Christmas was awesome
I keep starting entries and then can't finish them because Life Happens - so I'm going to attempt a sum-up for Christmas.
Worked Christmas Eve-Eve and it was uneventful. I have SO MANY assistants now and they're all go-getters so I had to send them all home early and got a chance to finish one sample and work on another.
Hen's party was awesome, as always. Eric, Nash, Chris, and I were all on Fire Duty and we managed to get one going despite the rain.
I socialized a ton and got to say hi to a bunch of people. Managed a fun conversation about religion and human sacrifice/cannibalism with Nash, Alia, and John despite the loud ambient noise. Goofed around with Nash a lot and we poked and bumped each other, nerded out, and were generally Shade and Nash.
She called me Shade in front of everyone and not a single eye bashed. That's something I love about Henrique and his group of friends: as long as it's in good fun, nothing is out of the norm.
Christmas Eve I had to work again. Henrique sent me texts telling me how awesome I am and how much he loves me and I was honestly tearing up.
Saw my family. Gave The Nibblings little "Art Day with Aunt Rachael" certificates and they all loved it. The siblings all got "Grown-Up Days Off", Jon and Karla got Puppy/House-Sitting Certificates.
Went to spend the night with Henrique and Alia. Hen has been so fucking careful with cheat-days on his diet because he keeps having very scary stomach-cramps. He played it so safe all weekend and still ended up having another one: cramps so bad he can't help but scream, being panicky, losing mental focus, etc. On a whim, just to try and distract him and get some sort of objective reading I took his temperature and it was 95.2.
He was hypothermic.
In his own fucking living room.
Watching Svengoolie.
Let me repeat that: my boyfriend was indoors, in a heated room, wearing clothes, watching TV, and he was fucking hypothermic.
This led to a bunch of research including his family genetics: realizing that his diet has probably messed with his thyroid - the same thyroid which he has been hacking to lose weight so quickly; the same thyroid that is responsible for his BMR and his thermoregulation.
So that was worrying.
The good news is that we have discovered that Alia is such a deep sleeper she can sleep through Henrique screaming in agony. Also, he finally got to see me Manage A Situation and stay incredibly calm without anyone else around so... That's also good, I guess?
The cramps went away and we all went to bed.
Christmas morning I kept hitting snooze on his alarm and woke up 30 minutes later than I was supposed to. No boyfriend in bed. No girlfriend in bed... Alia was with her family already but where was Henrique?
He was out on the couch. The cramps had come back. Despite the financial burden he's going to a doctor.
We prepared food: I made his meatballs a-fucking-mazing and his family were raving about them.
We all opened presents. They LOVED theirs - so much so that Henrique has declared that he won't wear his shirt for fear of messing it up, and Alia couldn't stop looking at her frame.
Went to visit my mom's side of the family. Had some amazing discussions.
You see, my grandma was adopted at 6 months old back in the day when adoption was mostly one family saying "we can't care for this kid" and another family saying "this kid is ours." So she's gone almost 80 years not knowing who her birth family was. This year she got curious and started digging, and found out that a lot of them originated in and still live in Springfield. So we all talked about how we feel about it, asked questions, and got answers. There is a whole new branch to my family and suddenly my self comes into focus more.
There were discussions of cool and eerie coincidences: such as the fact that my grandma and her adopted family would vacation at Indian Lake in the same time-period as her birth family. We all wondered if they all ever saw each other and didn't know it, or hid it.
After that I went and hung out with Henrique and Alia again, and we went to see a movie. Alia got a new tablet from Hen, and he also got her a stylus, and upon becoming frustrated at a drawing she handed it all to me and laid on my lap and watched me work with it.
Be still my beating heart.
Right before we left Nick sent me a text asking for my address and saying he would be visiting. So fuck yeah!!!!
I squealed a little.
And now I have to get my apartment ready because he'll be crashing with me and I at least need to have floor-space.
Worked Christmas Eve-Eve and it was uneventful. I have SO MANY assistants now and they're all go-getters so I had to send them all home early and got a chance to finish one sample and work on another.
Hen's party was awesome, as always. Eric, Nash, Chris, and I were all on Fire Duty and we managed to get one going despite the rain.
I socialized a ton and got to say hi to a bunch of people. Managed a fun conversation about religion and human sacrifice/cannibalism with Nash, Alia, and John despite the loud ambient noise. Goofed around with Nash a lot and we poked and bumped each other, nerded out, and were generally Shade and Nash.
She called me Shade in front of everyone and not a single eye bashed. That's something I love about Henrique and his group of friends: as long as it's in good fun, nothing is out of the norm.
Christmas Eve I had to work again. Henrique sent me texts telling me how awesome I am and how much he loves me and I was honestly tearing up.
Saw my family. Gave The Nibblings little "Art Day with Aunt Rachael" certificates and they all loved it. The siblings all got "Grown-Up Days Off", Jon and Karla got Puppy/House-Sitting Certificates.
Went to spend the night with Henrique and Alia. Hen has been so fucking careful with cheat-days on his diet because he keeps having very scary stomach-cramps. He played it so safe all weekend and still ended up having another one: cramps so bad he can't help but scream, being panicky, losing mental focus, etc. On a whim, just to try and distract him and get some sort of objective reading I took his temperature and it was 95.2.
He was hypothermic.
In his own fucking living room.
Watching Svengoolie.
Let me repeat that: my boyfriend was indoors, in a heated room, wearing clothes, watching TV, and he was fucking hypothermic.
This led to a bunch of research including his family genetics: realizing that his diet has probably messed with his thyroid - the same thyroid which he has been hacking to lose weight so quickly; the same thyroid that is responsible for his BMR and his thermoregulation.
So that was worrying.
The good news is that we have discovered that Alia is such a deep sleeper she can sleep through Henrique screaming in agony. Also, he finally got to see me Manage A Situation and stay incredibly calm without anyone else around so... That's also good, I guess?
The cramps went away and we all went to bed.
Christmas morning I kept hitting snooze on his alarm and woke up 30 minutes later than I was supposed to. No boyfriend in bed. No girlfriend in bed... Alia was with her family already but where was Henrique?
He was out on the couch. The cramps had come back. Despite the financial burden he's going to a doctor.
We prepared food: I made his meatballs a-fucking-mazing and his family were raving about them.
We all opened presents. They LOVED theirs - so much so that Henrique has declared that he won't wear his shirt for fear of messing it up, and Alia couldn't stop looking at her frame.
Went to visit my mom's side of the family. Had some amazing discussions.
You see, my grandma was adopted at 6 months old back in the day when adoption was mostly one family saying "we can't care for this kid" and another family saying "this kid is ours." So she's gone almost 80 years not knowing who her birth family was. This year she got curious and started digging, and found out that a lot of them originated in and still live in Springfield. So we all talked about how we feel about it, asked questions, and got answers. There is a whole new branch to my family and suddenly my self comes into focus more.
There were discussions of cool and eerie coincidences: such as the fact that my grandma and her adopted family would vacation at Indian Lake in the same time-period as her birth family. We all wondered if they all ever saw each other and didn't know it, or hid it.
After that I went and hung out with Henrique and Alia again, and we went to see a movie. Alia got a new tablet from Hen, and he also got her a stylus, and upon becoming frustrated at a drawing she handed it all to me and laid on my lap and watched me work with it.
Be still my beating heart.
Right before we left Nick sent me a text asking for my address and saying he would be visiting. So fuck yeah!!!!
I squealed a little.
And now I have to get my apartment ready because he'll be crashing with me and I at least need to have floor-space.