things are looking up but i need to sit down

 the sofa's being delivered on monday. as is the replacement mattress.

my feet hurt.

this has been a really crazy week, and it's amazing to me that it's thursday evening already.

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on tuesday, around lunchtime, i had a chat with the CEO. it was a pleasant chat, and he told me a few things that made it clear that we're even more aligned than i believed. either that or he's a *really* great salesman. either way, i made a decision and signed on the dotted line(s), a little while later i saw that they'd signed the contract too, and gd says that my face literally changed colour and my freckles came back.

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[breaking news - i passed out while posting this, then woke up to phone calls checking in because there's been a shooting in tel aviv. a cousin is locked in a restaurant while the police/army searches for the attackers. jesus.]

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the rest of the day and the following day were filled with easy conversations with recruiters informing them that they could leave me alone now and hard conversations with the other companies, one of which was about to make me an offer that i could have waited for, but didn't. the VP that called me up has a bit of a speech impediment which made the conversation even more difficult...

but i'm really feeling confident that i've made the right call.

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i'm trying really hard to have a good relationship with my son, the past couple of weeks have been hard on all of us and i've been forgetting to just let go of a whole bunch of things. i think today was better.

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finally, we received an important update today from our lawyer: we officially have the court order we've been waiting for! it's going to take another ridiculously long time to get the blood tests done (the earliest we could book was the end of may), but at least things are finally moving.

hmm. i wonder if perhaps we wouldn't have better luck at a different lab. i'll check on sunday.

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[damn, they still haven't caught the shooter(s) yet]