Yay for excellent pie!

Hooray pie!

sumi makes an excellent point te: negotiating for baked goods

Banana bread pudding sounds like a win

Gentle hugs to Mr Laura, glad it wasn’t worse!

Today was super long and painful (looking down at the counter while I scan items hurts my neck like whoa, apparently. This seems like a new problem since previous years. I probably just hit the end of a warranty on something in my neck) and I thought I was gonna faint or fall over a couple of times (when I first came in the office the mandatory temp check said I was too high (second check after a minute or so was fine) so I was a little worried I was getting sick which would be HORRIBLE TIMING but I now think I let myself get a little dehydrated) but I feel ok now. And today was only 4 hours, tomorrow is 8. That’s gonna suck.

But I actually went to the gym on my long break between working 4 hours at my regular job and reporting for cashier duty. I just did 5 minutes on a stationary bike and took a shower AND THAT WAS ENOUGH I have become such a slug what with one thing and another) but I made it there and I am proud of myself!

but I made it there and I am proud of myself!

Good job! Full credit!

Also, don't pass out at work.

That’s the plan!

Def avoid passing out at work!

Glad Brendon is ok, but yikes!

Epic I am in La Jolla! Working, but enjoying sunshine. Sadly though this place we are staying is gorgeous overall, we discovered this morning (after checking in yesterday) that the internet is bad. Like, 100kbps bad. The lady said “oh I upgraded the internet for you!” to my friend when we checked in (because she’d asked about us doing like video calls and stuff) and this is laughable. We also searched the whole house high and low for the router/wifi (thinking maybe resetting it would kick it in gear) and eventually the lady replied it’s in the attic (!?). Sadly turning power off and back on did nothing.

Oh, argh, meara

I bought coffee with my lunch at 1 pm and didn’t drink it until 6:30 because no time for beverages what with the mask and the constant stream of customers but I am still going to bed now and expect to be asleep before too long

And it was eaten much more quickly than the usual holiday turkey would have been (by my family).

My bro wasn't feeling well on Thanksgiving (did a test, no COVID), so we didn't go the turkey until Friday. Since we weren't doing traditional anyway, he decided to smoke the turkey. It was goooood.

-t, good gym-ing! And good luck tomorrow.

Glad he's OK, Laura, but I'm sorry for the accident.

I took a way too long nap early evening, and now I'm wide awake. I love a nap, but I haven't taken one lately. I guess I'm out of practice with the waking up part.

We ordered a full-sized tree, and it arrived yesterday. I fluff a branch or two every time I walk by. It's a task I find SO boring and vaguely annoying (unreasonably, but a fact, nonetheless) that I can't make myself just stand there and do it all at once. The fluffiness is sort of meeting in the middle now. Maybe by Saturday, I'll start decorating it.

Whammageddon has made a major media outlet: [link]

I think I'm going to embrace the practice of yelling "BAT!" and just walking away.

I am officially a New Yorker again and, as of Wednesday, hold a lease to a rent stabilized apartment in Washington Heights. They're going to take me out of this place in a bag.

Packing, otoh, is hell. I'm way way behind. More sorting will happen at unpack than I'd have liked. The upside is I've discoverd that maple syrup is AWESOME in tea.