The title implies something bad, but the only bad thing is that I'm up this early. Thanks, job anxiety! I have a feeling I'm going to lose it on my boss sometime soon ( Read more... )

I was so thankful to have a restful weekend where, aside from the usual Saturday morning tasks, I didn't have to leave the house. It was lovely. One thing I did do on Saturday was make treats. I had a Honeycrisp apple left over from the week; they're so big, I can't eat a whole one at one meal. The leftovers fed me for a second away-from-home ( Read more... )

My boss' son has been enlisted to do certain tasks at work. He's not really an employee, but he shows up a fair amount. Yesterday, he had to visit a client several hours away. When he came in, he was carrying a container and asked if I'd like to try jackfruit. I mean, I've never had it before. He said if I liked Juicyfruit, I'd likely like ( Read more... )

Now that dad has started his journey with diabetes, he is having to keep track of his glucose levels. He's supposed to go back to see the doctor in a month to see how he's doing. He needed a notebook, and one morning last week mom was asking me for a small one. I said to check in the office, since I knew we had some in there, and she found this ( Read more... )

I mean, the stove is gas-powered, so the subject heading is true ( Read more... )

I eat an apple with my dinner whenever I eat at work/before band. I've jumped on the honeycrisp bandwagon, because yeah, they're better than the other varieties. Inevitably, especially on Tuesdays since I'm still technically on the clock, I get interrupted while eating my apple and I'll have to grab the phone or greet someone or what have you. I ( Read more... )

On Sunday, we had protein salads for dinner--egg salad and ham salad sandwiches (the ham salad was supposed to be tuna but the wrong container was in the slot and...I am my father's daughter, i.e., reading is hard). Dad had cut up some vegetables for them, including a cucumber that had been in a reusable produce bag. I put the bag in the laundry ( Read more... )

Yesterday was my dad's birthday. He's a fan of chocolate cake with chocolate frosting; he still talks about going to Marie Callender's after my college band concerts and getting their seven-layer cake for dessert. Being his birthday, and liking food, mom wanted to get him cake ( Read more... )

Yesterday was super relaxing and overall peaceful. I spent several hours outside reading the paper and enjoying the weather--still warm, but not as blazing as it's been. It was cloudy a fair part of the time and we did get rain that came through late in the evening, severe enough that our power went out briefly, and on my walk tonight I noticed a ( Read more... )

We have a family party to go to this weekend, and mom wanted to bring something. She came across a recipe for pine nut cookies and decided she would make those. She let my cousin know and asked if there were any nut allergies in her family, and my cousin replied no, and also that she loves pine nuts. Mom then gave me a cookie at dinner and asked me ( Read more... )