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I Ate'nt Dead?  I have been lurking a lot and using my longhand journal instead of posting here.  It is hard to accumulate the needed emotional activation energy to get over "but I have nothing interesting to say" and "half the time I stick my foot in my mouth anyways". 

But I want to stop sitting in the corner by myself, too.  So I will try to post a bit more and hopefully more about things I am actually Doing.  So here are a few things I have been doing lately.

• Finished a painting yesterday, probably I have a half-dozen or so that I have completed during the pandemic.
• Continuing noodling around with a stained-glass-inspired crochet design.  It is not there yet but I keep finding additional techniques that might work for it.
• After about four attempts across my lifetime, I think I am finally going to get through the entire brick of Les Misérables.  I am about 300 pages from the end, certainly farther than any previous attempt.  I think now that I am 33 I may be finally old enough for this book.  : / 
• I am making bread right now!  I did not jump on the bread-making bandwagon earlier in the pandemic but I...need to use up this yeast.  It says best by July 2020 and the end result already looks a bit dubious.

Oh and in September I got hired for a new position at my place of work that is a lot less front-desk-customer-service and a lot more fiddling with data and making sure All The Things Are In Order.  I am still not at the top of the learning curve and it is an entirely new position in the organization, too, so there is a lot to figure out still.  But at the end of the work day I feel like I have a lot more spoons left, so I am glad to have made the jump even with all the challenges. 

As the title says.  I worked a full day today, because one of my bosses is out of town and I found out last night that the other one would be calling in sick.  Thankfully, it was extremely quiet for a Monday and there were no crises.  I don't think I even have to qualify that with "no crises that couldn't wait until Tuesday".  At least I was able to pack a lunch.  However, I didn't sleep particularly well last night and I ended up having to brew extra coffee around lunchtime to hold on to my ability to string two words together.  Bottom line is that right now I feel exhausted and strung out, and I dare not have any more caffeine because I'm right on the edge of having a racing heartbeat as it is. 

And now my kitty is climbing on me.  Gee, it's almost like she missed me today.

So yes, I had grand plans of making an Indian curry dish tonight but there is no way.  Even if I had the energy, I do not have the actual time to let it cook in the crock pot like it would need to because I didn't get home until 5:30.  Oh well.  I guess it's spaghetti tonight, wretched failure of a homemaker that I am.  : P