random thoughts – Day 1,695 – (Thursday) – food and moon

It’s now prime time in the busy season for events at work and in the community. Last Thursday morning was the Salvation Army fundraiser breakfast. Today there was a work event to celebrate the 10^th anniversary of the Multicultural Alliance and Working Parents Resource group, two of our employee resource groups. There was a lunch and a fair with all six of our ERGs present.

The lunch was a buffet with food from various cultures. There was a rice dish, a chicken and potato dish, egg rolls, spanikopita, stuffed grape leaves, pad thai, pizza, and probably a few other things I forgot.

The resource groups each had a table with info, giveaway items including customized cookies, quizzes, games, and scavenger hunts. It was informative, fun, and the food was delicious. Having another opportunity to eat lunch in room that wasn’t our office and chat with people from other departments felt like the good old days before the pandemic that derailed and disrupted the world. The event was everything that colleagues and I have said we missed while working remote. It. Was. Wonderful.

Moon, wreath, light.

Of course, I ate too much. It was too good to not do so. Plus, I’ve been feeling extra-special stressed out and tired lately, which now manifests itself as eating everything in sight in gross quantities as if I could smother the stress and angst. It doesn’t even work. I really miss the days when stress made me lose my appetite and forget to eat. Those were grand days. But the baklava and flan today were also mighty grand.

After work, the fat, silver moon hung over downtown. The holiday wreaths are hung on the lamp posts in preparation for the holidays and the Festival of Lights parade. I was the dork standing on the sidewalk shuffling a few steps this way and that way while trying to find the magic spot where the moon was centered in a wreath. The alignment worked, but a tripod would have helped with sharpness.