It’s not freezing, but I am. It was a day of being swaddled in winter
layers of CuddleDuds, a pullover top, and a cardigan sweater. Not even turning
on the heat and adding a ski neck gaiter, warm socks, and steady stream
of hot beverages helped. My hands are like ice. So is my nose. It's 68 degrees in the house, so what exactly is the problem?
Being cold is one thing, but there is always more. Working remotely is feeling a
little too remote lately. Life with no people and little human contact and no
conversation for most of the day and all of the night is feeling a bit too isolated.
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Not feeling entertained.
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There is a steady stream of technology annoyances and hiccups, some of my own doing. Stupid,
dumb things like thinking I’m closing a file or a tab but closing the program or
the browser instead. Or accidentally moving a work file and burying it inside
another file where it would take a miracle to find it. The freaky laptop mouse/touch
pad that causes chunks of text to jump elsewhere or disappear, or makes strange
and confusing boxes pop up. Turning on the TV and getting the Xfinity screen of
nothingness and having to reboot the cable box roughly every two weeks (or
less) to get to the welcome in three languages followed by the promise of connecting me with my entertainment experience.
The thousand tiny cuts of aggravation are causing some extra
crankiness, but I'm living up to the full potential of the prophecy of the patch that Santa put in
my stocking when I was nine or ten years old. It has Lucy from Peanuts and says “World’s crabbiest female.” Yes, I still have the patch, because as we know, I am a
bit of a packrat. The condition will probably never go away, either.
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| Rice and deliciousness. |
Thankfully, there are many things that go right that help to
offset the deep vein of cranky. The dogs were little angels today, all adorable
and cute. The work things that went right, went right. Lunch was a super yummy vegetable soup with dense bread and butter and supper was a tasty compilation of bits and things with rice and chips and queso. The mail finally came today. Browsing Whole Foods after
work scored a delivery window of groceries including bagels, cream cheese, peppermint
tea, Echinacea tea, and a restock of paper products which arrived on the doorstep at
8:15 pm. The Whole Foods order has a $10 bonus coupon for Amazon Prime Day
which will help cover the hot cocoa and cookies currently in my Amazon cart, so
there is a silver lining to the grocery bag. And it’s the brink of a long
weekend of three days and minimal plans. Life is annoying and at the same time it’s also sweet.
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