A bit o' progress...

 ...the pantry is done!  Well, sort of.  All of the shelves and drawers are cleaned out, which is the worst of it.  I ended up donating about three huge bags of kitchen stuff to Goodwill and another three bags of stuff to my brother, which was great.  And I still have a lot of stuff, but at least now I know what I have.  I seriously almost bought a set of bakeware and I found I have a ton of it that I even ended up donating.  Oy vey.

Out with the old, and in with the new... Beekman 1802.  Holy shit, I bought hundreds of dollars of products this weekend because there were screaming sales.  Now I'll have the most beautiful skin and smell super good for... no one haha.  Maybe I'll make more of an effort on Zoom calls or whatever.  So there is going to be an avalanche of boxes coming this week.  Oh yeah, and I bought some Harry Slatkin candle stuff with body and hand wash... why?  Who cares, I like it.

We've also slowly but surely been dealing with my office, finally.  A week or so ago Chris brought piles of crap into the dining room (mostly medical paperwork) and I sorted and organized everything into accordion files.  Today I guess we're doing another form of organizing, and since I went nuts with work stuff yesterday and thus far today, I'm just waiting for him because I hope that we can get it done early so I can watch some stuff or read a little tonight.

Speaking of, I've watched about half of the Best Picture nominees (maybe a little less) but more films have been becoming available or cheaper to rent so that's a good thing.  I'm thinking of going back on my stance against Hulu because FUCK there's some good stuff on there, and I mathed it out that since it has an HBO bundle it would only ("only") be an extra $13/month.  AND I would be spending more than that renting two of the films on there for free.  I haven't pulled the trigger yet, but who are we kidding?  I probably will tonight.

I am down to just one class now, Modernism and Avant Garde, because the professor for my Colonial Art class basically accused me of cheating on my first assignment by using AI, and I've never used AI in my life to write, nor do I even know how.  When I wrote her back to negate this, she doubled down and literally said, "If you're not using it, then you need to sound more like a human."  FUCK YOU.  She clearly doesn't recognize professional writing.  I'm not tooting my own horn - I'm 52, I've been a professional for 30 years and have two college degrees, having graduated summa cum laude with straight As in every class.  I know how to fucking write.  So I dropped the class since I knew I was not going to win with her so why bother?  The good news is that she released all of the course materials early so I actually have all of it that I can still read.  But what a bitch.  So we'll see where I go from here.  I'm LOVING my Modernism class though.  We'll be studying Dada and Surrealism this week so I'm super stoked.

I also finally read another book last week, "Sandwich" by Catherine Newman.  I read it because I had checked out the follow-up, "Wreck" from the library after waiting on hold forever, but now I haven't returned to reading.  In fact, I have a huge pile of library books I just keep renewing, and I truly want to read all of them.  Oh, and three books I've had on hold in Libby all came available in the last day too.  Sooooo I really do need to get on the stick with reading.  Once I start, I do devour books so I just need to find time.  

Health is going okay so far but as in the past, I'm not doing what I'm supposed to be doing re: being mobile.  I've even been really bad about doing stuff like cooking lately.  Part of it is that this Mounjaro is kind of kicking my butt with gastro issues and I've been moving as little as possible, but at some point I need to just suck it up Buttercup.

Mini-Goals for the next several days:

  • Keep going on office organization; once I get that set up and have another place to work, the more I'll be out of this chair and (hopefully) setting up a routine
  • Read at least two physical library books
  • Keep doing my skin routine nightly (no missed nights!)
  • Send condolence cards to Wags and Caren (they each lost a parent this past week)
  • Come up with a plan to start cooking, even if it's starting small at a couple meals a week
  • Figure out a way to move.  I have to do this.

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