At Her Leisure

December 30: went to Safeway after work for dairy products, including a carton of milk. Made the most delicious and silky cheese sauce to go on baked potatoes with broccoli. YUMMMMMMM.

December 31: Insomniaaaaa. Woke up at 3 and couldn't get back to sleep until like 6-something. I'd cancelled the alarm and set a different one, plus a timer. Heckin exhausted.

Body decided HI HELLO ELEVATORS OF BLOOD between 7:00 and 7:26 am. and I said FINE I GUESS it's a short day and I'm off tomorrow so I can deal with this nonsense at home.

Napped, finished watching the fourth round of Heated Rivalry, watched more emergency services shows, actually stayed up until 12:30 (mostly playing my silly games)

January 1: slept until 8 am, aahhhh so nice. Laid about until 930 or so, got up because coffee does not happen in bed when you live alone. Played silly games for a bit and then said NO. Put this DOWN. I picked up a knitting project instead, which tried my patience. Napped. Played more silly games. Did not sew like I said I was going to because Calcifer elected to nap in my lap pretty much the entire day, and then after the sun went down it seemed too dark around the machine to do it. Note to self: get a lamp for the sewing desk.

Body said :3 and didn't give me any trouble at all until like 11pm and even that was minor. What?

Slept midnight-ish until.... 2 am. Fuck me sideways, this is ridiculous. I had a little snoozle but it was again closer to 630 when I did it and I had set the alarm and timer again. And it's a full day today. I am so so so tired.

Body is still going :3 so far. I don't know what to make of this, I have been utterly disgustingly regular for like 31 years. ETA: i posted this, went to get coffee, and then had to go empty the disc and change the backup pad because I didn't f'n know it was needed already when I had next to NOTHING yesterday. AHAHAHA.

Maybe a more coherent post later when my brain is a little more active. Coffee time.

After work on the 24th, I went to the store to pick up some things for the coming days. I'd pre-shopped online and of course went there at probably the busiest time of day, but WOW I've never seen so many confused shoppers in my life lol. Shout out to the people making a phone call while staring at gravy packets. And extra shout out to the staff working, not only did they have all the confused people to contend with, but it was snowing buckets so by the time they got to leave, the roads would have been just awful.

M and I floated the idea of perhaps seeing a movie, but quickly decided not to. We got about 6-8" of snow, thick fluffy stuff, and I didn't feel it was worth risking anything to go.

Heading to my aunt's on Thursday, I first had to brush off the aforementioned snow, and the temp had dropped so I wasn't sure the car would start, but it did, and I got out ok, and enough people had travelled to make sure the road was at least semi-visible. I went straight to the gas station because I had 66 km in my tank, and nothing beats a full tank for extra weight. Dinner was lovely, turkey and mashed 'taters and sweet potatoes with pecan topping, and biscuits. Dessert was apple and pumpkin pies (everyone had apple, I went straight for pumpkin) and whipped cream. I worked on my mittens.

Stayed home Friday and Saturday (rescheduling my blood donation appt, as my body was gearing up for period starting (I think today? Soon?)). Yesterday, our friends cancelled the visit as on Friday, we got ANOTHER 6" of snow and he was working overtime clearing it, and their niece who'd been staying during the week gave them her cold. You know what, that's fine, we appreciate people who DON'T share their germs with all and sundry (stares at my boss). So we went to see the movie instead.

It was Five Nights at Freddy's 2, which I was seeing ONLY because one of the actors from Shadow and Bone was in it. My crush on him died in October and this was the first time I'd seen him in something since. It actually went ok emotionally, he was it for like 15 minutes, and I know absolutely nothing about the franchise besides horror video game, killer animatronics?? IDEK. It also wasn't as scary as I thought it might be, and I got to nom on popcorn. Win.

Still on my Heated Rivalry bullshit. I watched the finale back to back on Christmas evening, and have been deep in my feels for those two idiots ever since. Otherwise watched the last of my crime investigation series and then discovered two more seasons of my ambulance show. Which.. I can't remember if I finished it before leaving for the movie. Once I got home I started watching HR again lol.

Finished knitting the mittens and made good inroads on the dishes situation. Spent a lot of time under the cats. Ate yummy foods and drank yummy drinks. Lovely little "vacation".

and then I am OUTTA HERE for four GLORIOUS days. Boss has been on a rampage this week (M: what is she mad about this time? Me: I have a list. Me: ...and that's just THIS WEEK. M: It's only Tuesday!) and her latest grouchy tantrum has been that my young coworker got ill with an hour left in her shift and asked to go home. And possibly because she didn't turn her out of office notification on, Boss had left the office when I returned to it and did not reappear before I went home.

Young coworker (she is 25) was still not feeling it later last night, so I get to spend my day in the quietest reception area you ever did see, with no one talking in my general vicinity or at me. AHHHHHHH so peaceful.

So, obviously I'm thinking about plans haha. Tomorrow I have dinner at my aunt's house and then the finale of Heated Rivalry dropping at 10pm. I will need to watch that and then spend several hours crashing out online. Friday I REFUSE to go to any shops, except MAYBE the pet store for cat litter. (And that's not even urgent, I can get that next week.) I think my main non-relaxing goals are going to be get the kitchen and bathroom cleaned up. Maybe vacuum if I feel particularly wild. Anything else is gravy. I have plans to take my sweater project (still only like 4 rows in) to my aunt's, maybe something less complicated if I don't want to think too much. Except for literally three hems I haven't touched the sewing machine in three months, so I'd like to get at least a little something done. Keeping myself fed of course. Napping. Oh, Sunday we will probably go see the puppies again, that will be nice.

Worked a bit on the journal last night. I committed to a series of pages meant to be an outlook on the year ahead, and then realized yesterday that I didn't leave myself enough room. So now I need to consider how I want to manage that. I have my current journal with me today which has a month's worth of blank pages bc I didn't want to split the year up between them, so I am using them as practice.