ups, downs and palpitations

the last few days have been interesting. sunday's birthday party was a mixed bag of the frustrations of sevens' traffic and bad directions, versus mr smear having a grand old time at acrobranch and making me super proud. also, me being under-dressed for the freezing wind. monday was a beach day. yesterday was a shopping mission / walk through town and a fun encounter with an israeli couple.

over the course of the past few days i've put in a fair amount of hours creating an online store for my books, and i've read quite a bit and played lots of games.

yesterday our projector died, so that's a bummer that needs to be dealt with. fortunately, mr smear's pretty good with keeping himself occupied and he's really excited by a bunch of books my aunt offloaded on us :)

my anxiety's been mostly off, although i have been surpisingly impatient and agitated. to be fair, mr smear has been mixing up his behaviour and he's balancing his "awesome" with a fair amount of "what-is-WRONG-with-you?!".

but this morning i woke up fully loaded, worrying about gd's visa appointment. that's in half an hour. i'm praying we have everything we need. wheee!