October 21, 2016: Scooby Doo Marathon

Normal Friday here.  School with the girls during the day and writing for me until around three in the afternoon.  Dominica did some shopping during the day and picked up Panda Express on her way back for all of us.  So I had sweet shrimp today.

This evening was a daddy daughter evening.  Dominica and Rachel left in the middle of the afternoon to go down to Dallas on the train to meet up with Estella for happy hour in the city.  So it was just the girls and I all evening, which was fun.

We played some video games together, but mostly Luciana felt like hanging out in the dinning room with an iPad watching shows on her own.  Liesl wanted to spend time with me so we camped out in the living room and we watched both of the modern Scooby Doo remake movies together, back to back.  That was fun.  I have never seen either of them and she has not seen the one and the other she only saw when we were in Spain on that terrible, small CRT.  She did not remember it at all, so it was basically all new for both of us.  We had a lot of fun.

October 20, 2016: Malarkey Wine Night

Thursday.  Lunch today was going to the Diner of Dallas, down on Beltline, which we have not been back to in years.  It was exactly like it used to be.  I got fish tacos for lunch, which were pretty good.  It was late by the time that we went, the kids were not awake until noon.

The Steam Halloween Sale started today and I got a dozen new games.

This evening Dominica stayed home with the girls while I went out to ladies night at Malarkey’s with Rachel.  Chris and Melanie ended up coming with us.  It was a short evening, we just went for an hour or two and then came back home since the bar is right up the street.

Everyone came back and hung out at the house for a while after being at the bar.  I took Melanie home around midnight.

October 19, 2016: Switching Rooms

Wednesday.  Today for lunch Dominica made homemade curry.

This afternoon Rachel switched bedrooms with us.  Until now she has been sleeping in the master suite and Dominica and I have been squeezed into Liesl’s old room (the small one towards the front of the house near the bar) along with tons of Rachel’s storage stuff.  But today we took the time to move our stuff between the rooms so that Dominica and I could have our old master back.

It’s neat being back in our old room, although it was interesting sleeping in Liesl’s old room, too.  Both girls had chosen Luciana’s old room as the place where they were going to be, anyway.

We ate dinner and watching That 70s Show before getting back to moving furniture and boxes.

Tonight Luciana randomly asked me if we could visit Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.  You know that you are hard core travelers when your five year old randomly comes up with ideas like this.

I updated my business laptop from Ubuntu 16.04 to 16.10 this evening.

October 17, 2016: Sleeping in Late

It is Monday and, of course, I am still months behind on SGL updates.  I am writing many of these updates in January with loose notes from MangoLassi and Facebook to piece together my time.  I am working really hard to be fully caught up by January 15th, 2017.  That is my goal.  The updates from this fall are necessarily really lean.  But rest assured, not much is going on so you are not missing all that much.

I slept in very late this morning.  It was five when I got to bed this morning and then I slept in until around eleven.

I was not very busy today as I was so tired and slept through so much of the day.