Fulfilling Tuesday

Tuesday started like Monday, with my usual breakfast, but with coffee added to the mix. I woke up extra early, likely due to the stress of the task at hand, and needed an extra kick. The coffee delivered that for sure. I got to my desk super early as well and finished my preparation for Thursday and started checking over what I was going to present today. I found a couple of small mistakes and fixed them just ahead of the meetings. The first one of the day had a potentially difficult siutation that ended up resolving itself fairly smoothly. That was a relief. I think I’d been stressing about it somewhere in the background for awhile so that made me feel much more liberated when it ended. I decided to celebrate at lunch and made some wings. I was feeling pretty adventurous I guess so I took some pretty big swings on flavouring. I doused them in a garlic dust and salt mixture I got for Chirstmas last year and some freshly cracked black pepper before cooking in the Air Fryer (AF). These were thawed wings so they cooked up perfectly and crisply just like you’d expect from the AF. When they came out I dusted them with some parmesan cheese, some of my garlic spread and sriracha. This was a different approach to the spicy gar par. They were pretty good, but a little heavy on the cheese. The smell was quite pungent and the cheese overpowered most of the other elements. The chicken itself was cooked perfectly.

Before the next meeting after lunch kicked off I got a few more packages from my Black Friday frenzy. I think there are a couple more coming in the next couple of days and then a couple more targeted at a very wide time frame. Those will be wild cards and I think are coming in the regular mail. The afternoon went much like the previous day, a long meeting and then a debrief. I had a few calls to return and spent most of the remainder of the day getting back to various people. It was around six when I finally powered everything down and headed to the kitchen. One of the parcels that arrived was a clothing gift for the Big T so I called him to ask what size he was wearing now. Something in my memory triggered when I’d taken it out of the box and I needed to know. Apparently he’s shrunk slightly and prefers a smaller size than I’d had in my head. So that’s unfortunate. Hopefully this brand fits more snug and this works out. I love the colour of the garment and can’t wait to see his reaction. We chatted while I ate some leftover soup. He’d had a couple drinks to help with the pain from getting a filling replaced so was more chatty than usual. When I’d finished eating, talking and cleaning I basically went to bed. I read my book and then the internet before watching some YouTube and passing out just after nine. The early mornings are making for early nights which exacerbate the early mornings. I’m sensing the beginning of a vicious cycle.