Nothing here but my musings about daily life, books, anime, and food.
I know. I KNOW. This is what adulthood looks like. You go to work on weekdays. Then you do chores on weekends. And if you want to really unwind, you take your PTO days to either go somewhere else or just do a staycation. And come back to work with a shiton of catching up and messes to deal with. This makes this the vacation not even worth it. Yeah. I know, I’m just bitching to be honest.
As planned, I went to the store to do some grocery shopping. I stopped by USPS to pick up a box from Book of the Month. And I got a carwash – about time too. I just finished cooking rice and ground beef cooked in tomato sauce with potatoes, peas, and carrots. Don’t know what’s the name of it. I just kind of put together something. And it worked.
I have been making steady progress in reading Forrest Gump. Thank you. About halfway through the book which is good. I must say, Forrest is an interesting character. This character had experienced more than what a regular person might experience in a lifetime. Definitely colorful experiences.
Like I said earlier, my Book of the Month got delivered – well I picked the package up, but you know what I mean. I got two books for May. Darling Girl by Liz Michalski, a fantasy book, which is a reimagining of Peter Pan; and Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner, a memoir. I might pick up the memoir after I finish Forrest Gump. Hard to commit on it though, being a mood reader has its disadvantages for sure. I was leaning towards non fiction after reading Bad Blood and My Friend Anna. But Forrest Gump hasn’t disappointed yet. So I will continue reading this one until I’m done before I even think of what’s the next read.
My goal for next week is to definitely cook more. I enjoyed eating out and its nice, but when it all comes down to it, it’s $$$. Well I guess, the more accurate thing to say is I need to not be lazy to cook. That’s the thing that’s really stopping me from cooking. Laziness.
Tonight was date night. We started a little later than usual but it was okay. We still burned through a lot of House MD episodes. And yes, we had to skip the rest of the episodes in Season 1 where Vogler made an appearance. He annoyed the heck out of me to the point that I refused to even watch the show. It was such a useless addition. Unnecessary story arc. I don’t care what anyone else say, that kind of annoyance was needed on the show. My hun basically told me what happened in the episodes that we skipped.
It’s currently 11:30 pm and I’m still doing laundry. I had a late start this morning. And I had about an hour after all the errands that I just lazy’d it up. So, yeah. All good though. Almost done.
I know I’ve been really annoyed about this week. And honestly, you can’t really blame me. I have to be onsite and deal with a bunch of bullshit. So yeah, I think I earned the right to talk shit about this week. I don’t air out the grievances of my job – at least not in detail, because for the most part I do like working there. I get bored here and there and I’m in a meeting for the most part, but I still like being in healthcare and I love the environment of that company.
My brain has been plagued by egg the last few days…Well, fried egg on toast to be exact. It doesn’t help that most of the reading vlogs I’ve watched lately all showed them cooking and eating fried egg for breakfast. That was torture! Normally, I just think of fried chicken so when fried egg decided to invade my head, I was a bit surprised.
I’m very sleepy right now so I know that this will be a short post. I’m so relaxed and my eyes are pretty heavy. I did want to read but I don’t think that will happen. Also, for some reason, I’m freezing. I now have a heater on to warm up my space. But my hands and feet are still pretty cold.
Tomorrow might be a busy day for me…Going to the store, then USPS, and car wash. The latter might depend on the weather. I don’t know. I might still get a car wash if it’s raining tomorrow. Enzo, my green monster, is in desperate need of an actual car wash. This is what I miss from California. The place where I took Enzo for service always wash the car, since they have a car was on premises.
My brain only wants to hate on this week as suggested by my titles for the weekdays. It was really unfortunate when I realized that it was only Thursday Night. Yeah, I have nothing else to say. But the disappointment was real.
I am not going to post about work. I got annoyed, got stressed, and vented. I was very vocal about my dissatisfaction with the increasing expectations from my team having to flag this and that. Put this shit on hold and check this and that. It was a mess. And I had to put down my foot on one of the process changes and said – No, my team will not check results to determine eligibility. That is beyond my team’s scope. It felt good to say No. That is one thing that I like about this job. I’m learning to say no and advocate a lot for the welfare of the team. And the stakeholders listen. It’s nice.
I was picked to take part in a project – data pulls for clinicians. And they said depending on evaluation, this might be something that can turn to its own team. It’s exciting. We’ll see how that goes.
My hun and I hung out today! Yay! We watched Fun with Dick and Jane with Jim Carrey and Tea Leoni. That was a fun movie. I like the realness of the situation – getting screwed by corporations, employees suffering, employees losing their jobs, and the struggle of finding a new job. Love the ending, the CEO getting screwed into donating $400M to that company’s employee relief fund. Such a nice ending.
We also started watching The Dropout on Hulu. The show is about Elizabeth Holmes and the journey of building Theranos. My hun says so far he likes this better than Inventing Anna. I’m interested in this one too. I just recently finished Bad Blood, consumed the available documentaries in streaming services regarding this company and what they did. And being in healthcare – in the diagnostics business for so long, yeah, I’m invested.
We got to watch an episode of Bob’s Burgers as well! So that was nice and relaxing.
I’m finally able to read Forrest Gump last night. So much happened already with Forrest and I’m only in chapter eight. I cannot wait to finish this one soon as well.
Tomorrow is Friday. Finally. For some reason, this week felt too long.
When I woke up this morning, all I could think of is that “Damn, it’s not Thursday yet”. And it was again reiterated on my drive to work. A friend said “It’s only Wednesday?” When I answered, “Yes, unfortunately”; she sighed and said, “I was happy for a little bit. Now I’m sad.” Yeah, me too.
The only good thing that happened at work today was the fact that I had no meetings! Yay!
The only excitement for today was the fact that I had to look for a blood sample that was thought to be missing. That was not fun – the logistics of finding the blood sample was stress inducing. We found it though. I was already thinking of what to write on the non-compliance report, since I exhausted the avenues of where the sample could’ve been if it was actually lost. “It vanished into thin air – you know, like magic!” Yeah, that will definitely be accepted.
I tried listening to Forrest Gump at work…That didn’t go well. Not the audiobook’s fault as all. Here’s the thing, when I am doing something – could be homework, studying, reading or as mundane as doing chores – I always have to have something in the background playing. It could either be a show, music, or YouTube videos. This helps me focus on what I’m doing. So with audiobooks, I tend to listen at the beginning then it just slowly fades into the background. I am envious of people who listens to audiobooks while working or something! Today, I had to repeat chapter 6 of Forrest Gump about five or six times before I finally gave up.
I took a nap when I got home without really meaning to. I had Paco cuddling with me. We both had a really good power nap. Although I’m pretty sure that he slept intermittently throughout the day. And right now, he is currently sleeping right next to me.
Hopefully I get to hangout with my hun tomorrow. We still have no idea what to watch though. At least I don’t. I’m not sure if he has any idea on what to watch next.
I’m rewatching You on Netflix again. This is the nth time I watched this series. And yes, I do not remember the exact number anymore. Let’s just say that I watched it so many times now. I think season one is still my favorite of the three that is currently out. I cannot wait for season four.
Did I tell you I hate Tuesdays too? You know what, might as well just say I hate weekdays. Period. Why do we have to work five days a week? I’ve been hearing about companies that changed to a four-day work week. Am I jealous? Yes. Yes I am. Why am I still working five days a week??? WHHYYYYYY???
Also this will be a short post. I feel like my brain is empty.
I was in meetings today. We had too much samples. And I was just not happy to be at work today. Granted I’m never happy when I’m at work, but DUUUDE, I got frustrated with one of my meetings that I just kind of shut down the whole afternoon. I was not the only who frustrated, but other people in the meeting too.
I read one page of Forrest Gump. ONE PAGE.
So what do I do when I’m feeling off? Have something familiar playing in the background. So, Bob’s Burgers is currently playing.
Hun is also feeling slight off today. But since we are currently doing this long distance thing, we cannot just cuddle in bed and just feel off together. No, instead we are both sulking in our own beds, thousands of miles apart.
I’ve been pretty transparent that I think Mondays suck. And regardless of how I’m feeling, does not matter if I had enough sleep, does not matter if I had fun over the weekend, I will always hate Mondays. The thing that I find funny is the fact that I never really hated the start of work week this much until I started working days. I mean I was working overnight for the longest time but I never had this kind of problem. Weird how that happened. But then again, I should not really be surprised, I always considered myself a nightowl. The only reason why I sleep at night now is because I have to be at work in the morning.
I did have a rough night last night – well a slight rough night. I woke up at midnight with a sharp stomachache. I’m okay though. That sudden awakeness kind of messed up my rhythm. I do not think I have to describe how my morning went. Yes, I dragged my ass out of bed. I do not have a choice. I needed to be at work by 7:30 AM for a meeting. Came in five minutes late, but oh well. They can deal, they should feel lucky I was even there.
Work was busy-ish enough. Actually, pretty busy for a Monday. The fact that I ate my lunch at almost 1:30 PM should be an indication. My team was also understaffed. For a hot minute, I thought I only had one person onsite to run the team. But another person decided to come in – BOO, I really rather have the team be super understaffed than see this person’s face. Especially on the day that I have zero patience. Okay, that made it sound like I just do not like this person. I mean, you’re not wrong but I just do not like the way this person works and the work ethic, uggghhh. Yeah. Enough said.
I got home, and pretty much just did the regular things I do when I get home. Chores. After that, I just sat in front of the computer and decided to start making my spreads for my bullet journal. But then quickly realized that I’m kind of done with manual bullet journaling. So I am stuck. I do not want to bring my chromebook to work everyday to access the Notion website, since I am not a fan of the mobile app. But I also cannot stand setting up a page for a manual bullet journal. Yeah. I guess I can try to use my tablet and see if I can use the Notion app better on a bigger screen compared to using my phone. I guess all I can do is try.
I also really need to workout. I need to squeeze it when I get home. I did the early morning workouts before and that schedule did not really work for me. I found that my body prefers the afternoon workouts. Again, I am not a morning person, and consider myself a night owl. Working out just kind of gotten shifted to the side when I went back to school since my classes were scheduled after work. But I have no excuse now. I just need to start. I plan on losing 60 lbs. Pretty hefty and with my age, I would need to work harder to get there.
Hopefully I get to hangout with my hun tomorrow. Probably a good time to think what to watch since for some reason we do not have any show lined up. Well, we do. But we do not have any preference of what to watch lately. We’ll see.
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