Slow starting today
It's snowing, and though the stretch of street we live on is level there's very short, very steep bits going either up or down to get out of our immediate neighborhood. Up would be safer, but is probably impossible. Down means I stand a pretty good chance of sliding into the semi-busy street below. Done it before, I'll do it again, but not sure I want to do it right this instant.
So I'm sipping coffee, getting ready to do some more laundry folding, then wipe off the minivan and see what happens.
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Arisia was much more fun for me Sunday than Saturday. Saturday I went in with the notion that I'd check the kids into FastTrack and see them again at 5. But they were really uncomfortable with me or dad not being RIGHT THERE, so that just didn't happen. Also, had a bit of a low blood sugar thing going, because getting around the hotel was slow enough that I couldn't just duck away for two minutes to grab a candy bar. When the_gadgetman was able to come up to FastTrack with food I could feel my sanity returning bite by bite. (Yes, time to restock my backpack with durable food I don't like so much that it'll get eaten when I don't need it!)
Anyway, that was Saturday-day. Saturday evening, to my surprise, the kids looked at the schedule together and decided there actually were some things they wanted to do, so we headed down after church and they did a few kid sessions, shopped, played games, and though they didn't want to let us out of their sights they were generally not sitting on our heads. Plus I realized the full extent of what the_gadgetman's 45% discount at the hotel restaurant meant - good food, for very very little! So we ate, and eating is good.
And most happy-making for me was that I got some good, long chunks of time (both Saturday and Sunday, actually) to finish my sheppard_hc story and send it off to starwatcher307 for beta. It's... not a story I would have written ordinarily, but yet not really what its recipient asked for. But it's what happened.
So I'm sipping coffee, getting ready to do some more laundry folding, then wipe off the minivan and see what happens.
* * * * *
Arisia was much more fun for me Sunday than Saturday. Saturday I went in with the notion that I'd check the kids into FastTrack and see them again at 5. But they were really uncomfortable with me or dad not being RIGHT THERE, so that just didn't happen. Also, had a bit of a low blood sugar thing going, because getting around the hotel was slow enough that I couldn't just duck away for two minutes to grab a candy bar. When the_gadgetman was able to come up to FastTrack with food I could feel my sanity returning bite by bite. (Yes, time to restock my backpack with durable food I don't like so much that it'll get eaten when I don't need it!)
Anyway, that was Saturday-day. Saturday evening, to my surprise, the kids looked at the schedule together and decided there actually were some things they wanted to do, so we headed down after church and they did a few kid sessions, shopped, played games, and though they didn't want to let us out of their sights they were generally not sitting on our heads. Plus I realized the full extent of what the_gadgetman's 45% discount at the hotel restaurant meant - good food, for very very little! So we ate, and eating is good.
And most happy-making for me was that I got some good, long chunks of time (both Saturday and Sunday, actually) to finish my sheppard_hc story and send it off to starwatcher307 for beta. It's... not a story I would have written ordinarily, but yet not really what its recipient asked for. But it's what happened.