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Today started with the realization I’d slept really awkwardly and my neck, shoulders and arms were achy. Nothing a hot shower can’t fix… so far, so good.
Got K2 off to school and kissed Mr. Brillig goodbye, still good! We’re on a roll, let’s make breakfast. My usual is an omelette of some sort, breakfast sausage, and coffee. Keto/low-carb friendly, and I make a mean omelette after a tutorial by a good friend. Except… when I went to flip it, I ended up with scramble. Not a problem, except now I can add “clean stove” to my agenda.
Let’s get the day moving with a walk around the local conservation land! Ooh, and let’s take the younger of our two dogs, because she’s brimming with energy and it’ll be FUN! Except… I forgot how sensitive her stomach is when she goes for car rides. She’s been better recently, but hasn’t been in the car for a couple of months. So add “wash that one floor mat” to the to-do list.
OK, we can recover! Let’s get walking! Check the steps on my Fitbi… oh ffs, it’s helpfully in its charger. As anyone who uses an activity tracker will tell you, not having it with you essentially is like NOT doing the exercise, because *none of it counts*. Utter truth here, if I didn’t have Barfy with me, I’d drive the two miles home and get it because yeah. But that’s not an option, so I resign myself to walking without it.
I’ve got my Spotify on, nice playlist of fast-beat music to keep me movi… why are you barfing again and OMGDOYOUHAVETOBARFINTHEMIDDLEOFTHEPAVEDPATH?????! I don’t want to be That Dog Person who leaves a big pile of barf in the middle of the path for the next 14 dogs to sniff at and possibly, if they’re like mine, try to ingest. For those who haven’t ever tried to pick up dog barf (mostly the kibble from an hour ago) with a poop bag… it’s not really successful, but I do manage to get the barf over to the side and off the pavement. I get points for that, right?
Back to walking, Barfy makes it through the next half hour, we don’t pick up any ticks (yes, they’re apparently out already up here) and we get home. I can’t complain about the next few hours, got work done around the house and chicken stock brewing out of leftovers at the end of their life and a bunch of frozen chicken carcasses saved for just this day.
K2 arrives home, we go to his doctor’s appointment, and on the way back he asks if we can have macaroni and cheese and save soup for later this week. Sure, so we head to the store to get pasta, cauliflower for me since I don’t eat pasta, and the pretzels he’s been asking for since the weekend. Arrive home with no pretzels because we were distracted by purple cauliflower.
Somewhere between Start and Finish of dinner prep, Barfy did her thing again and it became clear she ate a stick of butter. How do I know? An intact butter wrapper was in the cleanup and no butter is on the kitchen counter. To make the evening even more special, K2 became aware of a homework assignment and lost his mind. We've gotten a total of four words that aren’t screaming out of him, and the result of the screaming ones is that we are honoring literally his, umm, request to “stay out of his homework business” for a week.
As I type Barfy is finally not barfing, Mr. Brillig is on a late work call, K2 is crashing around not telling us what happened or how we could have helped, and my neck and shoulders are achy again. Why am I thankful?
All of this, and I STILL think I and all of my immediate family had a better day than Sean “Holocaust Center” Spicer.
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For Monday, April 10, 2017, first comments and tip jars excluded. Thank you mik for the mojo magic! For those of you interested in How Top Mojo Works, please see his diary on the subject.
2017-04-11, courtesy of jotter!