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Pi Day Sucks

So, technically Pi Day (3/14) is the anniversary of when I started my blog. I’ve been hacked since then, so I had to delete all the old posts, but I’m pretty sure that’s when I began a bunch of years ago. So I was going to do something cool, and bake a pie from my new Supernatural cookbook as a way to celebrate my writing anniversary and SPN’s last season. I was super excited about it.

Then the universe saw what I was planning and said:

“No, you know what? Fuck you, actually.”

So, instead of spending a fun day baking, I have spent a miserable day on my sofa suffering from food poisoning. And with a nationwide run on toilet paper, this is the worst possible timing for random stomach issues.

I’m certain the universe hates me.

Seriously, a small blue trash can.
I’d like to dedicate this post to my office trash can. Once an ordinary waste bin, it really stepped up today as an emergency bucket. And, dear God, yes, this is how my day has been going.

Organized Chaos

About a year ago, right before we brought our son home, I decided to reorganize the entire house. My main goal was to clear out some space so we’d have room to keep stuff for our kid, but I also had started to turn into a bit of a pack rat and wanted to just clear out stuff I didn’t need anymore.

So I did the whole KonMari process. It actually worked pretty well, at least for me, and I ended up getting the house in pretty good shape before we got our son.

I’ve fallen off the wagon a little in keeping up the organization, but I still manage to find time for all the KonMari folding. And for some reason, I am super proud of my makeup drawer organization.

Makeup Drawer

Uninspired

I don’t know why life is so damn exhausting right now, but it is. Most of my energy for anything creative has drained out of me, and I feel like I barely have the energy to get through the day. I even ended up working from home today, so I didn’t have to put on nice clothes or do my makeup or anything, and I’m still tired. I want to go sit in my office and do something creative, but instead I’m going to go to bed, and hope that 10 hours of sleeping might help.

Scent of the Day

I didn’t feel like I had anything to write about today. I’ve been completely exhausted this week and didn’t really have any energy to come up with post ideas. But then I realized that we were running out of hand soap, and went over to Bath and Body Works website, and that inspired me.

I love their stuff, but some of these scent names are getting ridiculous. Some of them are fine, and are just a description of the scent, like “Fresh Cut Lilacs” or “Kitchen Lemon”. To the point, if not a little bland. But then there’s “Unicorn Milkshake”. I mean, really? What is that supposed to smell like? I’ll know soon enough, because I’m totally buying that one. Really, how can I not? But I have so many questions. Is it a milkshake for unicorns? Or made by them? Or, on a more dark path, made of unicorns? Hopefully not that last one.

Then there was a soap called “Daydream”. That was it. I looked up the description on that one, just because I could glean nothing from the name, and it’s described as “an optimistic blend of fresh raspberries, sparkling pear & pink lily petals”, which, admittedly sounds awesome. Also, I did not know that soaps could be optimistic. Maybe that’s where I’ve been going wrong in life, by not having an optimistic enough soap.

Off My Lawn

I’m old. This is a hard thing to accept, but there we are. I’m old, and out of touch with technology, something I swore I’d never be.

I have an Instagram account. I’ve had one for a whole week, which is like a century in internet time, and I haven’t posted a damn thing. It’s not that I can’t figure out the interface. That much I have a handle on. Hit button, take picture, picture goes to internet. It’s just… what are you supposed to put up pictures of? Yourself? Your dog? Places you’ve been? I keep wanting to put… something up there. But then I hesitate, because I don’t really understand what you’re supposed to do, so I keep second guessing myself and thinking that I must be doing it wrong somehow.

Sigh. It’s like I said. I’m old.

Sleepy Shiba

Today has been kind of boring and tedious, for some weird reason. I’m pretty much just exhausted, everyone in the house is some level of sick, and I could totally go to bed right now, even though it’s not even dark out yet.

So, since it’s such a lazy day, for Shiba Sunday I decided on a picture of Mari sleeping. I took this one this afternoon while my girl was napping. She was not impressed with my picture taking.

Sleeping Shiba Inu

Starting from Scratch

Weekends go by too fast. It’s Saturday night already, but to me it still feels like it should be 9 in the morning. I have no idea where the day went.

On the upside, I did make it to the library today. It was my son’s first library trip, and even though he’s a little too young to really appreciate the books, he liked the play area, and seemed to enjoy being there. I loved going to the library when I was a kid, so I hope my son will love it too.

And I now have a bunch of books about CSS and WordPress, since the last real coding for the internet I did was over a decade ago, and was in plain old HTML. I can’t for the life of me sort out the WordPress CSS tags. Time to do some research.

Scaredy Cat

My cat is terrified of thunderstorms. She isn’t particularly afraid of anything else. Actually, she’s usually kind of an asshole who attacks our friends and family at random, although she’s mellowed out a little in her old age. But she spent half the day on the couch with me today, cuddling and keeping me company while I try to recover from my bad cold, and looking for comfort from me once the storms started. We had one bad thunderstorm this afternoon, complete with hail, and my sometimes vicious little monster of a cat lay in my lap crying while I petted her until it was over. Even though she can be a jerk, I still love her, and days like today remind me of why.