good, bad, either

good things: three days straight of taking mr smear to the pool, he's swimming nicely and we had a lot of fun. his behaviour's also stabilized, and i think all round our family interactions are healthier. i've also made generally good progress at work on a variety of projects.

i finally continued horseman's conversation with swordschool this morning, he's also in - i don't know how much i don't know when it comes to this sort of thing, but i'm excited nonetheless!

not so good things:

UPS managed to get gd's documents to cape town on monday, but have so far failed to deliver them to us. they've now effectively cost us a week, and we were already rushed.

gd's really been having a hard time health-wise this week.

not sure if good or bad:

the apocalypse came early to cape town - the city centre's power went out unexpectedly on monday evening and it took until the next afternoon to get sorted out. we had no phones and no internet, either. fortunately my coworker could accommodate me so i got a half day in at his place yesterday.

i've been going to bed early the past few nights, i feel like i've got so much to do but i also feel like i'm on the edge of burning out and that doing nothing (aside from my day job and parenting) is okay. the good part is that i've had a couple of nights of real sleep, which is very rare for me.