the birthday

my son woke up this morning as a five year-old. kinda hard to digest. he had a great day, from his class celebration (gd was upset seeing the video of the kids all singing wearing masks), to a play-date with his best friend (who gifted him with a really noisy spiderman toy which he broke soon after the friend left), to a mission to the waterfront with my mom to find both toy stores closed. he's been begging for a remote-controlled car, but there wasn't much we could do, so we wolfed down falafel laffa and then walked through to the computer store so that my mom could look for a keyboard.

the computer store's alarm was going off, so i hustled him to the other side of the mall entrance which is a music store. which has remote controlled cars for sale. win!

he got to call the telly before bedtime (adventure time), and after showering and brushing his teeth he decided he wanted pie (gd baked him a proper gorrammed apple pie today because that's what he'd told us he wanted) and even got us to light a candle with it. and then he fell asleep to me reading harry potter.

i think the birthday went well :)

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i've been really unmotivated to work this week. it hasn't been a bad week, but i haven't worked nearly enough hours and the thing that i've been distracting myself from is preparing a presentation i have to give next week that i'm not looking forward to.

i just wanna focus on development, really.

i did get a haircut yesterday (finally!), and the bloodwork for my life insurance (which i haven't been getting around to for four months), and gd's fingerprints have arrived, and my new computer's waiting for me at my mom's, so things are moving. i really do feel like i need a big PAUSE in my life, although at the same time this week feels like a pretty good proxy.

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gd's got me watching the boys. i really dig karl urban (because of dredd), but godsdammit the writing of this series is so damned good. it's been forever since a show really sucked me in, i've seen three episodes so far and they're absolutely crushing it.