Ooh, the oven just beeped on my paleo banana bread (almond flour). I hope it turns out, cause it smells great!

Recently I've been making an effort to be more friendly with more co-workers. I wasn't not friendly before, but since I refuse to do anything outside of the office, I figured I should shore up the inside the office stuff.

So yesterday is Security Fulfillment doublechecking a staticky phoneline telling me "That sounded like we're calling Abydos! But now it's fixed--cool cool cool." And the tea guy is all fist bumping over how much we don't drink black teas, as he rhapsodises about oolongs and senchas and I nod like I have a clue, and the guy who had been evangelising black tea has now given me 32GB of British documentaries because I opened my mouth at the wrong time (this is cannibal snake-owner guy, who's revealed a distinct aesthetic appreciation for the SS uniform, but ONLY aesthetic, in his defense--he bemoans that I'm one of few people here who knows the difference between Hummel and Rommel).

So now I got myself sucked into all these conversations that I feel barely qualified to participate in (well--the Stargate/Community one I can totally keep up with--I'm alright with that). But I am totally going to lose touch the people who speak English and watch football. Not that I have any idea what's going on in the NFL either...

Some days make me want to run away and hide on the internet, but the past few days at work, I haven't even had time to check mail from the office. And I'm putting off logging into work right now...

More breakfast.

Woes! Containment failure.

But what I scooped into my bowl is crumbly banana goodness! I don't think I did anything wrong, other than maybe too much enthusiasm trying to get it out of the pan, but who can blame me? I'd definitely try it again.

However, I consoled myself with pumpkin chai latte mix from Trader Joes. I got to TJ's on vacay, yay, so I now have a couple of tins of chai latte mix and the last precious quarter of a loaf of green chile cheesebread. I wish I'd been able to stock up more, but I got there the second time and kinda froze up.

Anyway. Banana bread!

Cooking plans for this weekend include a butternut squash-farro thing and a potato-kale thing. I wonder if the butternut/farro thing would freeze. Probably, right? But I also keep remembering that I have Monday off, so no rush for anything! So far, I have done nothing.

Probably!

I have Monday off too, in the classic irony of Native kids "celebrating" Columbus.

Tonight I'm having pork tenderloin, which I really need to get into the marinade, like, now. And I need to hang out laundry. But I'm doing the typical me thing which is, I got up, I did a mini workout, I made breakfast, what more could anyone possibly ask of me?

I have Monday off too, in the classic irony of Native kids "celebrating" Columbus.

Let's say it's a walk-out in protest?

I have the dojo kids by myself today. The eldest (4) had a total meltdown when mom dropped them off. I haven't had to deal with a kicking screaming child in a long time. He is now happily playing Legos. I've already sent mom a picture so she knows he is ok.

My older kids will do "indigenous peoples day" stuff instead, because they're savvy, but the kids at that school are totally all "hey, day off!"

Heh, Suzi, Legos solve a multitude of problems.

I don't get Columbus or Veterans Day off so we can have the entire week off at Thanksgiving. In my book, that's more than a fair trade.

So I developed a cold while camping with the students this week. I am sniffly and sneezy and all the other dwarves.

CJ is out on a winter ops search and rescue today. I hope the person is found soon.