Hang in there, askye. I hope they get your check to you right quick.

The book I am reading just used the phrase “slightly perpendicular” and I had to complain somewhere. Do not want.

I had the worrrrrrst migraine today—usually one pill and a few hours later I feel better. This time, two pills and I still felt awful and was laying on the bathroom floor to try not to puke. Finally around like 6pm felt plush and went to go get pho. My poor dog is so annoyed at me. I’m not fun and he was supposed to go to daycare today and play with the other dogs but I couldn’t get out of bed to walk or drive him there. Poor baby.

but I couldn’t get out of bed to walk or drive him there. Poor baby.

Poor meara!

12 F out this morning, colder overnight, so my kitchen hot water pipe is froze -- I've got the cold dripping, and the cabinet open, so at some point it will revive -- especially as the day gets warmer to a high of 36, or so they suppose.

Honestly, I have a theory that the meteorologists around here get together once a week, and assign different predictions for each other, in the hopes that at least one of them will be right that way.

Mr. S has fallen asleep on the couch with Netflix running.

Who among us can't say the same?

Meara and askye, I hope you both feel better soon.

I have a video interview this afternoon. After agreeing to the interview, I learned that they both require in-person work and have no institutional vaccine mandate. So it's really more that I have a practice interview this afternoon which I can use to fine-tune my approach for places at which I'm willing to work.

Big sigh on that, Calli. Good to have practice, I guess.

Hope your head is kind to you today, meara!

I am semi-vertical and working but not exactly awake. Hopefully I will wake up before too long. If anyone is wondering, I did not get out to pick up breakfast yet. Doing everything in the wrong order this morning.

I did not get out to pick up breakfast yet.

On Sunday we had one leftover mooshy banana from the previous week, so I used it to make a healthy "breakfast cookie" recipe for Tim, b/c he avoids added sugar as much as possible. The recipe has, in addition to the banana, some oats, cocoa powder, and a little peanut butter. So they *look* like no-bake chocolate/oat cookies that are awesome and super sweet. But these "breakfast cookies" (I have to use scare quotes, because they might look like a cookie, but they do not taste like one) are impostors. Fairly healthy impostors, but impostors all the same. I've started calling them "baked oatmeal pucks."

Cookie monster would be disappointed in the pucks?

Cookie Monster would be SO disappointed.

That is a disappointing cookie, Steph! The ingredients all sound good and yet….

I had a bagel this morning that was somehow very dissatisfying.

I’m signed up to try Botox for my teeth grinding, today. Anyone have suggestions on anything I should do beforehand? I know a few of you have had similar.