Smart!

All I want to do today is curl up on the couch, crochet, and watch TV. I have not worked out how I can justify that as a responsible choice. Dishes that need washing and clothes that need laundering are arguing against pretty strenuously.

In any case, have heritage pork shoulder in Rick Bayliss's carnitas sauce in the oven, and it smells really good.

So I'm watching Shark Tank and it's totally stressing me out about work! BAH. What happened on Friday is, a deal I've been working on for basically 10 months (since I started) essentially fell apart. They say it's just on hold, but the stuff they are concerned about isn't going to change anytime soon. And I think higher-ups at my job are inclined to make the situation worse, because they totally misread it and have an inflated sense of our importance. Ugh! Totally not my fault, totally won't rebound on me in any way, but really disappointing and shitty.

That's rough.

The carnitas came out delicious. I don't know what kind of pigs this heritage pork comes from, but they are tasty.

I was gonna say watching football is stressing me out, as it often does, but it just got a lot better.

Uh, not so much, now.

I knew it even as I said it I was speaking too soon, but I really was more relaxed for a little while there.

Oh, yeah, it was very soothing for a while. Now? Now there is yelling.

Yup.

I haven't woken the dog, though, so I'm showing some restraint...

The good news is that both Carolina and Atlanta are getting clobbered.

I overslept a bit because yesterday just. didn't. end. I was woken at 6AM yesterday by my brother dropping off his 6-year-old daughter so he (and my older nieces & BIL) could drive to Sacramento for a metric century bicycle ride.

So I was up, with a 6-yo. With no shoes, because her father had forgotten them. I cut down a pair of throwaway flip-flops from a nail parlor for her, and we took the dog for a short walk, then made pancakes, then cleaned up, then went to Target for shoes. Then we spent 3 hours at Children's Fairyland (which I do not understand why Disney hasn't sued their pants off yet), then I drove to San Jose for her to play hockey (in which she mostly skated around in circles outside the play), and then drove back to my sister's house, and then went home & fed the dog and slept for 40 minutes, then went back to my sister's house for a birthday party for the 22-yo niece, then drove Dad home, then utterly collapsed. OMG what a day.

Today I have run, and bought some groceries, and made yogurt-curry egg salad, and mixed up fruitcake, which is now in the oven. Now to do laundry and vacuum and clean up the many many dirty bowls from the fruitcake-making, and somewhere find the time to look at all the election stuff so I can vote.

Oy. Makes me tired just thinking of it.