Week in the Life: Sunday December 17

Hey friends, we're doing a one week experiment where we hang out each day and I'll tell you everything that's going on in my life (inspired by Stephany's Week in the Life series).  

Somehow a full week has gone by already and our time of hanging out together daily is at an end.  But that doesn't mean that you're SOL if you want more week in the life...because YES YES YES YES KIM IS DOING IT NOW!!!!!!!!!!

I sleep past 7 and stay in bed until the Hubs wakes up.  We go downstairs together and tiptoe past a heap of sleeping boys in the living room.  We make breakfast and hang out in the back room

The Mug du Jour is my other big coffee mug: What part of [elaborate music score] don't you understand?  It was funnier back when I played piano.  I gave that up a few years ago when I realized that I was never going to progress beyond where I was and every practice session just felt like it was reinforcing my mediocre music skills.  The more I think about it I actually hate the mug now, so I should find another big coffee mug that I would enjoy drinking my weekend coffee out of.  I grab another Costco breakfast sandwich out of the freezer and toss it in the air fryer.  Wordle/Spelling Bee/NYT crossword go down and blogs are read.

There's no getting around it, I've got a huge case of the Sunday Scaries.  I don't have a plan for what I want to do today and I don't want to go back to work tomorrow.  After a week of days of back to back sunshine it's gloomy and cold.

Spoiler there's no "and then this amazing thing happened that turned the day around", it's just an overall dreary day.  

Later in the afternoon I hit the grocery store for a pretty hefty haul and I'm amazed that it's only $75.  In total there have been 4 trips to the grocery this week and $150 spent which seems low.  I've skated by without going to Costco.

I restock my eggless breakfast burrito supply.  I usually don't bother to add spinach but I did this time because I made another recipe that used it.

I'm a big proponent of always having burritos in the freezer but all burritos look the same from the outside so labeling is important.  My code is unlabeled = non-breakfast burritos, BB = the egg, sausage, and potato breakfast burritos that are my gold standard, and now VBB = veggie breakfast burritos.

Then I make a tofu curry for lunches which is where the other half of the bag of spinach went.  It's a new recipe and it's kinda meh so I won't share it.  I'll keep searching for a better curry but this will do for now.

The fam takes off for their nighttime activity.  I make baked ziti which is ready by the time they come home.  The Hubs and I grab a glass of wine to go with dinner.

Another day another Advent puzzle session.

It's up to bed for the NYT crossword and reading.  Since I just finished a book the night before I need something new...or better yet an old favorite to reread.  I scan my bookshelves and pick out The Rainbow and The Rose which is another Nevil Shute novel.  I'd forgotten most of the story so it's almost entirely a new book.

For whatever reason sleep is a disaster and sleep meditations don't help...so yeech.  But that's a story for the next time we talk.

What Have We Learned Here

• It takes me an abnormally long time to drink a cup of coffee.
  
• Like I said, I've tried and failed to write day in the life posts before, so I was surprised that I was able to get into a groove and do a whole week - I'm a slow writer so I did need the "head start" of holding back Monday's post until Wednesday.  It cut into my TV watching time but what are you going to do.  
• I think I'd like to make this an annual thing.  Next year what will be the same and what will be different?
• Oddly I feel better about my mundane life==>that's why I'd recommend trying this out.  Also December is kind of a "heavy" month emotionally so it helped to have this project.
  
• My job doesn't sound so awful written out from day to day but the core of what bugs me is here.  The morning pileups caused by the time difference that leave my head foggy.  The manual work.  The lack of a need for cognitive function on the job.  The crappy stuff that my company has done to employees in the past...yes all of these things could be worse and there's the offset of a nice paycheck, not always having to work very hard, and freedom of time for large chunks of the day.  It's a good enough job for right now but I can't wait until the day when I have satisfying work again or NO WORK. 
  
• Selfishly I love reading day in the life posts and week in life even more so I'm thrilled that Kim is picking up the baton.  I'm not telling anyone else what to do but I'll just say that if I see that title pop up in my Feedly I'm going to rush to click it.
• It's kind of NaBloPo lite project.

Thanks for hanging out everyone!