👩🏻🦰 Week Notes 083
🗓️ // Jul 26, 2026 - Aug 1, 2026
Semi-chill week at work and home, but still productive. The soon to be teen was finally able to move into Eawyn's old room and I was able to disassemble one of the beds in the younger girls rooms now that they can just share the bunkbed. So much more room in there now- hopefully they'll also have an easier time keeping it clean going forward. Only one soccer practice this week, but it was all the way to Freeman. It's less than a 40 minute drive if we cut through Spokane Valley.
👩🏻🦰 This was also a big birthday preparation week for the girls and I as we worked on our present for Mary. All three did an awesome job and I had a lot of fun learning some new techniques with my iPad. I'm still in the process of finishing off my artistic contribution and assembling everything, but we're fully on track for her to unwrap it tonight.
⚽️ Spurs had a really successful week in the Australia portion of their preseason tour. I didn't even try to watch any games, and found it incredibly relaxing to just read about the positive outcomes after the fact and watch some highlight clips. Spurs beat Chelsea 2-1 today despite going down to 10 men shortly into the second half when Kevin Danso picked up a red card 4 minutes into his substitution. Richarlison got the deflection tap-in winner in injury time. Wednesdays game was a 1-1 penalty shootout victory over Sydney FC. Luca Williams-Barnett started things off by converting a cheeky paninka, and Dana Scarlett put away the deciding fourth penalty, so cool to see younger players contributing.
🏀 Unexpectedly heard from one of my former players from my JV and Freshman basketball coaching days at Ferris. He played back at the beginning of my coaching days when the players I got to coach actually knew my dad, and considers him a huge influence on his own post-high school coaching career. It's always meaningful to hear how much my dad meant and continues to mean to people twenty five years after his passing.
Playing
- 🧙♂ Backed off on my play a lot this week now that I'm done drafting and have other projects. Happily collected my Platinum Constructed/Gold Limited end of month rewards yesterday and mainly just working on building up my gold collection now.
Watching
📺 Silo S3E2: It's All Good 👍👍 Between this show and the current Dandadan manga arc I've realized I hate amnesia as a plot device when the audience is completely aware of everything the protagonist has lost. That said, definitely some progress for Juliette in this one, interesting developments on the memory drug backstory, and high stakes for the whole silo.
📺 Fruits Basket S1E1-7 👍👍 Saw a strong recommendation for this anime and immediately got sucked in. Temporarily homeless teen orphan girl, Tohru Honda, moves in with a couple of kind members of the mysterious Soma clan, and discovers that they have a strange animal transformation gift (curse?) somehow tied to the Chinese Zodiac. Meaningful found family bonding, awkward transformations, and emotional support ensues as Tohru gets to know more of the Somas (it's a big extended family). Despite all the feel good stuff, there still a tragic and somewhat sinister undercurrent lurking in the background as we peel back the onion of what's actually going on with the Soma clan.
📺 Frieren S1E4-6 👍👍 Enjoying the rewatch with my youngest daughter.
Reading
- 📚 Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian 👍👍 Stumbled Across this high school romance manga (based on a hit light novel) at the beginning of the week and kind of got sucked in. More fan service than I would prefer, but the secret sister plot line is pretty fun even though it feels preposterous. Most importantly, I just like the dynamic between Alya and Masachika a lot, and the plot hook that he can actually understand everything she says in Russian is a good one.