Election Day

I passed out at 9:28pm last night. Intentionally. I set everything up to induce that result, I effectively manipulated myself into it. I woke up at 10:15pm. Luckily I was back asleep in short order but that could have been frustrating. I slept like a corpse for most of the night afterwards until 5am. I turned on a podcast and luckily drifted off until 6:30am in a dream riddled sleep. I’m lucky and thankful for that. With the stress and deadlines I’m under currently and the absolute requirement to deliver and make the right choices it’s a wonder I can sleep more than a few winks. I’m in the thick of it now. I got up feeling good, did a few stretches to lumber up. That might be a new thing, I’ll see how it works. I made my traditional fare for breakfast and decided to toss in a picture for anyone not familiar. In the back you can see a second glass. Speaking of new things, I’ve started taking a juice glass with breakfast. I had some blueberry lemonade yesterday and the contrast of the sweet and sour of the juice with the powerful savoury notes of the sandwiches created a high powered symphony of flavour in my mouth and electrified my experience. I’ll be chasing that particular dragon for weeks to come I’m sure.

With such an amazing start to the day, how could things be expected to go any higher, after all, what goes up, must come down. I had some meeting scheduled and a lot to do in order to prepare for the rest of the week. Soybean meetings were winding down for Canada but that means that corn is about to flare up. I had my note files to pull and prepare. I spent most of the day battling to tie up loose ends that lingered from the previous week. I was also working on proofing my puzzle to make sure I hadn’t missed any major mistakes. I had multiple conversations and had to navigate a new calibration for maturity but I think it is locked down. I communicated any changes to those that need them and that was it. Lunch was again late and today I decided that I want to make something to allow me to sample this garlic aioli from Heinz that I’d purchased on a whim. I went with fries and elected the air fryer as my instrument of preparation. I should have pulled these fries out about ninety seconds earlier than I did but they were still fantastic. The garlic sauce was very, very potent. It is a good thing I didn’t have to share a space with anyone or wear a mask at any point or I would have found myself in an unpleasant scenario.

By the time the day ended it was after 7pm. I turned off my computer and made some soup. I cleaned up my room and filled the clothes basket, laundry is in the future. I spent some time catching up on Musings and watching YouTube nonsense after I cleaned up my dinner mess. I had a mild urge to go for a walk but decided against it for no substanial reason. I was feeling a bit nervous and stressed about where I was at in the process and I know the next month and a bit are going to be crazy so being at the onset makes me anxious. Eventually I got to sleep, still at a decent hour.