Sheep Guarding Llama

Friday. Had a very busy morning.  Didn’t manage to get to my first coffee until around noon.  MangoLassi was decently busy today, too.

This evening, Dominica made homemade pizza for dinner.  We ate pizza and all sat around watching Fuller House on Netflix.

Made the morning coffee and had a nice morning with the windows able to be open in the house.  The one thing about Texas, you get very little of the year with fresh air.  But at least it is better than Arizona.

Maggie passed through the US today on her way back from her adventures in France.

There were a few days this year that got missed and I don’t recall much about.  I’m doing my best to close up the gaps.

This evening was a hanging out with the family kind of evening.

DuoLingo Streak: 46 Days

As usual, I was the first one up this morning.  I got up and worked for a while.  It was a super busy day on MangoLassi, so that took a lot of my time.

This evening I was up late doing software testing.  No rest for me, even when I’m not getting paid.

DuoLingo Streak: 45 Days

I was up early this morning.  I did some work and while the kids were still sleeping I took a little chance to play an hour or two of XCOM.  Then Liesl woke up and came to join me.  It was a tough session, though, and I had to roll back everything that I did today as I was unable to beat any missions at all.

Dominica was up early today talking to a client for a while this morning.  We are slowly getting our schedules onto a more normal time zone equivalent.  We’ve been skewed horribly late with Luciana sometimes not getting to fall asleep until the sun was starting to come up!

The kids had school today.

Yesterday Dominica made an appointment for me to go to Discount Tire in The Colony today at three in the afternoon to get new tires put on to the Nissan Quest.  Our old ones are essentially thread bare and have to be replaced before we use the car for anything and certainly before we have any chance of managing to get it inspected, which has to be done this month!  So at two thirty I drove up to The Colony and waited about an hour as all four tires got replaced.

While I was waiting at Discount Tire, I got about an hour in on DuoLingo and Mango Languages.  A good use of my time.

The car was handling better on the way home.  You know the tires are in bad shape when you can instantly feel the improvement in how the car drives.

For dinner this evening Dominica made samosa pie.  It was really good, but the kids were not into it.

We watched Blacklist this evening, we are on the third season, now.  Netflix only has four seasons, I think, so we will have to wait a while for the fifth season.

We read more of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban tonight and are ready to start the fourth chapter tomorrow with the girls.  For the first time since I have been back from Phoenix, the girls slept in their own room tonight.

DuoLingo Streak: 44 Days

Monday.  Have to actually get into a work routine now, I guess.  The traveling and conference weeks are over and there is stuff to be done.  I did a bit of work logistics this morning, still have paperwork and what not to get wrapped up.

I worked most of the day, but was able to knock off early and spend some time with Dominica.  Then, this evening, we had to go to the Carrollton Public Library to drop off some books.

The girls always love going to the library.  They discovered more computer and tablet games available there today.  There are lots of kids activities, it is really well done.  We got a stack of new books, too.

After the library, both girls had requested that we go out to Denny’s.  Dominica and I had already planned on that, but it was good that both kids requested it without us prompting for it.  Kids eat free there in the evenings, which makes it that much easier for us to go.

Luciana tried my grilled salmon skillet and decided that next time, that is what she wants to get when we go out.  She loves grilled salmon.  She went on and on about it.

Once home, Dominica and I watched Blacklist for a while, and the girls played video games for a while.  Luciana was in the middle of a game of The Sims 3 when we had left, so she came back to finish that.

At around midnight, both girls asked me to make them scrambled eggs for “dinner.”  At least it is something healthy.  I was a bit surprised to be cooking scrambled eggs at that time of the night, though!

This evening we started reading Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban for our night time reading.  We got through two chapters and called it a night.