purim sameach!

yesterday (monday) began with a scare, during sunday's housecleaning labor it appears that i managed to tweak one or two things in my back and i spent the morning on the verge of a massive spasm. fortunately i managed to get mr smear to school without incident and gd smeared deep heat (bengay) and hammered me until everything softened up a bit. it continued to threaten for the rest of the day, but the threats were comparatively mild.

it was a busy workday. i enjoyed great successes with some sadness sandwiched in between, but sadly was unable to push my changes before the end of the day as one of my coworkers broke something important. i took today off for purim and i'm hoping they didn't push anything too interesting on my day off...

today was great! it started with a rough wakeup, but quickly smoothed out. gd assisted me with the remaining mold areas and we're pretty much complete, there are difficult-to-reach parts of the apartment (of our windows in particular) that look like nobody's cleaned them in eighteen years...

a cousin from england is here for a week and we bussed through to have brunch with her. we had a really nice time (and i ate far too much), it was all gravy until mr smear decided he was bored... no matter. we went past dizengoff center and stopped at the grocery store, we would have picked up a vegan burger for mr smear at the burger king but there was something wrong with their order systems.

once home, mr smear continued playing minecraft education edition while gd and i watched chris rock's new netflix special, which isn't very funny but is 100% on point and well worth watching.

afterwards, i took mr smear for a walk to and around the museum grounds. on the way we had a "tickle fight", something which had become a point of contention a long time ago (he would consistently use it at the worst possible times as an attention-grabbing device), and we've had enough of a break that i was finally able to relax my guard and we both enjoyed ourselves. we then had a special treat dinner on the way home - i picked up a laffa with salads at one shop and a packet of falafel balls at another, and we stuffed the falafel into the laffa for him while i ate a regular falafel pita. we got home in time to watch an episode of adventure time, and i ended up having time to read to him before heading out to join TAR purim.

it's been a decade...

the evening was fun, and was more of a reunion than anything else! i managed the route in my finn the human onesie with the hood over my eyes (some people managed it in outrageously complex costumes, so not much of an achievement), ending the evening with incredible vegan ice-cream from leggenda.

i've stretched, showered, and posted this, now to find out if i'm going to be able to sleep or not considering i needed a late coffee just to be able to get my blades on in the first place :P

i'm REALLY glad that i took today off. today was an awesome day.