Family day [Wednesday 25]

What a good christmas day with (one member of my) family.

It's 11.15 right now and I'm in the common room ready to go to sleep. My pushups for the diagonal one are getting worse because I'm attempting them closer to my regular ones, when my hands are still tired and sore I'm not there yet but trying hard to be. Didn't do my daily reading yet, on it after this, and the final 35 pushups. Didn't write my postcards today because too busy but also because it was the last postcard I have left (ORR is it?) and I want to space it out. If I'm being honest to the cause might have to write and mail three postcards tomorrow which with family and everything not sure if I'll have the time for, but surely worth considering.

Have spent the last 30 minutes doing daily chores and writing. Before, TD and I were watching Kim's Convenience and she really likes it. She's also excited that she can get American netflix finally which is awesome because apparently Sg Netflix has even fewer shows than Nepali netflix oh dear what an awful curse to have.

We got back from our city visit at 930. We left the house at 3.30/4, walked to Davis on the way stopped by at Mint which was fortunately open, got us some teas, Katti rolls and momo. We got the mixed momo set, everything was eaten up but two lamb momos which apparently tasted disgusting which I blame no one for because there's a reason Nepalis eat pork momos the most and overspiced red meat is not really meant for dumping into dumplings you know?

Walk to Davis was cool, we observed like 10 churches on our trip which was quite surprising to her, and the favorite part of mine because people are really impressed by how many churches are around in this area. Davis was pretty dead, as dead as it could have been really, like if you filmed it this afternoon and put it as a scene for 'six months after' on a nuclear war movie about how the war killed all humans but didn't destroy the buildings too much it'd fit right in place.

We took the red line to Park Street, walked across Boston Common and the Public garden, both of which thankfully had a reasonable number of tourists like us, 'skated' around in the pond there which was frozen solid and surprisingly enough this was the first time I ever did that. We walked to back bay where I showed her my building at work and to Newbury street which was completely deserted. Then walked all the way to Chinatown which was superbusy but we didn't want to get anything there so we went to South Station, and took the Atlantic Ave to harborfront where we spend like twenty minutes by the sea and taking photos. Then walked to the North End, saw all the cute old buildings, two rounds of Hanover St, before finally stopping at Cafe Vittoria for capuccino and second-rate Cannolis. After spending half hour in the warmed of the place (and perhaps the warmed of the Italian hospitality?), walked to the haymarket station, where we took the Orange line to Sullivan, then the 95 and walked home.

Before we left home at 3.30, TD got ready where I took care of the small matters I had to look after. Her plane landed at 1.20, she came out at 1.45-ish, we got home at 2-ish. She got freshened up, changed, figured her bearings, unpacked and we were all set to see the city.

I got up at 10am in the morning and it was surprising, always thought there was no way I could sleep for so long but apparently I can. Cleaned up the house heated the leftovers, and got some writing done, before leaving for the airport at 12. Walked to Davis, red line, silver line and then terminal E. Which is where I wrote the thing about airports.

All in all a pretty great day, and if I can continue my daily discipline routine like I have, even with friends family company and happiness around, I'm in for some great times ahead.