sun ain't shining no more

I have reentered the work slog - it was nice while most people were out of office, but now it's a firehose of catching up and preparing for the upcoming year. 

So I slogged all day yesterday and celebrated with a frozen pizza - somehow the local Hy-Vee has the best gf frozen pizza I've ever found. Today I got up and slogged again, rather manically bc I had many hours of meetings in a row where I actually had to participate. But I did do some writing last night and again this morning, which was a real win. 

After work, my mom came over and we ate leftover chicken and wild rice soup, which was tasty. Then I washed a sweater, packed up a table to return (it was for my chaise lounge in my bedroom and it unfortunately arrived damaged, which is real annoying bc it's literally 45lbs and I didn't find the damage until after I'd unboxed it and carried it upstairs), and did various other tasks. And now I need to sleep - goodnight!

road shimmer wiggling the vision

I was reasonably productive today, despite staying up far too late last night reading that stupid book (which I should continue reading tonight, but I shall not). I got up later than I had intended to, but I spent quite a bit of quality time writing today, which I will take. I also took a shower, got groceries, made some chicken and wild rice soup, hand washed several sweaters, cleaned the kitchen, watered plants, and did some day job stuff.

So, all in all, it was not the most exciting day, but I'm just a little bit better set up for the week than I could have been, so I'll take it. Goodnight!

dude don't take it personal

So far my new year is off to a reasonably good start. I spent some time on new years day journaling and setting up my planner, and then I made prosciutto wrapped chicken breasts to take out to Mom's for dinner. We played two games of ticket to ride and [censored] won one and Mom won the other, which was great for them I guess. The only good news was that [censored] somehow managed to lose points at the end of the game, which never happens, and I had to take that as a consolation prize for not winning myself. 

Yesterday I had to work, and I had to do it while slightly itchy because I had to get allergy shots. I only had four hours of meetings, which was both chill and an ominous prelude to everyone coming back online Monday. 

Today I decided to do various things around the house, mostly successfully. I also wrote for awhile, also mostly successfully. Then I made chicken Alfredo pasta for me and [censored], which we ate while catching up on the last SNL episodes that we hadn't seen - the random duet with Jane Wickline and "Lil Jon" was a highlight, but there were some other v funny moments. And then I crawled into bed and spent a couple of hours reading SECRET OF SECRETS - it's the latest Dan Brown book, and it's fairly terrible, but we're reading it for book club at work and I decided to go with it.

And now I need to sleep - goodnight!