7.1.26 - 13 - Amazing

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Perhaps the most amazing thing about having my sons is how wonderful they are. I genuinely believe this is who they are as people. They are remarkably settled and just ambitious, but not in a bad way. They aren't brittle, they love being creative - Oisin does music and art, Ghin does music and film - and art - and they are most importantly, not toxic people. They are good human beings and it makes me happy to see that they will be fine in this big bad world. They are one of the good ones. This formatting is very annoying. What can you do though?

Well, yesterday, after the completion of the short story and after the run - which was so beautiful - I went to school and got the classroom tidied. Most things will be just doing stuff, getting the classroom set up. I turned on the hot water. Then Oisin and I had lunch... here we are... 

We had Little Wing. He paid for lunch. We had pizza and when I got home I made the roast pork which was excellent. It was only 9 quid. For 2.5 kg. I watched more of Evil which had become very interesting. 

We were supposed to go for the Nollaig Mna Ban but it turns out that we were all too old and tired for that shit. Well, I completed my prep and today I will need to start thinking of loads and loads of stuff. I had hoped to do finance and elements but couldn't bear to face it all. Today I must face at least one of it. Perhaps having time off is helpful.

But my sons... right I will try to do some short story writing today. As the light returns I will be able to go running earlier in the morning.
 


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