parent fail & recovery and other stories

[sistawendy]

Four days no post. No, I'm not in a funk. I just haven't had anything worth posting, really. It's been a quiet few days consisting of:

• construction of accessories to finish my slack-ass Norwescon costume
• studying French
• plotting world domination
• hanging with m'boy

The Wendling had asked to go to the exhibit on Pompeii at the Science Center with me. A splendid idea, I thought, and I was proud of him for coming up with it. So we bopped on down (in the torrential rain) and walked across the Seattle center (in the torrential rain) and waited in line for maybe twenty minutes (in the torrential rain) until about noon when we found out that the soonest we could get in was 1515. M'boy had to start work in Kirkland at 1600.

Moral: Buy tickets to this exhibit online in advance. Who knew? Not I.

But! We had lunch at Shilla, which unhealthily obsessed readers may recognize as one of my favorite Korean restaurants around here. They brought us complementary edamame. Before I could inform my son that you don't eat the pods, he ate a pod. I guess he learned something today after all. Given the tastes of his maternal grandfather & step-granny, I was surprised he'd never had edamame before.

Another funny thing that happened at Shilla: two different members of the wait staff checked on us a total of four times. It wasn't especially dead in there for a Sunday afternoon. Yes, I'm wearing my black patent dog collar today, but aside from that I don't look too unusual by Seattle standards. I've been recognized before in that very establishment. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over?

No Pi day parties for me, even ones where my son was welcome: He has a nasty cough, which I seem to have somehow avoided catching.

However! Girl time and tea with the Siberian Siren. She's always careful not to caffeinate me too much because she's seen me get alarmingly perky from PG Tips. Her dating advice: Tinder. Too bad my phone is Windows v7, on which there has never been an app for that for any value of "that".

Comments

[xaotica.livejournal.com]

you could always get a cheap android phone and just use it on wifi with tinder...

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

It's about time to ditch my Windows phone anyway. I've had it for nearly five years. And yes, I'm thinking Android just for the value proposition.