Paved with good intentions, etc.

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I absolutely intended to update my LJ in depth earlier today, and instead I ended up adding a few kilometers of pavement to the road to Hell. Oops!

I spent most of today puttering around. I tidied up part of the kitchen and downstairs in general, and the rest of the time I went through my seed stash and not only organized it, but also put them all in a spreadsheet in my Google docs. It took a lot longer than I thought it would, but now I will have the information to hand no matter where I am, as long as I have access to the internet and to my Google account.

And then of course more seed packets arrived in the mail this evening. The irony was delicious.

KK got me a meat tenderizer attachment for our KitchenAid stand mixer (which I got on sale a couple of years ago) for my birthday, so naturally I took it for a spin this evening. I don't tenderize meat all that often, but I do whenever I make chicken schnitzel, so that's what I made tonight. After a false start because I still have trouble with the mixer (KK uses it a lot more than I do), we got it working, and I must say it was very effective! Not quite as satisfying as beating the meat with a mallet, but definitely more efficient, and the end result was a much more even slab of chicken.

Tomorrow morning I am heading back to work after my week off. This week should be pretty chill, as I am in more of a backup role (the "sitrep writer," in which I will be writing situation reports if something big happens, but that's pretty rare outside of the summer months, when there are wildfires and floods and rockslides and the like). I'm also getting two work-from-home days, which is nice. I know I'm still in the honeymoon phase with this job since I just started last August, but it's been really enjoyable so far. There's very little pressure, I like most of my coworkers and my manager, and the work stays at work at the end of the day. I have very few complaints.

On that note, it's time for bed. I have to get up pretty early in order to be at work on time.