Aw man, where do I even start this one. I guess an apology is in order? I'm sure it's an understandable thing, a parent disappearing offline for two months to center into the household chaos for a bit, but I still feel bad for going kinda quiet with no real update so this is the update post!
Eldest got her glasses finally and I've been slowly packing up for the big move back to the inlaws but we've been outside like...so much? I've been doing a lot more farmers markets and trying to make more friends to have an excuse to go outside and see and it's been lovely! THe kids have been loving all the bubble and chalk time and the time at the local kid town! I want to try and find something similar when we move or like a hands on museum to get some more of that hands on play for them going.
Personally my brain has been extra fuzzy lately and things have been honestly a blur. I've missed emails, forgotten to text and call people, entirely missed appointments I set, the brainfog is real I fear. I think i'm struggling through some sort of like discontinuation because I've been super on and off with my meds and I'm on too much to really play around like that but alas, I forget and having More money for an adderall prescription on top of all my kiddo bills is just kinda not in the cards rn so I function as well as I can.
I just mostly miss solo time but i'm trying to enjoy the time I get as much as I can. The farmer's market runs have made cooking fun again and I now have a mushroom person I get the yummiest lion's mane and grey oyster mushroom from and we also get this local chorizo and empanadas that are to die for every time. I really cannot overstate how much local food makes my mood and brain better.
I took my sister to see the Stardew Valley Symphony for her birthday and that was a very nice brain reset for a while! I realized I'd never been to an orchestra and stardew is a very important game to me and her so it was super duper special and just genuinely a beautiful time. We also got to gorge on stadium hot dogs which was always a delight. There's love in the nasty stadium dog, truly. ♥
Other than that, it's just more of the same. I cannot wait to get out of this awful apartment and actually find a house for the kids and us so we all have some sort of freedom. The upstairs apartment's wasteline for the dishwasher backed up so our ceiling started leaking moldy water which was uniquely disgusting and I did not love having to hand disinfect but oh my god it had to be, it smelled something evil. I wish to not be beholden to other people's appliances messing up so badly, especially with how awfully expensive this place is.
Oh well. What can a man do other than sit with his comically sized de-humidifier and keep on keepin' on.
We got a trinket swap box in town and that was nice to stop by! I was buying gifts for my younger sister's boyfriend's birthday and saw it, gave some pins and my hair scrunch for a teeny tiny asuka plushy and a couple stickers for my collection which was so nice. Speaking of the collection, I got myself a sticker book and have been finding lots of fun gorgeous stickers to put in it! I've always had a backlog and I used to have one when I was very very small so it feels like a nice reclamation of something I actually remember from my childhood. Now I just have to join a couple sticker clubs and get some more cute stuff to trade!