Millennial Grey
Monday, I worked pretty much all day.
Practiced trombone in the afternoon.
Pulled leftover marinara from the freezer so we could have it with spaghetti and green beans and focaccia for dinner.
Jameson is still fighting off covid. I feel generally ok...my throat has been weird all week, like it feels dry and slightly sore all the time, but nothing has gotten any worse so I'm certainly still in the clear.
After dinner I did my neighborhood walk. Same route, but there's always something new to see.
Jawbones that suddenly appeared several feet from the other pile of bones that I pass on my walk.
I'm not sure if they're from the same skeleton or not, but I've never noticed them before and they were very prominent next to the sidewalk. Probably a person or animal unearthed them. Having seen the jawbone, I now suspect that it's an opossum skeleton.
At one of the neighborhood cul de sacs I saw a scraggly little head poking out from behind a parked truck.
Pulled out my phone just in time to catch a flock of wild turkeys emerging from someone's yard, snacking on the acorns on the ground.
Back home I cleaned up then did a little more data entry because I'm behind, because of the lack of work on Sunday. I wish I could at least supplement with another job, but no one is going to hire me for just a month, and most of what I've found online seems either fake/spammy or pays so low that the time to do the work would not be worth the money.
Next year I'll have to make sure the job I'm accepting actually exists, somehow.
30 hours per week is already bad enough without being reduced even further. What bullshit.
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Tuesday I forgot to write anything here.
I got up extra-early to work, knowing that we had ordered new patio furniture and it would need to be assembled, plus I had therapy in the afternoon. Still I didn't hit 4 hours before the furniture arrived. On top of that I forgot that I'd scheduled therapy at 1:30 instead of 1pm this week, so stopped working 30 minutes earlier than I needed to. The result was haphazardly trying to help Jameson assemble furniture in the living room while taking bites of lunch, then running into the spare bedroom barely in time for therapy where I couldn't focus and felt nothing but stressed during the "relaxation" part of the session.
I felt off for the rest of the day; my throat is sore and I'm paranoid that it's covid, paranoid that it's NOT covid but something else just as bad; paranoid that I'll have covid this weekend when we're planning to go out with friends. I was in a mood when it was time to cook HelloFresh dinner, and it didn't help that one of the chicken packages was punctured and got chicken blood all over the fridge, then we had to of course throw it out, and Jameson finally canceled the HelloFresh subscription because we've received punctured/damaged meat packaging about 50% of the time lately and that's a huge food safety issue. All they need to do is put the meat in a box instead of throwing it unprotected underneath all the other ingredients + the heavy ice packs, but I guess that's out of the question for HelloFresh.
I did a crap job of dinner, overcooking the pork and green beans and applying honey butter too soon so that it melted and got all over the plate. Oh well. Jameson "there-thered" me, and it was edible.
The new patio/pool deck furniture. It's made of that recycled stuff, old yogurt containers or whatever.
We chose "Millennial Grey" of course.
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Wednesday was another early day of trying to cram in as much work as possible.
This time I at least got my four hours in before lunch.
Got to practice trombone too. I recently scored a "conductor cam" recording: a clean video and audio recording of a live show, where the camera is on the conductor and the audio is taken through the audio mix instead of through the house, eliminating ambient noise. It's extremely useful for practice purposes, and to see and hear what the people you're gonna work with are gonna perform like.
Jameson was feeling much better today, so I washed our sheets and his towels, and wiped down touch points like doorknobs and light switches. I feel about the same, my throat actually feels better though it still looks irritated. Tomorrow I want to get groceries, and will test myself before going out.
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If we are both covid-free on Friday, we're going to Busch Gardens Howl-o-Scream, then we rescheduled Universal Halloween Horror Nights to Sunday with our friends.
Other than that, I'll probably have to work every day this week to make up for lost hours, and I want to make rice pudding for us, and now that we've cancelled HelloFresh I'll have to plan some things for dinners.
Practiced trombone in the afternoon.
Pulled leftover marinara from the freezer so we could have it with spaghetti and green beans and focaccia for dinner.
Jameson is still fighting off covid. I feel generally ok...my throat has been weird all week, like it feels dry and slightly sore all the time, but nothing has gotten any worse so I'm certainly still in the clear.
After dinner I did my neighborhood walk. Same route, but there's always something new to see.
Jawbones that suddenly appeared several feet from the other pile of bones that I pass on my walk.
I'm not sure if they're from the same skeleton or not, but I've never noticed them before and they were very prominent next to the sidewalk. Probably a person or animal unearthed them. Having seen the jawbone, I now suspect that it's an opossum skeleton.
At one of the neighborhood cul de sacs I saw a scraggly little head poking out from behind a parked truck.
Pulled out my phone just in time to catch a flock of wild turkeys emerging from someone's yard, snacking on the acorns on the ground.
Click to viewBack home I cleaned up then did a little more data entry because I'm behind, because of the lack of work on Sunday. I wish I could at least supplement with another job, but no one is going to hire me for just a month, and most of what I've found online seems either fake/spammy or pays so low that the time to do the work would not be worth the money.
Next year I'll have to make sure the job I'm accepting actually exists, somehow.
30 hours per week is already bad enough without being reduced even further. What bullshit.
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Tuesday I forgot to write anything here.
I got up extra-early to work, knowing that we had ordered new patio furniture and it would need to be assembled, plus I had therapy in the afternoon. Still I didn't hit 4 hours before the furniture arrived. On top of that I forgot that I'd scheduled therapy at 1:30 instead of 1pm this week, so stopped working 30 minutes earlier than I needed to. The result was haphazardly trying to help Jameson assemble furniture in the living room while taking bites of lunch, then running into the spare bedroom barely in time for therapy where I couldn't focus and felt nothing but stressed during the "relaxation" part of the session.
I felt off for the rest of the day; my throat is sore and I'm paranoid that it's covid, paranoid that it's NOT covid but something else just as bad; paranoid that I'll have covid this weekend when we're planning to go out with friends. I was in a mood when it was time to cook HelloFresh dinner, and it didn't help that one of the chicken packages was punctured and got chicken blood all over the fridge, then we had to of course throw it out, and Jameson finally canceled the HelloFresh subscription because we've received punctured/damaged meat packaging about 50% of the time lately and that's a huge food safety issue. All they need to do is put the meat in a box instead of throwing it unprotected underneath all the other ingredients + the heavy ice packs, but I guess that's out of the question for HelloFresh.
I did a crap job of dinner, overcooking the pork and green beans and applying honey butter too soon so that it melted and got all over the plate. Oh well. Jameson "there-thered" me, and it was edible.
The new patio/pool deck furniture. It's made of that recycled stuff, old yogurt containers or whatever.
We chose "Millennial Grey" of course.
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Wednesday was another early day of trying to cram in as much work as possible.
This time I at least got my four hours in before lunch.
Got to practice trombone too. I recently scored a "conductor cam" recording: a clean video and audio recording of a live show, where the camera is on the conductor and the audio is taken through the audio mix instead of through the house, eliminating ambient noise. It's extremely useful for practice purposes, and to see and hear what the people you're gonna work with are gonna perform like.
Jameson was feeling much better today, so I washed our sheets and his towels, and wiped down touch points like doorknobs and light switches. I feel about the same, my throat actually feels better though it still looks irritated. Tomorrow I want to get groceries, and will test myself before going out.
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If we are both covid-free on Friday, we're going to Busch Gardens Howl-o-Scream, then we rescheduled Universal Halloween Horror Nights to Sunday with our friends.
Other than that, I'll probably have to work every day this week to make up for lost hours, and I want to make rice pudding for us, and now that we've cancelled HelloFresh I'll have to plan some things for dinners.