halfway through the weekend

hmm. i wonder what just exploded / collapsed outside.

yesterday was a strange day filled with lots of positive farewell conversations, a delicious and fun lunch (with occasionally amusing interjections by toxic crusader as she tried to be relevant and failed), and sadly being escorted out early by my manager and having to skip the game hacking session.

most gratifying moment of the day? removing myself from on-call rosters.

i met up with gd, mr smear and the nanny at the grocery store, learned that birkenstocks are way too expensive for my tastes (the ugliness i could handle ironically), and the struggle to uber is real (we now use a combination of uber and bolt). we swam in the afternoon for a little bit, and skipped going to the temple because i was just too tired. my mom came over for dinner, and everyone went to bed relatively early.

today was mostly fun, although at some point i was too tired and became cranky. we went to the waterfront (sevens + summer = more mall people being more mall people than usual), i found a decent-ish pair of crocs, mr smear ate most of the falafel wrap, we played until kids with ice-creams got on the slides, listened to amazing music, shared unframed's vegan turmeric latte ice-cream, visited the aquarium (mr smear hugged a shark mascot), had an impromptu playdate with a friend of his, and finally returned home so i could read leviathan wakes and nap.

i woke up to do a bit of personal work (well, i guess any work i do is personal until further notice), watch a bit of the nightmare before christmas, put mr smear to bed, discover that gd really doesn't like johnny mnemonic, and now it's either bedtime or fiddle-a-bit-more time.