Ok it’s super improvised and will need one thing to help the top area feel more secure but this was the weird lil fix. Probably would work better with weight instead of seeing it with light plastic things but still

Good thing 1 for today: nailed my weekly quality call review so huzzah for that. Good thing 2: turned a hanging plant thing I made a little wonky and figured out a fix for it which was to turn it into a 2 plant holding hanger so yay for that too

Pray for me y’all. I was up all night with Riley, all bedding had to get tossed in the wash on my way to work this morning due to it, & my body feels like hell. Give your pets kisses for me

On my way back from my gastro appt earlier, I drove past a yard covered in purple crocus flowers and that made me really happy. Felt like I should share that with people - something good

Leg wise her arthritis is super fun & she may have done a small tear in her right knee a while back that is coming & going pain wise. She is such a love bug I just want my baby to be ok

She got chicken nuggets as a sorry on the way home & grandma will watch her when I go to my doc in a sec but fuck, not the morning we expected & I’ll be nervous til we can properly figure out what’s going on health wise for her

Riley’s vet day didn’t quite go as planned. She broke sedation 2x while trying to do her butt glands & when we tried to get samples of a hard lump found inside her right one. So she has to go back on the 8th for heavier sedation. Learned one of her knees might have done a thing too. My poor girl

Sunny patch for Riley & trying out different plant / pot combos

Such a good coworker

Best WFH helper. Helping with an event and happy they let me do it for a few hours from home today. Which means Riley gets to sleep next to me all comfy and shit

Also forgot to give you all Riley night photos from yesterday so hi good morning

My lil Philodendron Billietiae Croat has a new leaf! Bonus how I woke up this morning after finally managing to get my sleeping spot back from Riley & convincing her the silk pillow side is just as nice

“thoughts and tapas y’all 🇪🇸” has been sending me for the past hour to the point of laughing so hard I inhaled sweetart dust and starting choking

New therapy level unlocked: getting your therapist into plants & the session starting with them holding them all up for you to see

I would say I created a monster in making Melissa a plant parent but it’s too fun! Look what she brought in for me today! My first Rex Begonia and first Ruby Ficus! Plus the funniest VM transcription. I would absolutely book fighting estimates why not

I am far too nosey to be put between departments and in a forward facing position - my ass is going to ignore the phones to listen in to fresh drama that I will then live message to my boss

Last night with the pup

In case you’re wondering how it’s going: I just made up a full on old timey-musical number complete with dance to congratulate my brother on being too old for a draft then proceeded to hand him a box of Thin Mints. Which is American for “great” I think

Today would have been my dad’s 99th birthday. In a month it’ll be his 15th deathaversery. Time is weird. I miss him a lot & I’m wearing his things today to feel him near. May he trip your enemies for you today. Then he’d Snidely laugh after like I do.

Melissa asked me to show her how to make some hanging planters so I dug up some yarn & made one today for practice. Not terrible (rando pot just to test the bottom knot / how it hangs)

Just lil plant bits - the croton is now in a nursery pot larger than any of my fun planters so it’s gonna just vibe this way. $3 Ring of Fire I found the other day that I’m trying to save & two lil adhd container dances. Best thing I learned was use nursery pots then you can pot dance as you like!

Finally worked up the courage to repot my big croton Petra so she has more space - fingers crossed for me I love this plant & just want it to thrive

Riley & her squid

Bits of the plants for today

Got to learn which rep is on the ivermectin for everything train. This job is starting to feel very Stanford Prison experiment and I am definitely the teacher who didn’t pull the plug before it got out of hand. I can’t help it, I need to know the whys and ways someone’s brain works for this stuff

Only thing I’m hanging onto this morning is that Melissa and I now leave each other notes with invisible ink at work and it’s fun to come in and read something no one else can

Riley says hello world

The plant babies this morning. Noticed that my White Wizard is trying to come back with a full white leaf already which yes i know may need to go but i love it for now so it stays

When your ADHD obsessions rub off on another ADHD person and now the front desk is becoming a magical garden. Melissa came back from lunch with these 5 plants after I brought her one in from Wegman’s.

Before work with a sleepy pup

Oliver Tree. Flowers, Lord Farquaad version. It exists. It is glorious. I lost a half hour just hitting replay over and over and over again. I regret nothing

Just had a flashback to being 12 & going to Boston for the first time on a class trip. Me & some friends brought little teas from the hotel just to dump them in the harbor. Just the liquid, no litter, but what an absolute rush to connect to that point in history

I learned how many lines come directly to my number today which is a fun amount. 36 for call center things alone plus another 4 because why not let’s do it

New phone system went live in the middle of the day, last three hours have been fun, but the most fun was messing something up & all calls out were only blaring over speaker on the desk phone NOT my headset. Fun times. Delivery guy thought I was talking to a wall. I accepted it

Gah I adore you and am very glad you’re in my life Chris

Bits from yesterday

Last night’s convo with Jared. I miss him something fierce and laughed really hard when I woke up this morning to his last text

Apparently my downstate (original) accent came out in the middle of a call and the moment I hung up, Melissa called me on it in the nicest way possible “That person from Jersey/NYC area?” “No, why?” “you grew up where again?” Oh.

Soup time! Haven’t had a chance to cook anything lately so very excited for this

I have absolutely no context for this note I just found on my phone but honestly I stand by it

I have been scream singing this since it dropped on Friday Everything may be a struggle but at least Oliver Tree gave me a bop

I rewatched this again the other night and still love everything about it

Currently

Got to experience my card declining getting gas today which then involved math to make sure I could get home without over drafting. Love this for me.