Sheep Guarding Llama

We all slept in a lot today.  I got up and wrote for about an hour and was just headed to the game room to play something, I had not decided what yet, when Liesl beat me to it my thirty seconds and she spent the afternoon playing The Sims 3.  So I went to my desk and wrote for about seven hours hoping that, at some point, the room would be free.

The girls and I played some reindeer catch today.  It’s become one of Ciana’s favourite activities.  They have both improved a lot and are getting far better at catching.

Luciana asked to play Goat Simulator tonight.  Boy am I getting tired of that game.  We have logged twenty seven hours on it!  But it is one of the few games that we can play together.  She is actually quite good at it and does lots of the achievements on her own.

I played a tiny bit of Bookworm for a bit while we ate dinner.  Dominica and the girls were each watching their own shows so there was no family dinner, specifically.  Dominica made a corn and potato soup that was awesome tonight.  She and Liesl baked cheesy biscuits together, too.

The girls came in the game room after dinner and sat on the bed with me while I played Bookworm.

Then Dominica joined us and we played a little bit of Bookworm Adventures which is supposed to take place in ancient Greece, so it was perfect.

Then we played the last episode of the Blue Toad Murder Files and have finally finished that game.  We really enjoyed it and hope that they decide to make a second season of it, but it has been long enough since the original that that seems like it is not too likely.

Nearly up to the last of my backlog of SGL posts.  Dominica’s ankle is definitely improving.  She was able to handle going to the grocery store and pharmacy yesterday, although I brought the car as close to the house as possible so her total walking was very minimal and almost all on totally flat, smooth ground.  This evening, for the first time since she twisted it, she walked down to the corner store with me which is downhill  and on uneven ground – the same walk that caused her to twist it in the first place.  It has been nearly a month since she has made it to our corner store, having been unable to go the time that we had last attempted it.

She did pretty well, it was a tough walk for her, but she made it.  So it looks like she is on a long road to recovery.

Luciana talked me into more Goat Simulator today.  She just loves it when we play that game together.

I wrote and posted all day.  Then this evening for family game night we played the fifth and penultimate episode of the Blue Toad Murder Files.  We did much better tonight and the girls had a lot of fun playing with us.

After that Dominica and I played some Highrise Heroes again.  We tend to lose track of time when playing that.

Back on a more normal schedule today having gotten real sleep last night.  It has been cold much of the time that we have been in Greece but today is a nice, warm day and we have all of the windows open and are enjoying the sun and fresh air.

We all worked for a while this morning.  I did my writing, Dominica and Liesl did school.

This afternoon we needed to make a run to a pharmacy for some medicine.  We did some searching online and found that it looks like basic antibiotics are available over the counter in Greece so we are going to run to a pharmacy before going to see a doctor to see if we need to go to the doctor at all.    It would be so nice if things were really that easy.

We drove to the next town and went to the large pharmacy on the far side of town.  I knew exactly where it was after many times walking and driving by it, it is near our grocery store there, and it is a big location with its own parking lot (holds two cars) so it seemed like it would be the place to start.

It has been a while since we have all taken a trip together in the car.  It was almost a treat!

The pharmacy was great.  They were friendly, helpful, spoke English well and were able to get us what we needed right there and it was fast and not expensive at all.  Luciana was scared of going to see a doctor and so this helped a lot.  She equates doctors with getting shots.

That was quick, easy and painless.  So we stopped at the grocery store on the way back as well.  That made this a very convenient trip as we really needed to go to the big grocery store anyway.  We loaded up the trunk with food and went back home.

I had a busy evening of writing and did not manage to knock off from posting until one in the morning when Luciana and I played some Goat Simulator together.  Tonight we managed to get one of the elusive golden goats that sits way up on a power line!

As often happens for us here we all had problems getting to sleep last night.  Luciana got me up, just as I was drifting off, to go get her something from the main floor of the house. Once I did that I knew that falling back asleep was not in the cards so I just got up at a quarter after four in the morning.  I have learned that lesson.  Trying to sleep when you are not tired enough to fall asleep just wastes what little time you have neither sleeping nor doing the things that you want to do.  There are far better ways to spend your time.

I ended up feeling pretty decent and worked all night on writing and some Linux system updates that needed to be done.  It was a very productive morning.

I made the morning coffee around six!  Luciana came down very early in the morning, around nine which is very odd for her, and hung out with me for a while.  She ended up mostly camping out in front of the TV on the big chair and semi-napping there.

I had a busy day of writing and was tied up most of the day.

Late tonight Dominica and I got some time to play Highrise Heroes, which we are enjoying playing together.  Tonight we managed to beat one level with a single, awesome word!

We slept in a bit this morning until around noon as we were up so late playing puzzle games last night.

I finally “completed” Hexcells Infinite today, which involved beating sixty “infinite” levels after completing the main game.

I also started playing Kami which is a gorgeous puzzle game where you basically have to fill in colours using the paint bucket from Amiga Paint but done using the most gorgeous Japanese folded paper.

Busy day for me trying to get writing and projects done.  No time to update SGL, sadly.