life stuff
Jun. 24th, 2019 09:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seekingferretMy niece's first birthday was... well, it was a couple weeks ago on the English calendar, and it'll be in a couple weeks in the Hebrew calendar, but the scheduling worked out so we had her first birthday party yesterday.
There is this recent thing over the past month or so whereupon as soon as she sees me, she bursts inconsolably into tears. Yay. My sister decided to try to preempt it this time by asking me to send a picture of myself so she could show it to my niece ahead of Sunday to help her acclimate to my terrifying visage. It didn't work, she burst into tears as soon as I walked in the door, yet again. But it eventually worked out, she calmed down and was playing with me by the end of the party. And offering me tiny crumbs of her birthday cake that she didn't want. She is the cutest even if she hates me. And the party was fun, a bunch of my aunts and uncles came over and everyone got to ooh and aah over everything my niece did. She is up to walking about two or three steps before falling down. And naturally, being far less materialistic than her peers, she was much more excited about one of the birthday cards on the gift box than she was about any of her presents.
We've been back to the incessant rain the past couple weeks so I haven't been able to bike to work in about two weeks, but there was no rain today (there's supposed to be a thunderstorm in a couple hours), so I biked in. I realized later that it put me over 200 miles for the year. Last year I only totalled 218 for the whole year. I'm pretty pleased about that.
There is this recent thing over the past month or so whereupon as soon as she sees me, she bursts inconsolably into tears. Yay. My sister decided to try to preempt it this time by asking me to send a picture of myself so she could show it to my niece ahead of Sunday to help her acclimate to my terrifying visage. It didn't work, she burst into tears as soon as I walked in the door, yet again. But it eventually worked out, she calmed down and was playing with me by the end of the party. And offering me tiny crumbs of her birthday cake that she didn't want. She is the cutest even if she hates me. And the party was fun, a bunch of my aunts and uncles came over and everyone got to ooh and aah over everything my niece did. She is up to walking about two or three steps before falling down. And naturally, being far less materialistic than her peers, she was much more excited about one of the birthday cards on the gift box than she was about any of her presents.
We've been back to the incessant rain the past couple weeks so I haven't been able to bike to work in about two weeks, but there was no rain today (there's supposed to be a thunderstorm in a couple hours), so I biked in. I realized later that it put me over 200 miles for the year. Last year I only totalled 218 for the whole year. I'm pretty pleased about that.