circus

 today was emotionally zombifying. it began with a massive fight with mr smear (his usual shit that we've been dealing with over the past few weeks) right before his friend arrived and we all went to the circus together. i'm embarrassed that i lost my temper, but goddamn - as i explained to him then and later - when your kid fucks with you in the same ways, over and over, day after day, week after week, year after year, it adds up.

the circus (circo circo) wasn't the most amazing circus experience, but it did have a lot of nail-bitingly good acts. one of which mr smear didn't see, because the scantily-clad rollerskater was too naked for him and he covered his eyes the entire act. the clowns were impressive, the trapeze artists / acrobats did some crazy things, and the dirt bike ball was just crazy.

when we came home we resumed (at a slightly lower intensity) the morning's issues in order to try and resolve them, interrupted by a nerve-wracking fifteen minutes of trying to locate his friend who'd said goodbye and gone home, but forgotten to turn the ringer of his phone back on :/

and then we all hopped in a taxi and went to the emergency clinic to get gd some help with her weird eyelid thing. we were there for two hours before the doctor could see us. we did some of mr smear's math homework, and me and him read comics for most of the wait. gd got a prescription, and we taxied to the pharmacy to pick it up, but the pharmacy was closed :/

so we walked home and i immediately got stuck in to doing all the dishes because our friend and her kids were coming over for dinner. this week, instead of challah-peño, we made challah-banero. it was also really good, but a bit different, not least of which being that the heat, while minor, hangs around longer...

dinner was great, the kids played nicely (on screens, but whatever) and had a good time, and our only complaint was that two of the kids were sporting a nasty cough and gd's terrified of having to deal with another bout of bronchitis :(

it's now 1am, everyone's in bed (finally!) and i've got a little bit of proper me-time for the first time in a while. which i have to take advantage of because tomorrow's looking to be busy.