Today starts the longest vacation had in nearly four years. It seems maybe a little silly, but I'm taking 12 days off for my birthday. It was originally ten, but then a co-worker wanted to trade days so it ended up being 12.

Wow !

Kicking it off with hot cereal and coffee and a to-do list.

Hope you're wrapping up your week and getting ready for a weekend off.

Xxoo

Hiya. Good morning.

Been out of bed for about an hour. Working through some coffee. Had some leftover rice for breakfast.

My job tried to kill me last week with insane hours and call nights from hell. Ick.

Currently Pandora is playing a superb list of songs ( it's playing me the current track because it features blues rock qualities, acoustic rhythm piano, a twelve-eight time signature, great musicianship, and extensive vamping ) and making me less grumpy about plugging in time-off requests to the schedule for next month and cleaning off my train-wreck desk.

Also making me less grumpy is one last day of work tomorrow before 12 (!) days off. Saturday my sister will be here to house/cat sit and Sunday we are flying to a tropical paradise for beach lying, rum drinking, and site seeing.

We'll get home just in time to prepare for my birthday party. Serving gumbo, chocolate cake, po' boys, and more booze than is probably advisable. Stephen has a crown to wear to tend bar and I have a tiny little felt and sequined hat and a sparkly silver masquerade mask to wear not to do anything in other than be awesome.

Hope to see you there.

Xxoo

It's almost seventy degrees here.

I'm still having difficulty fighting off the mid-winter blues.

Ugh.

Reading blogs I notice that lots of people use tags for their posts for the sake of archiving/organization. This sounded like a good idea for about 0.00007 seconds before realized that a) organization is not one of my strengths and b) ' mundane shit I'm doing today ' isn't a very intriguing tag.

So much for that.

If you are a twitterer ( or if you read my feed over there ------> ) you can see that filed my taxes today. And feeling quite gloaty and responsible for it. The H&R Block website is super easy and not very expensive and stop shilling now. But really - use it ! it's easy ! Ok. Really done.

Drinking Earl Grey and snacking on the leftovers of this tasty stew. This week need to go on a sugar detox or something because my stomach (and the rest of my body) is seriously unhappy with all the shit put into this weekend. Gross.

Making a giant pot of vegetable stock and vowing to eat all kinds of good things made from it this week. Mostly soup. And maybe some couscous or something with barley as we have both languishing away in the pantry.

That sound you hear is my pancreas letting out a sigh of relief and holding back tears of joy.

Let's all have a good week, ok ?

Xxoo