weekend update

So, just updating things for this past weekend. Saturday was busy, but nice. I went on a nice walk with chauc and found the sweetest little bird's nest. The best thing about bird's nests is the inside. Sometimes, depending on the bird of course, they layer these "soft" branches all along the inside. I love things that aren't conceived by human minds. They built that, the birds, because they thought it would be nice and comfy. Honestly, how sweet is that?

Sunday started great. Church was good... I played Eric Clapton and only screwed up the chords a bit. The weather was amazing. I went on a hike with Chauc, Jen, Henry and Nora. The ticks are out.... Nora got one on her head and I picked off a few from her clothes. The hike itself was really nice, but the freaking tick went and ruined everything. Once someone finds a tick on them, everything turns internal. Everyone's thoughts are focused on every minute sensation that they can account for. Everyone sends out their radar in search for the damn things and they become the central focus. So, Nora had one embedded in her head and I had to hold her while jen picked the stupid thing out of her head. Nora cried so hard.... it was awful. She says it didn't hurt now, but she wasn't saying that then. She cried so hard that she broke blood vessels under her eyes.... awful.

And that brings us to today. Today is soup group. I made Mulligatawny and it came out pretty good. A bit too spicy for some of the kids though... "My tongue is on fire with spice!" floated out of the kitchen. Tonight, I was tired because Chaucer went for his first galavanting night trip last night, and I barely got any sleep thinking about how I was going to break his absence to the kids. Then he came back at around 2:30am and I spent another hour trying to get back to sleep again.

So, sometimes when I get too tired, I get a bit chatty. Tonight was nice though, I really do love the friends I have at soup group. They are welcoming when I am awkward... that's important. btw, if any of you soup groupers are reading this, I told Jenny about all of the conversation we had about her. She laughed and didn't kill me. That is also important.
So here's to good friends, nice weather... and sleep... goodnight.

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