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Oct. 21st, 2025 07:41 am
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Yesterday was rough on everyone. I was running on about 2 hours of sleep, and was struggling mightily all day long. I fell asleep at a stop light on the way to work, which has never happened before, and was a bit spooky. 

Came home for lunch a bit later than usual in order to cover one of M's meetings. When I got home, it was 11:45, and Katie was still asleep, so we woke her up in order to give M the room for his meeting. I fed Kate some lunch and we played together for a little bit before I headed back to work. 

M had another meeting at 4, so I left a little earlier than usual to be home in time for it. Kate went down for a late nap at 5, and I collapsed on the couch right after and caught what little sleep I could. M's meeting lasted until 7, and him coming out of the office woke me up. Kate was up at the same time. 

I was still completely zonked, and almost felt worse since I'd only managed about 30 uninterrupted minutes of sleep on the couch, so I entered that weird mode where I knew that if I stopped moving, I would collapse. So, I just kept moving - I put away the clean dishes, I made dinner for Kate, I washed Kate's blankets in the bathtub, we played with her learning cards, we did some songs, I cleaned the cat boxes, and on and on and on.

M watched her for a bit while I took a much needed shower, then we put her to bed at around 10pm. We only had one naked time incident, but I quickly got her redressed. She was feeling very silly and was climbing all over the furniture and such, and I said, "you are such a silly monkey!" and she locked eyes with me and went "oo-oo-ah-ah!" Silly girl. XD

M is incredibly stressed about his new job, and it's all because of the friend that he's now working with, the one who recommended him for the job. At the end of every meeting they have, he spends about 30 minutes being incredibly negative about M's progress, which is insane because he's been at the job for 3 weeks. Whenever we talk it through, he realizes that his actual manager has never had anything negative to say, and has always been supportive of him. He's completely convinced he's on the verge of losing this new job, though, and all because his "friend" is being such a hater. Manager is on vacation at the moment, but I've been encouraging him to address the situation with him as soon as he gets back.

Up early today to accrue more flex time. Despite how tired I've been, I've really been enjoying driving in early. The air is cool, the streets are empty, no traffic and no active school zones to slow my down, I get to see everyone's Halloween decorations lit up in the dark, I have enough time to pick up some breakfast at the gas station, I see the stars when I walk to the car, and the sunrise as I get to downtown, the city is quiet, it's just really, really pleasant. Of course, I am also going to really enjoy being able to sleep in tomorrow morning!

*yawn*

Oct. 20th, 2025 07:26 pm
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It's Monday so I'm predictably tired. But also, work is going strangely well this year. My students are pretty agreeable and it's amazing how much easier everything is.

And I haven't knit in how long? Maybe after dinner tonight.

And the cats are fine.

So just some things to say.

Week 8

Oct. 20th, 2025 06:57 pm
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Here's where I left off last week:
“Candy Cane Santa Stocking” progress - 10/12/25

And here's where I left off this week:
“Candy Cane Santa Stocking” progress - 10/19/25

Other than the outlining, there's only one color left. I'm hoping to finish the cross-stitching this week and the outlining and making up next week. It's still marching band season so we'll see how much time I get.

Sherwood's first road trip

Oct. 20th, 2025 05:16 pm
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I'm finally taking the new car for a road trip. Hit the road at 8:00 this morning, arrived at Elizabeth, NJ by noon. Had lunch at IKEA (and grabbed a few things), then back on the road. Arrived at 4:30 or so.

I'm currently ensconced in my Country Inn and Suite in Annapolis. I'm going to change in a minute and go to Larry's wake. The funeral is tomorrow at noon. The absolute worst reason for a road trip (I'd rather still have Larry with us).

Why does my suite have TWO television sets? It's not so big that you need two sets. *rolls eyes*

AWS outage

Oct. 20th, 2025 10:11 am
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DW is seeing some issues due to today's Amazon outage. For right now it looks like the site is loading, but it may be slow. Some of our processes like notifications and journal search don't appear to be running and can't be started due to rate limiting or capacity issues. DW could go down later if Amazon isn't able to improve things soon, but our services should return to normal when Amazon has cleared up the outage.

Edit: all services are running as of 16:12 CDT, but there is definitely still a backlog of notifications to get through.

Edit 2: and at 18:20 CDT everything's been running normally for about the last hour.

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Oct. 20th, 2025 07:52 am
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Friday me: I'm gonna do ALL THE THINGS!!!!!

Narrator: they did not, in fact, do all the things.

I went to Michaels on Friday because they had a coupon for 55% off a single item for 5-9pm only, and that was absolutely worth the drive. I chose to go into the next city just because the traffic was better. I nabbed a 24x36 cutting mat for a whopping $40, plus a couple sets of markers for my journaling. Popped into Value Village for a sewing machine hunt, and also because the sun was setting and it was hard to see. Walked out with a partial bolt of tulle, a bag of vintage notions (mostly buttons), and a factory folded copy of Simplicity's Buckaroo Bobbins vest and frock coat. The only sewing machine was a vintage basic zig-zag that just isn't what I want. Then home because I was tired and hungry.

Saturday morning I headed out for a little local tour. First to Value Village again, where I found many goodies! I walked out with a hem marker stand that uses powdered chalk (included), a 1958 Simplicity Sewing Book (1962 edition), a vintage costume pattern, a 2005 Vogue pattern for pants and a double-breasted pea coat that is the closest thing to what I want to make in the red wool, and more buttons. I then went to the fancy pen store where they did not have the ink I wanted woe and alas, but I did get a cute journal with cats on it for a whopping $4. Then it was the fabric store where I did not get anything at all (I wanted interfacing at least but it just was not worth the cost). Finally I got cat litter and food, and spent nearly $100 mostly on meats. At home I had a nap and mostly lumped around the house, but did finish a repeat of the newest knitting project.

Yesterday I worked on my journal a bit, knit, cooked up one of my meats and took it easy. Napped again. All in all a very relaxing and chill weekend, although I did not get any patterns printed, let alone cut out or sewn, whoops.

Last night/this morning I was awake from 2-5 AM so I doubt I'll get much accomplished this evening. We shall see.

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Oct. 20th, 2025 07:28 am
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The last four days have all sort of blended together, and I am very sleep deprived this morning, so some highlights: 

- A lady in our complex accidentally locked herself out of her car, and M attempted to help her. But because it's a new car with fancy anti-theft measures, they weren't able to get into it, and he ended up driving her over to her mother's house to get the spare set of keys. For his trouble, he got to hear all sorts of fun political conspiracy theories. XP

- M is the worst late-minute packer in existence, good lord. He complained that he had no clean clothes, so his friend that was giving him a ride let him come over early so he could do laundry. Cue a mad rush to find the clothes he wanted to take with him, his toiletries, his earbuds, etc, etc. I stopped attempting to get him to pack early long ago, so now I just sit back and let the whirlwind pass me by from my perch on the couch.

- Katie and I had a pretty good 4-day weekend to ourselves. She was in pretty good spirits the entire time, with the exception of Saturday morning, when she was very cranky. She just needed more sleep, though, because then she took a nearly 4 hour nap, and was cheery again when she woke up. 

- Speaking of sleep, the experiment to reset her sleep schedule failed spectacularly. She is now even more off schedule than before, which, of course. She is now staying up until past 10pm, and sleeping until 11am, then napping for several hours in the afternoon. It's probably all related to the Fall light changing and growth spurts and what have you. I gave up eventually and just let us both sleep in in the mornings.

- Toilet training has sort of partially begun. She has learned to wipe her bottom by herself, which is a good start. Of course, she strips completely naked to do so, because she is going to take any excuse to get naked. 

- Kate dug up the only lipstick I still kept around for the rare occasions that I put on makeup these days, and she ate it.

- My sister flaked on me, so we didn't have lunch out on Friday as planned. So instead, I made chicken tikka masala at home, which fed me and Kate for two nights, and we had enough left for M to have dinner after he got home Sunday night.

- Our cookie tin ran dry over the weekend, which is unacceptable to Katie, but I was feeling lazy and didn't want to go to the store in the rain, so I decided to just bake some at home. Accidentally measured out twice the amount of flour I needed, and didn't realize it until I had already mixed all my wets and dries together and was staring at it going "why is it so dry and crumbly?!" So, I ended up doubling the rest of the ingredients rather than starting over, which ended up making about 10,000 cookies, good lort. Anyway, they turned out really nice, cakey and soft with a bit of crunch around the edges. 10/10, do recommend. Used this recipe

- M's plane got in an hour late on Sunday. Thankfully, I was not the one picking him up, after all, and his friend that took him to the airport was also his ride home. That gave me enough extra time to finish cleaning the kitchen and tidying up the house before he got back.

- Friend's gear shift promptly broke as soon as he dropped M off at home. I swear, the land we live on must be cursed. 

Stayed up way too late last night talking with M about his trip. He had a great time, and seemed much more relaxed when he got home. I didn't get to sleep until after 1AM, then had to be up at 6AM so I could go to work early and earn some flex time. I guess my brain didn't trust my ears to hear the alarm, because I was awake every half hour during the night, and I feel miserable and exhausted today. It's taking all my brain power just to keep my eyes open. 

In completely unrelated news, our first apartment, the one where the ceiling collapsed in our bedroom, is for sale. The last time I saw the place it was mostly intact, but it was covered in green mold on the walls and ceilings. Whoever came in, whether it was vagrants or bad contractors or both, absolutely trashed the place. The ceiling in the bedroom is still, uh, gone. XP Such a shame, it was actually a really nice and cozy apartment before the whole ceiling thing.

57 spiders today!

Three days

Oct. 19th, 2025 07:17 pm
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All jobs should have three day weekends. Two isn't enough. Work life balance should be mandatory.

No Kings attendance tallies

Oct. 19th, 2025 10:55 am
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The official attendance at the June No Kings rallies was 5,000,000 people. (The estimated count was much higher).

The official attendance at the October No Kings rallies was 7,000,000 people. Forty percent more people turned out to march, dance, and wear silly blow up Halloween costumes. And while there were a few arrest of MAGA counter protesters, there have been no reports of protesters being arrested.

So much for the propaganda that the "radical left" protesters were all "violent terrorists"! HA!

Another day in 2025

Oct. 18th, 2025 08:59 pm
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Another protest. It was a good ine. I think my favorite thing about these is how happy people are. You can forget everything going on for a little bit because no one there wants it to go on.

Picture Finished

Oct. 18th, 2025 05:32 am
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I finished the picture part of the stocking. Now I just have the band across the top and the outlining to do.

Signs!

Oct. 17th, 2025 07:10 pm
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PXL_20251017_223918453


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My sign for tomorrow! I used a how to draw for kids tutorial for the frog.
The back is a true statement. Parking isn't always cheap here! I'm paying to do this!

Hmm

Oct. 16th, 2025 08:09 pm
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We have staff development day tomorrow. It feels like Friday. The kids have a weekend, so it feels like we do too. I always worry when a Thursday really feels like Friday, I'll forget to go to work.

I wish...

Oct. 15th, 2025 08:14 pm
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I'm not sure I'd be spoiling anyone, but I loved the theme of today's NYT crossword, so I'll put it in a comment.

Interesting read

Oct. 15th, 2025 08:38 pm
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This is a fascinating story about how a bunch of memorabilia about a wealthy New Yorker named Leonard Mortimer Thorn turned up in the attic of a historic home in Ohio. Even though the man had never lived there.


Gift link
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/realestate/mystery-house-union-square.html?unlocked_article_code=1.t08.mFHg.A6TUzGuTEsR5&smid=url-share

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Oct. 15th, 2025 08:25 am
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Nothing of import from yesterday. I am home tonight and I have BIG PLANS!!

Do I remember what those plans are? Listen, don't trouble me with specifics, the plans are big! the biggest! You don't even know how big! (No, no I don't.)

Definitely need to make dinner, but besides that, the world is my oyster. I woke up really really anxious for no real reason (lies, I am back at my regular desk today and I really don't want to be in such close proximity to my two ranty coworkers) so I plan to relax hard later. Still gonna yell at myself about how I need to get on this sewing kick, the weather has been quite chilly lately, I need more tops to wear that are seasonally appropriate!

Ok, first order of business will be printing new patterns. Then we'll see.

Also, third box bug found last night, which may or may not have been the same one I smashed the day before. It was on the floor and seemed to be struggling. I'm gonna count it as a new one though.

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Oct. 15th, 2025 09:42 am
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Another good speech therapy session for Kate. She showed off her new phrases, and the therapist was very pleased with her progress. We discussed doing an official reassessment in January, since that will be about 6 months from when she was enrolled, and if she's caught up, then she could be taken out of the program. Huzzah!

M had a meeting during the second half of the session, and when he was finished had some annoying news - his one-day trip to Dallas for work has turned into a 2-day trip. So, we had to reschedule the sonogram for the following week, and I'm going to have to finagle a couple more hours of time so I can take the day off, which means coming in early for a couple days to accrue some flex time. ~sigh~ Annoying, but what can you do. Hopefully they don't give him any more travel assignments before I have some PTO saved up again, because after this trip, I'll be completely out.

Dinner was a frozen cheese pizza, which I shared with Kate, who was not satisfied with her own plate of food and just kept coming over to mine and stealing bites from it. So, she just ended up with her own slice. 

Bedtime was a struggle because she kept taking off her clothes and crawling under her mattress. -_- She finally went down at around 9:30, at which point I was so exhausted from getting up so early (Kate had woken up at 6AM, which means I was up, too, after having fallen asleep too late) and having many nights recently of not being able to sleep well. I was nearly in tears I was so tired, but she finally got to sleep, I had myself an ice cream sandwich, and once I was sure she was asleep, I crawled into bed myself. 

Slept like the dead, hit snooze too many times this morning, slightly behind on everything, but c'est la vie. 

M's flight is at 9pm tonight, and he has a friend taking him to the airport. I'm hoping to squeeze in a grocery run this afternoon before he goes so we're stocked up and I don't have to shop while he's away. 

Looking very forward to being able to put Kate to bed in her own room for the rest of the week so I can enjoy my own bedroom without tiptoeing through the dark! I'm going to try and get her into a more set routine, not letting her sleep in as late (M lets her sleep in until she wakes up on her own, which is usually around 9:30! The luxury!) so she doesn't stay up as late. She seems to have a pretty set 12-hour schedule - whenever she wakes up in the morning, she'll go to bed at the opposite hour in the evening - so if I can get her up by 7:30 or 8, then she should go to bed at the same evening time. Hopefully we can both stick to that. XP

I think I posted about this already

Oct. 14th, 2025 08:26 pm
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They're thinking about giving us a half hour later start time next year. I realllllllly hope it happens

They come in threes

Oct. 14th, 2025 05:41 pm
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They say deaths come in threes.

My friend Larry died over the weekend. I'll be driving down south to attend his funeral early next week.

One friend lost her grandfather over the weekend.

Another friend just found out that his mother died.

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Oct. 14th, 2025 09:55 am
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OG Scream was FANTASTIC, it hits a little different on a big screen, and the audience was super responsive. There was lots of yelling and laughter and it was a pretty full house. We had so much fun.

Friday I got home and the power was out. Turns out that the guys doing the alley work hit a pole not terribly far from where I am in the complex. My collection of candles finally came in handy! For all the good it did, which wasn't a ton... One candle burned brightly, the other two struggled, and they were all scented which played havoc on my sinuses.

Woke up at 12:45 ish and the power was back on, plus my phone had died. When I woke up again around 7-something, my friends were no longer leaving town as Nicole was very ill, so I didn't need to come puppy sit. I spent the day in bed not feeling ultra great, watching drag race and The Summer I Turned Pretty, and I got some news* that made me very emotional and NO ONE WAS AROUND TO COMMISERATE. Set off the fire alarm making cheese toast, and otherwise just rotted.

* )

Sunday was more of the same, blasting through the show and finishing up my knitting project. Later, just as I was about to get up and make dinner, friends texted that hey, if you want dinner, come by around 7ish... So M and I paused our show (since I'd caught up to her) and headed out for some yummy food and puppy cuddles.

Yesterday was Thanksgiving day so I was home. I started a new knitting project (very slowly), and took a nap. I waited until M was home to finish our show and got to bed VERY late, but it was worth it. It was really good for a show that started out like a cheesy teen romance! (I mean, its still a cheesy teen romance, but I was so invested by the end of it that the emotional payout was, for me, really good.)

My apartment is being invaded by box elder bugs. I don't know from WHERE. I have found 3 or 4 at this point, although they may have been the same two. I know they are harmless and do literally nothing, they are finding a warm place to hide out for winter, but yesterday as I was rolling around in bed in the morning I felt something on my back, reached back and was surprised to find a significant lump in my shirt and sure enough, the little fucker violated the house rules by crawling directly on me. They will be eliminated with extreme prejudice from now on. Calcifer pulled one out of the window on Sunday but watching her interact with the one I found last night, I'm not convinced either cat did anything about it. They are good with spiders and centipedes, but other insects tend to be thoroughly inspected and tortured a bit. So, two confirmed bodies.

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