Our pre-holiday early release is extra early today, hooray! I just need to run a couple of reports and I am out of here. I plan to open a bottle of wine, have my spaghetti and meatball lunch, and leisurely garden this afternoon, perhaps putter around the garage.

I think when I said "wheat" before I meant "oats". Whichever plant, driving up 395 last week around 4pm we could look out the window and say "yeah, that color"

What do oats even look like when they're growing? I am disturbed to realize I have no idea.

Which waves of grain are amber?

We never get early release here, which makes me kind of nuts. I told my team they could leave an hour early, whatever that means for them.

Oats: [link]

I too would like early release. I need extra time at the gym today because I am eatting like trash today. Double curly fries? Yes, yes I did.

Mmmm....fries.

My local theater has a personal message on their upcoming festival page, and it makes me laugh! Go here, and scroll down to West Side Story.

Timelies all!

I'm so glad this week is over. Yesterday turned out to be another shitty day. I lost my eyeglasses case(though not the glasses themselves, thankfully) somehow. The power went off in our house not long after we had put dinner in the oven. Not knowing when the power would come back on, we went out to get pizza. This proved to be a bad idea, as it disagreed with both Gary and I. (we've eaten there many times before and never had a problem) Eventually the power came back on, after we had put the little guy to bed. Didn't sleep well, partly due to the stomach/abdominal cramps from the pizza.

I hadn't heard from the body shop about my car so I called them. I think they're ready to declare it totalled, but they were waiting for the insurance adjuster to come by to sign off on things. Called the insurance agency and let them know this. Somebody was supposed to get in touch with me to let me know what's happening. So far....nothing.

I have my quarterly job review yesterday. It was interesting. Apparently one of the reasons I now have a minion is to develop my ability to structure and assign work for others. Overall, it went great. Mostly questions about what I wanted than questions about what they wanted from me.

I'm taking a lot of time this weekend to get past the awfulness of the last three weeks. I'm not even trying to get updates on any legal stuff. Because while that is important, the twins are safe with my sister and Sam and that? Is what matters today.

Except it backfired. Inevitably, my dad would monopolize and the date had no chance, cause dad could do the charming like whoa.

Best stories ever.

Overall, it went great. Mostly questions about what I wanted than questions about what they wanted from me.

Nice! Good to be appreciated.

Oh Cass, I imagine there needs to be some time to destress after this horrible experience. Relax, rest, and renew.

I am attempting to ignore all my stresses today and am enjoying all the taco jokes. A lot.