Shannon Larratt is Zentastic

Nefarious’s graduation ceremony was today. When I was a kid finishing kindergarten, I did not have a graduation ceremony (my first being in grade eight). Of course, for me, the achievements of kindergarten were in the realm of memorizing a seven digit phone number and, I don’t know, not peeing my pants I guess. Nefarious however can nearly read at an adult level and can do math that I don’t think we did until grade three or four, so I’m very proud of her.

It was actually a remarkably full day today, with the aforementioned graduation ceremony first thing in the morning, and then we spent the day at Ontario Place with a friend (which is when the photo below was taken) — a good day because of the nice weather and lack of visitors because it’s still a school day for most schools — then off to another friend’s birthday party, and when she gets back, we’ll stop by a party being held (until 5AM, oh no) in our building for which our next door neighbour is doing an aerial performance on silks.

Then tomorrow she’s headed over to the Toronto Islands with her grandmother during the day, and a wedding reception in the evening… I guess we’ll try and thoroughly fill up the few days until she leaves on summer vacation!

In my own news, I’m chugging along on my “memoirs” and am trying to write a few short (900 – 2,000 words) chapters ever day. I was wondering if writers of memoirs ever do “extended remixes” or anything like that, because I know that there will be many stories that I will write down that don’t actually make the final cut. Other than that, it remains a struggle with my doctors — scheduling issues with the one set, and for the other, they’re having trouble tracking down a doctor (seems odd to me) to do the specialized sort of muscle biopsy they want to do to try and start figuring out why my body is breaking down muscle tissue for no apparent reason. I think I might see about getting a “handicapped” tag for my truck because walking has become quite painful. I’m probably too stubborn, but I do wonder how much longer before I prefer to get around by wheelchair.

My forehead skin hurts, so I think I must have managed to give myself a sunburn today. I had lots of fun at Ontario Place as well as the kids did and even though I wasn’t dressed for it — just regular summer street clothes — I did join the girls for a few rides down the big water slides. It is quite tiring having to carry two giant two-person tubes all the way to the top of that slide structure (since Nefarious and her friend were too little to safely carry it on the stairs).