Not Son’s Gonna Be a Sailor!
May. 1st, 2025 11:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutI’m super excited for him — he called today to tell me he’d been sworn in, and when basic is and stuff like that. And to ask for legos. Woot!
It’s been a really eventful year. He came to visit last summer, when I’d barely spent any time with him since he was extremely little. It’s been hard to figure out how to be a supportive aunt-type person to him, and I’m really, really happy to see how well he has navigated a lot of milestones: learning to drive, getting a job, and figuring out a path to full adult independence.
Other than that, A. and I went out to dinner at NYAJ. The May menu has a delightful chocolate chocolate mousse on it. (I didn’t have any.)
I made blondies. I walked with M.
I chatted briefly with J., to figure out flights for a future trip. I’m also trying to buy con memberships for them, but there’s some kind of weird glitch so I’m waiting to hear back about that before paying.
I also bought Eurostar tickets for a different trip. I made parking reservations, rental car reservations, hotel reservations. I bought an Amtrak ticket. And I obsessively contemplated alternative plans for getting to Balticon, without actually committing to any change. I have roundtrip Acela right now, but I’d like to get there the night before. Unfortunately, the schedule is too tight for me to feel comfortable doing the last Acela of the day. I could, however, fly us down on Southwest. Hmm. I’m very excited to see there are several people I either know or want to see again or whatever on the panelist page.
It’s been a really eventful year. He came to visit last summer, when I’d barely spent any time with him since he was extremely little. It’s been hard to figure out how to be a supportive aunt-type person to him, and I’m really, really happy to see how well he has navigated a lot of milestones: learning to drive, getting a job, and figuring out a path to full adult independence.
Other than that, A. and I went out to dinner at NYAJ. The May menu has a delightful chocolate chocolate mousse on it. (I didn’t have any.)
I made blondies. I walked with M.
I chatted briefly with J., to figure out flights for a future trip. I’m also trying to buy con memberships for them, but there’s some kind of weird glitch so I’m waiting to hear back about that before paying.
I also bought Eurostar tickets for a different trip. I made parking reservations, rental car reservations, hotel reservations. I bought an Amtrak ticket. And I obsessively contemplated alternative plans for getting to Balticon, without actually committing to any change. I have roundtrip Acela right now, but I’d like to get there the night before. Unfortunately, the schedule is too tight for me to feel comfortable doing the last Acela of the day. I could, however, fly us down on Southwest. Hmm. I’m very excited to see there are several people I either know or want to see again or whatever on the panelist page.