and darling, never settle, settle, settle

I have continued to be v. busy at work, which has been helpful for taking my mind off life. Wednesday was a blur - I worked until seven on Wednesday before picking up pizza for me and [censored]. Thursday was slightly better, since I had time to throw a bunch of beef in the slow cooker to make barbacoa, which [censored] and I ate with hash browns instead of tortillas in homage to our Iowa roots.

So by today, I was ready for a bit of a break. I worked for three hours this morning even though I told everyone I was off, which was nice bc I was able to focus on a couple of things and have a nice chat with Baz. And then I made huevos rancheros for lunch and relaxed for a bit before going with Mom and [censored] to look at headstones for Dad.

This was not exactly a fun errand, of course. But it's been three months tomorrow (or thirteen weeks today, depending on how you track these things) since he passed, so it was time to organize this. And I think the stone we went with will look quite nice, so I'm glad we got that accomplished.

After we selected a stone, we went to a lawnmower dealer so that [censored] could explore all the possibilities in stock. Mom and I had little interest in the proceedings, so we stood outside and talked in the heat and humidity (I think the heat index got up to 105 or something absurd, but we were in the shade with a breeze, so we survived). Then we came home and parted ways. Originally, [censored] and I were planning to hit up the Mexican food truck in town - the restaurant has been closed for a few months, but their food truck was open tonight, and we were going to patronize it. However, I then realized I'd rather have real food than food truck food / takeout for the third night this week (v. uncharacteristic for us to order anything, let alone two food trucks and pizza). So we rather ridiculously ended up driving to Leon to eat in their sister restaurant. This was the right call since the food was great, but it certainly added more driving than I was expecting today.

When we got home, I attempted to do some work but mostly chilled (heated?) on my balcony and then wrote for a bit inside. And now I need to sleep so I can do a million things this weekend - goodnight!