We went out to celebrate my birthday (Tuesday!) and some personal finance goals we achieved! I'm stuffed. It was amazing!

I have all my presents wrapped. Everyone is mildly sick or really sick with flu/covid. I just want to get a few days off work, eat snacks, read books, and take excessive naps.

Christmas crafts

It smells like someone heated up leftover spaghetti for their breakfast. I'm at work, sniffing the air, trying to figure out which coworker is unorthodox about their breakfast choices.

I finished my Christmas craft. It's for my sister. She's into gingerbread Christmas decor and most of it seems to be breakable. She has a very busy 2 year old. This is painted cardboard and ribbon. He can't break it break it and there's less than $6 invested in the creation of this.

I turned the heat up in my office and I need everyone to know that I feel like a lizard on a sunny rock. Toasty

Today's Wordle, Connections, and Strands took me less than 3 minutes to do all of them. Personal best. Got the Wordle 2nd guess, did the Connections without any errors, and did the Strands without using any hints. I might never come down from this high. I might be a genius. 🤣

Aunt Marilyn just wrapped up the boys Christmas presents and boxed them up to ship to England. Aunt Marilyn is STRUGGLING, y'all. This is going to be terrible.

On my drive to work this morning, I saw a chicken pecking for its breakfast in someone's yard. It was a pretty chicken. It was in downtown Conway. I will now be on Chicken Watch for the next few weeks.

Well, it's up. New lights, tree was bought last year after Christmas, and the skirt was my grandma's. I do a star theme and it's hilarious how many star ornaments I have... but now we love Star Trek so much and I have a lot of those ornaments. It's still star-themed lol

I have zero desire to be a productive member of society today. I want to be a couch gremlin.

Amen to That...👍

I spent $160 on groceries. I was stuck in grocery pickup hell. I came home, put it all away, and cooked a frozen pizza. Tadaa-- look ma, no hands!

Spencer was startled awake by me saying, "They're buttholes. They ate everything." So he patted my arm and said, "...What?" To which I repeated my initial proclamation and then growled at him.... which is how he figured out I was dead asleep. 🤣

Shadow is sleeping on my pillow... wrapped around my head. Piggy is under the covers. Dutch is on top of the covers. And Roz is wandering the living room, singing the song of her people, with a mousie toy in her mouth. ✨️blessings✨️

Well, I just saw a huuuuge shooting star, so I have to go buy a lottery ticket.

Well. I'll never come down from this high. A 19 year old college kid thought I was 28. I'm a month away from 40. Thank you thank you thank you lmao

I just pushed Shadow with my foot until I got him off the carpet because he was doing that hork hork thing they do before they hurl. Anyway, I felt mean, but it worked. He missed the carpet. The Universe is on my side today. I guess I should go buy a lottery ticket.

I'm so unmotivated today.

So when we renovated our house, like 4 groups of workers were up in my attic at various times. (Electricians, AC crew, insulation spray crew, and a crew who did flush mount lights in the new office.) They all destroyed my attic. I've finally chosen to get it back fixed and it's killing me.

Ok. Progress.

I'm not sure I'm enjoying my Christmas craft

Chicken and rice has no reason to be as tasty as it is.

I've been home 59 minutes and so far I've- Stepped on Roz's tail. She screamed. I screamed. We all screamed. And swatted Shadow off the counter (He was lurking towards my poppyseed chicken) So I have two cats pissed at me going into the weekend.

Life hack Next time you go on vacation, either buy a perfume or a good smelling skincare/bodycare product. You'll use it on vacation and when you get home and use it, you'll always recall that vacation. I've done this 3x now accidentally and it's the best.

Is jiffy corn bread bad for cats? Asking for one four legged dingbat in my household. She ate approximately 3 pieces 🫠

Today, one of my older nephews chose to get baptized. I bought a Bible and a bookmark for him to congratulate him. He's a good little egg. I bathed Piggy (she's having some skin issues) and put her in a fresh sweater. I then deep cleaned the bathroom. And all the laundry has been washed. Whew.

I recommend everyone watch "King of the Hill" in its entirety. We're on season 8 or something and I just howl at the Dale episodes.

We're going out to have Mexican tonight and I just think more people should enjoy Mexican food. Mexican food is proof God loves humans.

Sometimes, I just want to sniff the book and feel the pages. I was a crazy librarian in my previous life. I'm sure of it.

In the last week, both of my grocery deliveries have been missing items. It's irritating because it affects meal planning and it normally takes me a few hours to go "wait, where's the...." and then i have to report it and hope the grocery app doesn't think I'm a liar. Ugh

HELLO I AM MONTHS AWAY FROM 40 I AM IN ACTIVE PERIMENOPAUSE WHY THE F DO I STILL GET ZITS DOES IT NEVER END? at least in my teens, I was skinny. F.

Does anyone else's mom buy things they like but then give it to you to repaint it? This happens at least 1x a year with my mom. On the left, the original ornament. It's cute, but she wanted it to have a red nose. To the right, my 1 min red acrylic paint fix. She'll be unbelievably proud of this.

Oh my god. I had the neighbors over for visiting and charcuterie. They brought Italian wine. We drank like 3 bottles (including some bottles of ours) I somehow got hammered. I have no memory of going to bed, washing my face, taking my medicine, etc. I'm MORTIFIED

Today, I called a customer, "mom." I had a battle to the death with a jumping spider on my desk. And I've been in a hurry all day and everyone around me has been on Sunday-slow mode. I NEED IT TO BE 5PM.

I just had a shriek-y fit at a piece of black fuzz. In my defense, I thought it was a bug. And it was touching my foot and I just got really grossed out. But it was fuzz.

The saying "the spirit is willing but the body is bruised and broken" is backwards for me. I'm physically perfectly fine. It's my brain that wants to be fully retired. The Spirit of me is very anti-work and pro-sleeping in with slightly obese cats. Dammit.

Friday night meatloaf! What what! Hashtag old lady dinner!

I've gone to bed early the last few nights (before 9pm because I'M SICK) and I'm trying to be super duper hydrated (BECAUSE SICK FULL OF SNOT) so my hateful little bladder keeps waking me up at 5am-ish because pee. However... I am sleeping well. And today my throat isn't hurting. Progress.

My nose is tender from sneezing, dripping, and blowing. I have applied extra moisturizing cream and I just hope I sleep good overnight.

To avoid getting sick before we traveled, I worked from home all that week. Thankfully, I have my stuff here because I'M SICK FROM TRAVEL! So I have set up my remote work station and texted my bosses. Huzzah.

We're home from 2 weeks abroad. I am mentally 6 hours ahead of my current time. I've washed all the laundry. We've fully unpacked and found/organized souvenirs and gifts. I have cleaned the 2 rooms the pets had access to with the pet sitter (living and kitchen) And I'm sick AF w/ travel crud.

Women losing their bodily autonomy, no due process, masked forces rounding people up, threatening the judiciary, ignoring the legislature, attacking artists and academics, throwing voters off the rolls, intimidating free speech, persecuting minorities How are we still calling ourselves a democracy?

There's just no way to sound sane and normal when you try to explain your undying love for a special needs cat who's gone mildly viral on Instagram. I love you, Baby Corn. He is tiny and wonky and perfect.

Complaint! Why TF does PayPal put my bank account as the primary payment option EVERY time I link it to be able to receive $ someone sends me!!?? I want all payments to be on my credit card. They do it every time-- immediately start using the bank account. F.

Part two

Stages of Spray Tan (Screen shot of my thoughts because I needed way more room than bluesky allows)

Dogs are funny b/c they follow you around to show their loyalty. I'm always in the same room as my dogs, and it's their actions to accomplish this. Cats are funny b/c you'll go into a room and be surprised by the little furry ninja presence. I can never predict where one of my pet cats will be.

My parents have to put their little geriatric poodle, "Baby Girl" down tomorrow. Her quality of life is gone. The arthritis makes her almost immobile.... and she gets lost with her little doggy dementia. Keep my parents in your thoughts tomorrow, please.