Hello, my darlings.

Lots of ~ma, sj. All digits metaphorically crossed for you and TCG!! And good luck with new insurance, blecch. Such a pain in the ass.

I hope you feel better soon, askye.

I'm cooking this semi-experimental collard/andouille/cornbread casserole thing, I hope it doesn't suck.

So tomorrow, because clearly I'm on a roll at work, I'm going to talk to the drama llama about yelling at my crew and the volunteers in general. And then I'm going to talk to the safety/compliance officer about a sexual harassment situation I just found out about. NO PROBLEM. I'm listening to a dharma talk on mindful speech and trying to figure out what is true and helpful in these situations.

There's a free meditation every day at five pm on my way home - it lasts about an hour, but you can come and go as you like. I went today for the first time and just stayed for fifteen minutes; I'm going to try and go a few times a week to cleanse my mental palate on the way home. It's Kundalini based, so there's a mantra and a whole bunch of woo woo shit, but I just need the structure and the guidance. If the woo woo vibration shit works, so much the better.

Love those dresses, Dana!

OK, I am clearly a strange person, because I went to get the mail and saw I had my W-2s finally, and went "woohoo! I'ma do my taxes tonight!" ...and then realized that's not really a "woohoo". Except I expect to get money back!!

I was excited about doing mine, but then I realized I have four W-2s and have to file in two states, and now I'm kind of dreading it. I hope I get a refund, though, I sure as shit can use it.

smonster I'm kind of in your situation. Except Florida doesn't have income tax, so I only have to file for 1 state...but that's 3 forms.

So, took a sojourn to my local (ish) Costco because I needed saline solution. I discovered a lovely surprise -- this Costco sells booze! Not just wine, 'neither -- BOOZE. And gas, but that's less exciting.

Dana, very pretty new clothes!

Smonster, the meditation sounds like a good idea. I hope it helps, and I also hope that your dinner is yummy.

So, took a sojourn to my local (ish) Costco because I needed saline solution. I discovered a lovely surprise -- this Costco sells booze! Not just wine, 'neither -- BOOZE. And gas, but that's less exciting.

Yay, booze! And I just had to check because I didn't realize that there were Costcos in New England, but there are still none near me.

This one is pretty close, about half an hour from the house. And it was deserted tonight. I've never seen a Costo that empty.

Yay Costco with booze!

Dinner is pretty tasty! But it came out mostly cornbread with a little bit of greens on the bottom. Oh well, we'll see if it gets me through a workday. Still, it's kind of a miracle it came out at all considering I used creole cream cheese and milk instead of buttermilk, and all purpose flour instead of baking powder.

I used creole cream cheese and milk instead of buttermilk

That is a perfectly cromulent substitution!

Also, how awesome on a scale of 1 to 10 is it that I will hopefully be hanging out with Vortex when I go see my parents in a couple weeks? TWENTY BILLION.

Ooh, we should do something on Mardi Gras!

For my grammar loversOoh, we should do something on Mardi Gras!

YES. And make drunken calls to smonster!

I can tell you, she will be passed out by 2pm.