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…as well as news of a Substack update you might like!
A little update for you: Substack has introduced a chat feature within the Substack app. I’ve been engaging with it via a few writers I subscribe to here and it’s just been a great way to get involved in topics that interest me, perhaps slightly filling the void left by the absence of Twitter in my life.
It’s something I’ll be dipping into here and there when I have something in particular that I want to discuss or, most likely, when I am trying to put off doing something more pressing (and less fun), so if it sounds like something you’d be into, you’ll need to have the Substack app on your phone.
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Monday
My cousins are here for the week, so my schedule – which, as you’ll know, usually revolves around feeding the baby (and myself), squeezing in work while he’s asleep and, oh yeah, laundry, is looking a little bit different this week.
Although actually? Not today.
We decide to take it easy. I get the work done that’s due this week, so that I’m free for gallivanting later in the week, and we prepare for Halloween tonight at our friends K&J’s house, where the kids will be going trick-or-treating and we will (I hope) be eating festive treats indoors.
I do know someone will have to go with the kids; I’m just hoping that someone will be Brandin.
While I’m working – and chatting, and drinking tea – my Apple Watch payment comes out. ($16.62)
We decide to order lunch from Panera Bread; I know, I know I had vowed that I was quitting Doordash, but when you’ve visitors nothing counts! Nothing! We each order a little soup-and-sandwich combo, with macaroni & cheese for the baby. Panera Bread, I have discovered lately, is not cheap. ($83.79)
I also go online and order Bea’s birthday present – her birthday is on Thursday, though we’re celebrating on Friday, so I’m hoping it will arrive on time. [Note from future Rosemary: it has yet to arrive. Am terrible present-buyer.] ($109.14)
When it comes time to go trick-or-treating – things are very organised in the US and there are set hours for trick-or-treating, 5-7 – Atlas is fast asleep and I have a wonderful stretch of time where I think I’m going to have to stay home and watch Love is Blind on my own, which would also mean I could return the costumes I bought for us (me: a skeleton onesie, and him, a Baby Shark costume).
But alas, he wakes up at around 6pm so we get dressed and make our way to join the festivities.
When I get there, of course, I’m only delighted that I did: there are home-made mac and cheese, Swedish meatballs and sloppy joes on offer! Plus, all of the kids are outside, annoying someone else! It’s bliss.
We get home at around 9.30pm and, once the boys have been put to bed – very unwillingly, hyper little monsters – we have a cup of tea and a chat before going to bed ourselves at around 10.30pm. (Living on the edge this week, let me tell you.)
Daily total: $209.55
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