Thank you, friends. It was so quick. I'm just barely beginning to process it. We have a lot of family coming to the house this weekend to remember her together.

Oh Kate, I'm so sorry. But I'm glad you were able to hold her hand, and I'm glad you will have family there this weekend to celebrate everything you love about her.

“Space Karen” is my favorite thing today.

Timelies all!

We had a potluck lunch at work today and I ate way too much.

Just ate sushi, and now we're watching Elf. It's a good night.

It was so quick.

Oh how I know this feeling. Truly my heart goes out to you.

Kate, I'm so sorry to read about your mom. I'm glad you could be with her.

My heart aches for Kate and family.

Elf and sushi sounds wonderful. I'm working on my laptop with ST:TNG on as background noise. I did make a tasty monkfish with asparagus for dinner.

Finally have the updated software fix for work issues so that is on the agenda this weekend to implement a few more places. Also, painting at least the living room and maybe the bedroom. Hopefully we will have some ball players that need $ to do a lot of it. (likely) I have a whole lot of deliveries and pick ups in the queue the next few days. I didn't have wine glasses or coffee cups (other than my travel cups) so I ordered them. Also, serving pieces. A bunch of food and related items. Furniture too. If everything comes in I should be in good shape for Thanksgiving. If not, I'll just have the fam bring whatever I am missing.

I bought a couple loaves of bread to make real stuffing because the last couple times I bought prepared croutons and was unhappy with the results. Well, last year I made it from cauliflower which was actually pretty tasty. This year I am going for standard menu stuff.

I had a really stressful day at work. I was running late and I had to be be in online pick up. We are currently uderstaffed and so there was only me while someone else was going to lunch. There was too much for just one person. I was constantly having to stop and do something else -customer would come up, customer needed something brought out to them, and then phone wasn't' working right etc. I just got completely overwhelmed. I couldn't do anything to get on top. I did call my team lead and she came and helped get it all straightened out but it's just too much.

The store as a whole is understaffed but somehow we were also over hours this week and they were sending people home early today and cutting people off tomorrow. I don't get how we can barely have enough people to run the store and yet still manage to go over hours that much.

And then driving home I got behind a car that there was no way it was street legal. It had lights in the back that I guess were the brake lights that did this kind of cascade/ripple thing and then went solid and then flashed multiple times. And then changed color. I changed lanes and was able to get ahead of the car but then it got ahead of me and I wanted to pull over but the traffic was heavy and trying to figure out how to change lanes through the stop and go traffic and figure out a place to pull in was just ... it was easier to just keep going. The car did turn off at some point or get way ahead of me I don't know. By the time I got home I felt awful and ended up going to lie down.

Well, last year I made it from cauliflower which was actually pretty tasty.

I was just thinking as I ate my dinner that it's almost embarrassing how much I like cauliflower rice. I mean, I like it as its own thing! I love cauliflower in general.