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[alchimie]

I have not been reading (or writing on) Dreamwidth, nor have I been sleeping enough, but I have been getting all the things done that I am responsible for, or at least close enough to all of them that I can bear it. I have been spending much good time with my children, who have become a little more family-focused with the end of the school year impending; they are eager for summer vacation but it is a lot of change to have various camps and trips and such rather than the routine of the year, and they both are very fond of their teachers and will be sad to bid them goodbye and have to start over in August. They wish to play with me much more, both on the Nintendo and various pretend games, and I am enjoying it.

I have been reading, not as much as I wish (do I ever read as much as I wish? Sometimes, I think, and then my energy spills over into watching various anime and such), but enough to so far keep up with the torrent of library books.

What else? Eurovision was marvelous fun this year, even if there was not nearly as much camp as I would have liked. I watched it in the company of friends while eating hummus bowls, and thought the voting-period show with the various artists performing each others songs was brilliant. My favourites did not win, but I did not mind the winner, which is better than a few years back, and it is always exciting to me when it is somewhere that has not hosted in a long while.

Also fun: a trip to Santa Cruz to have lunch with friends of our spouse, who have a lovely house filled with art and who were generally very pleasant people. And wedding anniversary celebration part the first, a pleasant dinner and several exciting cocktails -- part the second will be next week, when our spouse is back from his mini-vacation over the long weekend. And then once school is out in June I am taking my own mini-vacation, to Montreal and Quebec City, visiting my long-distance SO and perhaps also meeting up with a few people I have known online but never met in person. I am not exactly looking forward to it, it seems far too theoretical and unlikely to be excited about, but I know that once I am en route I will be delighted.

Oh look, I am almost late for pick-up. Enough, then, for now. I hope you out there are all well, and I look forward to May being finished so I can swim back into the flow and see what everyone is doing.

Comments

[enemyofperfect]

It's nice to see you around again, however briefly. Good luck with all of the things, including getting enough sleep someday!

[alchimie]

Thank you! The sleep is such a work in progress -- I am hopeful for the long weekend, spouse is on vacation so I think I will be very generous with the screen time for my small people, especially in the mornings since they will happily let me sleep late if they can watch a video first thing. Although there is a sleepover scheduled for Friday night (here) so I must get up Saturday morning and provide food, oh why did I do this? (I know why, she is a lovely child, but *lolsob* I could have slept in!)

If nothing else when I am in Montreal in a few weeks I will sleep, but when I am there I will not want to!

[enemyofperfect]

Aww! Sympathy and good wishes!