Hubris Times Three

Three acts of hubris over the past week and a bit:

• With Tammy away, deciding to take Maeryn out of daycare and having an extended three-day weekend with just the two of us. What I glossed over was that Maeryn…doesn’t get through the night on her own, which meant that I spent Thursday-Sunday night sleeping with her on her bed. When she wasn’t pushing me out at 4am, like on Sunday morning. By Monday, I was a wreck. Having said that, we did a lot of things, and it was a lovely time that on balance, the lack of sleep was worth it. But I’m saying that a few days out and not as completely out of all reserves as I was on Monday morning.

• For the past six months of so, the waterline on the fridge has been leaking a bit. Not a huge amount, but enough to make me think “I should get that looked at”. Which of course, I didn’t. So, cue one morning this week, where I’m heading to the kitchen with Maeryn to get her breakfast snack before she heads off to daycare, and we hear the sound of rushing water. Yes, the waterline had pulled off the back of the fridge and was now sending water all over the kitchen floor and down into the basement along the bar walls. I am now 87% a Real American, as I went to Home Depot to rent a high volume fan in an attempt to quickly dry the walls out. On the bright side, the waterline is fixed now, and the plumber replaced a badly corroded pipe…

• For the first time since…well, pre-COVID, and maybe even before I moved to Cincinnati, I have to make a lot of chocolates (about 500pc). Normally, I planned all this out. This time, I had a vague idea about what I was being to make and apparently thought I would YOLO it on one of the hottest weeks of the year. At least I had the sense to make the more complicated recipe first, so when it basically exploded out of the back of the piping bag as I was piping, I knew I had to scale down my ideas. And thank goodness for a) keeping a bag of hazelnuts at the ready and b) that they don’t take too long to grind down into a paste, unlike pistachios. And the high volume fan from the previous act of hubris has actually come in handy for keeping things cool when the chocolates are crystallizing. But given all the mistakes of Saturday, I’ll have to do it all again next weekend to make all 500…

It has been something of a week. But today, we’re going to the state’s largest free splashpad. I’ll even wear shorts (hubris x 4?)…