I’ve had a bit of a hectic (productive?) week, mostly on the personal front, as I’ve definitely taken the piss a bit in terms of how little work I do this week, post resignation, even though I was asked to keep it a secret, so I just look a little bit irresponsible in terms of how unresponsive I am. Oh well.

Busy kids’ week with school breakfasts for both boys, talent shows for O and F, bought a school yearbook, brought F to his youth orchestra audition, make up swim classes for the boys. I trained more than usual this week – back to a full strength training programme, brought forward some running to work around the cruise schedule, added swimming to the programme. Life admin – paying yet another invoice to the building contractor, agreeing and booking add-ons for the cruise, uploading O and F audition videos for violin camp, shopping for clothes and shoes, organising cat sitter for upcoming trip, let the oven cleaning guy in and pushed him to help me diagnose my broken-oven problem (it *is* the plug fuse after all), booked make up lessons for the boys’ next couple of weeks’ swimming lessons. It’s really A LOT for someone who HATES admin.

The boys and I watched the final season of “Squid Games” together. There were new levels of awfulness to the games and series. But I suppose there were some redeeming elements in the final episode. I picked “Total Recall” for my film of the weekend, which the kids moaned about, as usual. But I think they did enjoy it at the end. Honestly, with guns, violence, space, undercover / spies, aliens, futuristic science fiction – what’s there not to like about it?

Both boys had their school talent show this week. I could attend F’s talent show as I am a class correspondent. F appeared three times – to collect his Concours Kangourou award, to perform in his Circus Club act (rolls bolls), and to play violin. I love that he’s so multi-faceted. Not just a simple geek!

O played La Folia at the Youth Orchestra audition. He thought he did well in his piece, but didn’t do well in the sight reading section, because the person asked him to “try again” after his first attempt at sight reading. I hope he gets in, if nothing else, then just as a validation of his ability and level. But the logistics would be tricky if he does get in, so that would be a complication. But we will cross that bridge if it comes.