I had to stop in to say that BN is my s8's favorite place also! Whenever we traveled for medical reasons we would always stop at the local BN to keep things familiar for s. (He has more children's books than our local library - j/k!)
Sounds like your week went pretty good, UD! Keep working on the goals and I agree that waiting for the D papers is very stressful.
Good luck on the marathon. I trained for a 5k run years ago and that was very exciting. I didn't place well, but was so proud of myself just for being able to finish! T