restful shabbat

it was. it really was. my on-call shift still isn't over but today was great. mr smear spent half his day playing spider-man (it's awesome), i spent a good chunk of it reading about interesting things, listening to comedy, napping...

in the afternoon, we all went to pay the mongoose and his partner a visit and meet their daughter! she's beautiful, and it was an enormous relief to see how happy and relaxed they all are. they've got good support and they're doing great ^_^

we had to leave in a hurry (as usual) when gd's allergic reaction to their cats became overwhelming, we had a nice walk home and then realized we'd left something important behind, so i got on my blades to race over and pick it up and it felt like i got the perfect amount of exercise.

the evening started off awesome (we ate a delicious dinner and watched the end of back to the future part iii, and mr smear was literally jumping up and down and yelling at the screen he was so excited), turned a bit sour (gd upset and mr smear throwing a wobbly), but i managed to get everyone back on track in spite of their protests and ended up having a great chat with mr smear before reading more charlie and the great glass elevator. we've almost finished it and i love how much fun we're both having with it!

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i had a long chat with my mum after putting mr smear to bed, mostly about the fact that ric and his wife have called it quits and are leaving israel. i'm particularly sad because the two of them have done incredibly well considering all the challenges they've faced, but they probably won't appreciate that and i'm confident his parents won't either.

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it's late, and it's a bit stressful having to prepare an on-call handover session when i myself neither know nor care what actually happened and i don't want to look foolish. otherwise, gd's got another nerve block scheduled for tomorrow and we're praying it goes smoothly and does the job.