Loads of Food Pics
How's everyone doing with this election BS?
Don't want to talk about it? Very cool.
I'm going to just start with how my week went.
This was my all-onsite work week. It's always a bummer because I lose sleep and daylight hours to the commute, but one week out of every month still isn't so bad. I did my best not to fall asleep or lose my mind.
My training sessions have been going well. I think soon most people will have been trained, so my groups will get smaller and smaller.
In stenography/court reporting, I've started speedbuilding. Supposedly I should see an improvement in speed of 20wpm every eight weeks or so. It's hard to imagine but I've made it this far!
On Halloween night I had planned to make caramel apples and roasted pumpkin seeds, but there just wasn't enough time.
Carving our pumpkins took over an hour, plus the cleanup, so by the time I got the seeds cleaned and boiled it was almost 10pm. I laid them out to dry and put our pumpkins outside for others to enjoy :) This year we have a little bone-colored Jack Skellington, A Jason mask (Jameson's design), and my little toothy guy with Pokemon-like eyeballs.
They stood guard over our socially-distanced pre-assembled candy bags. We put everything in front of the Ring so we could see any trick-or-treaters and give compliments on costumes.
Sadly we didn't get any trick-or-treaters this year, but that wasn't surprising. We live in a vacation rental neighborhood, so last year we didn't get any either. More candy for us! How sad! :p
We did get some visitors though! Some of Jameson's friends came by to say hello and steal some of our goods!
They brought their dog so imo they can have as much candy as they want!
We stood in the doorway and chatted for a bit. Socializing really feels like a special event now.
It was cool of them to drop by, made our Halloween!
We watched M. Night Shyamalan's "Devil", which was pretty good! Then we went to bed. Happy Halloween to us.
After work the next day the seeds were nice and dry, so I seasoned them with butter, garlic salt, and pepper and roasted them in the air fryer. They turned out excellent.
A while ago Jameson ordered us some "magic puzzles", and they finally arrived!
This was a kickstarter so I'm not sure if they're available in stores yet, but they will be at some point.
We got three puzzles, 1000 pieces each. Each puzzle has distinct artwork and they all look beautiful.
I won't be posting many pics of our progress because I don't want to spoil the "magic", whatever that will be, for anyone. But I can tell you that putting these together is an intriguing and fun experience. These are definitely not your standard puzzles. Each piece has beautiful details and miniature art within art. The pieces range drastically in shape and size too. Can't wait to see how the finished piece turns out!
It seemed like a long week, but I made it to Tuesday and the start of my work-from-home shifts again. Yay! I've felt very tired again this week, maybe from physical inactivity, or from the extroverted energy required to put on presentations. Or maybe because Jameson has been really down lately. His friends lost their jobs last week, and this week two of his friends passed away. Plus this election. And then he thought he had a good gig to look forward to in coming months, but it's turning out to be a fail because some members of the band are unprofessional and disorganized. As a musician, I can't even begin to describe how frustrating it is when a paying gig is ruined due to the people in your band acting like children. Jameson is already struggling with so much, and this experience just makes him not want to be involved in music any more. I hate to say it but I can relate. Part of the reason I stopped being a musician is because I couldn't stand how other musicians behaved...either jaded, or immature, or unprofessional, or all three. It's not sustainable, and now with the whole live music industry grinding to a very serious halt you would think that musicians would buckle down and do their best on every gig. Sadly, I guess not.
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Don't want to talk about it? Very cool.
I'm going to just start with how my week went.
This was my all-onsite work week. It's always a bummer because I lose sleep and daylight hours to the commute, but one week out of every month still isn't so bad. I did my best not to fall asleep or lose my mind.
My training sessions have been going well. I think soon most people will have been trained, so my groups will get smaller and smaller.
In stenography/court reporting, I've started speedbuilding. Supposedly I should see an improvement in speed of 20wpm every eight weeks or so. It's hard to imagine but I've made it this far!
On Halloween night I had planned to make caramel apples and roasted pumpkin seeds, but there just wasn't enough time.
Carving our pumpkins took over an hour, plus the cleanup, so by the time I got the seeds cleaned and boiled it was almost 10pm. I laid them out to dry and put our pumpkins outside for others to enjoy :) This year we have a little bone-colored Jack Skellington, A Jason mask (Jameson's design), and my little toothy guy with Pokemon-like eyeballs.
They stood guard over our socially-distanced pre-assembled candy bags. We put everything in front of the Ring so we could see any trick-or-treaters and give compliments on costumes.
Sadly we didn't get any trick-or-treaters this year, but that wasn't surprising. We live in a vacation rental neighborhood, so last year we didn't get any either. More candy for us! How sad! :p
We did get some visitors though! Some of Jameson's friends came by to say hello and steal some of our goods!
They brought their dog so imo they can have as much candy as they want!
We stood in the doorway and chatted for a bit. Socializing really feels like a special event now.
It was cool of them to drop by, made our Halloween!
We watched M. Night Shyamalan's "Devil", which was pretty good! Then we went to bed. Happy Halloween to us.
After work the next day the seeds were nice and dry, so I seasoned them with butter, garlic salt, and pepper and roasted them in the air fryer. They turned out excellent.
A while ago Jameson ordered us some "magic puzzles", and they finally arrived!
This was a kickstarter so I'm not sure if they're available in stores yet, but they will be at some point.
We got three puzzles, 1000 pieces each. Each puzzle has distinct artwork and they all look beautiful.
I won't be posting many pics of our progress because I don't want to spoil the "magic", whatever that will be, for anyone. But I can tell you that putting these together is an intriguing and fun experience. These are definitely not your standard puzzles. Each piece has beautiful details and miniature art within art. The pieces range drastically in shape and size too. Can't wait to see how the finished piece turns out!
It seemed like a long week, but I made it to Tuesday and the start of my work-from-home shifts again. Yay! I've felt very tired again this week, maybe from physical inactivity, or from the extroverted energy required to put on presentations. Or maybe because Jameson has been really down lately. His friends lost their jobs last week, and this week two of his friends passed away. Plus this election. And then he thought he had a good gig to look forward to in coming months, but it's turning out to be a fail because some members of the band are unprofessional and disorganized. As a musician, I can't even begin to describe how frustrating it is when a paying gig is ruined due to the people in your band acting like children. Jameson is already struggling with so much, and this experience just makes him not want to be involved in music any more. I hate to say it but I can relate. Part of the reason I stopped being a musician is because I couldn't stand how other musicians behaved...either jaded, or immature, or unprofessional, or all three. It's not sustainable, and now with the whole live music industry grinding to a very serious halt you would think that musicians would buckle down and do their best on every gig. Sadly, I guess not.
( Read more... )