03/31/2021

It was a weird work day from home today. A little busy in the morning, busy in the afternoon, and then snoozeville in between. And sadly, the clam chowder dinner last night turned out to be a bad idea and I was feeling under the weather all day. It didn't impact working from home, so that was good. I'm glad I didn't have to go to the office, though. I did manage to fill and run the dishwasher, and take out the garbage and compost. 

After logging out, I read in my room for a while but I kept almost falling asleep since I was so tired. A nice, hot shower didn't help make me any less sleepy, but did feel really good.

Today, the governor announced that all adults will be eligible for vaccination starting April 15th, two weeks earlier than planned. I will have to look into how it all works. I really would like to get the J&J 1 shot, if I can, but you sort of get what you get. I still want to see how it works to do it through the fire department. We live literally behind one. Talk about an easy commute!

Tomorrow is an office day. There are a few transcripts and things for me to work on from today. Hopefully it'll be a well-paced day. There is nothing worse than a slow office day...

03/30/2021

It was a sloooow work day at home today. I had time to do some reading, catch up the dishes in the sink, and did some baking to use up almost all of the leftover candied fruit from Christmas. I tried the first episode of The Witcher. It was meh. Not sure I'll continue with it. I watched Outside the Wire. It was ok. I did a couple episodes of Good Witch. I was thrown off because the Hallmark tv schedule was off by an hour so I had extra time to watch other things once the Golden Girls was over. I did a lot of busy work for work today. It was good to get it done, but a bit uninteresting.

After logging off for the day, I went out for a walk, and dropped off the recycling first. It was a really lovely walk. Still pretty cool out, I needed my jacket the whole time. I heard and saw a woodpecker for the first time in my life, and then its made joined in and it turns out that they poke holes into trees to make nests. I watched one of them stick its head in the hole and I'm pretty sure it was feeding babies. I also tried to direct a crow to eat a beetle that was walking near it, but it ignored me. But the import thing is, I tried.

Dinner tonight was clam chowder in a sourdough bread bowl. Sometimes you have to do fun fancy things for no good reason. It makes the day more enjoyable.

Typical evening tonight. Another work from home day tomorrow.

03/29/2021

It was a full day at the office today. I was busy from start to finish, which is nice. I went out on my first lunch break and walked around for a while. I ended up at the See's on 4th Avenue and bought some of my favorite white chocolates. Not many restaurants open right now, but there are a few and I need to start supporting them more. I think once a week I'll try to buy out. Today count even though it was candy. It's nice to get out of the office, I just had to go for a walk today. It was cold but really nice.

I got a lot of stuff done at work today. I redid our dry erase board with my information I need to make sure I don't forget stuff there. I think it's going to help. There have just been too many changes and I'm doing more than I used to do, for me to keep it all straight. I have to write things down or I'll forget it.

Typical evening tonight. The usual shows, my new ones are on a bit of a hiatus so we're doing dvds and now GBBO and I'll finish out with an episode of JAG before bed. Working from home till Thursday.

03/28/2021

Today was a big food day. I baked my muffin recipe for my food blog project. I made tacos for lunch. I made a new recipe to try for dinner. And I tested out four simple marinades for chicken for my sister to try out on a chicken breast. She's trying to do better with her work meals, so I'm helping her when I can. I also filled and ran the dishwasher and did the by-hand dishes. I also rearranged the pot and pan shelf so I can put away our new electric skillet which is bigger than the old one and wouldn't fit where it used to go. 

In non-food chores, I did two loads of laundry and switched out my fall/winter work shirts with my spring/summer work shirts. It's still too cold to switch out my bedding, but probably some time next month. We've had an unusually cold early spring. We're usually well into the 50's this time of year but we've been in the 40's for the most part still.

We finished out the second and final season of Agent Carter today in our MCU watch. Our Disney movie of the week was the Ducktales movie, something neither of us had seen before. We're watching GBBO now and I'll finish the evening out with When Calls the Heart.

A lot of my afternoon was spent on twitter, having a conversation with a complete stranger and some twitter friends, about racism v. prejudice. It was lively but never hostile and it took a long time, but he finally came around to see what we were talking about. It was exhausting, but well worth it. It was great practice for me to get better at this sort of thing.

Tired tonight. Full office day tomorrow. Hopefully I'll get a good night's sleep tonight!

03/27/2021

Today was a big grocery shopping day. We got up early and went to Safeway, then headed out to Fred Meyer. We had a bunch of FM coupons that expire soon so we wanted to use them up. We both also needed some household items to look for too. I bought a new electric skillet. They have changed a lot since I moved out of my parents' house way back in the day!

When we were done at the stores, we drove up the street to try out the other nearby teriyaki place, finally. Sadly, it wasn't that good and I don't think we'll go again. We need to keep looking because the one that was closest to us burned down in the fire late last year. It was such good food. It's really important to have a good teriyaki place close to home.

We ate and watched a library movie that was due today. It was cute. Anime. Once we were done, we walked it down and dropped it off at the library before heading back and now we're home for the rest of the weekend. We settled in for SPN reruns on Netflix.

Dinner was pizza rolls that I made to try out a recipe. They were very filling! And delicious, but a lot of work too. I am exhausted! It's funny how before the pandemic, I wouldn't barely be tired from any of this, but now I'm exhausted by it. Hopefully when life gets back to more normal, my energy levels will too.

03/26/2021

Today was a pretty good day working from home. A little busy in the morning, a little busy in the afternoon, and mostly busy work for the rest of the day. I also filled and ran the dishwasher, swept the hardwood floors, and dusted the apartment. Didn't have the opportunity to vacuum but hopefully this weekend I'll be able to do that. I came up with the next two weeks' menu. I watched the White House seder meal video from last night, and did a few episodes of Good Witch.

After logging out, we went out to buy a few things from Walgreens and picked up Heaven Sent fried chicken for dinner. We watched the latest episode of Falcon and the Winter Soldier and are now trying out the new Might Ducks show until the Hallmark Christmas movie at 9pm.

Sad day in the literary world. We lost Beverly Cleary yesterday and Larry McMurtry today. Two greats...

03/25/2021

It was a long day at the office. A late day. I actually stayed about 20 minutes late to get everything done. It was bonkers, and my coworker covered my job the whole day too. I think once I'm fully vaccinated I'm going to add at least one more day back at the office because it's just not enough time there to get everything done in the two days that I come in. I think I'll be less stressed out and better off if I eventually go to three days a week. I don't like leaving as late as I did because the bus always stops for a layover at Northgate and I hate sitting there that close to home.

Tonight's dinner was breakfast for dinner. I always say, if you have sausages and pancake mix, you can always have a fast dinner. This proved true again. I added some scrambled eggs to the plate, and a couple small plums and a glass of orange juice. Nothing fancy, but tasty!

It is the 25th of the month, so my sister and I watched a Disney Christmas special, because we want to do something Christmasy on the 25th of each month to celebrate being a month closer to the holiday!! After that, we took out the garbage and recycling and picked up a couple packages from the package locker. Two of my necklaces from Etsy arrived and they are so cute! I love them.

Watching GBBO, and then an episode of JAG to end the night. Working from home tomorrow. Sleepy tonight, hopefully I'll get a good night's sleep tonight!