Today is a big one, Danielle turns forty!
It’s a bright, clear Saturday here on Crete. We decided that we needed a day of nothing, still, to relax and recharge. These relocations are exhausting and my bronchitis is not fully cleared up, yet.
Around nine or ten this morning Ciana sneaked into our room and climbed into bed to snuggle with me. So I ended up staying in bed several hours longer than I would have otherwise. I was actually awake by around ten on my own. Dominica and I were both awake and up and about before noon. Slow adjustments.
I got up and did some writing and posting. Dominica went into the media room and spent the early afternoon playing video games. She is loving the new setup, it is really awesome. It was a really bright day and we did not even have to close the room door or have to pull the shades all of the way down in order to see the roughly ninety inch projection, either. And that is projected onto a normal wall. This project is awesome.
This evening, Dominica did her first project of making both veggie burgers and chicken nuggets at home! She did both using our huge stockpile of chick peas. I’ve been hoping that she would do this for years, so I am very excited. This is a huge deal for us because we are vegetarian and eat a lot of this stuff, homemade veggie burgers are generally way better than the ones that you buy frozen from the store, these should be quite a bit healthier than the store-bought ones and the cost of these is a small fraction of what they cost in the store. I don’t know exact prices, but in the store these are a buck or two per serving, at home they are maybe ten cents!
The really great news is not that the homemade “fake meat” was delicious, but that Luciana loved it! She really, really liked it. This is huge. Not only did she like the chick pea food but both girls loved the broad beans cooked in olive oil. Finally food that everyone wants to eat, is cheap, relatively easy and extremely healthy.
Dominica worked on completely both of the Brink of Consciousness video games in the media room today. Liesl camped out with her for most of the day outside of playing with Luciana from time to time, like with their new Playmobile waterslide set that they have set up in front of the fireplace, or watching Maya the Bee on the Fire TV. Luciana spent much of the day using her Kindle Fire sitting in a chair next to me upstairs in my little office.
I did a ton of uploading of pictures to Flickr today. If anyone has been looking for stuff from the past few weeks, it should be there now. Several hundreds of pictures uploaded. One of my bigger “from the iPhone” uploads. Have not had time to deal with that for the past several weeks.
We all ended up staying up very late tonight, it was four in the morning when we finally all got off to bed. Dominica and I both ended up with insomnia. I had actually managed to have fallen asleep but was woken up by her phone alerting that she was getting middle of the night texts and after that I could not fall back asleep. She did not manage to get to sleep until around nine in the morning! I got out of bed at five and just gave up with no sleep at all. Tomorrow is going to be an exhausting day.