breathe in

 i finally dived back in to shadowrun: hong kong. i ended up climbing into bed around 2.30am.

i woke up around 8.30am, enjoyed a cup of coffee and more shadowrun, and then took a pleasant, quiet walk to the pharmacy and back to get gd's meds. it was a beautiful morning for it.

a classmate of mr smear's arrived, with a foul-mouth and some interesting inherited opinions (when i said we're vegan, he unabashedly responded "cringe!"), and the two of them seemed to have a good time.

and then a weird thing happened - mr smear's friend convinced him to try watching forrest gump. in spite of the initial protests, we continued watching after his friend's mom picked him up and we all loved it (and i occasionally sobbed uncontrollably, at one point mr smear misread it as laughing).

i did some of the dishes, then took mr smear out for a very pleasant walk to and through the park, and we got home in time for dinner and futurama, followed by showering / brushing teeth / doing the rest of the dishes while mr smear entertains himself and gd reading trivia and garfield out loud.

half an hour to his herpes-meds bedtime.

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i'm sad that mr smear has decided to stop doing the inktober challenge, but he got through a third of it, and he did so brilliantly.