Considering how long it's taking me to fully recover from my comparatively mild pneumonia, long covid has become a very real fear for me.

I've been boosted, but I'll take any updates they want to shove into a syringe. Surely one of them will get the 5G working.

I hope the fire's out now, Tom. That's pretty close.

Hi Karl!

Yikes Tom! I would not want roasting marshmallows by holding them out my window to be a feature of my apartment.

Timelies all!

Happy Birthday Consuela!

It is also Gary's birthday, though we are not doing anything special tonight.

My very healthy aunt is in the hospital with a perforated colon! Me being me wants to get out to her and start bossing people around, but she is in a local to her rural hospital. That is good because our hospitals are overrun with Covid, but bad for me flashing my school of nursing badge to talk to the doctors. It sounds like if Maria and my mom and I go to visit, only one of us can go in per day, not per visit?

Happy birthday Consuela and Gary

Today was very long. I was scheduled to work the sale 10-2 so my original plan was to go into the office at my usual start time of 7:30, work for a couple of hours, do the sale thing, then work another couple of hours, then go to Trader Joe's on the way home. Well, between me waking up and feeling like actually getting dressed was a thing to be postponed as long as possible and our VP telling us the other day that since the cyberattack we cannot assume that we will be able to connect to everythin in the office even if we can from home I decided to just work from home for a while and head over to the sale in time to open. Which I did and that was fine. And the sale was fine although not nearly as busy as last week so the hours dragged a bit. Then it got to be 2 and I was ready to head back to my desk but no new cashiers appeared to take over and the rest of the cashiers were already gone except me and the one who was staying all day and the customers just kept coming so even if I was willing to leave her alone I couldn't. It was really only an extra half hour of being at the sale but it felt SO LONG. Also I hadn't had lunch. So got back to my desk and checked my email on my phone and yes there was something urgent, Target wanted a phone call by 5pm central time so 3pm our time which basically meant right then. I told the guy from Target that I was available but I did not have all the updates about the situation and texted the Sr Director of That Stuff that Target needed a call today and he texted back that he was on another call. So Target called me and I at least found out exactly what information they needed and confirmed I did not yet have it. Then I went and sat outside Sr Director's door for, oh, half an hour preparing to pounce on him with my questions as soon as his call ended. I could hear him through the door, so I could tell he was still on the call that whole time. FInally my phone battery was getting alarmingly low so I texted him again to say I was in the office not WFH today and if he could come by my cube when he was done that would be great and went back and plugged my phone in. Not too long after that he did finish up and we were able to talk over the situation (which is better than I feared but not as good we hoped it would be yesterday) and I sent a summarizing email to Target. By this point I was maybe half hour pat my usual quitting time and STARVING. Popeyes sent me a notice about their daily deal that included mac&cheese so I jumped on that, dragged my tired ass out to the car, drove to POpeye's and picked up my order, and drove to TJ's intending to eat in the parking lot before shopping. Find a pretty good parking space, always a bit of a miracle, dug into my bag and NO MAC&CHEESE. I almost just let it go, but really that was what I most wanted, so I drove back and went through the drive through and explained and they gave me another one so that was all fine just a little extra driving and time. Back to TJ's, the same parkign space was still open (or open again) so I took it and ate.

Whew.

Now, a nice person gave me TJ gift cards for splurging on treats so I decided this would be an entirely indulgent grocery shop and let me tell you that was SO FUN. Every time I caught myself thinking "do I really need this?" I would remind myself I was indulging and a weight would lift off my shoulders. Heard two versions of All I Want for Christmas is You and none of LDB

So now I am home, fed, stocked up and tired. And I don't know what I did with my phone cable but if the battery dies tonoight I DO NOT CARE I will look for it tomorrow.

Thanks for listening, the cat was not being receptive to my telling her about my day.

Woo hoo! Here's to xmas indulgence!

I have so much peppermint flavored stuff and many Joe Joes!

I have so much peppermint flavored stuff and many Joe Joes!

Ahhhh! It's a wonderful life!

Thank you all! I got a new Roku, some Irish whiskey, and a new 9x13" baking pan. Oh, and I got my sister to make me a banoffee pie, which turned out marvelous.