mid-weekend

WELL.

day 5 crossed paths with gd's birthday and lost. her birthday present? i took her to the visa authority and she picked up her passport with a renewed visa in it. hooray!

after a meeting with a financial advisor, i met up with her again and we went to lekker vegan for lunch. then did a quick grocery shopping, and THEN i went to the workspace to rejoin and get an hour and a half of work in before grabbing a beer with a friend, picking up gd and mr smear and heading to the temple.

mr smear had been feeling sick or drowsy the whole day, he spent most of the evening in my arms. he's heavy, and my neck's noticeably busted, but it's fine.

today began with pancakes and making a bit of a start on a web app i've been thinking about for the past couple of weeks. then i went to the temple for my first time reading from the torah since my barmitzvah (it's been 26 years). i knew there was a batmitzvah happening, but i was *not* prepared for the temple to be packing to overflowing and i had serious stage fright. par for the course, i guess, fortunately i only made one mistake (that i know of, at least) and overall i really enjoyed the experience!

mr smear was falling asleep again, so we scrapped our plans and went home for a relaxed afternoon, most of which i spent on my app which i got to a point where we were able to have fun with it - it's very simple, but hugely entertaining!

after taking mr smear down for a quick swim my mom came over later with The Delivery... the copies of my book i ordered! it's one thing seeing a preview, quite another holding them in real life and seeing that the real thing is even more impressive. SO SATISFIED. please consider purchasing one ^_^

gd and i took my mom's car to the balducci's for her birthday dinner. it was an excellent dinner, we had ourselves a really good time and we both ate too much (as usual).

i've spent the past couple of hours fiddling with the app (lots of cosmetic work to be done now), clearing large attachments from my email (i did a lot last night, too, there's a lot of memory lane stuff which i enjoyed going through), and now i'm way beyond being ready for bed.

it was a great week, and it's been a amazing day.