January 25, 2017

 Waking up this morning was rough. I got about six hours of sleep and I am not a six hours of sleep kind of person. It took a lot of effort to just sit up after ignoring my alarm clock for awhile.

Work today was fairly uneventful. And I'm not just saying that because it's almost 10:30PM and I still need to record my audio journal before I can go to sleep.

I opened and did all the normal opening stuff. We got another personalized reading list request and I think it had been there since Monday, so I took it because I felt like I needed something to do. I think it is my sixth or seventh reading list I have done this month. Possibly a new record for me. I nearly finished it today, and I basically did because I have all the books, I'm just trying to decide between two books for the last book in the list.

I got the tax posters from the IRS today so I put those up down by our tax forms. Twice. For the first go I went down to the basement and got two foam board things, used binder clips to lock them together so I could stand it on the table, and pinned the posters on both sides. Not too long after I got it set up my boss got to work and went to take a look at it. She said her favorite part was the posters, which is great but I had nothing to do with the posters. When I came back from lunch she had found another version of foam board thing that she liked better because it didn't need to be binder-clipped together. I think mine was more stable but whatever. I also printed out more of the tax help handouts because those are going out left and right.

I came up with a list and pulled more books for the Inspirational display because it was looking a little low. I should now be set on both of my displays through the end of the month.

And I think that was pretty much my day at work. I know there were other things that I am now forgetting but we have learned that is what happens when I don't take notes while things are happening.

After work I went to Target to get a few things. I basically needed to restock on lunch stuff. I'm good on dinner stuff for a bit. Then I stopped by my Mom's house to pick up the books I had delivered today. I got a few books for my brother's upcoming birthday and I got the Betty Crocker cookbook that we recently got at the library. I went through the library copy before it was added into the collection and took a bunch of pictures. I ended up using one of those pictures to make pancakes on Monday. It has so much good information so I decided I should probably get it for myself. It would be much easier than scrolling through pictures on my phone.

When I got home I cooked dinner. I recreated the roasted vegetables with brown rice recipe I made with my Hello Fresh box. The only differences were me using dried herbs and vegetable broth instead of vegetable concentrate. Despite that, it turned out pretty tasty. I'm not a fan of making the sauce for it because as it simmers it spits everywhere and that means oil gets all over the stovetop. Not a fan. But the food was good and I pretty much nailed the proportions because I had a big bowl tonight and I have a big bowl of leftovers. This weekend maybe I want to make the roasted red potatoes with a sour cream sauce. Or come up with something for an acorn squash. My Dad and sister went down to see my grandma and aunt today and came back with a hot pad for me and an acorn squash. There are basic preparation instructions in my new cookbook, so I might just do that, but I'm going to look around and see if it is good in something, like chili or something.

With the rest of my night I watched YouTube videos and played Farming Simulator 15. I ended up getting an increased demand for canola the freight yard twice. I recently sold my giant stash of canola, which is unfortunate, but I had a decent amount saved up and was able to get back up to $400,000 with the first demand. Right now I'm harvesting my crops again to get in on the second demand. Raking in the big bucks.

Now I'm going to stop writing this because it is almost 11:30PM and I need to record my audio journal so I can go to sleep.