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Aug. 31st, 2018 03:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seekingferretIt's been a week of free dinners. :P
We had a party at my parents' house on Sunday for my niece, who at two months was judged old enough to be shown off to the extended family. The guest of honor was alternately cranky and asleep, but it was a good time. It was nice to see family for positive reasons instead of for a funeral. My mother over-ordered food, so I took home enough leftovers for lunch and dinner through Wednesday.
Wednesday I helped a couple friends unmove. They'd moved to a new apartment a couple blocks from their old one, only to realize that the promised two-bedroom was actually a three-bedroom with an unadvertised, unwanted mystery roommate who needed to be given access to their kitchen and common areas. So I helped them move their furniture back to the old apartment until they can find a new place and they bought dinner in thanks.
Thursday my dad and I got dinner at the deli because my mother's down in Florida and my father... is capable of cooking for himself, but is disinclined to it, particularly after a long day of work and an hour and a half commute. And I wasn't going to turn down a free pastrami sandwich.
I have exactly zero Shabbos plans and I am looking forward to cooking for myself and enjoying a relaxing Shabbos of sleeping and reading. I'm in the middle of a nonfiction book on the 1917 Flu, and have Annalee Newitz's Autonomous on deck, which I've heard great things about.
We had a party at my parents' house on Sunday for my niece, who at two months was judged old enough to be shown off to the extended family. The guest of honor was alternately cranky and asleep, but it was a good time. It was nice to see family for positive reasons instead of for a funeral. My mother over-ordered food, so I took home enough leftovers for lunch and dinner through Wednesday.
Wednesday I helped a couple friends unmove. They'd moved to a new apartment a couple blocks from their old one, only to realize that the promised two-bedroom was actually a three-bedroom with an unadvertised, unwanted mystery roommate who needed to be given access to their kitchen and common areas. So I helped them move their furniture back to the old apartment until they can find a new place and they bought dinner in thanks.
Thursday my dad and I got dinner at the deli because my mother's down in Florida and my father... is capable of cooking for himself, but is disinclined to it, particularly after a long day of work and an hour and a half commute. And I wasn't going to turn down a free pastrami sandwich.
I have exactly zero Shabbos plans and I am looking forward to cooking for myself and enjoying a relaxing Shabbos of sleeping and reading. I'm in the middle of a nonfiction book on the 1917 Flu, and have Annalee Newitz's Autonomous on deck, which I've heard great things about.
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Date: 2018-08-31 07:25 pm (UTC)What. Man, the ways of landlords and listing agents are mysterious.
I look forward to your thoughts on Autonomous--I've heard good things about that too.
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Date: 2018-09-03 02:23 pm (UTC)I just finished the book about the flu last night, and will be starting Autonomous later today. Will report back.