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Very late update, because I’ve been very busy and deeply unmotivated, but Very late update because I’ve been busy and deeply unmotivated, but I didn’t want to disappear. So, here’s just the list without commentary, or I’d never end up posting this.

Finished reading

SVSSS Vol. 3

Currently making

Not so secret craft project - Yuri on Ice…(test run)

Currently reading

SVSSS Vol. 4 - Chapter 23

Currently watching

My Stubborn (Thai BL drama) – Weekly, Sundays – 9/12 episodes
Boys in Love (Thai BL drama) – Weekly, Sundays – 9/12 episodes
The Ex-Morning (Thai BL drama) – Weekly, Thursdays – 4/10 episodes
Komi-san can’t communicate (Anime) – No schedule – 4/24
Winter Begonia (Chinese drama) – Weekly, weekends – 33/49 episodes
Break Up Service (Thai drama) – Weekly, Mondays – 9/12 episodes
Leap Day (Thai drama) – Weekly, Tuesdays – 8/12 episodes

On hold

The Bangkok Boy (Thai BL drama) – Weekly, Saturdays – 2/12 episodes
Perfect 10 Liners (Thai BL drama) – No schedule – 4/24 episodes

The side job has officially begun, so I really haven’t had much time to watch everything on my list. I’ve decided to just wait until Leap Day and Break Up Service are finished so I can binge them… maybe next Sunday... or in two Sundays. When I need to clear my head, I’ll try catching up on Winter Begonia, since I don’t think there are many episodes left ): ... Anyway... What’s really been eating up my free time is SVSSS, but hey, it’s just so much fun. Still, here I am already thinking about which novel to read next, and I haven’t even finished this one.
Other than that, wish me luck with the extra work and my mental health.

Taxi day??

I was wrong yesterday so today I'm not speculating. Hazel came in about 9 and asked if I'd take her to the hospital again. Turns out her son and his wife were not making her happy 'they are telling me what to do and it's not what I want'. It was fine. She told me to drop her off at the door and go. I quizzed her a million times about what she was going to do when she got inside the door and she had it figured out. Plus, she said, that with her walker and her visitor badge, if she stopped for so much as a second, someone swooped in and begged her to let them help her. She felt perfectly safe and unafraid so I left her at the door.

When I opened my apartment door to go pick up dinner, there was a sticky that said 'safely home. thank you!' I have no idea if it's just her or both of them. I know she'll come back if she needs anything so it's not on me to worry about what I should be doing for her. So I don't.

I stumbled on the perfect jacket on Women Within. Normally, when I find something there, I order it through Amazon but this jacket wasn't on Amazon and I wanted it and I had some coupons. It was $58 total (tax, shipping, dealer prep, whatever). For some reason, the order was invisible. It's still not listed on my order history. I never got an order number. They use caterpillars for shipping so it takes forfreakinever to get stuff. But it finally arrived yesterday and it's even better than I thought it would be. Love the look, love the weight, nice details... except. It's 2 sizes too big. I mean really really too big. It looks like I stole a lady linebacker's jacket. So I got onto their chat and after some frustrating back and forth, I finally was able to get them to find the order without the order number. They don't do exchanges. You send it back and they issue you a store credit and then you buy the size you want. EXCEPT the jacket is now listed for $95. The CSR said they would charge me the same as I paid before. We shall see. At least the return is Happy Returns which is easy peasy - my UPS store and a QR code. Happily, I have no use for the jacket until Fall which is probably when I will get it.

Meanwhile, I bet Google Maps would tell me but I'm guessing I've made more trips that UPS store in the year and a half that I've lived here than to the Timber Ridge mailroom. They are lovely people and do not mock me for being in there every day but still. I'll go back there today.

For about a month or more, both my ankles were swollen like a fat old lady (which, of course, I am). And, also, my feet got fatter. Not longer, just fatter. No reason. But, the other day, I noticed they were back to normal size. And they've stayed that way. So weird. Just a bout of swollen, I guess.

Oh and I got a letter yesterday. The last of my Seattle doctors has flown the coop. My doctors were part of a kind of medical coop called The Polyclinic. Which, in its heyday was fabulous. They were very patient oriented and it showed all over the place. One time they fucked up my flue shot and I sent a note to the head patient person explaining the issue and OMG, I finally had to tell them to stop calling to apologize. All was forgiven.

Then they got bought out by Big Medical and the walls started crumbling. My eye doctor went first. She was replaced by a guy who routinely pissed me off. Then my lung doctor went. But he left a nurse practitioner who was fabulous. Then she left. The next lung doctor was fine. My doctor of record was wonderful. I was quite fond of him for all of the dozen years we met annually. He left this past month. And now the new lung doctor has gone. Also, I think they are even changing the name. A new era. Without me.

Ok. Time to get dressed and hang a bit to see if Hazel needs me, then off to UPS for my now daily visit.

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daily life,
krurun

tired...

I have not posted here yesterday and the day before yesterday, just because I have felt groggy because of the summer heat. The combination of high temperature and high humidity is just horrible, especially in June when our bodies have not been accustomed to the summer heat yet :( The weather forecast says next week the heat might get weaker so I expect it would. Now the temperature is over 30°C during the daytime (about 27°C in early morning) and the humidity is at least 55 % - over 80% daytime. I have no other choice but turning on the air conditioner all day for my rabbit, today (I worked at home) for myself also...

My rabbit Krurun is just relaxed under the armchair in the air-conditioned room. A fortunate rabbit!

The blue sky is beautiful but just in this time of an year I prefer the cloudy or rainy day...

I hate every bone in your body but mine, I can't wait till I can hate you tonight

Happy Juneteenth!

Yesterday was a good, albeit weird day. It was going well, I got some people in for appts, and then the head boss of our dept sends me a message on teams. "You may get a message from (blank) in communications." Oookay.

It turns out the really sweet compliment I had a month or so ago has wings. The boss and head boss brought it up in a meeting with their bosses, the managers to all our sites, and the head of radiology, and the next day the head of radiology said that she spent the rest of the night thinking about the letter. Now, they want to highlight it and recognize me somehow. So, the radiology communications head is going to be reaching out to me.

On one hand this is super cool, and I'm into it. Yes please, tell me how awesome I am. On the other, I'm being perceived, and I'm not sure about it. Also, define "recognized". Are we talking a nice little blurb in an internal departmental communication? That sounds good. Or are we talking about something public or that goes to the entirety of the hospital? That sounds a little overwhelming.

And of course, there's the part of me that's like "I did my job." I may have done a little more than normal, but hopefully it's what anyone would do for a patient who was so scared.

Then, my new progressive glasses came, which was nice. I'm still getting used to them, but it sure is nice to have one set of glasses that does everything. They're very cute, too.

Then, for dinner, I cooked surf and turf. NY Strip and Lobster. I was worried about doing the lobster, because it's so techy. Overcook for even a minute and it turns tough. Even on sale, they were a bit of an expense, so I didn't want to make them dry and icky. I needn't have worried. I was on top of it, poking it with the thermometer every few minutes, and I was able to pull it out at just 2 degrees past what they reccommended. It was perfect. I had gotten two, because Jess normally doesn't like lobster (but it turned out that they'd only had it from Red Lobster, who always overcooks). I asked them if they wanted a taste, and it turns out that they like lobster quite a bit. Both my sister and I were happy to sacrifice some of mine, because they were enormous tails, and so we all had lobster with butter and were very happy.

Today, our new mattress comes. I'm really hoping that Fedex delivers it to the door and not the foyer, because it's 96 lbs and that will be a bitch on the steps, but we'll see. We probably won't put it on the bed tonight, but we'll see. I'm going to hire someone to take the old mattress, rather than leaning it against the dumpster.

And now, I shall go get pants on and get myself together for work. Everyone have an amazing Thursday!

Maybe free

I spent most of yesterday assuming today I'd be Hazel's hospital taxi. This was not a good thought. I hate the drive and I'm not wild on her dependence on me. She has two grown sons and one grown daughter in law who live nearby... But, finally last night about 8, she came in to give me an update. They were still testing stuff with John but his spirits were good. Her son brought her home and her daughter in law escorted her up to her door. And they were going to be her hospital taxi today. So, whew.

She's kind of a mess. Not in a pearl clutching way but more in a confused and also severely diminished eyesight kind of way. This has also pointed that out to her. "I never used a cellphone because why? John's always there and he does it. Bad move." But, it is nice to know (for me, her sons, her husband and her) that she is in a place with options if she needs them.

So today is mine. Thank you. There is a Food and Beverage committee meeting this afternoon. The first since they fired the long time chef and hired a new one. Should be interesting.

I put in a work order the other day because the door to my apartment squeaks so loudly that I was afraid of complaints from downtown every time I opened the door. I had WD-40'd the hinges and nada. But, turns out, I just needed a professional. Yesterday, Jorge (who is one of the nicest guys) came and did just what I did but did it way better because now I can sneak out in the dead of night and no one will ever know. I love not owning my home!!

I think after Scott and Julie leave next week, I'll go back to dolls. I should be about out of Pride yarn by then anyway. And nearly out of Pride month.

I'm glad that you are having a good time livin' the life that I've laid out for me

I'm a little less sleepy today, which is good. Yesterday I just was blah. I didn't feel badly, I just couldn't quite get myself into "on" mode, which makes work very difficult. I got through all but two hours, and then called off, because I was just wiped.

After that, I vegged for a few minutes, then went to Sam's club to get some things. I got some special things for dinner, which I'm now frantically googling for the best way to cook. which thankfully seems to be baking. I have twice baked potatos to bake, and the NY strip steaks, and then two very lovely lobster tails. Sams had them on sale, so I figured why not? Jess isn't a fan of lobster, so they're going to get a full steak, and my sister and I will each get half a steak and a lobster tail. I ordered kitchen scissors to cut the shells and make it perfect. After that, a little melted butter, and we'll be good. Hopefully, I can catch the sweet spot and cook them well, without overcooking.

I got other things, of course. Fruits and creamer and other tasty things, but those are the big ones.

I need to look and see how long the twiced baked potatoes need. Hmmm

I went to bed early and promptly got anxious for absolutely no reason and had to take some anti anxiety meds. Today is payday, and I have literally no bills to pay with it. It's glorious. I'm planning to save most of it, aside from taking Jess out for a research brunch in Annapolis. There's a Brazillian steakhouse down there, and I want to see if it's as good/better than Fogo De Chao.

My last big purchase comes tomorrow, which I'm very excited about, our mattress. I was more excited before I saw the weight on fedex.com. 96lbs! That's going to be a tough one to get in and unpackaged. We went with a GhostBed, and I'm looking forward to trying it out. I told Jess not to try to move it themself. I think this is going to take 2 of us.

My next D&D campaign is slowly taking shape. It's a folk horror game, so I have a Relic Born (skeleton person) and a Threadborn (living doll). I'm looking forward to it very much.

I've got another homebrew game starting next month that I'm excited about. It, much like my other game is more roleplay heavy, though there will be some combat, of course. I'm curious to see how things go. This is a much larger group that my little Arvandor band, so it could be difficult.

On that note, I shall go forth and take a nice hot shower, and get ready for my day. Everyone have the very best Wednesday!

Interuptus

Volleyball was really good this morning. We had a good crowd of fun players and lots of laughs. Then, home to breakfast and coffee. I was nearly finished with both when Hazel came in with a face that was in total distress. She said John and fallen in the shower and they had just taken him away and could I please take her to the hospital.

Turns out, thankfully, he had not fallen but had come close and nearly lost conciseness. The parametics said it was likely dehydration. She wasn't entirely sure which hospital and her son could not get to her until after 11 (this was 8:30). So we made a plan. We found out the hospital. I grabbed my shit, she grabbed hers, we got her and her walker into the car and off we went.

She was not frantic just worried to bits. I was really glad she had gotten me instead of trying to figure it out on her own, Plus, I had zippity on for this morning so not a problem.

The hospital was the same one that I took Myrna to all those times so at least not a black hole. It's an easy-ish trip until you get close and then it's a nightmare. But we made it And found easy parking and got right in to John who was awake and alert and not frantic. Now they were thinking heart. I stayed until Hazel had talked to their son to find out he was on the way. Then I came home. Now I am in the elbow while my house cleaner does her magic.

Hazel did call a few minutes ago to say that they were keeping John overnight and Keith (son) would get her home. (Whew on not having to go again. I'm over that drive.)

So that's my excitement du jour. I did remember, on my way home, to pop into UPS with my Amazon return. Go Me.

Shawty I can see that you got so much energy, the way you're twirlin' up them hips 'round and 'round

It's Tuesday!! We survived Monday! Actually, Monday was pretty good for me. Busy, as expected, but not terrible. People were mostly nice, and I was able to get some people in quickly for needed appointments, so I was happy. My final packages came in, so that was good, though fedex is on crack. One was supposed to require a signature, and so Jess was waiting in the living room for them to come, but they just left it. More on that later.

My knee has been SUPER pissed off the last two days. I'm not sure what I did to it, but it has not been happy at all. Yesterday, I was limping around like I was 90. Today it feels a little better, but still tentative. We'll see how it goes.

It's Farmer's market day! I'll see how my knee is and go from there. I'd also like to go up to Sam's club and get a few things, so I may do that as well. There's a few things you can't get online that are club only, so I might drag myself up there. I can always borrow a scooter there if my knee balks. I just have to see whether Jess wants to come with. I could go after the farmer's market or I could wait til after we walk the dog.

It's out anniversary in a few days. On 6/21, it'll be 22 years since we handfasted. I remember it very well, yet not at all. The night before there had been a midnight release party that Jess was working at Barnes and Nobel. I had gone as well, and it was a lot of fun, for the book series that shall not be named because JKR is a twat. We both were dragging the next day, but I was up early to go fetch the cake, and take care of some of the minor details. I wore a denim dress that I loved, and Jess wore a flame colored dress and looked amazing. I wouldn't mind renewing our vows after their top surgery, and getting some pictures of them in a suit.

One of my purchases was a starter kit from Vampire Vineyards. I mostly got it because my sister likes wine, and I like to cook with wine. I'm not a huge fan of dry wines, but I figured what the hell. Plus, it came with a bottle of Fangria Sangria. Holy shit that was good. We finished the entire bottle and were all mildly tipsy. I will definitely be getting another bottle. They're not super expensive, but very tasty. And the Pinot Noir sauce I made for the pork was very good, too.

As a result of the wine, I'm a little sleepy today. Not hung over, just a bit tired.

And on that note, I shall go forth and drink some more coffee. Everyone have an outstanding Tuesday!

Monday

Friday night, Ethel asked me if I wanted wine or water 'or we have some tonic and lime' and pointed to glasses set up that looked delicious and refreshing so I opted for tonic and lime. And now, of course, I'm hooked. I do enjoy a good gin and tonics but I like most alcohol, while I enjoy the taste, I do not enjoy the effects. Plus who needs the extra calories anyway? For some reason it never occurred to me to just leave out the gin. So tonic and lime is my new, refreshing, Summer beverage.

I went out yesterday to buy some tonic and to make an Amazon return and then remembered, after I had left, that the UPS shop was closed for father's day. So I still have that errand to do. But, still no hurry.

There are workers out on the patio this morning but they are working very quietly :) There are several tables set up for eating so someone must be having a lunch or dinner out there today. Tis the season. My friend, Steve, gathers folks for dinners on Thursdays out there. I can watch from my table. I keep thinking I'll join them sometime but on Thursdays I usually find a million reasons why I'd rather not. Starting with... eating outside?? I've never understood the allure. It's way cooler and more pleasant in here and... no bugs.

I have nothing on the agenda today. So that's probably what I will do. More Clarksons Farm and more Pride dolls. I need to build up an inventory for when I'm not knitting next week. My New Zealand friends arrive on Sunday.

Even with nothing on the agenda, it would be good if I got dressed.

You'll keep staring at the ground, you always do when they get their time with you.

I am for no apparent reason, very sleepy today. I could have dozed for another hour easily. I'll wake up eventually, but I really slept very soundly last night, and another hour would have been nice.

I had a nice day yesterday, first with lunch, where I had a steak bigger than my head, topped with a big scoop of crab imperial. There's still about two thirds of it left, because with the Rybelsus, I can't eat a ton at a sitting. The food was SO good. We got a takeout for my sister, a burger (her choice) and she said it was amazing. It looked pretty tasty.

Then, it was home to relax and feed the puppy before game. Game was super fun, even though it was mostly set up for the next arcs. It's one of my special favorite games, so I was really psyched to play it.

I had a little burst of madness yesterday and signed up to DM another campaign. It's called The Crooked Moon, and it's a folk horror game that looks super cool. I'm looking forward to trying it out. I limited to six people but feel horrible about the people who got excluded. I did it fair, and did a drawing, using a random wheel to remove people. I had to whittle it from 10 people to 6, which was a big cut. If it goes well, I'll run a second game when we finish for everyone who didn't make it.

Today, it's back to work. It's sure to be a busy one. Hoping for a nice not too crazy week. And I'm hoping that they get back to me quickly about the application.

And on that note, time for me to get dressed! Everyone have an amazing Monday!

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daily life,
krurun

Heat

Now it's begun again. The summer heat. The temperature is high, the weather forecast says this week it would be around 30°C every day :( , and the humidity also high. We are in the annual rainy season ... but this week we don't have rain! Where is the rain clouds now?? Without rain the temperature rises during the daytime :( It looks like now our summer has skipped over the rainy season.

I turn on the air conditioner for my rabbit. But I can do nothing for the garden cats. I hope they'd find the good shade to relax in...

I believe my rabbit is happy　enough in the air conditioned room X)

Our garden cats seem tobe sleeping all day except when they demand the food XD

The Julio equivalent of watching paint dry

Sunday

Turns out that last night's dinner was kind of a tradition for the two couples. Ethel and Gary, who live here, have Seattle Symphony tickets with Jan and Dick, who don't live here... yet. Dick and Jan come over and have dinner as guests of Ethel and Gary and then Dick (the only one of the four who still drives at night), drives them to the concert.

So last night, they added me and Beth Box into the mix. Beth was another friend of Myrna's (and of both couples) who moved in here about six months after I did. So the six of us had a delightful dinner. They closed the dining room ('staffing shortage' again) so we all got dinners to go and had it in Ethel and Gary's apartment which was just lovely.

Dick and Jan did finally get their house on the market and had an offer in 3 days and are closing the first week in July so they will be moving into Myrna's apartment very soon.

Today is baseball, knitting, and laundry. I might go out. I have an Amazon return and I'd like a couple of things at the grocery BUT nothing really that can't wait so maybe not. Next week has plenty of opportunities for stuff like that.

Julio has this toy that he is addicted to. It needs to be charged and I forgot to charge it last night and it's just run out of juice and he's having a hard time dealing with it. For the last 5 minutes, he's just been lying there staring at it. He gets all anxious when I plug it into the charger. But, it looks like that's going to have to happen. Sorry, buddy.

Oh, good, he just went into the bedroom. Time to plug it in.

The clock chimes upon the hour and the sun begins to fade

It's father's day, and I'm a little wistful this morning. On one hand, I'm so grateful that the exhausting ordeal that was his last years is over, before anyone but me did permanent damage to themselves. On the other, I miss being out and finding some sort of little treat, and taking it home to him. He was so picky that it was always a little thrill to find something that he'd eat. Overall, though, I feel a little bad that I don't miss him more, but the father that I miss is not the person who was there the last 2 years. I don't miss that person at all. I'm just glad he's at peace, and that at the end he went easily.

Today, correction from yesterday, we do have some things to do. We're going out for lunch to a steakhouse with my friend from 911. She's the only good thing that came out of that shitshow. I regret that I let it effect my mental health, but it got me where I am not, so I don't actually regret doing it. Then, I'm debating on going to the pool for an hour and swimming, and then we have game with the lovely

poisontaster DMing. It's going to be a fun, relaxing day and I'm here for it. The pool is contingent on the weather, of course. Right now it looks pretty dreary.

Tomorrow, it's back to work, and hopefully to get some interest in the application.

Yesterday was a lot of fun, but good lord, I am not cut out for the heat. By the time we got home, all I could do was fall over. I was no more good the rest of the day. We got street food, but by then I was too hot to eat it. I had one bite, which was excellent, and then realized that if I persisted, I'd be vomiting on the table.

I had brought some beads that I purchased from amazon. I felt a little silly, putting them onto the table, but they were super popular, so I'm glad I did. We had so many people thank us for what we do and for coming out. We were there in support of the Hopkins Gender Expansive Clinic, and a lot of people were very interested. Some came over to say thank you, because they're already patients. Including one who had the very surgery Jess wants to have. So they got a look at what they could look like in a year's time, which was very cool.

I'm debating between cooking breakfast versus having a donut. I probably will cook something. Maybe pancakes and sausage. I have some sausage that I got at the farmer's market. Tonight, we'll have leftovers, since we're going out to lunch late.

And now, I shall drink my coffee and relax until it's time to make breakfast. Everyone have an amazing Sunday!

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ETA (UK)

I'm going to Britain for my holiday trip in Aug, and will need ETA. So I got it with my smartphone. I don't like to input my card information to my smartphone so first tried to get it on internet (with my computer) but could not find how on the official UK website and reluctantly used the smartphone. They say it's "the easiest way" to get ETA, yes they might be right IF you are accustomed to use smartphone well. But in my case, it's far from "easiest" !!

I installed the ETA App into my smartphone, which read the chip in my passport (thankfully I have just got the new passport and it has the chip in it) , with which I took the photo of myself etc. The English instruction is simple but in reality it's not very easy. For example, when I take the selfie the App showed the oval frame on the screen but my arm is not long enough to get the whole image of my face and neck in that frame - maybe for the Westerners who generally has the longer arms it's OK. In every step I found the similar difficulties, it's really irritating!! :( And I need to do every thing within 20 or 30 minutes otherwise the application would be cancelled. Very unkind to non-English speaker.

Now I think... it's becoming more and more difficult to travel abroad.

Saturday

Protests, graduations, COVID - they all got together and decimated our volleyball turnout. But four of us lamely tried for an hour. It was ok. It would have been more fun had not the asshole been one of the four and he decided to leave after 30 minutes. Four worked. Three didn't. We gave up.

Elbow coffee is still an hour away.

The other day when I was at Trader Joes, I got some heirloom tomatoes, an onion and some Persian cukes and yesterday I chopped them all up into biggish pieces, added salt and pepper and a little balsamic dressing and popped it into the fridge. Dinner from the buffet was turkey and dressing and mashed potatoes and I added my chopped concoction and OMG was it all delicious. PLUS there is enough left of everything for another entire meal and then some.

But it won't be tonight. I got a text from Ethel asking me if I could join her and Gary and Jan and Dick for dinner tonight! YOU BETCHA!! They are all the best friends of Myrna. Gary plays volleyball with us (and was one of the four this morning) and Ethel is his wife and they are both delightful. Jan and Dick are the couple planning to move into Myrna's apartment. All four of them have been so kind to me and are just fun, nice, people. I'm delighted to be their fifth wheel. Plus, I want an update of the moving situation. And they are early birds so dinner will be at 4:45 which suits me just perfectly.

Periodically, I check on my cousin's house in Oklahoma City. BUT Google hasn't updated the street view since before he died. And, of course, the real estate sites have no info. I'm sure the people who bought it will tear it down or already have. So I keep checking. This morning I got the bright idea to check Reddit. Yep, there is an OKC sub so I posted an ask for someone who's driving by to snap a photo. I already got a response from some who who says they work very near there and can do it! Very cool.

My New Zealand friends sent me a video this morning of a bear and two cubs crossing the road in front of them on their way west to Whistler. I do love that they saw them. Love that she was fast enough to whip out her phone and capture the video but most of all I am so grateful to live in a time when that is not only possible, it's normal!! (the video not the bears)

Ok, now I need to get dressed. Ingrid may go to elbow coffee in her nightgown and robe but not me.

The moon in the gutter has a story to tell

It's Pride weekend, and I just want to go back to bed. I did not sleep well at all. First, we ate pretty heavy right before bed, and then Boodle was bing a velctro kitty. Jess was also very cuddly last night, so between it all, I had a restless night's sleep. It's okay, I just have Pride to get through. I cancelled my afternoon game, because I just couldn't see rushing from Pride, with all the traffic of the Trans Pride and Pride Block Parties as well as any No Kings rally traffic, managing to get home in under an hour (because we are 100% ubering. Parking is going to be a nightmare. This way, we can finish my shift, walk around, and then go forth and maybe grab food and then go home.

After that, I have nothing planned until it's time to make dinner. And that's just a pork loin with mashed turnips. Then, I can crash out and go to bed while Jess plays Strixhaven.

Tomorrow, I have absolutely no plans. Just going to laze around and nap, I think. I could uber down to the pride festival, or drive down to the big Greek festival, but we'll see.

I had my bimonthly performance review yesterday. As expected, I'm doing well. I had told them that I applied for the supervisor position, and there was much lamenting on not wanting me to leave, but then he said if I get the position, I should push for as much money as I could get. Then, I should wait to sign the offer until they can go to their bosses and see if they could get a counter offer.

If after all the time I spent banging my head trying to advance at IKEA, now I've got people getting into bidding war over me, I'ma laugh.

And on that note, I'm going to start getting myself together for work. Everyone have a super Saturday and be safe!

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daily life

Humid!

The weather is unstable. Today we have a light rain which will become stronger in the evening (so the weather forecast says). But I think we are rather fortunate. The humidity is already high enough, with even a little sunshine the temperature will surely rise and the intolerable heat will begin :(

The weather forecast says the temperature will be about 30°C next week here... (and the humidity is over 60 or 65%). I don't like Japanese severe summer :(.

Though some plants seem to like the summer heat. In our garden now hosta begins to bloom...

I won the war but there will probably be PTSD

My morning started with Ingrid screaming from her balcony. She was dressed in a lovely short see thru nightgown howling down at the workers below (who probably don't speak English) "It's 6:30 in the morning!!! Why are you working??? Who do you work for?? I'm going to tell the director right now. Be Quiet."

I am sure that the director got an email from Ingrid. I'm pretty sure she gets one every day from from her.

My finance guy's assistant sent me some extra docs. He, so rightly, assumed I wanted Transfer of Beneficiaries (TOD) and how I wanted it set up. Then he also assumed I wanted my brother to have full access to the new accounts so he had that all ready to sign. I'd actually forgotten about both these things so I was delighted. BUT, no DocuSign. ARUGH.

I printed out the page I needed and then the printer and internet severed their connection (no clue who said what to whom). I had to sign and then scan to send back to the assistant and on to my brother. But, when it came time to scan, all I got was sad faces everywhere. If you complete all 37 steps in the right order with your mouth set just so, hooking the printer to the internet is a breeze. Miss one step or move your gaze elsewhere and you are fucked and you have to start from the beginning. Oh, and one part of the process is restarting the router which, of course, takes for frickin' ever to come back.

After buckets of blood, sweat and tears, I finally got it going again. One was 9 pages. I figured the only thing he needed was the first page. Soooooo wrong. So I had to do it all over again. THEN I had to find someone to witness my signature.

I considered ringing Ingrid's doorbell "since you are up anyway..." but figured my dying before the documents were done would be silly. So I went down to the front desk where the receptionist was happy to do it. Then I scanned all the pages in and sent them off. Whew. Done.

When I went to my doctor last January, I bitched about my runny nose. She told me Flonase or irrigation. I tried Flonaise (I have no idea how to spell it and don't care) for a month - nothing. Irrigation is to clear up stuffed up noses, so I went with an allergy pill which worked fine for six months then a couple of weeks ago, it just said 'nope, i'm done' and my nose started running away again. Dr. Google and Amazon list remedies and solutions for 'stop runny nose' that are for clearing out stuffed noses. WTF? So first I did the irrigation. I hate doing it. The first 2 seconds are really uncomfortable. The rest isn't but it's so messy. But, damn, if it didn't work! So then I ordered up some spray that is supposed to help between irrigations. It comes today.

I'm going to be shocked to learn that my doctor, Dr. Google and Amazon are all right and I was wrong. But I checked the filter on my gizmo and ordered a new one. I don't fancy a brain worm. (I've been watching so much Clarkson's Farm, and listening to Peter Grainger novels, that I now have a British accent - at least in my fingertips.)

Today's agenda includes cat food. These two are eating me out of house and home. Amazon is bringing new wet and dry food on Tuesday but their current supply of dry food ain't going to make it. At least the sun isn't out.

Then it will be the usual knitting and farming and baseball later.

So if you ask me how I'm doing, I'm peppy, sprightly and spry, I'm getting bi

It is so early. I got up a little bit early to go fetch Friday the 13th themed donuts, and I'm kind of regretting my life choices.

Today, we shall have donuts for breakfast, and then I'm going to work, and then? Date night. We haven't decided where we're going to dinner. There's a couple of places that we're considering. It's difficult finding somewhere with good food that also doesn't require special attire. I'm not wanting to dress up. I just don't have the clothes for it. I should really consider getting a skirt or dress for that, though then I have to think about shoes. Maybe I'll just visit the mall.

Tomorrow is Trans Pride, followed by game. Right now they're callling for overcast skies with maybe a bit of rain thrown in. But only 80 degrees, which is good.

I went yesterday for my glasses, and got my new prescription. We'll see how I like the progressives I ordered. Apparently, my eyes hadn't changed much. I'm going to get a fun backup pair from Firmoo.

Of course, after the eye exam, I had the WORST headache. I was really just good to go lay down, but I walked the dog and ate dinner. I'm still a little headachey this morning, so I'm going to go take some tylenol and ibuprofen and see if we can get rid of that.

Yesterday, I also put in for a job at Hopkins. It's not in my dept, and I'm not sure I'm even going to get an interview, but I gave it a shot, and that's what matters. I'm going to let my bosses know today.

I have my one on one today, so that'll be a quick meeting. I'm a little concerned that I put my current manager in as my reference, but she's going on maternity leave soon, so I may ask her today if I should switch the email address over to one of the other supervisors.

If I were to get it, it would definitely be more money and more responsibilty, but we'll see.

Okay, and now, I go put on pants and get donuts. Everyone have an excellent Friday!