a full week

highlights and lowlights. a whole bunch. some more memorable than others.

1. the saturday morning reading. i have learned not to say "sure!" when i have only two days to prepare. i practiced until i arrived at the synagogue, kinda had a handle on it. then i went up and had forgotten... everything. it was super embarrassing, less because i cared about what others thought and more because i felt like a proper idiot.

2. the financial advisors have been really pushy, generating a lot of drama. i'm inclined to figure shit out myself.

3. an uncomfortable event that took a day to sort out.

4. i was late to post my creative writing submission, but i ended up quite happy with it.

5. i left work on friday feeling really good about my week's achievements. i'm quite satisfied overall.

6. mr smear has been testing us really hard. but he's also been really cool. in particular, we've had some interesting bedtime conversations about the nature of god (i already need to correct some oversimplifications he's gotten from the school); yesterday i picked up the first seasons of batman: the animated series, x-men and the fantastic four from 2006 and we watched an episode from each this evening, he was over the moon :)

7. mr smear swam by himself yesterday for the very first time! the combination of pride and relief made me emotional, and then the teacher came over to comment on how fast he's learning ^_^

8. purim was fun! i took mr smear to the wynberg temple and he really enjoyed it, i had a couple of interesting conversations and the little musical play before the megillah reading began had the desired effect on him. it was only yesterday that we received photos from his teacher and discovered that the "secret" he'd kept from me the other day when i asked him how his day went was that he was haman in the class play :)

9. oh! we finally got the projector up and running, it's awesome having it back again.