Okay, being woken up with my cat biting my ear, licking my face then settling in next to me stretching his paw out across me while purring is a pretty great way to start the day….if it wasn’t at 1:52am. 😂

I love the adorable old guy.

It’s a new week! Work is still really busy and it seems like I’m playing catch-up all day. Even when I’m not!

One change- My dumb nosebleeds have decided to happen in the afternoon now. Two days in a row! I thought for a day I was actually getting a break! My nose laughed at that and said “not a chance, sucker!” lol! Thing is, throughout Covid I had this fear I would get one while wearing my mask when I wasn’t in a position to get Kleenex. I made it all the way through without it happening…until yesterday. Bah!  So, as my boss and I were leaving for the day, I had my mask on, my bag, my bosses bag (I carry it to his car since he still walks with a cane) and my travel cup in my free hand. All of a sudden, when we’re almost out the door, that familiar warm rushing feeling happened. I stopped short, tilted my head back, tore off my mask and scrounged quickly through my left pocket for a Kleenex. My boss was like “what the fuck is wrong with you?”, then he saw and started laughing. I could only find an old balled up tissue in my pocket. Dumb thing is, had I looked in the other one, there were plenty of fresh tissues, because OF COURSE THERE WERE!

Then today I was telling a co-worker about it and how stupid it was and it started bleeding AGAIN. About the same time too, give or take 30 mins. I usually have them before 7am, so it’s weird. 

Not much has happened since my last post. Saw my uncle for the first time since 2019, which was nice. I was able to watch the new Marilyn Monroe and the new John Wayne Gacy documentaries on Netflix. Meh, they were okay. They both have audio tapes that are more creepy than anything. Some new footage/photos, but not much. Probably won’t re-watch either of them.

Not much else to report, then again, it’s only Tuesday.

Ah well, I’m gonna hope tomorrow is a good day. No, it’s gonna be a GREAT day!!

So, yesterday (Friday) sucked as well, lol! I didn’t even get to leave very early. It’s pretty common for us to go home around 1-1:30pm on Fridays, but I was there until my usual time. Now, before you say “Stop complaining, most people work until 5pm, you have it easy!”, working as though I live in another time zone means I get to work at 4:40am every day, so by the time 1-1:30pm rolls around I’ve been at the office almost 9 hours. Those 9 hours are usually pretty non-stop too.

I finally got home around 2:45pm, threw all my stuff on the floor, changed, fed my starter, began another loaf of bread to give to my uncle, ordered tacos for delivery and settled in to watch The Winter Soldier and tried to unwind a little. 

My handsome cat woke me up at 3:30am and I couldn’t get back to sleep, so I think today I’m just going to putter around the house and try to clean. Cozi has a pretty good line-up on Saturdays so I’ll have that on. Sure, I have all of Columbo and Quincy on dvd, but there’s nothing quite like watching them on tv, ha! Plus, MacMillan & Wife, Banacek, Emergency and The Six Million Dollar Man are on as well. It’s my growing-up years in a TV channel!!

Although…for some reason Murder She Wrote is on again for the 2nd hour. Weird. McCloud was supposed to be on at 6am, but it’s been MSW instead. Thank goodness Pluto is 24 hours a day, so I’ve had Cold Case Files to distract me until the sun comes up.

Probably will add more later. I’m bored! I think I’ll troll Ebay for a while to find stuff I don’t need.

Have you ever had a day so challenging, you didn’t know what to do with yourself? That was my day today. Stuff at work is supposed to ease off after tax day, but boy this year is different. It’s not just my workload either, talking to a friend on another team, they’ve been inundated as well…and everyone seems to be in a crabby mood.

Yesterday afternoon, I had the idea to pack up the sourdough starter I’ve been working on, along with the other ingredients for bread and my little bread maker and take it to the office this morning. I’d put the machine in an empty office near me (some co-workers are still remote) so I could keep an eye on it. So while things pretty much sucked, at least we got to smell baking bread most of the morning. I get in so early it was done by about 9:30am. A co-worker brought butter and jam and folks seemed to enjoy it. I had no appetite because of the type of day/week it’s been, so I didn’t have any. Smelled good though!

I love feeding the people I care about and I work with some pretty great ones.

By the way, maybe it’s the sourdough starter recipe I’ve been following, but jeez, I’m not sure it’s worth all this work/waste of flour. 2 feedings a day, every 12 hours, discarding all but 113 grams (1/2 cup) each time??!!?? And the bread recipe I have asks for A LOT of starter so I have to have 2 batches going at a time.  I think I’ll use up what I have going and freeze the loaf or something.  Now that I know what I’m doing, I can always start again.

Tomorrow is Friday and the office should be pretty empty. Hopefully, we can close out the week better than how we started.

I’ve been trying to put my finger on what the state of the world since Trump came on the political scene and I think I’ve figured out what it’s been reminding me of for the past few years…

Is it just me or does it seem like a Wonder Woman comic plot where Ares is somewhere pulling strings and feeding off and getting stronger from all the hatred, violence and war?

Maybe I’ve read too many comics in my long, long life. George Perez did a great job with him, if you want to check it out.

Too bad we don’t have a Wonder Woman, or Superman for that matter, to fight the bad guy so we can all wake up from this nightmare.

Tough day at work, feeling a bit worn out and tired. I guess it shows, lol!

 Work holiday today, YAY!!!!

So, this Moderna booster I got yesterday is no joke! My arm is killing me. I don’t feel sick or anything, just pain in the area of the injection site. Hopefully, this is all the discomfort I’ll experience. I’m glad I went through with my plan to get it before a 3-day weekend where I have nothing big on the agenda.

The mild weather seems to be holding and the neighborhood is quiet.

In a rare occurrence, I’m actually still in pj’s, listening to an audiobook and laying around and it’s 8:30am! I’m so very fortunate!!! It’s gonna be a good day y’all!

 Weird post today! 

There is nothing quite so sexy and alluring as coming home from work to finding my cat has coughed up a gross, cold, wet, sizable hairball on my favorite moss green velvet bedspread. 😂

He’s lucky he’s so handsome and that I love the old guy to bits.