Epically bad Mother’s Day (128/365e)

I couldn’t see Mary and Agnes off on the train this morning because I had a gig. A real gig in real life, playing a mass at church by Christopher Tambling. There were not many people present at the service. At least I made 60 euros.

Henry gave me a present he made in school, a cloth bag he had decorated. That reminded Felix that he had wanted to finish a present for me in school, but had been in quarantine and didn’t get it finished in time. This escalated into a full-fledged tantrum that overshadowed Edward’s so-literally-sweet offer to go for a walk together and buy me ice cream Took a lot of effort to get people to go. In the end everyone went except me and Felix who was completely flipped out.

There was some nice stuff though. Henry and I made a gouache painting together following pretty bad directions on the gouache box.  Edward captured us in time lapse.

Then we played the most epic game ever of “dkt” – that is “Das kaufmännische Talent” – which is Austrian knockoff monopoly. How epic? We set the timer to 30 minutes, and that was going to be the end of the game. The timer went off. Everyone got one more round. Edward was the second to last. He bought houses for his color group. He could only afford 2.He used nearly all his possible money and he laughed at him for wasting his time, since no one could land on it. Brian was the last player and he was on the other side of the board. Brian rolled, he got chance, and the card instructed him to go to Mirabellplatz, which is exactly where Edward had just put a house. Edward had no idea there even was such a card. He shouted and screamed and yelled and laughed we all laughed, and he still was the complete loser of the game, but he still said it was the best game he ever played.

Also I made an epic chocolate cake which were shared in the last minutes of the day with Jacky and Andy. We sat outdoors in the clear warm night eating cake out of the plastic tuperware. We didn’t stay long, they are tired, and their dog Ruby is doing very badly, which keeps them up late at night.