Y9 D29

I started 36 file conversions before I went to bed last night. I woke up this morning and it was 70% done on the last file. Nice. It just finished. Timing. And yes, I just woke up a little after 6. Man it was nice sleeping in without an alarm going off. It's been a while.

Like yesterday for example. Up at a little before 4am, out the door at 5:20, on site at 5:45. We only did a sort of half day yesterday. We finished up around 12:30, but then I did some follow up work with on my former students from the same client. I got out of there around 1, was home about 1:40. 25 minutes of that was on the damn surface streets because of fucking Nike. Their campus is way too large for the area it's built around. It causes way too much traffic, backs things up immensely, and the people they hire has distorted the landscape of this area. Not only has it destroyed the housing market, caused additional crap houses and apartments to be built, but it's also made store anywhere near them to be extremely over-crowded with a certain type of person. I fucking hate it.

Got home, changed my clothes, and relaxed. It was getting hotter yesterday. Not as bad as this weekend is supposed to be, but hot nonetheless. It's supposed to get up to 100 either today or tomorrow. Of course it's nothing like AZ at 119 where even fucking planes can't fly. SMH.

Made chicken for dinner, well technically B did. After dinner I was filled with nervous energy and ended up cleaning. I cleaned the kitchen, the office, and vacuumed the house. It mostly helped. At 9 we decided it had cooled down enough to go grocery shopping. While the store was a little more crowded than I would have liked, we got out of there pretty quick and now I don't have to go anywhere this morning. Grateful for that much for sure.

Got back, put away groceries, putzed a bit, went to bed around 11.

Today we are going to prep stuff for a garden party tomorrow. We are bringing cucumber and dill sandwiches, chicken curry, banana bread, and honey madeleines. Speaking of tea and garden parties, I am still on the fence about what to do for my birthday. I looked up some tea places downtown, then thought about a spa day, but I feel bad spending any money. I would rather have something tangible if I am going to spend money. Does that make sense? I know experiences are wonderful, but a spa day will be like $300 and even a proper tea will end up being close to a $100. I don't know. I am not very excited about my birthday this year. It's two weeks from yesterday and the normal excitement just isn't there. Oh well.