02/07/2021

Today I got up and read in my room for about an hour before getting ready for the day and cleaning up the kitchen a bit. Then I made the bread for the blog project, and made the meatballs for the Sliders sliders. It was a lot of energy at the start of the day. 

By 10, my sister was up and we got started with watching Sliders for the day. We managed to finish out season three and started season four before we stopped for the day. I didn't do much in the way of chores today except to take out the garbage and recycling.

I made sliders for dinner tonight out of potato rolls, split and buttered and sprinkled with granulated garlic. Then I sprinkled them with mozzarella cheese. I heated some of the chicken meatballs in marinara sauce and put them on the rolls. It was filling and pretty good. We ate it while watching our Disney movie of the week: The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. It was cute. We're now watching an episode of GBBO and I'll probably finish the night with JAG.

Office day tomorrow.

02/06/2021

Today was a big errand day. It started with Burger King breakfast and a stop at Joan Fabrics for my sister. I didn't need anything there so I waited in the car while she went int. Then we drove out to the outlet mall in Marysville where I got new shoes from the Nike store. My current pair are a couple years old and have a hole in the toe. I'll keep the old ones as backups. We also stopped at Sketchers so my sister could get some shoes. We also went to the Disney store and Hot Topic where we got some fun new t-shirts and other stuff.

After we finished at the outlet Mall, we went to the Fred Meyer to do our grocery shopping for the week and look at some decorations. We got a head start on our spring decorations. We had DQ for lunch.

We went to visit our grandmother after that. It was the first time since last Christmas that we've been able to visit. I have missed seeing her, so it was really nice. She didn't know we were coming, so she was surprised and so happy to see us. We got to meet one of her caregivers, who is so nice and lovely. I want to try to see her more often now, if we can.

We stopped by my parents' house to pick up some stuff and drop off my dad's birthday card and present. We always get him coffee beans cuz that's what he loves the most. He had printed off my entire book for me so I can edit it with pen and paper, my preferred method. I have it here with me now so I can start that next week, hopefully.

After a quick stop at the library for my sister to pick up some stuff, it took two trips from the car to bring everything up. The first thing I did after putting everything away, was take a shower. Too much out of the house and interaction with others to not do that. Then we settled in and watched The Sound of Music. Now we're watching Sliders for the rest of the night.

I'm pretty tired and my arms are sore from holding the bags of groceries and stuff we bought at the mall. Hopefully a good night's sleep will fix all of that!

02/05/2021

I worked from home and it was bonkers busy all day long! I waited too long to eat lunch so my bloodsugar got too low. I still took a break after eating and doing my walk on the treadmill, and I felt so refreshed afterwards. I could totally feel the endorphins. It was great. I had just enough time in between work stuff today to run a couple loads of laundry so our Christmas movie shirts are ready to wear tonight. I also washed my bedding and remade my bed, as well. I also filled and ran the dishwasher.

My sister brought home sandwiches for dinner, and we watched the latest episode of WandaVision, and an episode of GBBO before we tune into the Hallmark Friday night Christmas movie. I will be wearing one of my new shirts, of course!

I am making progress on cleaning out the freezer, and hope to continue to do so over the weekend and into next week. I am putting my menu on hold as my sister has food she wants to eat up and I want to keep cleaning out the freezer and have to rearrange my office days a bit too. This will be a good week for this kind of eating.

Big chore day tomorrow. Long day out of the house. I'll probably be really tired when I get done!

2/4/2021

Today was a full office day and it was a busy day. I like busy days if I'm at the office, so I was happy. I had the radio on so it was nice to listen to, helped pass the time. I handled the phones too and it got kind of busy in the afternoon, I was on the phone and somebody was calling on the other line and I was unable to answer it. That actually happened twice and I was able to get the second call the second time around.

The bus arrived in better time today for the ride home and I was so tired I think I actually fell asleep for a few minutes! That hasn't happened in a long time. I'm definitely tired today. 

Leftovers for dinner tonight. The usual shows on tv tonight. Nothing too interesting to note today, just a nice day.

02/03/2021

Today was slooooow. Like, slow enough that my coworker and I were emailing about tv shows. I'm trying to convince her to watch Walker and Cobra Kai. There was some stuff that came in, but I had long gaps in between it. I organized the kitchen shelves with the pots and pans and moved the lids to the shelf under the oven. I read and walked on the treadmill again, and watched another of The Good Witch movies. I discussed with my boss about switching next week so I'll come in Wednesday instead of Thursday to the office and stay till 5 instead of 4 cuz my coworker will be taking the day off and he'll need extra coverage. Then I'll just work from home Thursday and Friday. It'll be fine.

Dinner today was quick stew that I made in the afternoon and reheated before eating. All I had to do was add the last of the ingredients, reseason, and thicken it. It made enough that it'll be my dinner tomorrow night and also lunch for Friday most likely.

The usual shows tonight. We'll start the next series of GBBO. Not a very exciting day to write about, but a very nice day.

02/02/2021

Today was much slower than yesterday. I made my very first ever bowl of Malt-O-Meal for breakfast today. It's definitely a nice chance of pace from oatmeal. I might try it again soon with my traditional oatmeal toppings and see how it works. I was able to prep dinner, get the sink caught up, fill and run the dishwasher, take some breaks, in which I started the last book in the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy, and did my walking on the treadmill while watching an episode of Batman. I also watched an episode of Black Lightning, watched the first of the Good Witch movies I got for Christmas, which happened to be a Christmas movie, and I ran a load of laundry when my new Hallmark Christmas watching t-shirt arrived.

I really liked doing the walking in the middle of the day. I think I'm going to do that from now on. I also emailed with my dad and sent him all the chapters of my book for him to print 2/page, double-sided for me so I can edit them. I do better actually editing with pen and paper, and not having them printed has been hampering me. It'll be worth whatever he charges me for ink and paper to have it all printed out.

Dinner tonight was a new recipe that I fancied up a bit and it was a winner! Burrito Bake, with crescent roll dough crust. Super easy, and I improved it by adding crushed tortilla chips and more cheese on the top so it was basically like nachos. West Wing and we'll finish the series of GBBO tonight. I'll end the day with a JAG episode.

02/01/2021

It was a day today! I was busy solid till after 2pm at work today before it slowed down enough for me to work in the back room to get everything caught up there. The day passed pleasantly enough though, well-paced. I tried double-masking on the bus and at work, and it seemed to work really well. It didn't make it any harder to breathe, so that was good. 

Since we're staying full days at the office, I brought in all my tv dinners I bought Saturday, which cleared out a lot of space in the freezer at home. My hope for this week is to keep emptying out the freezer for lunches on my home days. I have all these mystery foil-wrapped packages so I might just build meals around whatever I pull out each day.

Leftovers tonight, and I got the sink under control, but that was it for chores for the day. We started season two of The West Wing tonight and now we're doing GBBO. I'll finish with an episode of JAG before bed. Working from home tomorrow.