been much better and easier if i'd used websockets instead of an MVC app
strategizing with mom, a little work, picking up an apparently subdued mr smear, putting him into bed with loud renovation noises, carrying heavy stuff to my mom's and arriving there to discover that gd had my keys, home for lunch and a little bit of the long earth (which just gets better and better) and another round
the nanny being as useless at packing as gd's brother when we moved in montreal - her treatment of glassware and obvious heirlooms is the same as his throwing a kettle with water in it upside down into a box filled with personal effects
work, with short breaks to hackerrank, then rushing home to find the tantrum over and taking him to the waterfront for a long walk around the harbour: by the time we finally arrived at the aquarium it had been closed for half an hour
carrying him on my shoulders for a bit which he enjoyed, but for some reason shouted "i'm - f***ing - CROSS!" at the top of his lungs which is definitely not an expression he picked up from us...
arriving home with him refusing to leave the parking lot (he was happily exploring), gd's big ramen and veggies dinner (which everybody ate ravenously), storybots on deezer (score!)
the nanny having packed a duffel bag so badly that it made more sense to unpack it at my mom's than inspect it at home, so a quick and painful* trip but with a lovely reward in the form of my mother discovering my old 2000AD collection i thought had been lost!
* the waterfront mission earlier had really hurt my back
pre-bedtime adrenaline run down to stop construction at 9pm ("i don't care who you work for or what god you pray to, if you don't stop i'm calling the police)
no luck in convincing mr smear to lie down for his friends, but succeeding by pulling back the curtain so he could stare at the moon
tuesday 27th:
going to bed at 1am utterly mystified by the fact that IIS appears to "remember" being cached when redis is shut down
dropping off mr smear, then going to our friend's newborn's brit milah - a bit tough now that we're less ignorant, but there were a few people i was glad to see and... the baby and i have the same name :)
home to prepare for the move, picking mr smear up, using his nap time for disassembling and packing, working and taking things to my mom's once he woke up
dropping gd at her class, frozen vegan burgers and sausages for dinner, entertaining mr smear with music videos and fixing his velcro "mitt" so we could play catch (!) before picking gd up and putting him to bed (he didn't want the light on, so instead of reading to him i recited poetry until he passed out)
trying to work and get shit done for the move simultaneously
disassembling the shelves and getting stuck with the ones the handyman installed, one last trip for the day
wednesday 28th:
moving day
going to bed at 1am after investigating the next piece of the IIS weirdness puzzle
up at 6.20 for a long, stressful and physical hard morning; the saving grace of which being that the handover would be postponed long enough to get the handyman in
wolfing down chinese for breakfast before picking up mr smear, working very hard not to fall asleep driving home and almost passing out while waiting at a red light.
disturbing mr smear's nap and spending the next hour or two becoming angrier and more confused, the property manager going back on our agreement to hand over the keys on thursday morning and finding ourselves far from ready with a couple of hours to go: this in addition to the nanny being so frightfully stupid and useless (and rude) that we sent her off to take care of mr smear while we tried to fix whatever trouble she'd caused while simultaneously transporting and preparing
mr smear being fantastic, my mom being an absolute hero
the landlord behaving very decently and being quite forgiving in person
the handyman arriving VERY late but doing an amazing job
rushing to pick up dinner, shwarma express being renovated but the manager arranging a personal delivery to the macdonald's from the food truck at the incubus concert
shredded fingers and a phenomenal amount of physical work
the start of a tantrum ("i wanna sleep in the closet"?!) averted with spiderman gloves, mr smear eating well, mom struggling to get him to sleep
not being paid on time
a few more trips, finally setting my mom up in her apartment
thursday 1st march:
one last trip just past midnight, then setting a couple of things up at "home" (the new one), showering (!!) and scribbling and crashing around 2am
gloriously deep sleep, gd dragging my out of bed at 6.30am
an emergency trip before taking mr smear to school, missing sunscreen and their's was so difficult to put on that i accidentally got some in his mouth
back to packing and carrying, our old cleaning lady doing a phenomenal job, gd seeing the chiropractor in the middle and my sciatica flaring up shortly before then
mom picking up gd, doing a run together then picking up mr smear so we could continue, the official handover taking well over an hour and on the second-to-last trip the elevators in BOTH buildings broke down
short-changing a hard worker by mistake
resting for ten minutes then taking mr smear to meet our cousins at the aquarium, some boundary testing but everyone generally having a grand old time: i was a bit awkward due to my exhaustion / general state of confusion but i managed to get through the afternoon and enjoy myself a bit as well
handing mr smear off to my mom and going to gd's class while she took him to my aunt's, a very interesting class on the holocaust by my old teacher
getting mr smear into bed, a little bit of unpacking and then managing money and responding to two day-old emails in a haze...
friday 2nd:
... eventually giving up around 1am, showering and slipping into bed
up at our "regular" time, mr smear seriously eating his cereal, discovering a faster route to the school, re-arranging the furniture, working
"pretzel" scare - the teacher administering allergex on my "better safe than sorry" recommendation
almost firing the nanny before leaving to pick up mr smear
my mom having been trapped at home waiting for a line installation because they were trying to install what she'd specifically instructed them not to
cash draw and scarfing food while driving and downing (cool) coffee and leaving late into the beginning of rush hour traffic for gd's appointment
a meeting with the new devops, passing out in a hammock for about ten minutes then driving back to drop gd at home and mission with my mom to help her with her new place and shop, a problem with the oven getting her to join us for kiddush, a blur of getting mr smear into bed, drinking a cider and watching random stuff and mute for a bit before going to bed early (11-ish)
saturday 3rd:
up painfully early, gd and i incapable of doing much at all (unfortunately we would end up wasting energy on two unpleasantly tense episodes); i did spend a lot of effort rearranging the living room to set up the projector so mr smear wouldn't be using the ipad, eventually we went out to the furniture store and bought a nice shelf - the owner may have pulled one over on me, she negotiated herself down considerably before i had a chance to open my mouth and her price was roughly what i had been intending to negotiate so i accepted it
an afternoon of napping* and cleaning shelves and setting up the entertainment system, taking mr smear out late for a quick walk to the park and ending up at our friends and now-neighbours holding their new baby for a while and watching over bathtime because mr smear jumped in with his friend
* mr smear wasn't going down so i took him for a quick walk... it was effective, but as i was crossing the road two ambulances whizzed by and i silently but visibly cursed the skies when mr smear popped up and shouted "ambulance" enthusiastically... fortunately he passed out again soon after
a pleasant evening, watching the polka king after getting mr smear into bed
sunday 4th:
finally investing real time into one of my projects with sailor, eventually going to bed just before 3am
mr smear dragging me out of bed four hours later, an hour or so sleeping badly on the couch with half an eye open
tidying drama, "war pigs mommy!", mr smear throwing up into our bag of cleaning equipment (of course.)
taking mr smear out for a stroll in the hottest part of the day, ending up at the blue train: shouting at someone else's kids (they knew they were doing something bad and were too embarrassed to tell their mom afterwards), mr smear sliding down the zip line for the first time, compromising and removing his shoes for the jumping castle (he doesn't like getting his feet dirty), picnic lunch in the shade, picking up our favourite bread and sharing a brain-freezing açai smoothie, carrying him the last few hundred metres home singing ani couni and putting him straight into bed
a long nap, waking up really well, the struggle to find the pliers to change the shower head (giving up), a tense waterfront mission for food, groceries and clothing, and all the while cranial nerves pinching in a loose neck
heavy winds almost breaking the garage door
a pleasant but very late bedtime, a little work then watching the invention of lying until
monday 5th:
half-past midnight, then investigating mobile dev until pulling another 3am
mr smear coming to find us in the middle of the night and not going back to sleep even though he'd gone to bed around 10pm
shower freakout but everything good afterwards, dropping him off at school and helping out with a new kid who only speaks hebrew (mr smear offering to be superman and save her, but then abandoning her to play with his friends)
mom's for work but mostly doing other stuff, coming home to take mr smear to bed but as i put him down he freaked out and that was the end of his nap; then gd and i had a silent fight that became angrier when i left to see my therapist (nothing like seeing red on the highway), and the timing turned out to be pretty good because it was an opportunity for him to gain some real-time insight and i left with a plan of action that makes sense to both myself and gd - it appears that my primary triggers are being undermined or disregarded and my way of reasserting myself makes people listen to me less, so it becomes a vicious cycle
stopping at my mom's to pick up my pc before returning home, working a bit then taking mr smear to the lighthouse park: superman running and jumping along the promenade, making friends on the see-saw, big-boy behaviour on the roundabout, and the day sadly ending with his beloved cap blowing into the ocean
delicious vegan mac-n-cheese, a bearable shower (not the same as before), and a peaceable and relatively early bedtime
napping an hour or two then throwing myself into work
tuesday 6th:
another 3am but with something to show for it
up feeling better than in days, dropping mr smear off and witnessing him violently hijacking another kid's bike as i left - there i was running up and down along the fence until he eventually found the poor kid and apologized
couch delivery! lots of rearranging, inspiration for shakespeare promo videos, a little work and then picking up mr smear and discovering that he'd been in trouble for weaponizing a spade - so not a great day in the social department
lunch followed by afternoon survival mode because mr smear only napped for a short while, a little drama when he couldn't visit our neighbours because his friend was sick (i took him for a super-walk around the block), gd's chiropractor visit (following mr smear around the practice for half an hour), grocery shopping (learning that our old neighbours are having surprise - unplanned - twins), rushing off to the jewish museum, gd not feeling well so dropping her at home before returning to my aunt's for dinner with mr smear making me extremely proud sitting at the table and eating nicely while i went to load up a plate, also very sweetly trying to tap yang whenever he wasn't looking but getting caught every time
putting him straight to bed around 9.30, taking half an hour to watch botched cosmetic surgeries then diving into work
wednesday 7th:
until 2am, chasing that with half an hour of hackerrank problems before finally going to bed
getting mr smear to school marginally less late than usual, arriving precisely on time for an interview which went really well, back home to rest a little then returning to pick up mr smear who was inexplicably tired and needy; nap time surviving a short waking in the middle, working then taking him for a walk but going to our neighbours instead where he behaved well in spite of his friends and he was happily bathed by their nanny
home for a big dinner with granny, easy bedtime and passing out for a couple of hours
thursday 8th:
lost time until 4am - working, preparing my mom's old desktop for removal, lots of midnight demands from mr smear (water, food and back scratches), and what's becoming an addiction to hackerrank problems (enjoying playing in c++ for the first time in many years)
forgetting my computer at home so coming home for a much needed bedtime after dropping mr smear off at school
sailor coffee and dropping him off at his new digs
mr smear's taste of butter and allergex at school
waiting for gd in the garage then driving straight through to her hypnotherapist
to paraphrase my 2.5 year old: "my name is stinky pop, because i farted at school"
mr smear and the roasted corn nibs, gratitude for having bubbles on hand and story bots music on my phone
returning home tired and unsure of what to do with myself, survival mode until my mom arrived, data destruction and shower head replacement, showering mr smear the hard way and rushing off to class
an interesting class on the history of the state of israel but an even more interesting discussion about it after class, coming home exhausted and actually (accidentally) going to bed early
friday 9th:
mr smear sneezing green so keeping him home, spending a morning full of frustrations setting up office space, recording my first video for my crowdfunding campaign, rushing to the aquarium when i learned that my myciti card was out of credit, the afternoon disappearing in a puff of uselessness (mostly due to upgrades, later due to a busy mr smear), skipping a birthday party, a chat with a journalist making me confident that i was doing the crowdfunding all wrong, emergency shopping making us late to the temple, nodding off during a beautiful sermon ("angel" in "work"), a very nice dinner, putting mr smear to bed then passing out myself
saturday 10th:
another night's rest, taking mr smear to kirstenbosch for a playdate (i think the adults had more fun than the kids), crazy traffic both ways and mr smear waking up as i got him to his bed, keeping him occupied for a bit, skipping another birthday party, hackerrank, napping, taking mr smear to meet my cousin from lapid at my great aunt's, going to the synagogue for my grandmother's yahrzeit
quickly putting mr smear to bed then entering some very serious "me" time
sunday 11th:
hyper focused and losing track of time, eventually calling it a night around 3am just before mr smear woke up hurling; crashing after the unpleasant cleanup and waking up a few hours later utterly wrecked
sick, a day spent sore, faint and throwing up
mr smear falling asleep on my lap while i entertained him playing ink!, managing to get him to bed and getting some rest
a difficult afternoon, mom coming over at some stage, a little jealousy because i wasn't feeling well enough to eat gd's delicious dinner, green tea to shower mr smear, gd putting him to bed, 9pm noise from a shitty neighbour (his sewerage pipe burst, but he was a right prick about it)
feeling a little better, returning to the hackerrank problem, finally finding the damned bug in my code then learning i'd taken the wrong approach from the get-go...
going to bed before 11pm, still not feeling great but definitely much improved
monday 12th:
feeling much better but still not 100%, suddenly learning that gd and i were having marital issues that i didn't know about, a long and confusing discussion that seemed to go nowhere before things seemed to return to some semblance of normality
refunding all the backers and shutting down the crowdfunding campaign, getting some work done and then deciding i was strong enough to pick mr smear up myself
getting him home and into bed, working until he woke up, big shopping and encountering a banting believer who made my blood boil when he informed me he'd been influenced by a nutritionist - later i'd learn that literally anyone can claim to be a nutritionist so things make a bit more sense now
dropping off the groceries, a quick visit to pick n pay to pick up the items checkers was missing (usually it's the other way around), then smearing on sunscreen and taking mr smear to the lighthouse park beneath the searing sun
a mostly pleasant time, a chat with a recruiter who informed me that my salary requirements should be under budget for the guys who had interviewed me the previous week and hadn't gotten back to me
a tough pre-dinner cleaning, mr smear being mostly manageable in getting ready for bed, a short outburst before suddenly sleeping
a call from a collection agency because bell charged me (a fictitious amount) after i'd closed my account in 2016
working through
tuesday 13th:
until roughly 2am
up early, dropping mr smear off at school and coming home in time for an interview and to entertain window repairmen while i worked, i say entertain because when i left to pick up mr smear they conned gd into signing off the work they hadn't done and left
odradek and buffalo nostalgia, people in need gratefully accepting haven vouchers, mr smear napping and me working, sailor and i planning a business outing and a macbook purchase (second hand), painful rls and trying to rest before taking gd to the chiropractor and chasing mr smear for half an hour, a miserable hour or two trying to rest and fetching dinner
a fast shower for mr smear before a work call, properly shouting at him when he deliberately disobeyed me and broke something of my mom's (i fixed it, but he was really upset and i felt bad), a mostly pleasant bedtime even though i read some french to him (le petit prince), my dinner and "meh" standup (wayans and gad elmaleh, who used the same jokes in english and french and got the same canned laughter)
a long chat with SxS and working
wednesday 14th:
between work and an interesting hackerrank problem, finally going to bed at 3am
being woken at 6am's with yelling: "daddy! DADDY! i need to fly like a big boy!"
nothing's quite as tough for me as getting out of bed when i haven't slept enough, and i've been sleeping really comfortably and the world outside is whited out with the foghorn blaring
long drive to launchlabs, a little awkward at first, five interesting presentations, one big mistake that we fortunately managed to fix (a judge explained how the mistake was mine, i believe her), potential partners and supporting a team from johannesburg that happily received my unsolicited advice, "winning" with no funding in sight
a long strategizing drive back home, resting, pharmacy run and grocery shopping with a shoeless tantrum (but he eventually chilled when he realized i wasn't giving in), walking out in the rain and mr smear triumphantly yelling "F***ING CHRIST!" at the skies :$
an adult dinner at the table, a quick and relatively painless shower and bedtime
a new seasons of jessica jones, lying down for an hour
thursday 15th:
and waking up at 4am to get mr smear back to sleep, then a long series of crazy dreams (including narrowly getting away with rifle vandalism before being framed for murder)
dropping mr smear off at school, returning to pick gd up and take her out to bergvliet, keeping her staph infection out by meeting at a coffee shop instead, getting some work done before joining in the tail end of their conversation, returning to the school early and postponing the feedback session at the last minute
no nap, big lunch, strolling to sleep in the wind, finding flow state
waking up mr smear to pay the doctor a visit, back home for some work and ordering pizza for dinner, a not-unpleasant shower and bedtime but it taking forever and three squishies for mr smear to eventually give up and pass out (he didn't actually want the last squishy, and he fell over while struggling to say "more squishy")
ricky gervais' humanity special: i'm not a fan of his, but the special is absolutely brilliant
friday 16th:
working hard until 2.30am
remembering to invoice at the last minute, but forgetting to respond to an important email
taking mr smear to school, working at mom's coffee shop (hurting myself plugging in, and sitting next to mr garbage farts), picking mr smear up and getting him home to nap, passing out myself, half an hour's work before the nanny left to deal with her family drama (her visiting sister was caught beating her children), a quick visit to the park before taking mr smear to the west coast temple
fun with the other kids, a whole vegan table, struggling to load plates and feed mr smear and eat and talk, taking home bowls for gd, a nice (dark and quiet) drive home and a lengthy but not unpleasant good night before crashing early (for me)
saturday 17th:
up at 8.30, reading and enjoying myself until being sent shopping which put me in a foul mood (as it does, especially if it's before coffee)
walking with mr smear to the park, trying and failing to keep the sun off my neck, returning after a couple of hours to feed him then take him in the stroller to meet sailor for lunch at the gym; mr smear remaining wide awake until 10 minutes before we got home, sailor failing to disengage from an interesting discussion (the second time in a day that we talked about doing a podcast), dropping him off at his car before doing a grocery run, then dinner at the table (gd's succeeding in making it a thing), an easy shower (my playlist helps) and a looong bedtime (he almost ran out of ploys, and after i'd scratched his back twice he *almost* got me with "let me scratch your back, daddy!"
half an episode of jessica jones, then being blown away by the tony robbins documentary "i'm not your guru"
sunday 18th:
and dragging myself off to bed before 2am
a mostly positive morning, taking mr smear in his butterfly mask to my mom's vida to see my sister who never showed up, but spending good time with one of his classmates and old family friends who told some fascinating stories
bad service at mr price home, a fun mambo's run, home for lunch, a long and distressing attempt to stroll mr smear to nap, with a kid screaming at him on the sidewalk just after he passed out, then a motorcycle waking him up, and then a loud group of friends approaching just as we arrived on our floor... i was eventually successful but needed a drink
i am not your guru with gd being an even more emotional experience, mr smear waking up in the last couple of minutes; taking him for a sunset stroll (his butterfly mask flew into the ocean) and going pretty far because he wasn't interested in walking
an unpleasant dinner experience overwhelming an otherwise great day, showering mr smear and struggling to get him to sleep, hiding in my bed once i thought i'd got him down
monday 19th:
up after midnight from an embarrassing dream involving a glass bathroom wall shared with the neighbours, going to bed now (almost 3am) after doing little more than posting and eating gd's ice-cream
