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mini epic
is this thing on? hello? good golly, it's been a while. last i left you, vivi had just been born and i was going to bed. liz and susan were at the hospital and struggled to make her eat, which didn't help her jaundice. left the hospital, went to see our doc, who told us to take her to the hospital for some blue light treatment. for some reason, we went to goodSam instead of our beloved los gatos. don't know why, we were in a sleepless haze. liz spent the first night with vivi, i spent the next night. it was a marathon session of FB interrupted by diapers, feeding and some terrible hospital food.

grandma kathy had arrived by this time, which was a HUGE, ginormous gift because she entertained val while we went to appointments or dropped stuff off ran around like crazy people. val was thrilled of course and we were incredibly appreciative of the attention she got because we were running on fumes. i can't remember much except that we went to blue mango for dinner one time and sneha for lunch another. really can't express how grateful we were for this. whew.

so, where are we now. vivi made a good recovery and is the most mellow baby ever. we thought val was relatively easy and vivi is way easier. she did cry a lot early on but she's now content to sit on the floor with a pile of toys and hang out. she's generally a happy baby and is so chill.

val is doing well, having moved up to the "serious" class at her preschool. it's the class that preps kids for kindergarten. we're hoping to get her into a public montessori school near us, which is the only option aside from private school. ugh. she's doing well, talks A LOT and is still active with hip hop and gymnastics class.

summer trip
my cousin was getting married in NC so we took the red eye after fourth of july for a week long trip. everyone traveled nicely and we got to NC with no problem. met up with a former co-worker who just happened to be visiting her husband's family in the area so we got to meet her 4 month old cutie for the first time. then we made a beeline to TN to visit with grandma kathy and granddaddy paul for a few days. had a nice time, visited kathy's office and later trekked out to her co-worker's farm. it was crazy, they had horses, goats, pigs, goats, chickens, ducks, guinea pigs, snapping turtles, huge pond with giant goldfish and catfish. they had a giant barn that they tore down and put back up and unable to find someone to build their house for a reasonable price, they build it themselves! i was amazed and felt completely like a city mouse. i had a little problem understanding the accent and am sure they thought i was slow. ("dog's name is belle." "bill?" "belle" "beal??") it was interesting but nice to get back to suburbia. =)

val was doted on by everybody and it was so sweet to see the adoration she had for granddaddy paul. they were fast buddies and val had him wrapped around her finger from the getgo. uncle robin showed val how to properly slip and slide and set up the daisy sprinkler for some hot weather cool down. uncle andy and girlfriend played wii and everyone watched the girls so liz and i could go to the movies. we saw knight and day, which i enjoyed a lot, i love action/spy stuff and it was pretty funny.

four days passed by way too quickly and after a quick bbq dinner, we took off for NC for wedding festivities. saturday, we met my family at big daddy's burger barn in charlotte. we were first on the scene and secured seating for 18. here i thought it'd be just a couple cousins but no, it was the majority of my mother's side of the family (that was at the wedding.) it was great to see everyone again, it'd been years and i had a good time catching up with everyone.

after lunch, we split up, some people went to the mall, some people drove around charlotte, i think we went to swim in the hotel pool. vivi was not a fan but i somehow got her to fall asleep in my arms. then liz and val went in search of dish washer detergent and found the Y there that had a giant water park area, so they came home, suited up and went out while i hung around the hotel while vivi napped. they returned and we got ready for dinner at macaroni grill. the girls looked very cute in their matching polka dotted dresses and there were tons of pictures taken because we are, after all, asian, it's required, right?

sunday, everyone was on their own for lunch. we went to waffle house and then headed over to play some more in the Y water park. it was huge! we hung out and as she did the day before, vivi cried, then fell asleep in the pool, so i laid her down on a lounger and hung out by myself under the giant umbrella while liz and val played. liz has witnessed a 10 minute adult time before the hour so we kept an eye out for that as our cue to leave and get ready for the wedding. except it didn't happen and there was no clock anywhere and both of us left our phones in the car. BAH! ran back to the hotel, threw on our clothes and rushed to the wedding, which was only down the street but felt like 30 miles away.

made it right as the maid of honor was about to walk. we snuck in just as walked, so i got a couple good pics of the bride and my uncle. whew! of course my camera just about died then so not many pictures at all. *grumble* everything went off without a hitch, reception was nice, another cousin came with her two kids so val had a great time running around. there was good bit of dancing and before long, it was time to take off...except liz was hungry so we went to steak and shake for a post-wedding snack.

the next day, we were set to leave. checked out, went to steak and shake again for lunch, when crazy storm hits us. it finally passes after about an hour, so we returned our car, got everybody through security, got to our gate and for some strange reason, i got in line to get a tag for the stroller. waited and waited, nearly left the line three separate times, but for some reason, i sat there stubbornly waiting.

and good thing i did! i was third in line when they announced that our flight was delayed and luckily i was there because had i been first, i would've gotten the tag, left to go sit down, the announcement made and THEN would've had to get in the back of the already long line. I make this note only because i NEVER get in line, i usually search for an open area where we can hang out. anyway, we would've missed our connecting flight in detroit, so we decided to stay in NC for another night and chose to take the earlier flight out.

went to get another rental, again, lucky i was close to the front of the line because there were almost no rentals left by the time we got downstairs. got two of three bags, the most important being the carseat, so i sent liz off to get them installed while i waited for her bag. which never came back. oops. delta gave us two travel cases full of stuff, including a t-shirt which came in handy when vivi puked all over it that night.

so, off we go to my cousin's place, where my other two cousins and aunt and uncle were. surprise! we join them for a hibachi type dinner, which was nice, because it was the first chance to hang out without the pressure of the wedding and all the other guests. went back to see some of the pictures, then left early because everyone wanted to go to bed in order to get an early start on the drive to NJ.

next morning, we get up waaay early to make our flight. on the way there, i happen to pull out our boarding tickets and...CRAP! we got booked onto the later flight even though we requested the earlier one! bah. i call my cousin to laugh, accidentally waking her up. i thought she'd be up since her family was leaving early, but oops, she wasn't. we head over to the cracker barrel for breakfast and my cousin sees her family off and then joins us, which was extra awesome because i never get to hang out with just her. it was really nice and worth the screw up!

finally get onto the plane. first leg is fine, second leg, we score first class, woo! the rich do get richer. nice hot chicken sandwich, free. tv, free. games on console, free. free alcohol. finally get home and liz's bag is waiting for us at the delta baggage office. the later time worked out better because then sarah didn't have to leave work as early to pick us all up.

they drop me off and i take off to pick up some tile tools that i got off craigslist. we'd been talking about it for 2 weeks, he was on vacation, then i was out of town, then we got delayed by a day. anyway, picked it up, then met everyone for pizza. all in all, a very good trip.

posted by winking bunny at 11:16 AM :: ::

 
she's here! she's finally here! the birth itself was normal, but EVERYTHING ELSE leading up to it was chaos, logistics was nuts.

plan A was that i go into the OR with liz, follow baby out to the nursery while susan accompanies liz while cheds waits in the waiting room with val. i stay with liz and baby while val goes for much anticipated overnight with sam and riley.

good plan, no? liz felt contractions and we go in a week earlier, thinking we'll get plan A into motion. except susan is hella sick. ack! we quickly come up with plan B.

plan B: i go into the OR, cheds replaces me, val goes to sue and sarah's for an overnight, which will not be with her beloved girls but her best buddy, isaiah.

we drop val off, text cheds to put her on alert and liz gets her bits poked to determine that those contractions aren't doing anything. at this news, liz jumps out of the bed, we practically flee the hospital and call off the cavalry. got some lunch at a&w before meeting everyone at a park. that was a good dry run.

then we begin planning for if susan gets better in time or not. susan progressively gets better. i think that takes us through plans C-E.

then i get a tickle in my throat. uh oh. i take thursday off, go to walgreen's to pick up vitamin C and zinc tablets, etc, etc and vainly spend the day in bed to shake it off. except i decide to take my temp and it reports 101. WHAT!!! take some advil, fever clears up, we are freaking out with this stupid hamdemic going on, so liz and val go to a hotel for the night. luckily from the dry run, all our bags were already in her car so they were set. val is too excited to settle down so i read her favorite book to her over the phone, which was heartbreaking but i'm happy they're far away from my cooties.

friday, i call my doc, explain the situation to the receptionist, who tells me a nurse will call me back within an hour. when she does, i ask for the sw.ine swab to see if it is indeed that or not, am told that they don't swab for that anymore because it takes 3 days and that they just assume it is if you have a fever. she is, however, alarmed by my "tiny wheeze" symptom, so i get an appointment. explain it all again, lots of talking, lots of hemming and hawing about the course of action since i only had a fever that cleared up, a tiny wheeze and a tiny cough, but otherwise felt fine...iow, totally inconsistent with the sw.ine f.lu. got the rapid in.fluenza a and b swab, which was a tiny qtip on a flexible wire that went up the nose and down the throat. (really?? in this day in age and technology, we rely on torture to get cultures?! AND to add insult to injury, it's 40-70% inaccurate! wtf. AND you would think that if you went to all this trouble to get a culture, you could, OH, test it for sw.ine as well?? fine, whatever.)

since i'm near work, i stop in to pick up my lunch bag, which i worried would get thrown away, and to fax some papers i forgot to do wednesday, while figuring out whether to spend another night at the hotel or not but liz said "eff that" and came home. i head home, intending to sleep all day again, check the results of my swab test...negative! hurray! but wtf, i have a fever again! at this point, i'm thinking that i'm not going to be able to go into the OR let alone the hospital and despair that i'm going to miss the birth of my child and also begin overdrive worrying that liz will get sick, which would be a million levels of bad. she picks val up and goes to school's spaghetti fundraiser dinner with sue and sarah and isaiah while i sleep and hope and pray that the fever goes away. it doesn't, i get more upset. plan F-H involve cheds taking liz to the hospital because it's be too hard for everyone to just dump her at the curb and not go in and i stay home with val. sigh.

saturday, i don't even remember what happened that day but my ear thermometer yet again tells me i have a fever. wtf! i don't even feel hot! i did feel defeated though and despair again that i'm going to miss #2's birth. at some point, liz suggests i take my temp with her basal thermometer and it says 97.7. wtf! i'm never that low. given the wild inaccuracy of everything, we decide...

plan I: cheds picks liz up and takes her to the hospital, i take val to sue and sarah's and head over to the hospital, susan goes into the OR, follows the baby to the nursery, cheds replaces susan in the OR, i stand in the hallway so i can see the baby for a second, run away and pick val up.

except, while susan is prepped to go in, one of the nurses asked why i wasn't going into the OR. i explain my random sickness, to which she seemed to shrug and said it'd probably be fine since they were already exposed to me and if i was sure i didn't want to suit up? i was about to but liz was already getting prepped and after all our plan iterations, i didn't want to mess with it without talking to her so we stayed the course except i would be staying instead of running away after i saw the baby.

susan went in while cheds and i watched from the OR door, which had a big section marked with a wide strip of red tape, which presumably was to keep us back but we inched up until we were standing right at the door, which was awesome because i got to see a lot more than if i had been in there because i'd be behind the drape. i saw the doctor make the cut, smoke rise up, lots of tugging, to the point where i thought they were going to put a foot up and tug of war with each other, until the ob looked straight into my eyes with an excited expression that i couldn't really read...was she being encouraging? hey cheds, did you see her look over at us? why's she nodding?

a tug or two later, out popped vivian gavi! big, pink, cute and crying hella loud. cheds and i cried and hugged and cried some more, then resumed bobbing outside the window to see what was going on.

twist on plan I: a nurse poked her head out and slapped a hospital bracelet on my wrist, which meant i would be taking the baby into the nursery! which was so terrific because i'd missed that with val, who got whisked away because we underplanned for the c-section and i stayed with liz. this is also before we realized that we could request that she hang out with liz before getting whisked so this time, viv got to spend some time with liz while she got stitched up. susan eventually came out and we went to the nursery while cheds hung with liz in recovery.

little viv weighed in at 8lbs 5oz, which i had called exactly! and measured 20.5 inches. i got to see her first bath, she was soaped up on top of a pile of towels and then rinsed off, which was surprising because i imagined her in a tub of water. then she got her blood sugar checked, which was a little low but it steadily crept up to the point that she didn't have to get her heel pricked again. and i saw her hair being washed, which she loved, she was all chill and blissed out, so cute!

cheds picked up val and brought her in for a short visit, then val and i headed home to bed. i made the mistake of letting her sleep in with me so i got no sleep at all. before long, i had to get up and get val to school, then headed over to the hospital to relieve susan and spend the day with my baby. this puffalump is a cutie, has the same reddish brown hair like val and looks a lot like her. here, take
a look. viv, however, has barely opened an eye and has been sleeping a lot. and pooping. =D

even though i said we were at plan I, we were probably up to plan R and now, plan S for me...SLEEP!

posted by winking bunny at 1:41 AM :: ::

 
my DMV saga

i'll try to make this short since anything DMV related gets inexorably long...i moved out to california in 1996. i needed a car, so my mother upgraded hers and sent me her volvo. great! i loved that car, it got me and my friends places. i drove it into the ground.

cut to 2000 when liz got the bright idea that we could buy a house. after much looking, we found a house, put in an offer and it was accepted! begin the 500 signature marathon and the snooping of my credit history. huh, i have an outstanding fine from NJ, something about a registration overdue. whatever, i pay it to get it out of the way, i have a house to buy!

cut to 2008 when my license expires. i pay the renewal fee online, done! i'm feeling proud of myself for actually getting it done on time.

cut to 2009 when i try to rent a car in dallas. oops, my license is expired, no car for me! assumed it's somewhere in the house, i go to the dmv to get a new one. woman says it's pending for some reason, but issues me a temporary one, telling me that it's quicker to come to the office to renew than to do it online. uh, right, you continue to think that.

weeks later, i get a letter from the CA d.m.v saying that my account is on hold and my license can't be issued until it's cleared up. what!? call NJ and find out that i have an outstanding fine from the lapsed registration fee that i had paid but because it was so late, i had to pay another $100 to restore my account. huh? it's been over THIRTEEN YEARS at this point, isn't there a statute of limitations or something?? fine, i'll pay it to make it all go away. get the number to pay over the phone, i'm prompted for my case number. @#$%&, didn't get one, call back to get it, get transferred to someone who said i could just do it over the phone. i tell her that it's asking for a case number but try again at her insistence. nope, stuck at case number. call back, get another woman who won't give me my case number because it's private. huh?! it's MY case! get the address and send check out certified/registered mail.

the irony? i overpaid the first time and am owed $50. nope, they can't apply it to this, they're not linked, check is cut. sigh.

weeks later, i get a bunch of stickers with my name and address on it, says it acknowledges that i had moved. wtf, whatever. couple days later, i get a letter in ugly font saying that as far as NJ was concerned, our issue was settled. great, terrific.

skip ahead a couple weeks as i attempt to go to the d.m.v. on furlough friday or show up and can't get parking. i must've driven by 3 or 4 times, giving up each time because i just couldn't muster any energy to deal with it.

finally, needing to drop the dogs off before 8am for their dental appointment, i decide today is the day to deal with this. i'm out early, drop the dogs off and go to AAA with a small hope that they can deal with my issue. nope, get directed to the d.m.v. where there is a huge line before the doors even open. get in relatively quick, people watch, get up to the counter with my stickers, my letters, my checkbook.

woman pulls up account: pending, ineligible to issue license. sigh. she says NJ hasn't released its hold. @#$%&. go outside to call NJ, waited 6 minutes to get transferred to "violations", who takes another 18 minutes to get someone...who says there's nothing more for them to do, we're done with each other! luckily NJ lady was willing to talk to CA lady, i get back in line, in front of an older lady who's huffy because she wants to know if she'll be able to take the driver's test at 10:40. hi, it's 10:35, what do you think? anyway, CA lady and NJ lady talk, CA lady consults someone else who tells her to delete "PD" from my record. whew, at long last, my license is renewed! got another temporary one, with the promise of my new one in the mail.

now my registration. it's overdue, if it's not already obvious, i suck at these administrative things. i didn't get a renewal because i bought the car last december, they sent paperwork, i should've done it within 20 days of purchase. CRAP! who knew! ok, i probably did and then promptly forgot. forgot my license plate number, had to walk out and come back. this is now the 3rd time i'm talking to the lady, we're laughing and joking like we're old friends now. she does computerly things while i watch an old chinese lady try to get an ID while maintaining a death grip on the hand of this 5 year old boy struggling to free himself. he's yelling and pulling away as she's trying to sign something...except she doesn't know what because she can't read english and can't really understand the d.m.v. lady who had shown her the chinese version of the form. chaos continues as boy tries to free himself. why he couldn't go sit with his grandfather, i don't know.

finally, my lady sees that i have penalties and advises me to write a paragraph about why i'm late and why my penalties should be waived but because i'd been late a ton of times, the supervisor lady wouldn't waive it. ok, fine, wasn't asking for one anyway! got in another line and got my 2010 sticker.

time lapsed: 2.5 hours.

i still have to go back and change the title and all that, but whew, finally done with NJ and this stupid mess!
posted by winking bunny at 6:43 PM :: ::

 
gah
damn, my blogging doodies have gone by the wayside. so, what's happened since april 08, 2009? lots! can i remember any of it? no. here are some vague recollections in no particular order:

3!
val turned 3! she requested a yellow dinosaur cake and auntie outdid herself again with an adorable, giant yellow dinosaur cake. it was cute, delicious and lasted through weeks of noshing. every time val was asked what she got for her birthday, she'd proudly holler "I GOT A YELLOW DINOSAUR CAKE!!! MY AUNTIE MADE IT!!!" nothing else compared. =D

we had the party at the same park as last year but with added drama. there was some event going on that required all the park staff to work it so no one would be available to turn on the water, which is the only reason we go through all this (and hassle viv) two years in a row now, but luckily, in some random cosmos-aligning event, liz contacted a former professor who got the water turned on. whew! in addition to all our friends and family, clara came down with her girl and husband, which was awesome because we haven't seen each other in years.

what? huh?
i am in denial and will be excited when #2 gets here. i've told my family, well, the two that matter, my mother and my aunt and unsurprisingly, i'm disappointed in their reactions. my aunt pulled the "why didn't you adopt" line of questioning, as if making that decision and everything involved in that is easy.

hockey
i'm playing mondays at !ce oasis for a season since it's about the only time we figured we could fit it in. it's been fun but tiring since i play two days in a row. hoping to work on stuff but getting stuck in my head so i need to push it and work on improving. sigh.

work
ah, work. it's so laughably stupid, it's not even worth the time and effort to write and for you, to read. i haven't gotten to the point where i have to flee this place yet because i don't wanna deal with getting a new job, plus the benefits are good, which makes me extra lazy.

Labels: val "weekend update"

posted by winking bunny at 1:34 PM :: ::

 
she doesn't miss much
i chatted with val's teachers today, as they decorated black construction paper crosses with confetti(??), asked what they talk about in chapel, was there lots of talk about death? told them how she periodically tells us that jesus died, went to heaven, came back, etc, etc. they looked surprised.

when i asked why, one of them said, "they're two, most of them don't get it."

yeah, great, then why not we leave the death and hanging shit until much later when she's much more morbid?

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posted by winking bunny at 1:47 PM :: ::

 
weekend update
woo, made it within a month of last post!

thursday/friday
spent the day at home because valinator had a fever. thursday, her cheeks were all red, like she was super heated. given her fever, i didn't think much of it and just hung around the house with her. she was cool when she went to bed but the fever came back when she woke up so we went to the doctor to check it out friday afternoon. turns out she has slap ch33k or f!fth disease, which sounds worse than it actually is.

after the appointment, i drove by the sushi place i had wanted to go to for dinner so we played at this park for a couple hours. somehow spent like 3 hours there, val was having fun and i had nothing better to do so we played. liz met us there and we went to dinner. during dinner, val was super fussy and whined, which is mostly unlike her. sure, if a kid is bored, they'll go stir crazy but this was different. she starts crying so liz goes to leave early, but then she came back when val complained about pain in her chest so off to the ER we go.

dropped liz and val off, get completely annoyed by the security guard who stops me for no damn reason. it was a slow burn as i tried to figure out if he was messing with me or actually trying to help, but whatever, parked and hung out with the crazies in the ER. got ushered to the pediatric waiting room, then directed to a gurney in the hallway that was set up with an imac with lots of movies. nice! except val was bored. repeated our issue five times to five different people, waited forever between each telling, waited forever for our papers. after three hours, we're finally let go, in bed by 1am.

saturday, we wake up early, intending to go cheer at syd's soccer game at ten. we were late, caught the last fifteen minutes which was just fine. lunch at panera's afterwards, we take off. i drop liz and val at home, then head up to my red draft, while they go to gilroy garden for an afternoon of fun.

i'm done my draft, which doesn't go great, but i'll live. went over to auntie's in search of cookies, hang out, then head home to go to chevy's for dinner with my girls and sue and sarah's clan. went to michael's to get some craft stuff for val's class, got a box of 1000 popsicle sticks for $3.99, which makes no sense because the 150 ct is the same price. huh?

have dinner, go home, settle in for the night. as i fart around on fb, i hear val rustling around, then hear her cry. i go into her room to see what's up and she starts crying. ok, unusual, maybe a bad dream, i rub her back and she starts howling, arching her back, crying, screaming, on and on. it was so sad, nothing i could do to help. liz comes in and we watch our baby have a thirty minute freak out session, just crying and crying and crying. talking to her made her cry harder, touching her made her even more pissed. finally, we bring her into our bed and she asks for milk, but calms down and goes to sleep between us. i can totally see how people in the olden days thought their kids were possessed because there was nothing we could do. so messed up, so helpless, so sucked.

sunday, slept in, went to panera for lunch again, grabbed some stuff at target, went home to work on the front yard while liz fiddled with her carseat. i started pulling the weeds, sorta marveling at all the different weeds. debated pulling them because 1. it'd be a lot of work, 2. they looked kinda cool, 3. made the yard look like something was going on. pulled just the most annoying ones, cleaned up a little, hung out with the neighbors.

as i sat on the front lawn, i kept hearing "is that a boy?" from the group sitting on the stoop but i was talking to my friend a couple feet away so i wasn't really connecting that they were talking about me. after i left, i finally realized that duh, of course they were talking about me and then got annoyed that i didn't correct them for their rudeness. actually more annoyed that the friend's husband didn't say anything, but whatever. i'll be more vigilant next time.

headed up to auntie's with val, who was going to hang there while i subbed for the first and second game. lines were messy, played wing for a couple shifts while waiting for mel to show, sucked, but had fun. played D for the rest of the game, was fun.

subbed the next game, captain didn't expect me even though i said i would play so we had five D, which was fine, we were strong and rolled with it. they outshot us 25-7 and we were tied in the end, 0-0. woo.

picked up pizza and had a mellow dinner at home, got val to bed early, hoping that she wouldn't have another night terror. thankfully she slept through the whole night and crawled into our bed early morning.

Labels: weekend update

posted by winking bunny at 3:14 PM :: ::

 
weekend update
i'll wait while you pick yourself up off the floor. =D

friday, picked up ethiopian takeout and had dinner at home. yummy food but dang, my stomach felt funny after.

saturday, woke up early, made breakfast at home, shocked to see val eat scrambled eggs, then got a call from AMYFRITZ! that she's in the area and did wanna toodle around town? and toodle we did! first, we went to the twins' sale where i picked up two little containers for snackies and liz picked up some clothes and coloring books for val.

then we went to a&w for some root beer, then to some spendy baby store to look at some things. then we went to target to pick up some more crates because i wanted to get weed out val's old toys.

dropped amy off at her new, shiny red car and we were off to a playgroup at the park, which due to rain, was moved to someone's house, which was being remodeled so i was sitting in awe of their giant living room and hung out in their giant kitchen. i started out loving the house, wanting to move right now to a house just.like.this, then ended up thinking no, i'm kinda happy where we are now given our cozy house and decent neighbors. still, i'm jealous of the updated kitchen and giant living room. oh! shower tiled in those glass tiles i really like but after talking to the lady of the house, found out that they're not only expensive but a pain in the ass to work with. ah well, appreciated the info before i tried to use that stuff.

the playgroup was tough, there are two older boys, 5-6, and two younger, 1 and 2. val hung in with the older boys fine, but there was some behavior that i wasn't thrilled about. one boy was blowing razzberries at val, who became upset about it, so i told her to go tell him to stop that, that she didn't like it and it was rude and darn it all if she didn't run right over and tell him to stop that, she didn't like it and it was rude. he apologized right away and all was good.

as they were playing, the boys starting doing this thing where val would say something and one would run to the other and tell him what she said, they would giggle and run off. it was kinda rude but val wasn't paying it much attention, until one said she said something she didn't, so she hollered "i didn't say that" a couple times. couple other things, like one boy would aggressively get in her face, which we stepped in right away, but it was hard as we were guests in their house and i felt like we were being overprotective but hell! gtfo of my kid's face! i had to break up one incident and was acutely aware that everyone had stopped talking and was watching intently. awkward! all in all, it was a good time, though i was on edge after that.

afterwards, went out for thai food with friends and had a good time.

sunday, woke up early, slept some more, then got up late, made breakfast again. i tackled the dishes while liz cleaned out some of val's toys, then found a good deal on a train table with all the accessories and two rolling drawers below. perfect! went and fetched that, then proceeded to dismantle the living room. moved the gate and reclaimed half the dining room back from the dogs so we could put the train table in the corner. poor dogs but really, they need that space to do what, whine under her door and get more dog hair all over the place. need to get more gate sections to complete the wall.

went to a red session, skated eh, then went to ausie.llo's for dinner, they have a great steak sandwich and company was chill so a good ending to a grumpy day.
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