Therapeutic Thursday

As nice as the last couple mornings have been, this one was inversely terrible. The loud boy who lives a house to the south of me is working nights and gets home around 4:30am or five. I’m not sure when he got home but I know when he turned on his sound system, it was minutes ahead of five. The stupid [expletive] had the bass pumping for about fifteen minutes before something prompted him to tone it down some. After tossing and turning for an unmeasured amount of time I was able to fade out to a raucous, dream-filled sleep. I recall the last dream slightly but not enough to share. I got moving closer to half seven than to seven, which is a bummer as I was hoping to get a walk in, starting a streak. I skipped breakfast and went straight to work. Bum hitting chair right at eight. I meandered a bit to start the morning, I texted my old friend Steve to wish her a happy birthday. First interaction since the last time. I’m glad I did, we’ve been back and forth over the day. She says she’s gonna check out the site, we’ll see if she sees this shoutout. Eventually I got on task because I had one of those customer meetings I talked about yesterday at ten and had to get myself prepared for that. I did a greasy move and loaded up a couple emails before the meeting and told them I’d send them the info after the meeting and hit send the moment the meeting ended. I thought it was awesome. With about five minutes left in the meeting another customer who I was planning to call was ringing me so I got them back right after the meeting and that call went really well. I was riding high heading into lunch. I started debating what to make and quickly settled on Our Compliments brand Pad Thai with Chicken. I did two packages and added a big swirl of sriracha sauce to it. It was spicy and cleared out my nostrils right quick. The chopsticks made the consumption process longer, which is something I’m trying on. I tend to wolf my food down, and I’m starting to think that is less than ideal.

With that reasonable load in my gutsack I put my shoes on and headed out the door. I did the exact same walk as yesterday but did it a minute faster. Not a big deal but there was a headwind for half of it this time. When I got home my feet and shins were a bit angry but it was good to string together two days. I logged them in my FitBit to further help gamify it for me. I was back in the saddle at one and got real productive through the afternoon. I dealth with a few requests as they came up and got all my guides for the year pulled, uploaded and shared. I talked to a couple more customers to try and get them on my timetable for stuff. I joined a diversity and inclusion focus group later in the day. It was moderated and anonymous. The lady asked questions and then probing questions and we were supposed to share our answers in the chat. I don’t think there was a huge crowd or maybe I was more insightful but she read more than a few of my thoughts to the group, anonymously of course. I didn’t say anything that wasn’t true or that I wouldn’t say in person the top brass of the company. I think that’s called being a straight shooter. By the time I wrapped up my business items for the day it was shortly after five. I mentioned it previous but I’m making an effort to stick to my meal plan this week. I’m perfect so far and tonight was calling for Hamburger Helper. I had a box of the Beef Noodle flavour but wanted to dress it up a bit, make it shine some. Plus I had a whack of leftover black beans, corn and cilantro to find a use for. I followed the recipe on the box for the most part except that I added my beans and corn. Toward the end I added some chili powder and ground cumin to the party. I tore up some leaves and sprinkled them on the finished product. Turns out I’d grabbed the parsley though. So after I took the photo I added that much again of cilantro. It was really good. I was shooting for a bit of Tex Mex influence but this was top notch. I could have added a bit more heat in the end but I’d do this again for sure. I even managed to have a reasonable portion for once, storing the rest away for later.

I was excited that I finished dinner at around half six. I figured I’d only have to wait a half hour or so to watch the Leafs battle the Canucks. But I was mistaken, since the game is in Vancouver it was starting at ten, basically at bedtime. So I had to find something to do with my evening. I wasn’t ready to donate it to FS19 this time so I decided to sitdown and watch the Framing Britney documentary. She was popular in our house growing up and was certainly in the public eye so I had been meaning to watch it. It was kind of a bummer. Her story is pretty tragic and sad. I’m not sure I’d be on the street now demanding her release but with her being only a few years older than me and having been on lockdown for the last twelve plus years I think about what I did in my life over that period of time and it makes me sad for her. She was the sacrificial lamb that carved the path to show what not to do. The timing of it all is a big factor. I was talking to Theodore Complete about it a spell back and we figured that the popularity of the internet coming on strong and making print media less prominent did away with the kind of circus. Now people can control what the world sees and they choose to share rather than a mad frenzy to get an image of their personal life. I have never supported the celebrity worship that society is obsessed with and after seeing what she had to deal with I’m glad I didn’t. The people involved that they interviewed tried to frame themselves as innocent but they aren’t. They were parasites trying to take advantage of someone. The director of photography made me feel dirty. Anyways, I don’t want to give any too much in case you haven’t seen it and are planning to. I folded some clothes that had been hanging in the dryer all week (that I’d forgotten about until I saw I was on my last pair of drawers today) and then did a bit of reading online about what I need to learn to play Dungeons & Dragons. Steep learning curve.