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Plans? Maybe?
Apr. 26th, 2021 07:38 pmI don't know if I will have the stamina to write out all the plans I'm having existential angst about. I got up at 5:30 this morning without batting an eye when my alarm went off, despite my having gone to bed ridiculously late. I took Peggy for a walk around the neighbourhood, and we met several dog friends and saw a bunny! The bunny held very still for several minutes, and then when it took off Peggy lost her shit and screamed her silly head off. Luckily it didn't last for too long (it was 7:00 and I am quite sure none of the nice people who live in the area wanted to listen to my dog howling bloody murder at the local leporids.
I had a decently productive day at work, too. I had a couple of instances of slacking off, but one was very short-lived, and in the other I ended up playing a game on my phone while listening in on a very long meeting at work in which I didn't have much to say but needed to be at just for situational awareness. I had planned a few things that I didn't get to because two of my employees reported pay issues first thing when I got in, so I spent a fair bit of time trying to get to the bottom of both those situations. Both of them are still unresolved, but I think we can get one fixed pretty easily, and for the other the employee asked me to hold off until Wednesday, when he will get his new pay and pay stub and see if the error has already been rectified (fingers crossed that it has been!).
I spent a decent chunk of the afternoon working on a new PowerPoint presentation for the information session I need to give to prospective candidates for the job. There is a presentation that already exists, but the information on the slides is woefully out of date, and it is quite honestly one of the ugliest set of slides I've had the misfortune of seeing. It's an embarrassment, and so I am re-doing it, even though my PowerPoint skills are pretty rudimentary. I managed four slides, and they look decent to my eye. I may try and find some friends to look it over (it's a presentation for external candidates, so there's no classified information) just to confirm that I'm not overestimating my abilities.
By the time I got to the grocery store to pick up my order I had run out of energy, to the point where the nice boy who brought out my groceries asked me if I wanted to keep the bags that came with my groceries and I blanked so hard. Decision fatigue is the real deal, folks! Anyway, we figured it out (he was very understanding about my not being able to make a decision about plastic bags) and I brought all the groceries back. I actually forgot about them when I got home, but luckily remembered a few minutes after and managed to bring them all in and put them away.
Long story short: stick a fork in me, I am done. I might try a bullet point list of the things that have been trotting around in my head, kind of like a way to download them all and be able to refer back (supposing I ever refer back to this post--I am notoriously not good at doing that sort of thing). Inch'Allah I will get back to it eventually.
I feel like there was more, but I can't remember any of it now. Oh well. Maybe it'll come back to me later. It's now nearly 9:00 pm and I am faaaaading. Time for bed.
I had a decently productive day at work, too. I had a couple of instances of slacking off, but one was very short-lived, and in the other I ended up playing a game on my phone while listening in on a very long meeting at work in which I didn't have much to say but needed to be at just for situational awareness. I had planned a few things that I didn't get to because two of my employees reported pay issues first thing when I got in, so I spent a fair bit of time trying to get to the bottom of both those situations. Both of them are still unresolved, but I think we can get one fixed pretty easily, and for the other the employee asked me to hold off until Wednesday, when he will get his new pay and pay stub and see if the error has already been rectified (fingers crossed that it has been!).
I spent a decent chunk of the afternoon working on a new PowerPoint presentation for the information session I need to give to prospective candidates for the job. There is a presentation that already exists, but the information on the slides is woefully out of date, and it is quite honestly one of the ugliest set of slides I've had the misfortune of seeing. It's an embarrassment, and so I am re-doing it, even though my PowerPoint skills are pretty rudimentary. I managed four slides, and they look decent to my eye. I may try and find some friends to look it over (it's a presentation for external candidates, so there's no classified information) just to confirm that I'm not overestimating my abilities.
By the time I got to the grocery store to pick up my order I had run out of energy, to the point where the nice boy who brought out my groceries asked me if I wanted to keep the bags that came with my groceries and I blanked so hard. Decision fatigue is the real deal, folks! Anyway, we figured it out (he was very understanding about my not being able to make a decision about plastic bags) and I brought all the groceries back. I actually forgot about them when I got home, but luckily remembered a few minutes after and managed to bring them all in and put them away.
Long story short: stick a fork in me, I am done. I might try a bullet point list of the things that have been trotting around in my head, kind of like a way to download them all and be able to refer back (supposing I ever refer back to this post--I am notoriously not good at doing that sort of thing). Inch'Allah I will get back to it eventually.
- Training Peggy: I'd like to do a lot more work with Peggy on her training this summer. This includes basic obedience training as well as hunting, but if she does well with the obedience I'd like to get her doing a bit of agility as well. I think she'd really enjoy it and it would be a good way for her to burn off energy.
- Veggie garden: because of the lockdown I haven't been able to go with the original plan of taking advantage of the new-to-me friend's offer of using a parcel of her unused farmland to grow veggies. It's also looking like KK and I will be living here for at least another year, so I am looking at growing at least a few fruits and vegetables in the house and maybe a couple in the garden even though there's not much room there. I'm thinking of trying to convert the basement with grow lights and heat pads and mini greenhouse covers and see what I can get going in terms of food grown at home.
- More garden stuff! This is probably insane, but I want to try a small aquaponics setup, probably in the basement again. Cost and the ability to set it all up will be the determining factor, but OTOH I could grow my own tilapia! How cool would that be?
- Clear out the garage: this one is definitely going to happen one way or another because it's the only way KK and I will both be able to have our cars parked at the house. I am considering the state of my finances and trying to determine if it's worth it to bring back the professional organizers for a single day, because I figure that's about as long as it would take to get it cleared out with the help of one or two determined professionals. It is still likely to be quite expensive, though not nearly as expensive as it was to get the upstairs cleared out (small mercies), but probably worth it in terms of actually getting it done and not having to deal with getting rid of the donations, at least (the professionals do that for you, which is great!).
- Kitting out the garage with proper storage for tools and such.
- Proper meal planning and cooking from scratch.
- Working my way back up to being able to run ~5km and doing that regularly with Peggy.
I feel like there was more, but I can't remember any of it now. Oh well. Maybe it'll come back to me later. It's now nearly 9:00 pm and I am faaaaading. Time for bed.
