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I am exhausted.
Skyler's folks flew over from Georgia on Wednesday, so it's been a very stressful week or so preparing for their arrival, early start to meet them at Heathrow, and today and yesterday has been spent taking them around Blackheath and Greenwich, and Kew Gardens.
And tomorrow? Tomorrow, we're taking them to Torquay on the train (dog and all), staying there for a week in Cockington and...they will meet my parents. At some point. Nervous? Oh, hell yeah.
Certainly looking forward to this from a lot of angles, but I'm also very tired right now and a little worried about the parents all meeting. I'm sure my mom and Skyler's mom will get along, and my dad and Skyler's dad will bond over ales or whatever, but the intermixing after that? I'm less sure about.
Watch this space, I guess. I'm sure there will be a bunch of photos and whatnot, but right now my brain is so much mush.
With the Olympics-proper over life is starting to return to London. See, after all the OMG DON'T GO TO LONDON IT'S GOING TO BE CRAZY warnings, no-one came into central, people living in London cleared out/stayed home, and Blackheath was desolate. The security thing has been overkill and uncomfortable, but we did go and see two days of the dressage in the Greenwich stadium because dressage is Skyler's sport. I had very little clue what I was looking at, but it was an interesting experience despite all the very mixed and cynical feelings about the whole affair. A lot of messy politics, casual nationalism, same ol' and same ol', but as I say it's been an experience. We also have tickets to the Paralymic musical freestyle dressage, which should be interesting.
Yeahhh...I'm sure I was going to ramble about comics, irritation with people on Tumblr, and plans for the new academic year, but it's 11:30 after a long day and we need to be up early to pack.
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Skyler's folks flew over from Georgia on Wednesday, so it's been a very stressful week or so preparing for their arrival, early start to meet them at Heathrow, and today and yesterday has been spent taking them around Blackheath and Greenwich, and Kew Gardens.
And tomorrow? Tomorrow, we're taking them to Torquay on the train (dog and all), staying there for a week in Cockington and...they will meet my parents. At some point. Nervous? Oh, hell yeah.
Certainly looking forward to this from a lot of angles, but I'm also very tired right now and a little worried about the parents all meeting. I'm sure my mom and Skyler's mom will get along, and my dad and Skyler's dad will bond over ales or whatever, but the intermixing after that? I'm less sure about.
Watch this space, I guess. I'm sure there will be a bunch of photos and whatnot, but right now my brain is so much mush.
With the Olympics-proper over life is starting to return to London. See, after all the OMG DON'T GO TO LONDON IT'S GOING TO BE CRAZY warnings, no-one came into central, people living in London cleared out/stayed home, and Blackheath was desolate. The security thing has been overkill and uncomfortable, but we did go and see two days of the dressage in the Greenwich stadium because dressage is Skyler's sport. I had very little clue what I was looking at, but it was an interesting experience despite all the very mixed and cynical feelings about the whole affair. A lot of messy politics, casual nationalism, same ol' and same ol', but as I say it's been an experience. We also have tickets to the Paralymic musical freestyle dressage, which should be interesting.
Yeahhh...I'm sure I was going to ramble about comics, irritation with people on Tumblr, and plans for the new academic year, but it's 11:30 after a long day and we need to be up early to pack.
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