Staycation time

[dorchadas]

It's not actually a staycation because I didn't take any time off from work, but this last week has felt a bit like a staycation because Laila has been at the grandparents the entire time. The original plan was that yesterday we would go out to visit my parents and stay for dinner, drop Laila off, go to see Redline at Facets Theater on Saturday, and then have Laila come back on Sunday or Monday. That all folded when sashagee called the dentist's office last week, expecting to be scheduling her root canal for some time at the end of the month, and was told that she could come in on Monday. Cue the scramble to ask my parents if they could take Laila early, which they very kindly agreed to do, and Laila went off for a week.

sashagee said that the actual root canal wasn't too bad--it was over in twenty minutes or so--but the preparation for the root canal was lengthy and annoying. She was back there for two hours, with the dentist occasionally poking and her and her saying "No, it's not numb enough yet," before it was finally ready to do the surgery. The actual root canal only took maybe twenty minutes and then she came back and we took the bus back home. I had arranged to work at home for the next couple days based on my experience with sashagee's wisdom teeth removal, but it turned out to be mostly unnecessary. The first day she borrowed my big scarf to wrap around her head and hold some ice next to her jaw, and thereafter she was basically okay except for avoiding hot foods. Her wisdom teeth took weeks for her to really get better.

Despite not having Laila, we obviously couldn't do that much due to sashagee's root canal. We didn't go out to eat, we didn't go anywhere, and she wasn't even feeling well enough to walk to the farmer's market on Wednesday so I went myself. She's spent some time fishing in Final Fantasy XIV, I'd spend time doing FATEs with her or working on Cataclysm, and she slowly got her energy back. The main goal was to make sure that she was able to go to the Redline screening, and it looks like that'll happen.

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[matsushima]

It's not actually a staycation because I didn't take any time off from work, but this last week has felt a bit like a staycation because Laila has been at the grandparents the entire time.
I guess that's a kind of staycation? It's a lot of responsibility off your plate even if you still have work!

[dorchadas]

It was definitely very relaxing! Just hanging out and playing games together like we did before Laila was born.