A Bear-y Late Night Post!

Greetings!

A few times this week I've had to get up early. Oddly, this means I was incredibly productive. My body tells me to stay in bed and yet I still made it to all the things!

I had Monday off and spent most of it playing Skyrim. Nothing particularly notable, other than I got my horse and my wife back without even trying (it was easy to lose them, but then again, I just kinda found my horse sitting there. Then I found my wife. Then I lost her again.) And I completed a few quests I had been slacking on.

Tuesday and Wednesday I had work, and I had to go to bed pretty early on Wednesday because I scheduled an appointment with the chiropractor at (gasp!) 10:00am. I'm lucky because I only had to take one bus, and it was the convenient one. I got to the place WAY too early, and the chiropractor was really sweet to me and listened to me really well and provided some really good advice and gave me permission to buy a couple of new pairs of shoes. I rescheduled weekly meetings for the next two weeks. I met James and we went to get lunch and a coffee before he had to go to work.

Friday, James and I had the day off. Instead of doing productive things, he made me pancakes and we hung around the house for a while. We had the most amazing burgers with our friends Sarah and Wyatt (HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!) and then Sarah took us to shop for our month's food. The store was way too crowded and all of us were pretty exhausted from all the lights and adverts and people.

My favorite day of this last week was face painting day at work. We had a kick off event for our summer reading program, and my very special job was face painting. I met some really wonderful, brilliant, and cute kids. I painted them mostly to look like cats, except for one girl who wanted a rainbow and then we talked about My Little Pony and books and fairy houses and lots of other stuff. She ended up getting a Rainbow Dash cutie mark on her cheek. I told James later that maybe I wish I could do face painting all the time.

I biked to meet James at the Goodwill and we shopped for walking shoes, some pants that I could exercise in, and some work pants. We found those things as well as the cutest swimsuit ever! I was so sure it wasn't going to fit, but it was such a surprise when it did, I had to call James into the dressing room too see what he thought. Of course he thought it was awesome.

Yesterday I worked and it was very slow. Even though it was Father's day it was still pretty slow at work, and we had a special deal where dads were able to get a free strawberry sundae or a free strawberry shortcake, and it was nice to be able to offer people free stuff. One dad in particular was a regular at our store, and he specifically likes to come in and get his very very hyperactive boys lunch, and then if they don't freak out, they both get hot fudge and caramel sundaes. This was a special visit, and I enjoyed them very much, especially because I could tell the older boy was growing up. He got a shake instead of a sundae and wanted to order his own burger very very special. I loved chatting with them, and the dad is always so funny and down to earth. They never complain and they always clean up their table and usually the boys have good manners and like talking to me. I think the dad appreciates the tiny breaks, and letting me entertain the boys (being a grown up is kindaaa cool but I do not think they think so). I love being able to bring them ice cream and seeing them being a very real, very imperfect yet still functioning family, similar to my own. Very refreshing.

James and I went to dinner with his parents and his brother and it was such a wonderful time. We went to a beer tasting at a basement brewery, and then had dinner at this amazing Lebanese place called TarBoush. Susanne also brought James, Matt and I little bobble-dragon toys from a trip her and Tom went on this week. Tom seemed to have a lovely time, especially at dinner.

And then there was today. I spent a considerable amount of my morning in a mandatory meeting for work, and after, I hung out with my coworkers, got caught in a ridiculous rainstorm, and did haircuts in my kitchen for James and our coworker, Dylan. Overall, this week was pretty productive and a lot got done. I've been considering getting up earlier anyways, even though I know it might not be a habit yet, and it is purely out of necessity recently. Maybe sometime soon I will be able to take a long walk every morning before I start my day.

XOXO

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