happy 2023!

another time round the sun!

2022 was WILD for us. it started off theatrically scary and confusing, became super crazy for a few months, became a whole different kind of crazy for another few, and has finally ended with us miraculously - gratefully - feeling pretty stable, positive, and surrounded by friends, family, neighbors, and nation.

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thursday: a productive, constructive, positive day. my only mistake was eating two pitot with the hummus. the "happy hour" whiskey made the last hour a little more difficult than it needed to be. on thursday night, i finally succeeded in deploying something i've been struggling with for a week now.

yesterday: massive progress in the morning after my 1.20am victory. then the big weekly shopping with gd, then we split up so that gd could pick up mr smear and take him to a birthday party while i picked up a couple of bottles from the liquor store. i joined them afterwards for a very pleasant afternoon drinking beer and eating vegan pizza and conversing with the adults while the kids entertained themselves on a couple of massive bouncy castles and wired themselves up with candy floss.

i think that was mr smear's very first candy floss experience.

sailor came over for a sushi dinner, i was pretty down - more exhausted than anything else, i feel, but it did make me a bit withdrawn which sailor picked up on.

today started off positively, but went sour when one of our support team contacted me for assistance about something i know nothing about and i felt bad asking him to wait until tomorrow because, i suddenly realized, i didn't actually have a clear idea of what's expected of the on-call victim ninja at night / on weekends. i sent a message to my boss for clarification, and he quickly jumped in and made it abundantly clear that on-call isn't to be bothered outside of work hours unless there's a real emergency.

i feel better now.

in the afternoon we picked up australian cousins and drove through to our lapid cousins, we had a lovely evening ushering in the new year with family, ate well, heard good news and generally ended the year on a very positive note.

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here's to a magnificent, surprising, peaceful and wonderful 2023!