five things make a post
I am attempting to keep myself engaged in life, rather than sleep forever. Here are some recent things I have done/am doing:
1. I kind of accidentally acquired half the necessary ingredients to make scallop chowder (I occasionally impulse-buy seafood, it's a Thing) so I looked up a couple recipes and bought some of the other ingredients this evening. Except I forgot bacon bits, goddamn it. Ah well, that's a Thursday project in any case.
2. I am apparently in a salad mood, which is interesting. I don't eat much salad as a general rule -- partly because greens go off quite fast, partly because I cannot be arsed to assemble them, and partly because I am always slightly wary of raw vegetable matter (hi, allergies!) -- but now and then I find myself in a salad mood. My go-to salad is spinach, feta crumbles, and craisins, with balsamic vinaigrette dressing, but this time I bought a 50/50 mix of spinach and random greens, because variety is good for the soul and also apparently spinach is a food one should be wary of eating in bulk if one is prone to kidney stones. Anyway, I had salad as my vegetable for dinner tonight, and it was good. :)
3. I have scheduled a rehiring interview for Not the IRS. I have also started on my continuing education, blargh. I still need to look up the office hours so I can go in and A) renew my current level certification and then B) test up to the next certification level, which I have been forgetting to do for about three years now. *headdesk*
(This is all internal company certification, btw. The IRS wanted to run a tax preparer certification program at one point, but that got shot down in court so now they just enforce standards of professional conduct, insist you get (ie, pay for -- they won that court case) a PTIN number, and limit what a non-enrolled practitioner can do in terms of representing a client. But I have had a mismatch between the kind of client complications I can handle and the kind of client complications the system will let me handle without throwing up "ack! skill mismatch!" flags for a couple years now. *sigh*)
4. I signed up for a webinar on how to be a good church Board of Trustees member, run by the UUA. A bunch of my other BOT members are also participating, in hopes that this will give us a shared sense of what we can do, what we should do, and what we should NOT do.
Also we have a meeting tomorrow evening and I have done like ZERO of the prep, because I did not have the spoons. Ah well, I expect most of what I'll be doing at work tomorrow is editing photos, so I can probably slip a bunch of reading and such in and around that nonsense.
5. I don't think I mentioned this here, but the Kindle app on my phone has successfully gamified me into using it daily, by keeping a running tally of how many weeks and days in a row I have read something on any iteration of Kindle. I have decided I will rack up a 365-day streak, after which I will... either deliberately break it on January 1, 2022, or just keep going but with less drive.
It's a little annoying to me that it specifically counts reading from my Kindle library rather than reading in general, because I read stuff in physical books as well and feel I should get credit, but that's capitalism for you. *wry*
And on that note, I am going to finish my current tax ethics CE course and then go read a bit more of Medieval Maritime Warfare. :) If you want to comment on this post, you can do so over here on Dreamwidth, where there are currently (
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1. I kind of accidentally acquired half the necessary ingredients to make scallop chowder (I occasionally impulse-buy seafood, it's a Thing) so I looked up a couple recipes and bought some of the other ingredients this evening. Except I forgot bacon bits, goddamn it. Ah well, that's a Thursday project in any case.
2. I am apparently in a salad mood, which is interesting. I don't eat much salad as a general rule -- partly because greens go off quite fast, partly because I cannot be arsed to assemble them, and partly because I am always slightly wary of raw vegetable matter (hi, allergies!) -- but now and then I find myself in a salad mood. My go-to salad is spinach, feta crumbles, and craisins, with balsamic vinaigrette dressing, but this time I bought a 50/50 mix of spinach and random greens, because variety is good for the soul and also apparently spinach is a food one should be wary of eating in bulk if one is prone to kidney stones. Anyway, I had salad as my vegetable for dinner tonight, and it was good. :)
3. I have scheduled a rehiring interview for Not the IRS. I have also started on my continuing education, blargh. I still need to look up the office hours so I can go in and A) renew my current level certification and then B) test up to the next certification level, which I have been forgetting to do for about three years now. *headdesk*
(This is all internal company certification, btw. The IRS wanted to run a tax preparer certification program at one point, but that got shot down in court so now they just enforce standards of professional conduct, insist you get (ie, pay for -- they won that court case) a PTIN number, and limit what a non-enrolled practitioner can do in terms of representing a client. But I have had a mismatch between the kind of client complications I can handle and the kind of client complications the system will let me handle without throwing up "ack! skill mismatch!" flags for a couple years now. *sigh*)
4. I signed up for a webinar on how to be a good church Board of Trustees member, run by the UUA. A bunch of my other BOT members are also participating, in hopes that this will give us a shared sense of what we can do, what we should do, and what we should NOT do.
Also we have a meeting tomorrow evening and I have done like ZERO of the prep, because I did not have the spoons. Ah well, I expect most of what I'll be doing at work tomorrow is editing photos, so I can probably slip a bunch of reading and such in and around that nonsense.
5. I don't think I mentioned this here, but the Kindle app on my phone has successfully gamified me into using it daily, by keeping a running tally of how many weeks and days in a row I have read something on any iteration of Kindle. I have decided I will rack up a 365-day streak, after which I will... either deliberately break it on January 1, 2022, or just keep going but with less drive.
It's a little annoying to me that it specifically counts reading from my Kindle library rather than reading in general, because I read stuff in physical books as well and feel I should get credit, but that's capitalism for you. *wry*
And on that note, I am going to finish my current tax ethics CE course and then go read a bit more of Medieval Maritime Warfare. :) If you want to comment on this post, you can do so over here on Dreamwidth, where there are currently (
comments)