That's a lot, dcp! Good luck with Social Security. I don't understand certified mail not getting delivered when it is supposed to. What is the point of certified mail if it doesn't get delivered? Weather related, maybe?

I ended up working an extra hour today because when someone sends out an email saying “can you look into this?” I think “surely this can wait until Monday” but despite myself I do, in fact, look into it because I am curious. Oh well, there’s a sr mgr whose grateful to me for my partial fix, so that’s nice.

Anyway, now ready to curl up, eat something out of a can and maybe watch the Mandalorian.

Tim and his brothers decided at the last minute to go camping this weekend, but then the weather got SUPER bad in exactly the path they would be driving for 3 hours, so instead of leaving this afternoon, they're leaving at 5 a.m. tomorrow. Which is insane, but hey, I'm not the one who's doing it, so more power to them.

My latest attempt to do something craft-like — the clay handbuilding pottery class — starts tomorrow morning. Let's hope it doesn't get cancelled like the previous 2 things I tried.

And then I don't really have any plans for shenanigans while Tim is camping. Maybe I'll eat a pile of sushi and finish watching the episodes of Interview With the Vampire that I haven't watched yet.

That sounds like a good day!

I'm making bread for this dinner party tomorrow, and for some reason thought it would be a good idea to try a new recipe and also change it somewhat? I'm sure it will be bread in the end.

That is one of my favorite things about baking bread. It almost always turns out bread.

Craft~ma, Tep!

Good luck to Tim and his brothers! Seems to me that camping in early March is kind of ...? but ok!

Despite my staffing issues, I took 2 hours off this afternoon to climb at the gym, and then had dinner with my sister and we watched some "soothing veterinarians" -- i.e. "All Creatures Great and Small". I may have had too much wine. Or bourbon.

Gotta plan the girls' getaway before the wedding. Possibly in wine country, but there must be fancy robes, and a hot tub, and good restaurants.

All the rain and warmer weather has my yard sprouting/blooming earlier than expected. I appear to have one jonquil plant, scattered dandelions, several dieffenbachia along the back of the house, and something with tiny purple flowers that might be creeping Charlie along one side. Nothing flowering in the actual flower beds yet. It looks like much of the back yard is clover, or at least that's what's pushing out of the leaves now. I'm going to see about getting them and the sweetgum balls cleared once the plumbing excavation is done, but I wouldn't mourn if the actual grass gets smothered in the meantime and leaves me with clover as ground cover.

Good luck to Tim and his brothers! Seems to me that camping in early March is kind of ...? but ok!

Traditionally, they've always gone camping in late February/early March because the colder weather means no bugs and a way lower chance of running into drunk rednecks with guns. That trip was always backpacking/tent camping.

But now that they're in their 50s/early 60s, oldest brother has a camper (not an RV; the kind you tow) (although on the inside it's the same as an RV), so they're camping in the camper. But they also plan to hike and whatnot, but then they don't have to sleep on the ground when they're done hiking.

When I showed up at the neighborhood rec center for the clay handbuilding class, no one had even heard that there was supposed to be a class. This is the third attempt I’ve made at taking a craft-ish class that has fallen through. I officially give up. If I want to learn craft-ish shit, I will learn from YouTube. And now that I’m awake, clean, dressed, and full of coffee, I’m going to go hit the grocery store. (Which, based on my luck, will be inexplicably closed. Or just entirely vanished like Brigadoon, with only one old dude in the parking lot saying “Trader Joe’s? Ain’t never heard of that ‘round these parts.” I'll be reduced to foraging. And by "foraging," I mean "DoorDash.")

Oh, my word, Steph! What the hell with the craft blocking?