Free Formed

I woke at a respectable hour but didn’t feel particularly rested on this day. I dreamed the night away with vivid dreams of my D&D character. With the near gear gained I’m pretty excited to get him back into action. But we’re a week out from that experience so it was better to focus on getting cleaned up and fed. I made my usual breakfast and had some runny cheese. You’ll note in the photo that the eggs reacted somewhat weird. I took a photo of breakfast cause I’m on a bit of run of doing that this week and felt I should keep the good times going. They are only large sized eggs as is prescribed in the unit’s user manual but these must have been pushing it or the amount of muffin in the top ring consumed any available space. They look odd but they sure tasted great. I had a glass of raspberry lemonade alongside to bring some lovely, contrasting sweetness to the experience. With the food eaten and the washing up done I was arriving at work just around eight when the opening bell sounded.

There was nothing on the docket for today. I think for all the planning meetings we’re in the limbo between 2021 and 2022 right now. The field staff are busy getting ready and everything else was just quiet. I had one little information call to listen in on and relax my mind and soul for an hour, otherwise I was free to tackle my tasks and start on my summer projects. That is just what I did. But first I felt like I needed to get something done that has been languishing in the background for many months now. I needed to flip the year over. I’ve got my filing cabinet and I file all my paperwork in there for during the year. At the end of it, I pull out all the relevant documents for the year gone past and I used to scan them for tax reasons but now I just bundle them up, along with all my other receipts and the family calendar to tell the year and I store them in my records area. I went and got the 2019 folder so I could be filing 2020 consistently to past years. It’s all very organized and has come in handy in the past. You are thinking I’m a nut or a fool but let me assure you, once the system is running it is very easy to work with. It took me a bit to make the labels for the hanging files in the cabinet back in 2013 but now I just pull out the documents for the specific category, like Hydro, Credit Card, Water, etc. and I put them in the correct sleeve in the storage file and we’re laughing. It costs about nine dollars a year for the storage folder and takes me less than an hour a year to flip. Just one hour in nearly 8800 available for use.

Lunch was the next interesting thing that popped up during the day. I cooked some sandwich steaks in a pan with a pat of butter and then warmed up the last of the leftover corn and black beans with some rice and salsa. I used some monterrey jack cheese slices and wraps to deliver it into my mouth. It was pretty dense but incredibily flavourful. I wasn’t slowed down at all by this scrumptious meal.

The afternoon went much like the morning. I just worked away, made a couple of phone calls to push ahead specific issues and try to fight to resolve things. The first wave of corn seed was delivered now so I could focus on driving other things ahead. It’s all a very slow process. I often feel like I’ve got myself into a bathtub filled with molasses and I’m trying to step out of it. Meanwhile the rest of the world hums by like it’s the best of times. It grows more frustrating by the day. I’m definitely feeling the pandemic fatigue which I think was exacerbated by these work issues. But I digress, let’s talk about what I rammed into my pie-hole around six shall we? It was perogies again. This time it was the Cheemo branded Heritage Aged White Cheddar Cheese Perogies as the base of the meal. I sprinkled on some Great Value branded Tex Mex shredded cheese, some Great Value branded sriracha ranch dipping sauce and some Great Value branded dried parsley. These have been my favourite flavour of perogy for a long time and I can’t find them at my usual grocer. It was only when I crossed town for the spring roll wrappers that I found them again. Good thing I wandered around the store in an attempt to make the journey worthwhile. Ooey, gooey goodness.

After knocking back this relatively heavy repaste I slipped into the garage to try and keep upright for a bit, to let the food digest. I cleaned up the trash and then the recycling to get things ready for the morning. I tided the bench and did some measuring in the boat. Since I didn’t record anything I doubt I’ll remember the dimensions and will likely repeat all those actions. They were really a means to an end though, keeping myself from laying or sitting directly after the meal. After that though…. I stretched out on my extra comfy cloud and took a run at the end of my book. There were about 220 pages remaining and I thought I could knock out half of those and then have a quick sprint to the finish. Well I was wrong, painfully wrong. As things started to pop off I found I couldn’t put the book down. In my mind I felt like maybe I’d be out of it by midnight. I reasoned that I was taking the afternoon off tomorrow so I only needed to survive the morning and it would be fine. Sometimes I take Future Tugboat for granted. It was friggin one when I finished it. I won’t give my impressions in case Cheese or Rek stumble in here as I know they are looking to find out what I thought before they start their read. I want them to go in fresh. It was at this point that I got a message from She. She was having trouble sleeping and wanted to leave a message for me to find in the morning but I surprised her by being awake. We messaged back and forth briefly before the night closed in and I passed out into a full, drooling slumber.