checking boxes

we both felt better this morning, although still a bit tired. i managed to cross off a bunch of items on my todo list, including discussing our plans with nystire, singer and a friend from montreal.

this morning gd convinced me to buy a minecraft skin pack for mr smear, there was much joy for about ten minutes and then he decided he'd rather have something else. i'm not doing that again, for ten bucks i couldn't picked up a whole new game. or pay for another tree (we sponsor a tree monthly with greenpop, highly recommended).

to be fair, though, the skin pack *is* pretty cool.

i convinced gd to join me and mr smear on a walk during the one part of the day it wasn't raining, and it was an enjoyable walk. we ended up at plant for the first time in ages, gd wasn't too pleased with her meal but i had the bao buns and they were fantastic.

my mom came over for a visit (and read some more harry potter to mr smear), then we watched steven universe and gravity falls and aside from one very unpleasant moment (i did something that terrified mr smear, it took a little while to get him feeling safe and comfortable again and i felt a bit daft afterwards), the shower/bedtime ritual went well.

gd introduced me to resident alien yesterday, we're only about halfway through the second episode (she was too tired to continue) but i have to say that alan tudyk just keeps taking awesome roles and doing amazing things with them.

i'm finally watching the evangelion reboots, i'm halfway through 3.33 and aside from the ending of 2.22* it's been amazing.

* the music ruined its closing scene, the concept was good but the execution was distressingly bad

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 the anxiety comes and goes in waves. there are some pretty big unknowns and i'm praying we don't screw anything up along the way.