Snapped Streaks

Another mediocre rest, this time waking up for no good reason around four and not being able to get back to sleep. This meant that I was up pretty early but I was seriously lacking motivation. The freezer has opened up to a point where I can start to see some of the food that has been stuffed into corners or buried under things over the last year. Becaues of this I discovered a package of breakfast hashbrowns and my brain looking for comfort decided that today was a good day to air fry those up. I did manage to find the discipline to hold myself to one samidge with this new addition to breakfast. The fooling around with breakfast, first in three days, ate up anytime I would have had for an early day walk. Which is all good because the weather turned much colder and it would have been frigid. Instead I had this fancy breakfast and snapped my streak of going without at two days.

I was in the chair at eight and got a running start at work. I fired out a bunch of emails and then got myself ready for the one critical meeting of the day. That meeting went well and gave me some information that put me in a nice spot. I got the last of the same type of information from another customer and was riding high, feeling pretty good about my process. So the morning was a success. That leads me to the interesting aspect of the day. In the US we were celebrating Employee Appreciation Day. I’m not sure if that was a National thing or if it was just within our company. Not important anyways. My function group was told that we could spend a certain dollar amount today to get a meal for us and our family. It was a nice amount, unlike the anemic value our Canadian Leadership offered during our National meeting. Because my boss essentially reports into this US group he was told to participate so he, myself and my teammate were told to get after it. I discussed with my team member what we were going to do. I had no idea. It was suggested that I get groceries, or booze, even sushi. I wanted to spend a good jag of the money, that was encouraged. I thought about a big Chinese order like I did with my parents in the summer and then living off that for a few days. But that thought reminded me of the days when the Chef and I used to make one KFC order a year and do the same. We’d order a twenty piece bucket, family sized fry and gravy each. Then we’d sit down and eat all the fries and as much of the gravy as we could first and then see who could eat more pieces of chicken. The best I did was seven pieces. A bout of nostalgia must have swept over me because I locked it into my mind that I would get KFC. As much of it as I could order. I didn’t order until around noon so it was going to be a late lunch. I was pretty short of our spending limit but I did order more KFC than anyone I know. I told people I was order for me and for future me since I didn’t have a family to feed. This is what showed up at my door forty minutes later.

I had initially picked a bucket meal but those are pretty expensive, even the one I had that was a deal. I decided to focus on many lower ticket items rather than one big one and see if I could build up the same aspects but cheaper (and without disgusting sides). I started with three $5 fill-up meals. Two chicken bowls and a box. Then I got some chicken strips and the buttermilk ranch dip. I added a slice of cheesecake and six cookies for dessert before adding a snacker wrap and sandwich. The last thing I added was a chicken stacker sandwich. I ate one bowl, the two sandwiches and a Pepsi and thought I was going to die. I carefully stowed the rest in the fridge for later and went to lay down to recover. Regrets were instant.

I was able to pull myself together after a short rest and get back to work. There was a bit of a fire drill later in the day that got handled and I was able to get everything posted and accurate for my customers. I’m tracking nearly three weeks ahead of last year on some of this stuff. Amazing when you know what needs to be done. By the time work wrapped up it was nearly six. I didn’t need to worry about dinner since I was still pretty full. I had to kill some time until nine though. I cleaned up a bit, my parents reached out looking for help with their TV again. I wrote a bit of a story to share with a buddy for my D&D character. I scoped out Twitter and cleaned up my personal email. It was after ten when things finally started to pop off. We had a group video chat with a couple of lads, some out West (hence the delayed start - timezones). It started off a bit awkward but it was twenty minutes past high noon by the time we wrapped it up. It was closer to one by the time I was able to slip into the sweet embrace of the night. Pretty wild day in the end. The weather kept me from my walk in the morning and then the giant feed disabled me further. The wind was a factor too. But truly it was my lack of motivation, a condition that creeps in with bad sleep. I knew it would happen I think but I broke my walk streak.