Entirely too much day in today

The plan was fairly straightforward: church service, maybe take KJ to RE (and picnic sushi if I did), back and work on the office. That is indeed a thing that happened, and also I grabbed some curly fries from the pizza place next door to the sushi place, because I didn't get any last week and I like curly fries a whole lot.

While I was doing this there were other things going on: getting AR a zombie plague test (not that we believed she had it but it was due diligence and also, y'know, general paranoia) and artan going to get supplies for the sukkah. There were complexities with the plague tester with the paperwork (I probably typoed or something when setting it up, or put the date in European order instead of USonian order or something) but I wasn't the one to fix them. But also artan's car broke down.

So on the way back from zombie plague test, the children were dropped here and Teine went up to jump artan's car, which ran for a bit and then decided Nope. The world is complicated, AAA was called, et cetera, et cetera, and so forth. I couldn't do anything useful about that (the car I had access to is a hybrid and the last time we needed to jump something we tried that and determined that it was not plausible with our accessible tech) so I went to work in the library. whispercricket came home with the kids and expressed her state of angst and stress so I handed her curly fries because I could not do anything useful about the rest of it but knew she has a love of curly fries too and so that was a thing that would help. Also I fed the other kids some 'sushi egg' (tamago is a favorite, obtained for them when I was getting lunch) which staved off some amount of chaos.

I decided the shelves were probably cured enough to not stink up the place and so I started putting things in the deeper shelves. And then I did some rearrangement of things on the shelves in the office-that-was, and measured space. And AR was driving her sisters batty so I brought her up to help me with things like "bring me four shelf pegs and hand them to me one at a time" and "could you put this pile of magazines on that shelf". The tall/oversized books have been pulled onto the deeper bookshelves; some shelves have been consolidated and rearranged; the obnoxious four-inch-tall shelf has vanished from the center unit of the shelves from the office-that-was, though there is still one on the left one. Various things have been moved around to new and improved locations so that I have a hope of unpacking the remaining boxes. Anyway, there is progress (I think that should be visible). (Three white boxes remain, bottom center, and then I found two other boxes of miscellaneous books to put away.)

Chinese food was ordered for dinner because there was too much day. ER actually ate some of my dish and declared it really tasty so that is exciting, actually, since she is extremely food conservative and mostly wants to eat apples with cinnamon on them, bread, plantain chips, and cookies. (We had drama earlier in the week where the three younger set demolished an entire challah during FM's Hebrew school because the bread consumption was not being monitored and they decided they wanted more than the one piece they were permitted. FM appears to feel that if her little sisters tell her to do something she wants an excuse for that is sufficient.)

Bedtime routine was interrupted by ER having a coughing fit, staring at her hands in bewilderment, and proclaiming, "I fink I lost a toof. My first one!" and then having to parade her around to show all the parents the hole and the tooth, with the tiny herald that is AR shouting at the top of her (very loud) voice about how ER has a hole in her mouth. Eventually they were herded into bed and I went and did more shelving.

I am very tired now. Also, sore throat, so I've clearly caught whatever AR had.