context switching

it's late and i want to play a little more slay the spire before bed, so i'm being relatively lazy about posting.

yesterday:

i didn't sleep very well at all.

yesterday was ridiculous.

it began with a massive fight over screen time in the mornings, which eventually - and with a lot of big feelings on all sides - was resolved in a reasonably satisfactory manner.

our parental guidance meeting took an unexpected turn; i thought we'd be talking about what we'd been fighting about - which primarily covered our approaches and failures regarding teaching mr smear how to appropriately deal with authority - but focused entirely on the play therapist that gd's (and mr smear, apparently) been losing patience with...

my work day was insane. i was pulled in so many directions and forced to context switch so much that for a while i literally couldn't keep track of what i was doing or trying to do. meanwhile, the two main things i was supposed to be doing feel by the wayside, and i ended up needing to continue the work from home.

i'm very grateful that one of my coworkers tried out their pesach gift massage kit next to me, which inspired me to take it home. i think it made my family appreciate me more.

then i got home, did All The Things, and by the time i was ready to work i was so tired that i had to lie down.

the only time i got up was when i couldn't sleep and my neck was feeling stiff, so i lay down on the massager for a while before returning to bed.

today:

eating a couple of pieces of caffeine-laced chocolate after dinner - along with a heck of a lot more sugar than i'm comfortable admitting - did not help me sleep well. not only didn't i get much sleep, but mr smear woke up twice in the night and was too afraid to go back to sleep by himself, so while i'm grateful that gd took care of it, i was still affected somewhat.

getting some of the work done

my back locking up after returning home from walking mr smear to school

seeing a plastic surgeon after a couple of months' waiting, to be given a referral for an actual surgery (very minor) in another couple of months' time (and then discovering that i have a conflicting appointment when it was too late to change it)

black salt and hot sauces on the way to work, and a surprisingly excellent UX upgrade from the hop-on app (i could select my bus stop from a map)

broken glass jar due to the cap not being screwed on, and it's unlikely but possible that i'm the one responsible.

less intense work day but still very busy, some good moments and some bad.

trying to leave and getting caught up in an important conversation, then being hounded by a company partner before i had my bag packed.

a bit of a screen-time fight when i got home, but i think i handled it well

mr's smear's first dad joke (i only tweaked it a little):

"why did the boy throw away his day-old dessert? because it was off-pudding"

* black mirror: common people is hard to watch. the overall story is brilliantly awful, but *SPOILER ALERT* it also deeply upset me that at no point did they consider taking anyone to court and there was an obvious better ending available *END SPOILER ALERT*

* natasha hausdorff facing off against dolores umbridge is an absolute master-class in maintaing composure