Shannon Larratt is Zentastic

Nefarious has a bunch of old baby toys that I was going to donate to Goodwill but she asked if she could keep them… but wanted to take them apart. I think curiosity runs in the family or something, because I loved taking apart stuff as a kid. Although I suppose all kids like that sort of thing. Anyway, she dismantled (all on her own — all I did was loosen the tighter screws) a little telephone-thing that sings songs and counts in various languages and makes animal sounds. The plan is to now transplant the electronics and switches into old broken dolls and create new toys — circuit bending for kids!

My brother called me up this morning and asked if she could come visit for a couple days and hang out with her cousins who are about the same age. I was like (insert sad voice here) “…but she just got here last night…,” but when I asked her if she wanted to she was really excited about it and really wanted to go, and since this is the last opportunity to see them this summer and they hardly get to see each other as is, so I agreed… Hopefully all the traveling doesn't put too much strain on her but at least she'll be with a handful of experienced parents if it pushes her under the (sweltering) weather; but I'm sure it'll be tons of fun either way.

It also gives me the opportunity to wrap up another week in advance of ModBlog stuff, which will mean that most of my “must-do” day-to-day tasks will be done until the end of the month (when school starts), which is awesome because then I'll have tons and tons of time to do stuff with her without having to stress about squeezing too much work into the cracks — among other things, they've finally reopened the dinosaur exhibits at the ROM, which I've missed so much.

Well, today I admit I'm just going to take off and relax though — even though my surgery was only one week ago, I managed to walk over two kilometers today! I'm a little sore, but really, it's not bad at all. It's quite amazing how quickly this is healing. Really amazing. Anyway, closing my computer now!