Hope it helps, Teppy! I went to bed early last night with a headache, then scared the hell out of my sister and BIL by waking up at 3AM, realizing I needed medication and it was downstairs, and then trying to traverse the stairs with a baby gate that was not there during the day, and inadvertently knocking things off the staircase. Oops. BIL apparently freaked out for a second thinking I was a burglar, sister apparently was afraid I fell down and killed myself. :) (Good news: the drugs worked)

I cannot convince myself to do more work today. My attitude is the worst. It's not like I don't have the spoons, since I'm catching up on my history course this afternoon. I'm just full up with IDGAF.

All right, you guys. I'm forcing myself to respond to a couple of emails. I am totally earning the peanut butter cookie I already ate!

Timelies all!

The replacement debit card has arrived, and is activated. Yay. One of my Comixology subscriptions got inactivated, and I had to fix that.

I feel the pain. The only day that I have not worked at least two hours on my "vacation" is Christmas.

Good news is that I had a phone interview a few weeks ago, they followed up to say that they like me, but weren't sure that they could pay me what I wanted. I said it was negotiable, but their budget for the position was very much at the low end of the scale for the job. Realistically, as long as I don't have to take a pay cut, I'm still in it.

I didn't know you were looking, Vortex. Good luck!

Man, why does sitting at a desk working on spreadsheets all day wear me out so much? The plan was to go for my second test run tonight, but that is not happening.

Work was so boring. Blah.

Thanks, -t. I've been a bit absent from the board, working a lot. I like the work itself, but I can't work with my boss. She is smart, competent, and has integrity. Usuallly, when you have a problem with a boss, one of those is missing. The problem is that she's a micromanager and a people pleaser. Except the people who work for her, of course. Not that I don't have my issues, but she drives me crazy.

God luck, Vortex!

I acquired groceries and vacuum,put it together, swam (the first swim after a hiatus is weird and bad times) and came home and vacuumed ( it sucks! Even using the beater on hard floors! And chairs have been defurred!) and paid all the damned bills that came in while I was gone. Fixed and filled the birdfeeder - fatass squirrels broke the wires again.

And now I'm sitting. Skipping dinner, my stomach's been dodgy all day. Had a TJ's noodle salad earlier and there was grumbling, but that's settled down. Honestly, I think the salad I had at Chilis in Trussville yesterday was the culprit. Honestly, I find that place dodgy. Everytime we've gone there during daytime, all the staff have the unhealthy, prematurely aged look of former or current addicts and sorta odd service. But when we've been there for dinner, it's all perky early 20s preppies. I dunno, there are so many problematic isms I crash face first into down there, not sure if I'm perceiving something real or just hypersensitive.

I mean, my SIL threw a house party for her school directors when they were in town for an annual meeting (she's DM for the state) and apparently it was a big deal because no white DM had ever done that for the majority black directors before. And my brother was the DD to get everyone back to the hotel after. And that's the least of it.