Refreshing Friday

A day that started like most others; shower, breakfast, work. But there were some unique elements to it. First, it was the last real day of fall as near as I can figure. I’m thinking that it’s going to be really chilly the rest of the way and the snow is going to be coming in. As such, I’ve been meaning to finish off my yard work before it happens. I want to clean out the flower beds, dispose of my fern and get the table and chairs stowed for winter. The BBQ has been cleaned and secured in place, the lawn has been cut and fertilized for winter, what’s left of it anyways. I took a before shot for you of what I’m talking about.

The problem of it all is that it’s a work day and I’m into my more intense period of the year at this point. I’ve got templates prepared and data pulled and tools lined up to hammer out my deployment powerpoints and that’s just what I got up to. I had a call ahead of that actually to introduce myself to a new team member. The Western Canada account manager that I work with moved on to another opportunity and has since been replaced by someone I’m not familiar with. I decided to have a chat with him and introduce him to myself and to my role. Everything is going to be brand new for him so I thought it would be helpful, and I was right. Then I got about it. I worked until half noon and sauntered down to the fridge to come up with something to make. I had some ground beef and pork that were left over from the low carb sliders and decided that since Booj went to Taco Bell for lunch I’d have tacos also.

I used some lovely iceberg lettuce that I washed, shook, and sliced into ribbons. I used some taco seasoning with the meat and browned it off. I had some shredded Tex-Mex cheese and some medium salsa. All that got wrapped up for a couple of tasty taco treats. There was some excess meat remaining so in honour of the Chef, I made a keto taco in a mug. It was weird and I’ll never do it again. Mugs are for coffee or hot cocoa, not meat.

The rest of the workday wasn’t very exciting. I just worked and jammed out to the sweet tunes I’ve referenced before. The two discs from that set are super short and are getting a bit old. I’ll have to look into an alternative at some point. After normal people stop work but before the sun set I decided to take a break. I went out and did the outside work I’d been thinking about for weeks. I got the dead plants cleared out and stored the chairs in the pictured shed. The table will have to suffer this winter outside unfortunately. With the boat taking up most of the real estate in the garage I’m forced to make some sacrifices. Well not me so much as the table. After a meager dinner of a chicken breast and a Stouffers ham and cheese bistro panini I settled in for the night.

Something wasn’t right though. My insides weren’t happy. My initial diagnosis was that the molten cheese from the panini had burned my esophagus all the way down. I wasn’t short of breath or feeling the usual taunt paunch of over eating, this was something different. I descended to my lair and put on the show Money Heist on Netflix and tried to wait it out. It didn’t get better. Although it didn’t really get worse either. I shifted position occasionally but nothing provided sufficient relief. Towards bedtime I popped a couple of Tums (which weren’t expired as I’d previously surmised) and turned in. I was able to get to sleep in a somewhat normal fashion and stay that way for most of the night. I was up a few times but could have been worse I guess.