It’s Stealth Monday again
Prologue: spent the Labor Day holiday enjoying life by not laboring much at all. Biggest accomplishment was reading up on Labor Day, posting about that and how much it makes me wish history was taught differently (gore and gossip FTW!) The post got a dozen Fediverse boosts. which is about as close to viral as I ever go.
There was also a long walk, a visit to the local grocery for some impulse deli foods and bread rolls for the making of garlic bread later. The day started and ended with a lot of sitting outside enjoying the continuation of Ridiculously Perfect Weather. By which I mean, we sat outside after dinner and enjoyed a fire in our firepit. The sky was super clear, the moon was half-full, and the tree frogs in the back serenaded us the whole time. It was awesome.
Backstory: Today was a shopping day, so after breakfast and mandatory cat pacification time, I headed towards the Lands Of Commerce. First stop was Menards for the things I forgot on the last trip, namely drain cleaner, new outdoor trash can for holding cat box deposit. Also on the list: firepit supplies, since building the first fire of the season demonstrated that we were low on firestarters & kindling.
Next <drumroll> Costco. Evidently everyone in the world shops at our Costco on Tuesday before lunch. Parking lot was FULL. So imagine my surprise when I turned down an aisle planning on driving to the far, far end only to have someone pull out of the rock star space right by the entrance. Yes, I parked there. Not turning down gift luck, noperino. I found all the things I needed to buy and resisted all the impulse possibilities…except for the babybel cheeses…and the oat milk…and a fun weird new brand of crackers to try, and was through the checkout line in no time. Costco runs a mega efficient checkout line, gotta say.
Shopping always tires me out more than I expect. And it always takes longer than I plan, because I forget that putting away groceries takes so much time. But everything got put away in good order, I made myself chicken salad using the canned chicken I’d just restocked, added other delicious sides like blueberries n cheese from the farmer’s market, and scurried off to the office with it all.
I planned to do some desk time after lunch, but I sat on the couch to finish the chapter of Goblin Emperor I’m rereading, and, welp, the cat sat on me. So I had to brush the cat and then take a nap, because I was tired. SO TIRED.
Plot: Now I’m at the library, helping people get to the counter where Circulation is handing out the One Book One Village title for the year (Remarkably Bright Creatures, yet another mystery-adjacent/mystery-lite cozy literary title. Will I read it? Of course. Eventually. It’s not like it will take long.)
Had my monthly meeting/chat with my boss, discussing life, the universe and changes coming to our department in the month ahead. I put up my spooky season lights in the cubicle (green n purple battery mini lights) because it’s now fall so I can do Fall Decor Everywhere. Between nap and work I scheduled our annual heather maintenance and renewed our maintenance contract, which required A PHONE CALL, so that’s probably my productivity for he rest of the week.
After library shift I plan to finish the last of the chili I made this weekend, plus corn on the cob and garlic bread I cooked yesterday, and then I will wrap up rewatching ST:SNW S2 before I fall asleep.
Writing? My fingertips have been shredded yuckiness the last couple of days, but they’re getting better, (look, I’m typing this!) So…writing tomorrow is the plan. Tomorrow with cooperation from body there will be work on “Izzie and Natalie Bond over Stray Cat,” and maybe even some words for Deena and Fletcher and Bazel. We’ll see. It’s going to be cooler, and there may even be rain before the day is out, so a lot depends on how long my joints will tolerate sitting at the desk.
And that’s that.