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Friday evening, we had dinner at Seva with friends who were in from DC for a christening. Cordelia was bored, I think, but she was well behaved and quiet. The children's menu had a word search, and she focused on that. Scott and I enjoyed seeing Randall and Shawn, and the food was pretty good. Seva is a vegetarian restaurant. I had a black bean and sweet potato quesadilla, and Scott had an omelet. Cordelia had noodles with butter and a bit of parmesan.
I slept badly that night. I think the guacamole was too spicy for me (I don't want to think it was the quesadilla). I had reflux all night and could only drowse because, every time I started to fall into a deep sleep, I'd get a wave of acid.
Saturday, Scott's sister hosted a party for her daughter's birthday. Our niece is turning eleven this week. We arrived about three o'clock. Cordelia started playing with her cousin and the one other girl who was there. Scott played Risk with our nephew and his friend. I hung out with my sister-in-law and her sister-in-law on the other side. After dinner, our niece opened her presents, and we all had ice cream. Scott's sister had bought two ice cream pies, but she hadn't checked the ingredients. She just assumed that one of them would be safe for me, and of course, it wasn't. Both ice creams contained peanuts. Fortunately, she had some other ice cream that I could have.
We gave our niece a game called Dixit (or Dix It?). Several people played it after the ice cream was consumed. It involves cards with strange pictures on them and trying to guess which card belongs to the person who's it. I got the impression that scoring was kind of confusing, at least at first.
Today, I managed a bit more on my Yuletide fic. I've got over five hundred words, and still nothing has happened. It may be that this will be a vignette and that nothing much will happen. I don't know.
We went to the library this afternoon and then went for bubble tea. I did three loads of laundry. Cordelia got frustrated because none her friends in the neighborhood were around when she went out looking for someone to play with. I think, with the weather getting cold, she's going to have to steel herself and start knocking on doors to ask if the other kids can play.
We're showing Cordelia The Fellowship of the Ring now that she and Scott have played through the end of it in Lego Lord of the Rings. I'm not sure how well she's following the story. She seems to be having trouble remembering who's who. The Lego game isn't really catching Cordelia's imagination. I don't think it's as good as most of the other Lego games she and Scott have tried. Too much of it is traveling through places.
I slept badly that night. I think the guacamole was too spicy for me (I don't want to think it was the quesadilla). I had reflux all night and could only drowse because, every time I started to fall into a deep sleep, I'd get a wave of acid.
Saturday, Scott's sister hosted a party for her daughter's birthday. Our niece is turning eleven this week. We arrived about three o'clock. Cordelia started playing with her cousin and the one other girl who was there. Scott played Risk with our nephew and his friend. I hung out with my sister-in-law and her sister-in-law on the other side. After dinner, our niece opened her presents, and we all had ice cream. Scott's sister had bought two ice cream pies, but she hadn't checked the ingredients. She just assumed that one of them would be safe for me, and of course, it wasn't. Both ice creams contained peanuts. Fortunately, she had some other ice cream that I could have.
We gave our niece a game called Dixit (or Dix It?). Several people played it after the ice cream was consumed. It involves cards with strange pictures on them and trying to guess which card belongs to the person who's it. I got the impression that scoring was kind of confusing, at least at first.
Today, I managed a bit more on my Yuletide fic. I've got over five hundred words, and still nothing has happened. It may be that this will be a vignette and that nothing much will happen. I don't know.
We went to the library this afternoon and then went for bubble tea. I did three loads of laundry. Cordelia got frustrated because none her friends in the neighborhood were around when she went out looking for someone to play with. I think, with the weather getting cold, she's going to have to steel herself and start knocking on doors to ask if the other kids can play.
We're showing Cordelia The Fellowship of the Ring now that she and Scott have played through the end of it in Lego Lord of the Rings. I'm not sure how well she's following the story. She seems to be having trouble remembering who's who. The Lego game isn't really catching Cordelia's imagination. I don't think it's as good as most of the other Lego games she and Scott have tried. Too much of it is traveling through places.