i've come to vipe your vindows (36/365c)

brian watched the kids run at the hoffnungsrunde - a cancer charity where kids run round and round a track as many times as they can. they get a huge kick out of it, the school does it, and they don't have to take their backpacks with them. since we've had such weird weather lately it took forever to decide what they should wear. then we toasted to tosca, and henry was just so tired it took forever to get him to get dressed and leave, but somehow eventually they left. i went on a billion errands while brian watched the running. i bought some presents for irmtraud's birthday tomorrow, and met up with maria at the farmer's market and printed some photos for the kids to paste in albums. when i showed them the photos after they got home, they liked them very much, but so far they have made no attempt to paste them or keep them very well...

while the kids spent the afternoon at the playground (more running around can't hurt) i went to irmtraud's to wash windows, clean floors, and sooth pre-party nerves. i left early enough so that i could get home before the willhaben guy - "melanie's ex" ... basically i wanted to buy some dishes from someone named melanie who lives an hour from salzburg. she didn't want to send them in the mail, and i didn't want to go there, so she told me maybe somebody would drive through graz one day and she would send it with them. then i got a call "hi, i'm melanie's ex and i was wondering where you live so i can deliver these dishes." ... he delivered them straight to my house. i was very surprised - the things that can happen if one just asks!

once everyone was asleep
and i was done waiting
i hung around and played with reflections
of our room
through the window into the dark street