October 29th 2023. Mom woke me up a bit early today. We went to the Starbucks at Safeway. Small iced Americano with vanilla cold foam, pumpkin spice frappuccino, medium coffee, medium iced shaken espresso with vanilla for me, my brother, my dad, and my mom in that order. Mom was surprised her drink was iced (she sent me and my brother to get the coffee), but it wasn’t all bad. We then swung by the McDonald’s on the corner for breakfast to check out if anything’s changed. Great decision! Prices were definitely higher than the last time we were there, which must’ve been over 2 years ago, but not exorbitant. I got their egg white sandwich, younger brother got a couple of their burritos, and my parents shared a sausage egg sandwich. We also got a couple apple pies, talked about how the place has changed. Took a couple photos. Drove home after that, took some more photos of the front yard garden once we got home. Drove me and my brother to work at 12:02, arrived at 12:11, worked to 7. Made a few mistakes, felt kind of frazzled about it, but it all melted away into the darkening evening. Got back home around 7:20, parents got pizza from Costco for dinner, I had 2 and a half slices and some lettuce and some kimchi and a small cucumber. Published Ladon and Orange on Archive of Our Own afterwards.
"[Growing up] is hard and nobody understands." // https://www.homestuck.com/story/2391