May 13, 2017

 I went from having the most glorious plans of sleeping in this morning to getting a massive cramp in my right calf muscle at 8:00AM on the dot. Talk about a “good” way to be instantly woken up. And I was reminded of it throughout the day every time I took a step. It was pretty great.

I made a private Facebook group today and invited the librarian who just left, the librarian I do homebound with, and the teen librarian. I thought it would be the best way for all of us to keep in touch as a group. Granted, three of us still work at the library, but I think the group is important for all of us. So I made it. I also had fun making the cover image, which has a picture that says “Sarcasm: Now Served All Day”, on top of a background that is a picture of a card catalog. I like it.

The rest of the morning and early afternoon kind of got away from me. I spent more time trying to figure out how to get up to twenty-five dollars on my JetPens order to get free shipping. I keep picking stuff and then changing my mind. Maybe by June I'll have it sorted out.

I ran on the elliptical for awhile, took a nap, and eventually got ready, made lunch, loaded up my car, and headed out. My first stop was the mall so I could buy a book and a gift card for my Mom. They have such a long checkout spiel at the bookstore. Thankfully I was close enough to the guy in front of me that the lady knew I had heard it all and gave me the abridged version.

On my way to my Mom's house I stopped to get gas and finally cleaned the bugs off my windshield. When I got to my Mom's house I realized I forgot to bring my laptop, so I started a load of laundry and ran back to my house to grab my laptop.

The first thing I did when I got back to my Mom's house was eat lunch. I think it was like three o'clock at this point, probably after. I was hungry. Then I printed off a return label for the date stamp. It showed up last night, instead of on Thursday like it was supposed to, forcing me to buy another one. Now I just need to find the time to drop it off at UPS.

I finally finished watching Young Guns and I've gotta say, I'm not a fan. It may be because I watched it over the course of a week on my lunch breaks, but it just didn't do anything for me. The flow of the movie and the storyline seemed off. And the peyote scene lasted way too long. I'm cool never watching it again.

I also watched the last half of The Avengers and the first bit of Olympus Has Fallen. Both are more entertaining than Young Guns.

My laundry was finally done around 7:30PM and I was able to head home to make dinner. I made my first Blue Apron meal, which was stir fried wonton noodles with bok choy and radishes. It came with shiitake mushrooms but I gave those to my Mom because I generally not a fan of mushrooms and I wasn't feeling that adventurous tonight. I was a little bit though because I never would have thought to use bok choy or radishes. The radishes were marinated in rice vinegar, another thing that I doubt I would have ever tried, but it worked out. And to finish it off I added cashews and furikake seasoning, which is a combination of sesame seeds and seaweed, among other things. And surprisingly, it was pretty tasty. I would make it again. And thankfully I would eat it again because I have leftovers.

Right after I got home my friend and his dad stopped by for a little bit. As I was finishing the dishes and cleaning up after dinner my friend came back over and we watched several episodes of Master of None. We inadvertently watched the first episode of the first season but then switched to the second season and watched the first three episodes. I had only ever seen the last ten minutes or so of the first episode of the first season but want to actually watch the show at some point because I like Aziz Ansari.

It is now somehow two o'clock in the morning. Good grief. I need to record my audio journal. And then, hopefully, I will go to bed and sleep in a little bit.