17 FEB 26

A little short on sleep again as Puck's cat spends part of the night wedged up tightly against me under a cold fan and he isn't moving...

And because it's Chinese New Year Patience gets to swap classes for K-dramas... the lack of cultural correlation to anything whatsoever is almost stunning... but she's already getting a little too giggly over the dreamy high school romances waiting for her before she even turns on the television... “Patience... just a little bit today... you're getting silly...” // “I know!... but the whole thing is lo-o-o-ove!”...

When I kick her off the noise box an hour later... she slips a kitchen-sized trashcan over her head like a potato sack dress and pulls out all the paints and brushes... two large poster boards later she has created two new pieces... “I was thinking of the aurora borealis when I painted them”...

By this time Yali has experienced his first of two head injuries that day after he tugs on his modified Spiderman mask rigged with interior lighting system and crashes into Oxbear's back when he stops short at the bottom of the stairs... rages around looking for gauze and tape to address the bleeding cut on his forehead... the rage stops when Patience compliments him with a... “You look like you got in a motorcycle crash!”...

We're into the afternoon with another hour of running under wind and sun-tucked cloud around the park before Patience returns to the studio...

Home for Chinese take-out and Storage Wars... because we know how to spend a traditional Chinese New Year... red envelopes of cash sort of make up for that at least as Patience and Yali see it...

And Puck's cat protests everything by annoyedly attacking my shoulder with his teeth... when that doesn't bring back his boy he resorts to his usual demonstration of angsty behavior... chewing on trash...