Thursday, January 8, 2026

When I'm too tired to think of anything creative for my blog post titles it's just going to be the date...lol

It's been a couple of days... work has swelled again, especially today but I'm consoling myself by taking tomorrow off.  Everyone else took time off during the holidays but me, this is my time.  Never mind that in order to do that, I had to pull a 13 hour day today to get everything done I needed to get done, and when I was finally done at 9pm, THAT is when Chris decided to be productive and come out here dragging boxes of games and asking which should stay up here and which go in the basement... oy.  I love that he had a split second flare up when I answered him tiredly; had he not flipped his script I would have woken up REAL quickly and let him have it.

Cooking wise, I still am on my home-cooked meal streak.  Yesterday I baked off what turned out to be a huge package of chicken breasts and cut them up, then divided the meat into two bowls.  I even had one breast left over so I cut that up for my lunch today.  Then I made a casserole with french onion dip, cream of chicken soup, chicken and cheddar cheese, with french fried onions on top that needed to be used this month.  Probably Saturday I'll make the rest of the chicken into a chicken stroganoff with lots of mushrooms.  I found a recipe where you can cook the noodles in the same pot as everything else so I'm into that.  Tonight was sloppy joe leftovers - I gave Chris the rest of the Texas toast and I just ate a little bit of meat, and now I'm regretting eating so little because I'm pretty hungry, and tomorrow will be casserole leftovers.  My credit card activity is looking a lot less daunting this week!

Yesterday I also finally finished the Patricia Cornwell book, and I haven't decided what to start next.  Book club's book is due in 12 days but I feel like I squeeze another one in there in between.  I also did a virtual watch of Psycho Beach Party with Fred.  What a shitty film.  I hate films that are poorly made, and seem to congratulate themselves on how clever they think they're being, but it turns out that they failed miserably at that too.  It's like they were trying to be John Waters, only Waters isn't trying to be clever, he's just being himself (and happens to be clever) and doesn't give a shit what people think.  Psycho Beach Party tried WAY too hard.

What to do on my day off?  Then the weekend?  It has to be a mix of productivity and relaxation.  I suggested to Chris that we do daily "punch lists" and he agreed to start having 10 minute daily discussions about it... two days ago.  Nothing yet.  Go fucking figure.  I'm really trying so hard to be patient, and it's really, REALLY hard.  If he were working that would be one thing.  But I'm also doing this so that when he DOES find a job (please god soon - I can't do it all anymore) there won't be a shitload of projects to do after work and maybe weekends could be weekends.  But I get the sense - especially lately - that he really resents me.  Just a little while ago, he was feeding the cats and I was in the bathroom, and I thought, "You know what, he'll enjoy my remaining soda more than I will so I'm going to give it to him."  When I asked him, "Are you going back into the dining room?" so he wouldn't have to make an extra trip to grab the soda, he sighed heavily, and was like, "Why....?!" which REALLY fucking pissed me off.  I'm still pissed off, come to think of it.  And it was even after this that he encroached on my first seconds of not working with the games thing.  Fuck.

So here are my goals for this weekend - we'll see how it goes, or if I add more.

• Try to get Chris to go to IKEA.  There are a couple of storage things we can use to finish up the kitchen.  If he won't do it then I'll have to punt somehow because we just need to fucking get this done.
• Organize all of my kitchen work utensils and figure out what I have.  Unfortunately this also means cleaning out the drawers.
• Get Chris to pull anything in the back of the lower cupboard out so I can move the stuff on top of the microwave and maybe some of the stuff in the stove drawer in.
• On the same note, go through the stove drawer.
• Make a plan for going through the pantry drawers and cupboards, even if it's not executed this weekend.
• Clear off dining room table (this is pretty much Chris's stuff.)
• Clear off credenza in dining room (again, a lot of Chris's stuff.)
• Make a plan for getting the treadmill and old TV moved (and whatever projects.)
• Cook the chicken stroganoff.
• Start (and maybe finish) another book  (Book to be determined.)
• Watch at least four movies over the weekend, with at least two of them being expiring or challenge lists.
• If Chris is productive and nice, make breakfast Saturday or Sunday and maybe some brownies.

If I wasn't tired before, I'm REALLY tired now.  I'm going to watch a little bit of crappy television, eat a couple handfuls of snacks and go to bed without setting the alarm.

xoxo Shelly