flexagon | Too much admin, but also otters and sqr-versary (Reply)

Well, I came back from Seattle to a solid week's worth of life admin and chores chores chores. Bleh. Some of this was self-inflicted (the year is over, how much did I spend in 2025?), but January is also the time all our insurance needs to be renewed. Annual memberships of all kinds. The cat is due for a vet appointment, I had to set up and pay for and calendar all my circus classes, the cats and squirrels all needed new food ordered, and I really wanted to get back to figuring out how the newest condo association account was working. Speaking of which, how about the lockbox with emergency keys that I'd wanted to install, and what about the new doorknob and weatherstripping for the cottage tenant? How about every damn thing in the house wanting new batteries? Staaaaaahp.

So that's why I didn't get any video editing or sewing done this week. :( I was, however, a champ about the chores. Several other good things happened:

Really good week of circus overall. Scraping the rust off from the break I took, mostly, but also making progress. Especially good progress on hand-to-hand, which has been eluding me and my base for a long time and is now starting to really click again. We are sometimes starting to go in, hold it and have me come back to his shoulders, instead of taking the long drop to the ground. I did have one rough landing today and I hope my ankle forgives me by tomorrow, but overall it's been really good and feeling safer.

Five year sqr-versary with my squirrel! How has it been five years!? We had a good dinner at Saltie Girl to celebrate, the day after, after watching the bug play his cello in a David Bowie tribute concert which was also really excellent. And on the day of, we showed up to Friday morning coffee wearing the same Psylo shirt... so that was disturbingly cute. We put together a new Floof Bingo card for 2026 to give us ideas of things to do on dates.

I got to pet otters with motyl! They were super adorable and very impolite, and one of them bit me due to her excitement over a shrimp. (Yes, I do empathize, and yes I'm fine.) It's hard to settle on one picture of them because they moved too fast, but here's one showing their thicc little tails: