belated evening life update, Feb. 18

Things done yesterday after 11am:

1. Wrote three more 3-sentence ficathon fills.

2. Left Not the IRS at 2:30pm, since I had no appointments and other people were available to cover walk-in clients.

3. Deposited the check.

4. Took a nap.

5. Folded and put away pants from Sunday's laundry effort.

And that's pretty much it. Sometimes you need an afternoon and evening to do nothing in particular. :)

I did have some very odd dreams once I went back to bed around 11:30pm -- a weird jumble of things related to apartments and real estate (which is unsurprising; I have had increasing numbers of dreams about weird apartment buildings since I started working for the rental company) and then an abrupt tangent about trying to get soldiers home from a war by riding some very tired horses up a series of hills and staircases, of all things, with brief digressions into fancy rodeo tricks and the resale value of plastic kiddie pools.

Brains are weird, you know?

Anyway, I have a client schedule for 10am today, so I will post this and go get ready. *wry*

midday life update

Things done so far:

1. Once again succeeded in bringing tea with me to Not the IRS! \o/

2. Wrote a grocery list.

3. Finished chapter 4 of A Fistful of Shells.

4. Wrote ~225 words of the still-untitled Narnia bridge fic. Protagonist and Naiad are now entering the town of Beaversdam and I keep getting distracted by logistical stuff about medieval/early modern city organization. *hands* I mean, I've sort of managed to tie that into the idea of respect/consent/care which will eventually tie back into the problem of bridges (and I guess also taxes)?

5. Wrote two 3-sentence ficathon fills.

6. My client turned out to need Office Uncle's expertise to untangle their state tax situation, so I scheduled them an appointment with him for next week. Now I am just killing time and occasionally answering phones or calling prior clients to prod them into scheduling appointments. *sigh*

I guess I'll start reading chapter 5, for lack of much else to do.

evening life update, Feb. 19

Things done since 1pm-ish:

1. Continued doing nothing in particular at Not the IRS until 4pm.

2. Wrote two more 3-sentence ficathon fills.

3. Read ~25% of Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo instead of ch. 5 of A Fistful of Shells. Sometimes you want YA fantasy adventures rather than depressing economic and cultural history, you know?

4. Bought groceries! Put them away once I got home.

5. Took a walk to Cascadilla Creek and snapped my daily photo.

6. Took a nap, because sleep is both important and delicious. :)

7. Steamed broccoli, both for tonight's dinner and for meals over the next few days. I have always liked broccoli, but I seem to be on a real kick for it lately. I am not sure why. Possibly it's just that it's very easy to cook? But it also seems to taste especially good to me these past couple weeks, which is weird. Possibly I am low on some kind of vitamins that broccoli contains more of than my other usual veggie options do? Or maybe it's just one of those occasional random "I will eat this thing ALL THE TIME" streaks I get on, which last for variable lengths of time until the food in question abruptly stops being food for an again variable length of time.

*hands* Food is weird. Brains and bodies are weird. At the moment, I am really into broccoli and there's no use analyzing it more deeply than that.

Anyway, I think I will return to bed soonish, because I am still tired and also I think I pulled something in the back of my left knee this afternoon, which is the same knee I wrenched while shoveling snow last week. *sigh* It's twinging angrily at me right now, and I would very much like to sleep that off.