Today I took Ammon and Clarissa to school and then went to the office. I had a couple of meetings and then went to the Dodo restaurant in Sugarhouse and met my new boss Kim, who I like a lot. I then drove back and finished up work, including user-testing for a new content management platforms we are evaluating.
While I worked, Lily went on a walk/jog, did yoga, played at the funeral for our friend Matt’s father, baked bread and tidied.
On the way home, I stopped by to see Georgia. She was not feeling great. Lately she has had an issue where the air from breathing makes her throat feel very cold and it hurts. I was so sorry to see her going through that. Still, she unfailingly has a great attitude and was delightful to visit with. She also sent me home with goodies, like pumpkin bread from Kneaders, and gingerbread men for the kids. They loved eating them after finishing their dinners!
After I spent a brief stint at home, Lily and I went and had dinner with Daniel and Amanda Olsen. We doordashed Bombay house to their house and just spent time with them in Daniel Olsen’s basement piano studio. The food was delicious, but the conversation was the best part. We talked all about everyone’s different life experiences, and we just really enjoyed being with them. We then played Code Names, which was so fun. While playing games, Daniel and Amanda broke out the most impressive stash of sweets I have ever seen. It was really fun to do that right after reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, because they had fantastical and fancy sweets just like you would expect from the book. They had freeze-dried skittles, freeze-dried ice-cream bars, freeze-dried taffy, pepper-chocolate, fancy peanut-brittle chocolate, caramel chocolate, chocolate truffles, many more types of very fancy gourmet chocolate and more. We took a couple of pictures.
It was so fun to spend time with them and we hope to do it again soon! Lily also said hello to their son Christian. He’s very sweet and principled, and he’s an incredible knitter and Lily is hoping he will teach her some of what he knows. At home Lily helped get Clarissa and the girls down. I felt so exhausted and just started working on my puzzle, grateful for Lily’s efforts to get our children to bed. I then watched Troy, which is now so sad, I think I will not finish the series. Hector just was killed by Achilles.