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Feb. 10th, 2024 09:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
It has been a very long week. Dealing with the various issues that came up during the week related to my mother's treatment was the most stressful thing, but it wasn't even the only one. By the time the house internet was fritzing out early Friday afternoon, I was seriously wondering if I'd picked up a jinx, because things were starting to feel a bit ridiculous. Though after I went to see mom, and one of my sister's friends drove me home, she basically revealed she's having a pretty similar year so far, and so is just about everyone she knows.
She was also nice enough to take me for the groceries this morning, though I didn't even need much; one human and one cat consume a lot less than this household that until recently had two each has been used to buying. I was even flashing back to my experiences shopping and cooking on my own in grad school. (Except I paid twice as much money as I did back then!)
I also bought my Awesome Con badges this morning, then this afternoon went out to Dupont Circle and picked them up at the comic book shop, where I also bought Exquisite Exandria. I'm not terribly likely to cook many of the dishes in there, especially since they're all written to serve at least four people, but on top of the lore, the framing device of the quartet of Exandrians gathering recipes and trying to make sense of their own world's lore is pure delight, and I keep cracking up.
She was also nice enough to take me for the groceries this morning, though I didn't even need much; one human and one cat consume a lot less than this household that until recently had two each has been used to buying. I was even flashing back to my experiences shopping and cooking on my own in grad school. (Except I paid twice as much money as I did back then!)
I also bought my Awesome Con badges this morning, then this afternoon went out to Dupont Circle and picked them up at the comic book shop, where I also bought Exquisite Exandria. I'm not terribly likely to cook many of the dishes in there, especially since they're all written to serve at least four people, but on top of the lore, the framing device of the quartet of Exandrians gathering recipes and trying to make sense of their own world's lore is pure delight, and I keep cracking up.