14,636 Days Alive
4 Hour System Outage at Work
Well. Today sucked. Stressful and overwhelming and just…. A bad day. I almost cried.
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14,636 Days Alive
4 Hour System Outage at Work
Well. Today sucked. Stressful and overwhelming and just…. A bad day. I almost cried.
Continue reading “Of Embracing Weirdness and Embarrassment”14,632 Days Alive
3 Types of Cheese Purchased at The Cheese Chalet
1 Really Bad Pain Day
Lician, Brian, and I went to Ehelnbach’s Cheese Chalet today and it was amazing! I mean, I was absolutely not fond of the ‘cheese fudge’. Cheese and milk chocolate is not a flavor combination that I enjoy. But! We did get an amazing applewood smoked butterkase cheese, a habanero jack cheese, and another that I can’t remember right now.
Continue reading “Of Arthritic Pain and Acclimatization”14,630 Days Alive
2 Chicago Style Hot Dogs Eaten
1 Project in the Pipeline
I am trying to pry my brain away from this whole “homelessness is a reality and unhoused is not a nice word” piece I want to write. It’s not going well. I am absolutely hyper-fixated on it.
Continue reading “Of Hyper-fixations and Hot Dogs”14,625 Days Alive
573 Miles, Give or Take, Traveled Today
1 Last Carload of Belongings Brought Home
I am… tired. Rightfully so. We got up at not yet seven am, drove to Indiana, hauled shit around, packed my car, and drove home. It was a LOT.
Continue reading “Of Road Closures and Rumination”14,623 Days Alive
75 Boneless Wings Obtained When We Ordered Much Less
6% into The Martian by Andy Weir
1 More Day to the End of the Week
We got boneless wings on special tonight! It was buy fifteen boneless or bone in wings, get fifteen for free if you ordered in the restaurant app. But they goofed hard. We ended up getting 30 of the flavor Lucian wanted, 15 each of the two flavors I wanted, and another 15 of the no sauced ones Brian wanted. It was great!
Continue reading “Of Wings and Weather”14,613 Days Alive
8 Hour Workday at the New Job
4 Kindle Books Checked Out Via Libby
My first day at the new position went super well, I think! My new boss , Sarah, is awesome. And my two coworkers are pretty cool!
Continue reading “Of Bacon Mac & Cheese and Bunches of Books”14,612. Days Alive
5 Homework Assignments Completed Today
2 Slices of Supreme Gino’s East Deep Dish Pizza Eaten
1 Slice of Amazing Birthday Cake Eaten
J started her trip home super early this morning. We both woke up around five thirty in the morning and just kind of groaned in pain and reached for the naproxen sodium and water.
Continue reading “Of Hot Dogs and Homework”14,610 Days Alive
5 Hours and Change Till I Turn Forty
1 Slice of Birthday Cake Eaten
I am not doing okay today. I had my last day of work, a birthday lunch with a few friends, and then enforced change in my life.
Continue reading “Of Birthdays and Bawling”14,604 Days Alive
6 Hours Until I Need to Be Awake Again
5 Hours in a Minivan Traveling To and From Tampa
1 Cardigan Finally Given to Grandma Gator!
We made the trip to and from Aunt and Uncle Gator’s place today. It was a good day. Loud, but full of laughter, family, and a birthday cake for me! I finally gave Grandma Gator the cardigan I crocheted for her! I’m really happy with how it turned out and she loved it! I have to get up super, super early for my flight home tomorrow.
Take your meds, folks.
14,603 Days Alive
4 Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies Eaten
2 Sheets of Beef Fajita Nachos Made
Reffie and I got to hug in real life today! And we got to invade the Orlando Museum of Art and it was amazing.
Continue reading “Of Mushrooms and Much Noise”14,597 Days Alive
14 Days Till My 40th Birthday
5 Days Till My Family Trip
2 Orders of Cheesy Fiesta Potatoes, Add Pico de Gallo
I need to finish doing all my damn laundry before I make my trip so I can pack. I’ll need to find one of my swimsuits as well, since I’ll be in the Orlando area with family.
Continue reading “Of Packing and Potatoes”14,594 Days Alive
2,049 Days Straight on Duolingo
17 Days Till My Birthday
8 Days Till My Trip
Mac fell asleep pretty early this evening. He’s been snoring away since maybe 7pm. I stayed downstairs to focus more on my homework and keep an ear on the laundry.
Continue reading “Of Snoring and Soap”14,592 Days Alive
19 Days Till My 40th Birthday
2 Hot Dogs Eaten
1 Interview Taken While on Break Today
We had a living room picnic today for dinner. Air fried hot dogs with toasted buns, some delicious macaroni salad, some barely edible coleslaw no one liked, and some hickory flavored baked beans. It was delicious. And no one put anything but mustard on their hot dogs!
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