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Dragging

Woke up at 7 AM. Oliver wants food. Fed us all. Nap time.

Had a nice nap. Overslept a little. I’m trying to wake up to get my clothes in the dryer. Oliver is fussing over me, purring. You were fed this morning. No, you’re not getting more food.

Looked at the Chicago Red Line maps. I need to write down the stops before my stops so that I know when to get ready to get off.

I really want to go back to sleep, but I can’t because I need to go to the post office. Maybe I could nap for a half hour while my clothes dry.

Gracie is barking at Oliver. A quiet morning at home.

Hmm. The Mattis post office is open until 5 PM. I’m thinking of going back to sleep for an hour. Or maybe I’ll stay awake and just sit for a while. The dogs are barking loudly. Maybe I’ll stop at Staples and pick up some printer ink. I’m having some shipped to me, but it’s delayed. And I need to go to Walmart.

Cat (Oliver) in my face. He is not shy about getting attention. Lily tends to go off on her own except when she wants food.

No, I’m going back to bed. Oooh, I’m dizzy. I’ll stop at the (closed) post office later to mail letters. Then I’ll go to Walmart. Slept well until Gracie started pushing me off the bed.

Solstice. I had the lights on at 4:30.

The dogs are outside. I’ll feed them and myself and then shower. Got my hat and gloves and a necklace. I’m waiting anxiously for rings. Oh, that reminds me that I need to stop the mail for when I’m gone.

Maybe I’ll submit a Walmart order for tomorrow. I could mail the cards then too; they won’t get there any faster. And I’ll stay home.

Gracie got my new glasses. The dogs are holy terrors. Got them back. Gracie was like, Oh, you’re upset. Yeaaaaah, I am!

Fed us all. Started reading the book about the making of The Princess Bride. It’s interesting.

Got a recycling bin into the hallway to the basement. I kind of want to go back to sleep, but it’s too early. I’m feeling too tired to do much though. I could submit my Walmart order. I should do some packing. Maybe I’ll post.

Ordered stuff from Walmart, including a wireless trackball to use with my new travel laptop. I should go to sleep early and get up early because I'll have to get up at the crack of dawn on Tuesday to drop the pets off. But I'll go pack some stuff.

Current Mood: busy
Current Music: Eagles vs Commanders on tv

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let's see what approach they take here

So I may have been a little...over ambitious in purchasing eggs and butter and expecting it all to fit into my tiny apartment-size fridge. I did get all of it in there, but there was literally no room to let orange rolls rise overnight so I knocked that off the list. Maybe I will do them for New Year's morning instead.

I also had an unfortunate start to the fig cookies. I made the filling yesterday and I might have put too much cocoa in as I thought it was the bottom of the container so I just dumped it in and well, there was more than I expected in there. *hands* It's fine. Then when I made the dough earlier, it smelled weird. I think maybe the Crisco had gone off? Idk, but I threw out what I'd made and did it again with the newly opened can of Crisco and it smelled correct, so I didn't really get to make cookies this afternoon as planned, but I might make some after dinner, which is how we did it when I was a kid - every night for the 2 weeks before Christmas we were in the kitchen making fig cookies.

I did marinate the pork country ribs last night and they are now in the oven roasting, so that at least is on track.

I also watched Wake Up Dead Man yesterday, and I liked but didn't love it? I'm not sure why? ( spoilers )

This is a long essay about the movie (spoilers, obvs) that goes much deeper into it: Entirely Too Many Thoughts About Wake Up Dead Man by Leah Schnelbach.

Oh, the timer just went off so I have to take the ribs out of the oven, so I guess I'll just hit post!

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( 6-day plan, day 2 )

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one way or another

Hurrah! The Strictly winners are Karen Carney & Carlos Gu! Keeeeep dancing!

Bad Attitude

Earlier in the week, I thought Biggie was in trouble again. But, I think now, that was stress about nothing. As I type this, he and Julio are playing hide and seek which keeps turning into I'll Get You My Pretty!! And then goes back to hide and seek. Julio is hiding under the bed and Biggie just found him.

I'm tired of Christmas shit and I'm letting it get to me and that's just not acceptable.

Volleyball started out perilously. The two problem players positioned themselves in a way to ruin it for the most of us BUT then, they both played well with no crap. So go figure. It was fun even though two of my favorite players weren't there.

Elbow Coffee was pretty dreadful. BUT I had my knitting and I just kept my mouth shut. And eventually it ended. I need to invent a device that sounds an alarm once an old person has told the same story 10 times. I'd have it embedded in the building.

Bonny and I have a puzzle date at 1 pm. We keep going out there to puzzle at different times and missing each other so we set a time today.

Ooops my chicken wings for lunch are done.

More later.

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holidays

Busy Busy

The month has certainly gotten away from me- what do you mean Christmas is in a few days?

Thank you to everyone who has sent cards! I have, embarrassingly, completely lost track of things. ^^;; But I have also sent a lot of things... and would feel good about the state of my gifting overall except I have one amazon order from the beginning of the month that hasn't budged!. I suspect next year I will either need to pester people for wishlists at the beginning of November or see if we can skip the 'zon altogether. (Also a few packages out in the void but that's starting to clear up and that's certainly the weather affecting things at this point.)

I have one more day of work left this year, and then nearly two weeks off. I suppose the main thing I need to do is clean/sort/organize. Yet again, not having any clue what I own threatened to bite me in the ass. (Saved! ...by my laziness. I hadn't actually bought the thing I thought I needed but already had.) So, 2026 will be the year of the whole-place inventory and likely clean-out. Maybe I can just start doing a monthly giveaway post?

Finished up RG Exia and put him in the Mangar. Next is a 30MM Horse, which is part of the D&D party that I ordered at Thanksgiving: RG Justice, HG Calibarn, SD Dynames, 30MF Priest, and 30MM Horse. I didn't order a D&D party on purpose! Just... once everyone was in my cart I was just 'lol, this sure is an assortment, or more like a D&D party...'

Neighbor D's memorial service is also today. It's fairly late in the day, so I'm just going to drop by briefly, but I also wouldn't miss it.

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For no apparent reason, I couldn't get to sleep last night. After almost an hour of lying in bed not sleeping I got up and read for an hour or so, but then when I tried to sleep again I lay awake for another long period of time. And then to add insult to injury I woke up about ten minutes before my alarm and couldn't get back to sleep because I needed the bathroom. Ugh. And also my throat was starting to feel sore during the night and when I woke up this morning it was worse. I don't really feel congested (yet) but my throat is still sore and being extra tired isn't helping.

Eden was not well this morning but seems to have recovered now, after a good soak in the bath. My daughter is a big believer in a restorative or calming bath, and her daughters seem to have followed suit. (I generally prefer a shower.)

Violet is having a Christmas party late this afternoon, which she has been planning for months. This morning she was supposed to tidy her room in preparation but her work was very sketchy (in the sense of not thorough). She wasn't very motivated to do a better job because she says they won't be using her room for the party (I hope she's not planning to use the basement…) so I helped her move furniture around so she could vacuum behind and under things.

Apart from that small amount of activity I'm not planning to do much today, hoping that taking it easy will make my sore throat go away.

My coat didn't arrive yesterday and when I checked the LLBean website it now shows "arriving on 22nd December". I suspect there is a lot more stuff than usual being shipped at this time of year which might explain the delay. I was intrigued when I looked at the tracking history to see that the package went from upper New York state down into northern Connecticut and then back north east into Massachusetts. Weird, and doesn't seem very efficient to me.

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Just One Thing (20 December 2025)

It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished! Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!

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White Elephant Gift Exchange

Woke up a little after 7 AM. Got in the shower early and got my makeup on for our holiday celebration this morning at work.

The White Elephant gift exchange was fun. I "stole" a bobble-head of Jane Austen, which would be great for my library room, and wound up with it. That got me wondering if there are bobble-heads of other famous authors. There are on eBay! I foresee a collection.

I emailed in sick for a half-day because I was dizzy and took a nap. Slept for an extra hour than I had intended.

My singing lesson was amazing. We were doing warmups when she told me to imagine that I was a stereotype of an opera singer singing Wagner. And my voice completely opened up! It had some power to it! We were practicing Christmas carols because I didn't have anything that I needed to practice, and she told me to sing with that voice. So I did. She said, "You found your voice!" She is worth every penny that I pay her. I've learned more with her than I did with several teachers before her.

Fed us all. I want to go to bed soon so that I get up early and get to the post office.

Scripting

So, how in the heck am I going to listen to all 6K of my MP3's? I mean without listening to the same ones over and over. I need a system. Oh, Gemini?!! Since I have the back up on the external drive, I got courageous. Gemini wrote me a script for creating folders and then randomly selecting songs to put in them 30 at a time. It's like having 200 30-song playlists. But I had to run the script a biscillion times because some kind of scripting limit. Finally got it all done and now I had duplicate folder names. Oh, Gemini??!!

Yep, got another script that named the folders 1-203. Now, I just copy the folder over to the player and put a 0 in front of its name so I know I've listened to that one. It's a system!! I generally replace the songs every couple of weeks when I charge the thing so I'm really good now til September of 2033 when I'm 84. I think I'm good music swim wize.

The vet, bless them, had broken packs of food so I didn't have to buy a whole case and was about to get 6 cans which will hold me over until Chewy comes through. So now they are eating again. Whew.

And someone turned on the AC outside. The other day when I went out, it was quite pleasant. No jacket needed. So I didn't even look before I left. Not smart. Plus gusty winds. The guy at the vet said that they had had their door opened by guests of wind already a couple of times this morning.

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It's miserably grey and rainy today, but the temperature is about 13C/55F. I got my exercise going up and down the two flights of stairs for about 15 or 20 minutes, which was quite taxing. I feel that that's enough exercise when combined with the other times during the day when I use the stairs not for exercise.

I've always had trouble finding warm clothes with long enough sleeves, and mostly end up buying men's long sleeved shirts or jackets for the sleeve length. Especially for jackets, I like the sleeves to be long enough for me to pull them down over my hands for extra warmth. A few years ago I bought a beautiful deep pink women's jacket from LL Bean, even though the sleeves just barely reached my wrists, and I've kind of regretted it ever since. It was really warm and had a gorgeous fluffy lined hood, but the sleeves became a deal breaker so when I moved here I gave it to Violet. It's slightly big on her but she wears it all the time. Meanwhile I've been wearing a parka that was S's which has slightly longer sleeves but still not long enough. It's a nice deep purple colour and I like it a long - except for the sleeves. Plus it's more than twenty years old and is very heavy.

The other day when it was still below freezing I was going outside to empty the food scraps bowl into the compost and I picked up a random coat from the basement/mud room floor to wear. It turned out to belong to my son in law and was very lightweight with sleeves which came down over my hands, and I liked it a lot even though it was black, which is not my preferred colour. When I checked the label I found it was an LL Bean men's parka, size XL. (I'm not huge but I felt like it was a good fit for wearing layers under.) On a whim, I decided to treat myself to a new coat, and ordered the exact same coat from the LL Bean website. (I'm going to have to mark it so that it doesn't get mixed up with son in law's coat.) When I went to pay using PayPal, it turned out that I could use some of my credit card rewards dollars towards the cost of the coat, and all I ended up paying was the tax of just over $12. I've never paid attention to those credit card rewards dollars before, but this year they've also paid for some of my Christmas shopping.

The coat is supposed to arrive today; what a shame it's not cold enough for me to need it today.

Current Mood: restless
Current Music: Annie Lennox - The First Noel

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Belated cake note | First morning of vacation

Since I'm vaguely tracking things we've been making: a few days ago we made Smitten Kitchen's gingerbread apple upside-down cake. It's tasty, although I didn't like it nearly as much as the SK Mom's Apple Cake that we made not that long ago. (

scruloose likes it more than I do, for the record.) Now I mostly just want to make an actual gingerbread. ^^;

(My brain keeps starting to compose a post or posts about my currently-annoyingly-complication feelings about holiday baked goods etc., between our intensely-covid-cautious life and my still-newish need to stay aware of my blood glucose, but will I actually manage to write about it? Who knows. It's exhausting.)

I started my first day of vacation waking ahead of my alarm from a weird, teeth-clenchingly stressful dream, possibly one of a sequence, and it takes me a while to shake off dreams like that. >.< I've gotten a couple of household things done/underway, though, and am sitting down to do some manga work once I've posted this.

We still haven't decorated Bucky; he comes with lights, which are the most important part of a Christmas tree, especially without the smell of a real tree, and at least one year we bought our tree and put lights on it and never did anything more, and that was fine. I guess it's possible this'll be another such year. (Although we're due for strong winds and heavy rain tonight and into tomorrow, and if we lose power, I guess that's something we could do tomorrow afternoon.)

But we got most of our other fragments of decor up last night, and this morning I put out my Nativity set for the first time in a few years. It's wooden, but a couple of the pieces have taken damage over the years nonetheless (before my time, or when I was young enough that I don't remember what happened), and having it out around the cats has made me nervous since my mother gave it to me* several years ago. But a few months ago I bought a piece of display wall shelving for my office (and my office mostly stays shut when I'm not in it for long), and the set fits in it fairly well, so now it's there and I've got my fingers crossed.

(Also, this year I bought an old-fashioned ceramic tree from a local artist, and it's on a speaker under the wall display, so realistically, if a cat gets up on my desk where they shouldn't be, I'll know about it from the tree going down. [Which I really hope it doesn't, because it's breakable and the lights aren't actually attached, so that's all kinds of cat hazard in a package. And thus, it's in my office; if the cats were actually prone to getting on my desk and messing with things, I wouldn't have bought the tree at all, but even Sinha is really pretty good about it.])

*I think I mentioned at the time that this is the Nativity set of my childhood, carved of olive wood. My mother's parents once--in the '50s, I think? When she was a kid--were in Jerusalem over Christmastime, and brought it home. Mum deciding to pass it on to me is genuinely one of the best gifts she's ever given me.

Still no needy

Biggie is going through a stage. He's now got his hind legs on my thigh and his upper body draped across my arm while I type and is looking at me like I'm not paying him enough attention. He's eaten 2 breakfasts and peed a little and chased his treats around (they are in a little rubber fish that is hard from him to crack but he tries). Now he's just sitting here making this entry more difficult to do than is necessary.

But, why is this any different than any other day since the day he came to live with me. He should be the illustration to define High Maintenance.

Outside of watching him waiting for a sign that something is really wrong, my days, lately have been mostly spent avoiding Timber Ridge Cheer. My maternal grandmother was the sweetest woman who ever roamed the earth. In her final years, she was fairly bed ridden in a nursing home and still so sweet and kind and happy. Except around this time of year. One year, the week before Christmas, she told me "if I have to listen to one more Christmas Carol, I'm going to snap!" I feel ya, Grandma.

Oh and the only other time I heard her snap was when the dining room put broccoli on her dinner plate and it was touching the good food. We all have our limits. Even Grandma.

We did not lose electricity last night. The lights flickered once but that was it. Apparently the phone system went down - we got an email. Lots of people here have what they call 'land lines' and that's their only phone. They are the Xfinity phone service. And it is dicey on a good day. Our building wifi is not Xfinity and it was unaffected. It was the wind last night and today all is calm - it's not even raining right now.

I guess I'll go over to the vets today and buy some of the food that they don't hate. I hope they have some in stock. It doesn't look like the Chewy order will get here before about Tuesday.

I finished up the Clean Up The Google Drive - Particularly The Mp3's Project. I have all of the mp3's backed up to an external hard drive. So whew. I slapped 20 onto my player and that's what I listened to while I was swimming this morning. It was a very random mix but quite nice.

Guess it's time to get dressed and get going.

Current Mood: pissed off

Since I just had to dig this up:

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Team Borg

It's raining & very warm for this time of year, in the mid-50°s.

Temps are supposed to drop precipitously by the end of the day, which, since I am utterly neurotic, is making me worry about the drive to Betsy's house tomorrow. She lives in deepest, darkest Westchester County near the Connecticut border: The roads will be rivers of ice, right? Who knows if I'll even make it to the end of my driveway?

Obsessing about slipping and sliding on ice-encrusted roads is a good diistraction from obsessing about how the kiskas & I will be forced to move into a refrigerator box beneath the bridge because the client whom I invoiced yesterday will never pay me.

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Yesterday was productive. I wrote 1,000+ words on the Work in Progress.

I do wish Brian were still around to bounce tasteless, black humor dialogue about dying of COVID in a hospital off of. It's an essential component of Chapter 4, and it is very difficult to write convincing banter on your own.

In the evening, I watched a few episodes of Pluribus, about a person who is immune to the virus that suddenly converts practically everyone on Planet Earth to blissful one-mind-hood.

It's an interesting premise with one big flaw: I don't much like the protagonist who's supposed to embody rugged individualism. She's just not very sympatique. So, while typically I'd root against the hive mind, in this one, I'm Team Borg all the way.

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books

More about the Golden Age detective fiction context of Wake Up Dead Man

I've been thinking about Wake Up Dead Man some more even though I haven't gone and looked up the list of books, because I am not ready to purchase new ebooks yet, and that's what I'll have to do for the ones there I haven't read before.

Meanwhile though, I have been rereading some Agatha Christie. I am not exactly a giant Christie fan, but I have read most of Agatha Christie's works (and usually multiple times) because I like Golden Age mystery as a genre and my MIL was a superfan, so I have had convenient access to paperbacks of Christie's works.

And I realized with a start yesterday that while the setting and setup in Wake Up Dead Man is in some respects is EXTREMELY typical of Golden Age detective fiction, in another it's very very unusual - ( Some spoilers )

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podcast friday

This week's episode is Wizards & Spaceships' latest, "Postcolonialism in SFFH ft. Suzan Palumbo." Suzan is a rising star in the Canadian speculative fiction scene and also just a very lovely, funny person. In the episode, she discusses the tropes and traditions that are baked into genre that reinforce colonialist mindsets, and the BIPOC authors pushing back against it. It's really good go listen.

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Just One Thing (19 December 2025

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A Dark and Rainy Day

Got up a little after 7 AM. Went back to sleep after the dogs came in. Overslept. It's dark and gloomy out. Raining.

I'm quietly writing documentation for our new ticketing system at work. I like writing documentation because I used to do that as a living!

The snow is off of the roof of the garage!

I'm trying to decide whether to wear my Christmas sweatshirt and jeans for the flight out. Or for the Christmas Eve Loop expedition.

I don't know what to do about my snow boots for the trip. The snow will have melted before I leave, but I don't know about when I get back. I might have some ankle boots with a good tread on them.

For some reason, Oliver and Lily are picking at their food. They’re young, so I’m not so worried, but am wondering what’s going on. The dogs ate their food. Bella and Gracie are now fighting over the duck toy :) Hmm, I have new dish detergent, and I'm wondering if that's why Oliver and Lily aren't eating. It doesn't smell right?

I think that I’m going to give up on getting Christmas lights up and save them for next year. Too much is going on.

I'm wondering if I should try BritBox when I get back. On the other hand, I don't watch TV much and haven't made it through all of The Big Bang Theory yet. Maybe I should wait to catch up on my TV watching.

I need to figure out how to get from Michigan Avenue to the Loop in Chicago. I guess take it over the river and then head west? I'm got my Chicago friends on Facebook working on it.

Hmm. The weather forecasters are saying a "wintry mix". I wonder if I should skip the post office tonight. Yeah, it does look like a "wintry mix". Ugh.

Had a good session with my therapist. She thinks that I should contact a lawyer NOW to deal with the trust. I'm going to go through the info tonight and figure out how much money is missing between the last account balance I got and now. Spoiler alert: it's a lot. I'm going to contact some estate planning attorneys to whom I've talk to see if they know someone who would take my case. (She asked me if there was anything else, but I said, "Isn't that enough?" She laughed.)

Scrambled to get the stuff ready to mail. I'm still iffy about the weather, but I'll go out and see how it is.

Oliver must have seen my entry about wanting a lap cat because he's curled up on my lap right now.

I think that I will go to the Post Office on Saturday instead. I’m tired and hungry. And the beasts are hungry too. Fed us all. I think that I was right about the dish soap because I rinsed the cat dishes without soap, and Oliver and Lily chowed down. I need to get different dish soap for them. Preferably without a smell. Or let the dogs “clean” the dishes. They do a good job.

Zara is lying on the heat vent, so I need to get her new heated bed set up. It's getting warmer, but it also has memory foam in it. (I got the top of the line for my girl!)

I’ve got the new travel laptop open. It’s a rose-gold color and pretty. (It was the cheapest color, so I guess that others didn’t like it.) I’m cleaning the kitchen while it’s doing its update. I've got it set up. Did I say that it's a really, really nice laptop?

I was creating a grocery list while I waited for the laptop to finish updating, when I realized in a panic that I didn't get any wrapping paper for the gift exchange at work tomorrow. So I added a gift bag and tissue paper to the Walmart order, and expedited the order. BUT I FORGOT TO GET SODA! I'll have to submit another order.

Anyway, I'm going to post. (I'm still on the new laptop.) I'll go to sleep after the Walmart order gets here.

Added: I was wrong about the amount of money in the trust. It matched the last valuation. Good because I don't want to deal with it right now.

Current Mood: pleased
Current Music: nothing now

Roundabout.

I made a cake for my dad's book group, as is customary, and it wasn't until late in the day, long after dropping it off, that I found out the book group had cancelled its in-person meeting - to be fair, they hadn't known that until the afternoon, what with someone coming down with something and everyone else electing not to drive.

It also turns out that my parents had a building party scheduled that same night. One my dad thought he wouldn't go to with the book group, but could attend since the commute would only be from the lobby to the apartment. One where he could bring a cake that I'd happened to have dropped off earlier that day.

The group had been reading Charles Dickens, and I thought an apple ginger spice cake would be fitting to the general vibe of the novel. It turned out to be a set of flavors that were just as fitting for a near-solstice wintertime party.

I'm always happy when something I've baked finds its way to a good home, and I'm even happier when there's a little story to go along with the cake.

Current Mood: ambitious
Current Music: Best Winter - Tom McRae

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adventures in cooking

sleeping in the shadow of the empire state

I am officially on vacation - I don't have to go back to work until January 5th! Now the bakepocalypse can begin! I've made more work for myself, but I think it will all work out - I've been planning it in my head, and this is how it goes (please take "run dishwasher" as a given at least once and probably twice each day):

( 6-day plan )

I think adding in the roast pork and the pork buns and the orange cranberry rolls might be kind of nuts? But also having that food on hand will let me eat breakfast/dinner without having to do any real cooking or ordering in. (I will also have some ham and cheese to make sandwiches if it comes to that, and some granola bars for snacks/breakfast if the orange cranberry rolls don't happen.) And I think I do have time before the cupcake baking begins in earnest.

What I'm considering now is whether I should make the frostings and immediately put them in piping bags (with specific tips in) for storing in the fridge instead of trying to do the transfers all at once on Christmas Eve morning the way I usually do. Filling the bags and then keeping them in tupperware might be easier? But I've also found that sometimes my "time-saving" plans end up making things worse, so idk.

Anyway, that's my plan for the next 6 or so days! It's a good thing I enjoy cooking. *g*

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