Update September 7, 2024

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Saturday

Not much happened on Saturday. Aaron had a board gaming group that he hung out with, so I hung out with IL5 all day. I was super tired all day, so all I managed was about an hour of housework.

Sunday

Sunday I worked all day again. Then we ate Chinese food and relaxed.

Monday

Monday I wanted to take IL5 to the park, but he refused to go and I didn’t press it because I was super tired, anyway. The older kids got back from their grandpa’s – D14 went downstairs and M12 promptly fell asleep on the couch.

Tuesday

Tuesday was busy. Immediately after I got home from work, I took dad to an eye appointment. His eye prescription hasn’t changed! Then I ate breakfast as I called my benefits hotline to sign up for insurance. (We lost it when Aaron was laid off.) With no break, I took M12 to an appointment. He has gained 2 pounds! Only 2 more pounds to get to 25th percentile BMI. Then I ran errands.

At home, I helped D14 with her homework, then loaded dad’s, M12’s, and my pillboxes. Then pretty much immediately, my friend Liz came over for two hours and we watched Doctor Who with the family. I got 1.5 hours free-time before leaving for work again.

Tuesday was IL5’s first day of school. He said he enjoyed it, but he hasn’t made friends yet, because he doesn’t know how. D14 had a theater meeting, and she is excited to be in the fall play’s crew as well as helping with lighting on other events.

Wednesday

Wednesday after work, I took dad to a CT scan to check out his peripheral artery disease. The results didn’t sound good, but we’ll discuss with his vascular doctor next week to see what they mean. After that, I went to my day job. In the evening, I cooked dinner and read to D14.

D14 was excited about her activities on the theater crew after school, but not so excited about the Pacer. That’s a test in gym where she runs back and forth and they grade her on how many times she makes it. D14 also said she made a friend.

IL5 was excited about school. He apparently had a really fun time. He loved playing LEGO, which may have actually been his activity before school started. He even tried an oatmeal cookie at breakfast, which he said wasn’t good, but he enjoyed a chicken strip at lunch. He also said he made 20 friends.

Thursday

Thursday I went directly from my overnight job to my day job. I got home at 5:30. Aaron cooked burgers, then M12, Aaron, and I played Magic. M12 won. When M12 killed me, IL5 asked if I could respawn.

All three kids were rewarded fast food for not having any late assignments, though M12 said he was insulted that I bothered checking this early in the year. Everyone had another good day at school.

Friday

After work on Friday I ran some errands, then took my dad to a rather uneventful cardiologist appointment. Then, I had a glorious 3 hour nap before IL5 got home. I cooked steak for dinner, and then relaxed for the rest of the day. The kids all said they had an ok day at school.

Pictures

Letters Written

One letter Texas
One letter Maryland
One letter Pennsylvania
One letter Virginia
One letter Maine
One letter Pennsylvania

Reading to myself

The Week: The New Brand
Behave, by Robert Sapolsky
The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone, by Jaclyn Moriarty
Maskerade, by Terry Pratchett
Mr Ballen podcast
Alan Turing: The Enigma
Eye of the World, by Robert Jordan
Newsweek: Feeling the Pinch

Reading to IL5

Minecraft: Night of the Bats, by Nick Eliopulos
Dungeon Academy: Goreball Scrimmage, by Dianne Walker
Major Monster Mess, by Andres Miedoso

D14 reading

57 Bus, by Dashka Slater

Media Completed

Cassandra Web is a paramedic who doesn’t like being tied down. But then she starts seeing the future. This movie took a lot of suspension of disbelief. I know it’s about a superhero, and that was fine. But she stole a taxi, committed crimes with it, and drove it around for several days without drawing attention. Plus, she didn’t get a prison sentence for all the crimes she committed . 🤷‍♀️

Morgan and his friends are back in the game, and are also solving a bat problem in the real world. Cute late elementary school series. Nothing too special to me, but IL5 is loving it. The Minecraft aspect is so fun to him.

The Danger Club participates goreball game with visiting dragon students. This book read kind of like a quidditch match. Weird fantasy game rules were explained, then a blow-by-blow of the game commenced. I was never a fan of quidditch matches, and I wasn’t a fan of this book. IL5 seemed only partially interested, too. He kept saying he wanted me to continue, but he didn’t seem to be interested. I liked the other books in the series much better.

Andres and Desmond find out they smell like monsters, so they go monster-searching. This is IL5’s favorite series right now. He loved this installment.