The highlight of my day so far is cooking dinner, which honestly wasn’t that exciting. Ground beef and cumin mixed with brown rice and a Greek yogurt/cucumber mixture. It was good, but of course no one wanted the yogurt except me. I am so bored today.
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October 7
Nice evening walk after dinner. The weather was so perfect and I got treated to this.
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October 6
It was a slow day filled with doing practically nothing. But Jackson came and posed for me with his Albert Einstein eyebrows. So precious.
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October 5
It was a busy day. Gym, then coffee, then back to the gym with the girls for their certification to use the equipment alone, then fall festival at school (which was disappointing since almost all the vendors were selling the same thing and it was raining and none of the kids’ friends were there), then dinner at European Street with Rosina and Dion. Oh, and the Yankees won game one against the Royals!
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October 4
Had a nice team event at work and got to see Christina’s play in the Festival of Courage. This will be our last one! The check-out procedure afterwards was a disaster and I felt so horrible for Ms. LaTanya, who was getting reamed out by multiple parents, as though she wasn’t sitting up front all by herself, surrounded by a mob or parents trying to pick up their children. She was literally in tears and parents were still yelling at her. How rude and inconsiderate do you have to be? I was angry and wanted so much to give her a hug. I hope that guy is happy with himself.
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October 3
I wish I could find the dial that controls emotions because mine are always turned up way too high. A walk around the block with the girls and the dogs helped, but I think what I really need is an overnight trek in the mountains. Too bad that is just not in the cards right now.
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October 2
I had to do a test at the hospital that took up most of my afternoon, so I stopped at Chili’s for a late lunch and watched part of the game that eliminated the Astros from the postseason (oh darn). Nice to have a little time for myself.
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October 1
We finally completed the last game in the Harry Potter expansion set, after months of effort. We had done it once before, but definitely cheated that time. This time we did not cheat, and it definitely felt a lot more fulfilling to win. It’s pretty fun, and definitely challenging! Nice way to end a Tuesday.
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September 30
Pinot is available to assist in picking up any Doritos that may happen to fall.
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September 29
Someone on my team at work had the idea to get everyone together to share summer vacation photos, so I set up a WebEx for Friday. And because I can’t ever stop at simple, I decided to buy these cute tiki glasses, leis, straws, and summer cocktail mixers to send to everyone on the team. Now I have to go to the Post Office.
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September 28
This dove took me half a day to make because apparently I suck at embroidery. I had to make six or seven wings before I finally got these two. I didn’t hate the effort, but it did take forever. Nine ornaments left to do and two months to do it.
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September 27
Last night’s storm was pretty significant. It’s the most wind we’ve had since Matthew, I think. The wind kept me up most of the night. There is so much debris in our yard and a tree fell on the neighbor’s fence so we can’t let the dogs out on their own. Otherwise no real damage. I’m very glad we got the trees taken care of on Wednesday. I think it might have been a very different story if we hadn’t. Our across the street neighbors had a tree fall on their house, not more than two weeks after they sold it. I can only imagine what they are going through. All in all, though, no one was hurt, very little flooding, and we are only left with inconveniences. Could have been much worse.
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September 26
This is one of those rare times that someone said a storm is coming and it actually came. It’s very windy right now. And if it’s like this here, I can only imagine what it’s like in Tallahassee. I’m very glad we had our tree work done yesterday.
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September 25
My windows are filthy, but our trees are no longer hanging on top of the roof! These guys showed up one minute after my alarm went off at 7:15 and were gone by 9:30. They trimmed three trees and removed one. Our yard is a mess, but I’m relieved to have it done. It feels like there is so much still to do, like I dunno, wash the windows? And of course now we need to clean the gutters. Twice in one year? I can’t remember ever cleaning the gutters twice in the same year. Honestly I’m not even sure we ever cleaned the gutters twice ever. Not bad, Caitlin. Not bad.
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September 24
I wasn’t seen for my 11:15 doctor’s appointment until 12:45, at which point she told me that the abnormal test results she’d made me come in to discuss were a false positive and not a concern. And yet she ordered an additional test anyway, just to complete the irritating circumstance. I like her a lot, so I can forgive her, but gahd, so annoyed!
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