Groceries acquired. Char sui in its bath. I think it might be time for a cup of tea.

Today, my only free day in 8 days of intensive teaching, I wanted to go to the National Building Museum, or maybe the Phillips Gallery, or maybe both! Instead I spent the whole day with my 92 year old grandfather and 81 year old step grandmother. I did get them set up to watch Breaking Bad on Netflix via their TV. So I feel virtuous. But man, I really wanted to go to a museum by myself instead.

You are a good person, flea!

I just went and bought all the things at TJs, including Jesse's biltong jerky.

::shakes fist::

My cousin's graduation party broke up sooner than I expected, so instead of going straight to the airport, we came home, and I'm going to call a cab in a few minutes. Work is paying, so who cares! There was a shocking lack of traffic on the way home -- it's such a gorgeous day, maybe the beach people stayed later?

A picture of the pool at the Paris.

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This is the first time I've ever wanted to go to Las Vegas.

I talked to my sister and she made me feel better about the tree. We agreed that no one should do anything to it for a year and let it recover, and she reassured me after I sent her a couple photos that the tree is all right. I told her I understand now why she does everything herself.

I am tired, and a lot of stuff on my to do list remains undone, but I fed myself today and have breakfast and lunch made for tomorrow. It's taking a long time for the water to come up to flan temperature, but I don't have to do anything about that, just wait. I should wash more dishes and I should really do some laundry, but tired.

God, I'm wiped out.

I hiked 8 miles with my sister this morning -- breaking in our new hiking boots -- and then came home to empty my kitchen. That was all afternoon, and now I have no food to eat other than some frozen stuff, so I had a slice of pizza from the guys around the corner, and a large beer. I did at least get a bunch of stuff to Good Will, but seriously, not nearly enough. And my garage is full of boxes.

Demolition begins tomorrow, and that will be exciting!

That is exciting!

I just went and bought all the things at TJs, including Jesse's biltong jerky.

Speaking of the centrality of Jesse to all of our lives, Matilda has been asked to join the Church Choir (which makes me think of Jesse).

She was given a binder to hold her hymns which she promptly decorated with cute animals cut out from her National Geo for Kids. Each animal has a thought balloon which says "I love music time!" except the Koala who is hugging her eucalyptus tree and says "I love my log!" Also the hedgehog says "I love music time" and also "I love fashion!" (because it is wearing little booties).

"I love my log!"

It's better than bad! It's good!