I managed to get to Costco this morning as planned, and was pleasantly surprised to see that not only had they opened early (God, why would you ever subject your employees to that?), but the store was not crammed full of people. I did get routinely hemmed in by two older people somewhere North of retirement age but not by much who seemed to be ( Read more... )

I stopped drinking coffee today, and now my head hurts. I understand that caffeine withdrawal is a thing, I have done this before. I'm just going to whine about it a little bit while it happens. The worst part is that the withdrawal headache is going to get worse before it gets better, and I'm supposed to stop taking NSAIDS as well, so I'm stuck ( Read more... )

Today has not been nearly as productive because I've been in limbo for the past two hours or so trying to arrange a house viewing. Between KK not answering her messages and now my real estate agent not answering hers, I feel like I am playing go-between between two gaping voids into which all attempts at communication vanish forever.

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Yesterday went south really fast.

At 1pm I got a call from KK to inform me that Pixie had broken out of her crate and had gone on an absolute rampage in my bedroom (I keep the door closed to prevent Rika from coming into my room, because she likes to poop under my bed, and also to keep the cats out because the dogs lose their damned minds when the ( Read more... )

I'm mostly back on a Monday to Friday schedule, even though I am working shifts again. I work two weekends every two months, and am rewarded with nearly two weeks off every two months as well. The rest of the time, though, I work Monday to Friday, albeit different hours than most people. For three weeks I work from either 8 to 4 or 7 to 3, and then ( Read more... )

I forgot to report on the house KK and I went to see on Wednesday, mostly because it turned out to be totally not right for us.

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The hunt for the probably-not-perfect house continues. Our newest real estate agent Jenny, the 19-year-old granddaughter of our original real estate agent Anna, sent us a new listing yesterday. Technically it's not a new listing but one that went up a few days ago, but she sent us the link again and asked for our opinion.

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 I don't know why I constantly overestimate my level of energy to get things done. I am an eternal optimist, I guess. Anyway, I got a fair bit done this week. I got 95% of my errands done (I forgot a couple of things, because I was silly and didn't make a proper list), I got a tree which I will decorate probably tomorrow evening, I had my therapy ( Read more... )

Most of what's going on is not super interesting to the outside viewer, alas. I applied for the rental house I wanted on Friday, and I'm supposed to hear back by close of business today. It turns out that my medium credit rating is a cause for concern to prospective landlords. I mean, it's an okay rating, but due to a fuck-up over four years ago ( Read more... )

I'm back to work tonight, after two days of gastro. I started feeling myself again yesterday afternoon, which was a relief, and today I'm pretty much back to normal. So that means heading back to work for my last two night shifts. I am not really looking forward to it, but I suspect that's the perma-anxiety that set in on Monday (after I spoke with ( Read more... )