temporarily moving out

it was a stressful day. my morning was relatively easy because being on crutches makes me functionally useless for most tasks, but gd had a rough day of packing and moving and spent a fair amount of time being irritated with me and the unfairness of it all. meanwhile, i managed to edit and upload my latest podcast episode on a sunday morning, which felt great, until about ten minutes ago when i realized that because of all the interference from gd and mr smear (she wanted my input on packing, he wanted to play), i published it to my test website and forgot to push it to production.

amazing.

we arrived here at my mom's to find ours and mr smear's friends, the four of us went to the park across the road which turned out to be serious work for me on my crutches and my bruised palms were really, really sore by the time we got back. our friend / my teammate spent a good chunk of the afternoon discussing work (she was really glad to learn that someone had stood up for the women in the office, we've all been dealing with someone who's... difficult... and a big part of our thursday talks were clarifying where the problem lies.

her husband arrived around the same time gd and my mom did, the afternoon and evening were largely fun but with the kids presenting a fair amount of frustration as well. dinner from great indian curries was superb. bathing here is more difficult than at home, but eventually we got mr smear into bed and i got my phone ready for tomorrow (ie. loaded with books for me to read), i've spent far too long getting the television at my cousins' place upstairs working for my mom only to realize that it wasn't worth it, and now, just after midnight, it's definitely time to turn in. we've got to be up at 6.30am to be out of here by 7.30, and i have to start my pre-general-anesthetic fast before 7. so no pressure.

not a clue what the near future will bring, so not even sure if it's worth being nervous. i hope everything turns out alright.