Halfway Friday

I woke up feeling fine, maybe better than fine. I zipped out for a McBreakfast to prime the pump and moved from that straight into work. I worked away at another Excel formatting task for the morning.

I got a good jag of it done and was humming along. I started laundry early and often. I was going to have four loads to do today in preparation of my family visiting. One load of my clothes and then my bed pretty much takes three loads to do, one for the sheets and duvet cover, one for the duvet, and one for the thick mattress cover. The hydro meter will be just ripping today. It was around noon that I started to feel tired. I wasn’t sure if it was the vaccine doing it’s thing in me or if I just needed to eat. I gutted work out for another hour, I was hoping to get to three before clocking out but my brain wasn’t cooperating. I needed to switch to something more mindless. Buj had been talking about watching Starship Troopers recently and I’ve never seen it. I read the book last year with the intention of watching the film after to compare the two but just never did. He confirmed it was on Netflix so I got after it after one. It was not great. I understand why it has the cult following though. There were some serious departures from the book that made the story worse but with budgets and run time as factors you have to make moves sometimes, I get it. There was also some really gorey props and violence, but also gratuitous female nudity. I didn’t want to debate vaccine vs need to eat any more so after changing loads again I marched upstairs and made some meager wraps with the bit of smoked chop I had left from Canada Day and some never go bad items I had in the fridge. Not pretty but effective.

I started playing the game of finding hidden gems on Netflix. I started watching Ode to Joy with Martin Freeman and Morena Baccarrin. It was interesting, a strange concept for a story but I bought in. I was starting to have a mild fever, just felt warmer than I should have laying in the cool basement. After that I changed loads and did some folding before starting Upgrade. This was a lower budget sci-fi thriller type of hidden gem. Lots of action and a new interesting story. I enjoyed it, despite knowing it was pretty terrible. It made more than five times it’s budget though so I guess? When that ended I knew it was time to suck it up and get a move on. The fever thing was gone, very, very mild headache so I hammered a pair of Tylenol extra strength and got to work. I cleaned the remaining toilets and wiped the sinks. Then I tackled making the bed. It was time to replace the old mattress cover, it was still in okay shape except that the cheap backing had partially flaked off. It’s been terrible, the stupid white flakes get everywhere. And that means I had to use my train whistle sounding vacuum again. It’s honestly terrible. Everytime I use it I swear it will be the last time. It sucks fine, just loud as all hell, embarrassingly loud. Once I had done an initial pass I took the mattress off, found more flakes, rotated and swapped the box springs, found more flakes and then I rotated the mattress and put it back, put the mattress cover on, then the sheets, then the duvet cover, then the duvet, then the pillowcases. It is so much walking to do alone. If I ever take a wife it will be to get a second income and to help me make the bed. It’s a huge pain. Once it was made vacuumed the room again then I did a few last minute things and tried to let my sweat dry before sinking into the cloud. Hopefully there is no lingering effects tomorrow.