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Woof. Just had a terrible family dinner, but at least it wasn’t because the fam was terrible. I took my mom, brother, sister-in-law and niblings out to a local pizza restaurant. It’s not the best restaurant, but I was feeling nostalgic. The last time I had been, the pizza was decent. Well, tonight was awful. The service was the worst I’ve experienced at any restaurant in a long time. The set up of this restaurant is that you pay a flat fee and then servers bring pizzas around, and tonight they just kept skipping us. At one point, there were only 3 tables full of people, including us. There was only one server working, and she looked like she was about 17, so I wasn’t gonna yell at her. But still. Then, my niece decided she was full and turned to her new favorite activity, which is throwing everything on the floor, including her dad’s full plate of salad and her own plate of food! She’s a quick little gremlin! The nephew had a full on meltdown when it was time to go. He has a hard time leaving places in general, and all in all, the evening was a disappointment. (I texted SIL and she said Nephew fought going to bed because his Auntie Deb needed a kiss and he could only wash his hands with my soap — I let him use some hand sanitizer in a bid to distract him from screaming — oops.) I felt really bad for my brother and sister-in-law because I just wanted us to have a nice, low key time. Oh well. SIL said, of the kids, this is just part of life now, but it’s not forever. And it’s not the end of the world, although it is the end of our patronage of that restaurant.
I only have a few weeks left at home before heading back to Minsk. We got word that quarantine times for travelers coming from “red zone” countries have been reduced and we don’t have to quarantine if we’re fully vaccinated, regardless of where we’re coming from. When I booked my tickets back in May, I added extra time to account for a longer quarantine, and now that I’m won’t have to, I’m tempted to change my flights and get more time at home. But things change so quickly that I decided to keep my original flight. I’ll use the time to sleep in, maybe wander over to the school to work in my classroom for a few hours a day, slowly getting ready for next year. I can spend the mornings writing and reading, maybe go to the parks during the week when they’ll be less busy. I didn’t make it to the botanical gardens in the spring, so maybe I’ll wander over there.
I’m still keeping my writing pace of writing something every day, though a few times this week, I only managed a paragraph or two. Here’s a snippet from the story I wrote for this week’s Summer Writing Challenge entry. It focuses on the Juniors in my modern cultivators AU. I’m really enjoying spending time in that world. I hope you enjoy it, too.
“I would like to go on record and say this is the stupidest idea you’ve ever had,” Lan Jingyi declares, “and that’s saying something.” He shoulders his backpack and snags a sleeping bag from the pile behind Suburban.
“Including the time we all bleached our hair?” Ouyang Zizhen asks with easy humor. “Because that was pretty bad.”
“I think if we hadn’t bleached our eyebrows as well, it would have been okay,” Lan Sizhui says. He hands his cousin a heavy flashlight. “Hold onto this, Jingyi. You can use it to bash any fierce corpses or monsters that come our way.”
I only have a few weeks left at home before heading back to Minsk. We got word that quarantine times for travelers coming from “red zone” countries have been reduced and we don’t have to quarantine if we’re fully vaccinated, regardless of where we’re coming from. When I booked my tickets back in May, I added extra time to account for a longer quarantine, and now that I’m won’t have to, I’m tempted to change my flights and get more time at home. But things change so quickly that I decided to keep my original flight. I’ll use the time to sleep in, maybe wander over to the school to work in my classroom for a few hours a day, slowly getting ready for next year. I can spend the mornings writing and reading, maybe go to the parks during the week when they’ll be less busy. I didn’t make it to the botanical gardens in the spring, so maybe I’ll wander over there.
I’m still keeping my writing pace of writing something every day, though a few times this week, I only managed a paragraph or two. Here’s a snippet from the story I wrote for this week’s Summer Writing Challenge entry. It focuses on the Juniors in my modern cultivators AU. I’m really enjoying spending time in that world. I hope you enjoy it, too.
“I would like to go on record and say this is the stupidest idea you’ve ever had,” Lan Jingyi declares, “and that’s saying something.” He shoulders his backpack and snags a sleeping bag from the pile behind Suburban.
“Including the time we all bleached our hair?” Ouyang Zizhen asks with easy humor. “Because that was pretty bad.”
“I think if we hadn’t bleached our eyebrows as well, it would have been okay,” Lan Sizhui says. He hands his cousin a heavy flashlight. “Hold onto this, Jingyi. You can use it to bash any fierce corpses or monsters that come our way.”
