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Today is so far proving to be a very satisfactory decompression day.

Which I *needed*. Monday was driving all over doing errands. Tuesday was various disasters including Jamie flooding the bathroom. Wednesday was Jamie's ARD meeting, then an hour of dealing with Walmart and clothes shopping for kids, then taking the kids to Kids' Club in the evening. Thursday was too damn much driving all over town - across town, back again, halfway out, back again, all the way out, back and more to dance, back home again - I started at 8:30 in the morning, and had a couple breaks at home, but didn't get to stay here until about 9 pm. Whew.

This morning's motorcycle ride was great fun, and look!
a picture of the shiny pretty helmet )

A lot of today has been occupied by the game Portal totally eating my brain. I was watching [livejournal.com profile] fordprfct play it some yesterday and being totally floored and not thinking I could do it, but today I could. I think it's because he'd instantly see the layout and then just start moving, so I never got to get oriented on it. Once I could look around at my own pace and get it, I was solving the puzzles just fine. Which makes me feel good, since it's all spatial problem stuff. Well, and timing. Some of the video-game moving stuff is hard, but I don't have much experience with that.

The bike we got through Freecycle is getting fixed up for Maggie, and we'll start teaching her to ride it. Mine needs to get fixed up, but that will have to wait.
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The helmet that we ordered for me came in yesterday - it's *really* pretty, and more importantly, fits really well. So this morning [livejournal.com profile] fordprfct took me on a short motorcycle ride, while [livejournal.com profile] selenite took care of Alanna. Had to be short, since < lj user=selenite> had to head out to work.

I'd never ridden as a passenger on a motorcycle before. I used to ride a moped in college, but that's smaller, and driver is different from passenger. So I'd been wondering how it'd go. It was fun. We only were out briefly, and stayed in the neighborhood. He did a good bit of curving and swerves to see how I'd do with those - pretty good, although I can definitely use more practice before we go long distances or high speeds. And the straight forward takeoff is just FUN! Wheeeee.

Then we went off to breakfast. Yum. Happy morning.

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