Bibliomama

 1. NICOLE. Nicole gets me - also we are so similar in some ways (I wish also in the bendy and athletic ways, but alas...). I was a little apprehensive about the three-appointment day, but I was comforted by the fact that there was ample time between each appointment for delays, they were all close together, and in a pinch I could always cancel the vaxx appointments yet again - it's been so hard to find a time, and I did really want to get them done, but I've had important stuff every weekend and I usually feel really crappy after vaccinations, so I needed a Thursday and not a Friday. I crashed hard last night and when I was putting on body lotion last night I pressed on the flu shot site without thinking and almost passed out, but I don't feel too bad today. I did, however, completely forget that I was supposed to go to book club last night. I may not have felt up to going, but I would have sent an email.  2. Eve is looking into doing a Biology Master's next year. She ...

 I had three medical or medical-adjacent appointments today. Usually I wouldn't set it up that way, but I've had a few issues scheduling my flu and covid shots. The first time I wrote the day and time in my calendar but forgot to write the location. The second time I realized that I had made the appointment on a Tuesday after two previous Tuesdays having unpleasant appointments on them and I didn't want to feel crappy for my long work day on Wednesday. THEN I made the appointment for the third time and accidentally made it for a location that was way farther away from my home than it needed to be. Finally I made the appointment for 1:30 today, and then got a call from my doctor's office to make an appointment for a medication review which I made for 11:30. And then my massage therapist asked if I could come in today at 3:30, and she's amazing and books up really fast so I said yes. THEN I got a confirmation email from my doctor's office saying my appointment was...

I forgot to post yesterday! One day last week I had gone upstairs and then almost went back down to my computer but forced myself not to just to prove that I am less obsessive these days and could skip a day and not go nuts over it. That is DIFFERENT from just forgetting, which annoys me. My Lucy post earlier today was to make up for it.   I felt amazing yesterday. It was my day off and I woke up at eight and got up and started doing stuff, which never happens. I had still read until two a.m.I put on comfy clothes and running shoes and went to move shit in the basement, hoping the shoes would save my back, which they did to an extent. I sorted laundry and put the baskets on top of the washer and dryer so I had room to bring out Christmas boxes, then looked through the boxes and put the ones I would want sooner out at the bottom of the stairs for Matt to bring up before he leaves on Monday. Then I bagged up some stuff for donation and also moved some stuff from the main basement are...

 My husband did come up to check on my last night, mostly because he was surprised I hadn't asked for a Diet Pepsi. I have one in the afternoon, but I hadn't had one yesterday and I said I might ask him to bring one up when I headed upstairs. When he came up it was pretty late already - not for sleeping, lol, but for having a Diet Pepsi and then hoping to fall asleep at some point. I thought I might wake up with a headache but I did not. I FaceTimed with Eve and read and didn't end up falling asleep until about 11:30, which is still early for me, but I had a really good sleep. I had not had dinner, but when I got home Matt was making hamburger soup with short rib instead of hamburger, so I had a late lunch. I also did not wake up hungry. Things just worked out. I guess sometimes you just need to take to your bed at 6:30. The games we played at the cottage: Very Loud Librarians . Quiddler,  and Heads Up , and maybe one I'm forgetting? Oh yes, it was Asshole - the card ga...

Yesterday was a lot of fun, and today I came home and did some stuff and talked over some things with my husband and came upstairs and had a bath and folded four baskets of laundry, then glanced at my phone and thought, well 8:30 is early but I'm going to read for a while anyway. Then I looked again and realized it was actually SIX-thirty. Then I got in bed anyway. 

 Tomorrow we're going to Collette's dad's cottage for our yearly Christmas-shopping, hanging-out-playing-board-games overnight thing. Yesterday before I went out to the craft show I made lemon pepper chicken in the instant pot and used the bones to make chicken stock so I could make soup for the cottage today. Then I had a massage this afternoon that was helpful but really painful, came home and sat on the couch for an hour and almost decided to go up to bed before Matt even got home and realized I still needed to make the soup. It's this soup . I make it at least a couple of times a year, but I usually don't make the pesto because it's good enough without it. One time I used the full amount of red curry paste and it was a little harsh, and every time since I've thought I could have put in a little more red curry paste. I sometimes think it's a little too sweet, and then everyone else insists that it's perfect and I should not screw with it. Matt cho...

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 I had downloaded a couple of movies before we left for the cabin on the weekend. Once we got there we discovered that there was a projector that could play media on the pine wall of the cabin. We had access to Netflix, but we decided we didn't really feel like watching anything dense, partly because occasionally there was a lamp in the middle of somebody's face. We decided on raunchy comedy specials instead. I had recently watched Ali Wong: Single Lady at home. She is so cute and so very filthy, and I sounded like a loon giggling at home alone. My friend Suzie lent me her book Dear Girls, which was also very funny, so I suggested to Matt that we watch one of her earlier specials. We watched Baby Cobra, which she did seven months pregnant. It was good but I didn't find it quite as funny as Single Lady, partly because a lot of the jokes were the same ones I had just read in the book. After that we watched Gad Elmaleh in New York. He's Moroccan and French and a Moroccan f...

 1. I have sat with the idea of the postal strike for a few days. It still sucks. I'm sad about the Christmas cards, particularly because I got my pictures printed early this year and would have been uncharacteristically ahead of the game. BUT it might still be resolved, and there's no point in dwelling on it either way. I do feel really bad for the small business owners - some of them are losing thousands of dollars a day, and if this drags on it will have a terrible impact. I am also very sympathetic to the postal workers. We've always been friendly with ours, and they have definitely been treated really badly on occasion, and obviously when we're talking big corporations and employees, I'm going to come down on the side of the employees. I just don't know how realistic their demands are - they might be, but it's a different world for shipping, and Canada Post has definitely been losing money. Regardless, it's definitely an effective time for them to s...

Two people, one tiny cabin, some wine and a ladder up to bed. What could go wrong? My friend Jody (HI JODY) found these adorable glamping cabins in Quebec and I shamelessly stole her idea (SORRY JODY) for the one weekend my husband is home this fall.  The weather has been the perfect mix of what he likes (sunny) and what I like (cold).  This small canoe felt extremely tippy, but the water was gorgeous. Matt suggested I could just post the pictures without telling everyone what a whiny coward I was, but that's just not me.  So pretty. So tippy.  I read on the deck until my fingers wouldn't move anymore.  Hot tub and fire pit on deck.  Lucy living her best life with Sonia and Avani.