buggy birthday

waking up with gd freaking out over another infestation (probably mites), ruining her birthday from the get-go. keeping mr smear home on a really hot day (to not share whatever this is), and the pest control team not willing to come into town because of the SONA preparations (which really didn't affect anything until after they would have left).

almost falling asleep during the morning meeting, taking the family to my mom's to pick up our boxing gear (which we couldn't find), then to the waterfront to buy gd's birthday present: optimus prime for mr smear (she got an early birthday present or two, and she really wanted him to have one)

a struggle to find me sandals, eventually succeeding, then heading back to town to have lunch at plant. stopping by the pharmacy. the day had become super-heated, so i shared a coconut water with mr smear and almost forget to pay for it, then managed to forget the ready bag (with an expensive epipen and asthma pump / spacer amongst other things), only realizing that'd happened once we got home. rushing back to sit with the security guards and go over twenty minutes of footage to figure out where i'd left it, being enormously relieved to find it but also sweaty and very tired.

showing off the healing tattoos to the artist on the way home, it's really beginning to look good!

a serious nap, then an unproductive slo-mo afternoon that felt like moving through hot soup.