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awanderingbard) wrote2023-06-02 09:30 am
awanderingbard) wrote2023-06-02 09:30 am
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All partied out
Hola!Here for a check-in, another year older than when last spoke. My birthday was yesterday and milestones like that are always a good time to update. Thank you for the well wishes! I had a quiet day because my brother's wedding was last weekend and we are all exhausted, and he and his wife are on their honeymoon, so they aren't here to celebrate. We usually do a hybrid birthday of my, my SIL's, and my mum's birthday in July, since the way things fall here, it's, like, a major holiday or birthday every two weeks from March onwards and we just can't be that happy all the time.
My brother and SIL were married in October of 2020, so this was just their reception/'reenactment' since COVID meant they could only have two people with them at the time and they had to go up to Ottawa to do it. They've been waiting for it to be safe for a large gathering. They had it at her family's cottage and it was absolutely lovely! The weather was perfect for the day, just slightly chilly, but sunny and fair otherwise. It wasn't anything formal, just a backyard kind of vibe, but it still took a lot of effort to put together and they did a great job.
It was also a lot of effort for us to get ready for it--dresses and shoes and jewellery and make-up and waxing and all that jazz. Plus my brother asked me to make a couple of plates of diabetic friendly desserts and that was a lot of baking. All of the aforementioned also required fussing, of course, which is also tiring. We had to leave Pax by himself for the first lengthy period of time and he did really well. No accidents and he wasn't traumatized by it. He's such a big boy. I'm so proud of him.
The day was lovely and it's been such a crappy period of time for my family for the last, like, decade, with various health stuff and family stuff and losses, and it was great just to have a really good thing happen. But we're kind of exhausted, and just chilling out here to recover. When you're chronically ill, you have to use your spell slots carefully and we used a lot of them up, so we have to wait for our manna to recharge, you know?
I hope everyone else is doing well. We've had some great weather this Spring, the first time in years where we could have the windows open and it wasn't stiflingly hot. My milkweeds have survived, I have four of them ready to head out into the big bad world, and we're going to start doing once we're recovered. Stones have been hit and miss; I felt like I was doing well for awhile, then have been battling some nasty ones for a few weeks now. I wish I had some idea how any of that worked, but I do think overall, my health is much better. I don't think even last year I could have managed to do all I've done lately, and a few years ago, it would have been impossible. Things are looking up.
Talk to you soon!
My brother and SIL were married in October of 2020, so this was just their reception/'reenactment' since COVID meant they could only have two people with them at the time and they had to go up to Ottawa to do it. They've been waiting for it to be safe for a large gathering. They had it at her family's cottage and it was absolutely lovely! The weather was perfect for the day, just slightly chilly, but sunny and fair otherwise. It wasn't anything formal, just a backyard kind of vibe, but it still took a lot of effort to put together and they did a great job.
It was also a lot of effort for us to get ready for it--dresses and shoes and jewellery and make-up and waxing and all that jazz. Plus my brother asked me to make a couple of plates of diabetic friendly desserts and that was a lot of baking. All of the aforementioned also required fussing, of course, which is also tiring. We had to leave Pax by himself for the first lengthy period of time and he did really well. No accidents and he wasn't traumatized by it. He's such a big boy. I'm so proud of him.
The day was lovely and it's been such a crappy period of time for my family for the last, like, decade, with various health stuff and family stuff and losses, and it was great just to have a really good thing happen. But we're kind of exhausted, and just chilling out here to recover. When you're chronically ill, you have to use your spell slots carefully and we used a lot of them up, so we have to wait for our manna to recharge, you know?
I hope everyone else is doing well. We've had some great weather this Spring, the first time in years where we could have the windows open and it wasn't stiflingly hot. My milkweeds have survived, I have four of them ready to head out into the big bad world, and we're going to start doing once we're recovered. Stones have been hit and miss; I felt like I was doing well for awhile, then have been battling some nasty ones for a few weeks now. I wish I had some idea how any of that worked, but I do think overall, my health is much better. I don't think even last year I could have managed to do all I've done lately, and a few years ago, it would have been impossible. Things are looking up.
Talk to you soon!