ANA Y2 D249

It started snowing around 7am yesterday and didn't stop until about 4pm. During that time it dropped almost 6 inches of snow. It was crazy. We went from nothing to covered in 8 hours. C ended up calling out of work because we couldn't get out. Luckily when she called they told her it was dead and not a big deal. Her shift was 12-4 which was a dumb shift anyway. No one was mad she couldn't make it in. We hunkered down and watched the snow.

Made lamb for dinner, we finished watching Gen V, and played games. It was a quiet indoor sort of day.

ANA Y2 D248

How the hell is it still January? Seriously. It is the longest month by far. It just never ends.

Didn't do anything exciting yesterday. Used the time to learn and study for what will probably be a future task. Made pasta with italian sausage for dinner. Watched tv. Played Clone Hero. Got my first perfect! Honestly that's about it. Pretty uneventful day.

ANA Y2 D247

Legendary chef Jacques Pepin has a TikTok channel. I've learned quite a bit from watching it, but what I find most interesting and hilarious is how the auto captions mess up. If you don't know Pepin, he has a very thick french accent. The auto generated captions make absolutely no sense. Like this morning I was watching him make a crepe. Except the caption said we were making a cab. Silly.

The Lions lost. Ha ha. No Stupid Bowl for MI.

Had a productive day. Even though I got up late I still managed to get shit done. I got my new soundproofing tiles hung in the office. I made dinner. I did little stuff around the house like clean my keyboard. I worked on jewelry reorganization. Bunch of little odds and ends.

This is going to be a scary week as I have nothing to do and am worried about my job. Yay.

ANA Y2 D246

I overslept this morning. I am so pissed off. C forgot her water bottle and her vape because I wasn't up to make sure all her stuff was ready to go. I will bring it to her in a little while. So dumb of me.

We had a good day yesterday. We took a ride out to the big game store here in MI and got a new board game. I am wrapping it up for VD for her. I also ended up getting a free set of dice! Woo! Now I have purse dice because you should always have some on you. We also stopped at a used game store to see if they had any guitars we could cannibalize. No luck. Next was the pie store where we got a whole Michigan 4 berry. Then we ended up in a Micro Center. Heck, I didn't even know those still existed! It was like being back in Fry's in the bay area. We got some soldering supplies, some blank PCB, and some wires to do some solder testing. 

Headed home and chilled for a while. I made ahi on crispy rice for dinner. Came out pretty good. We watched some tv, played some games, went to bed. 

Today I have to go to the store for BBQ sauce and cat food. But otherwise, no plans.

ANA Y2 D245

Nothing exciting to write about this morning. I spent yesterday doing random work, C worked. We had gnocchi for dinner. Watched some tv. Honestly it was a pretty calm day. No issues. We have no plans for this weekend either. I think we shall stay inside all day.

ANA Y2 D244

I "won" at the dentist yesterday! A perfectly normal thing to happen and want to do dammit. Had a very early appointment yesterday. On my way there I dropped off my primary ballot. I did my duty and voted. Got to the dentist about 7:40 so I could get my new dental insurance all squared away. Glad I did since the card they sent me said eye and not dental which confused us all. But while I was getting my teeth cleaned the awesome women there made phone calls and got it squared away. My whole appointment yesterday was covered. Boom. Last year when I went into the dentist they did the periodontal poke poke test where they see how much the gums have receded. We've all been there - 3,3,2,4, etc. Well when I went last year for me it 7,8,8,9,7. I was pretty bad. This year? The worst was a five on my two back molars. Most were 2 and 3. Couple of fours. Basically I rebuilt and got my gums back in shape. No bleeding, no issues. I have to keep working on the back molars, but everyone there was so impressed. Made me feel good. I go back in June when we will do another cleaning (free) and take care of two cavities that need refilling. I've never been this excited to go to the dentist. 

After the dentist I stopped at the blood place to get my blood drawn. They open at 9 and I got there at 9:01. Perfect. I was first in, first out. I did run into a friend there too. Just a nice random coincidence. We all need our January blood draw I guess.

Came home, had some food, and prepped for my afternoon webinar. Webinar went well. 102 people at peak and more importantly, we got a lead from it for LuluLemon. That would be a great client to add to our list. I got multiple emails after the webinar saying how great it was and how well I did. So yeah, yesterday was pretty good.

After the webinar we went to the store for groceries. Came back and made combo platters for dinner. Chicken tinga tostadas,  chimichanga, and taquitos. Was fun and good. We watched some tv, played some games, and went to bed.

Much lighter day today. I need to figure out what to do for work to be honest. Making gnocchi tonight.

ANA Y2 D243

Marble pushed me yesterday. Twice she pissed under my desk. TWICE. Same place both times. I am at the end of my rope with her. She's fighting me with food, she's peeing everywhere again. Can't take much more.

Finished another white paper. Made mahi rice bowls for dinner. Watched TV. 

Have to go to dentist and doctor today, then a webinar at 2pm. Almost done with this week thankfully.

ANA Y2 D242

Yesterday I read some sad news. After 76 years, In-n-Out is doing a first. They are permanently closing a location. In all their history, they have never had to do this. They have relocated locations due to growth or strategy but never close one for good.

The location closing? Oakland. The one next to the airport. Why? Crime. Regular car break-ins, property damage, armed robbery. All in the parking lot of what is a profitable store. They have armed guards in the parking lot and that still isn't good enough. Broad daylight people smash and grab. Multiple incidents per day.

Every day I think about my decision to leave California. Some days I miss it. I am a 4th generation San Franciscan. I was born at Mission Hospital, as was my mother, and my grandmother. Part of my family helped build Little Italy. I spent the first few years of my life growing up in the Haight. But when I read about things like this or I watch documentaries on what's become of downtown SF (specifically the degradation of the Tenderloin), it breaks my heart. My city that I loved. My city whose streets I walked up and down as a teenager is no more. This extends and includes Oakland. Oakland was always a place where I went with caution but I never felt truly unsafe in most areas. The food, the lifestyle, the community was always strong and banded together. But now. I don't know any more. I don't know what's become of that area.

 I cry that I left my 'home' but I look at it now and know it's not my home any more. It's a place of hate and destruction. And more importantly, pain. People struggle to live and even just survive most days. Greed has destroyed the lives of so many people in Northern California. Greed of CEOs and tech billionaires who care nothing for the history, the people, the lives of the communities they have pillaged. These people weren't born there. These people weren't on the streets in 70s and 80s when we were getting arrested for daring to live our best lives. They weren't there when Harvey Milk was shot in broad daylight. They weren't there when the raids would sweep the Castro. They weren't there when the police would come into Aunt Charlie's and drag us off for "perverse behavior". They weren't there when we watched our friends and neighbors lose their apartments because now a 1 bedroom is suddenly worth 10x more than it was yesterday. They weren't there when clinics closed, bodegas shut their doors, laundromats became $10 to do a load of laundry. They weren't around when we watched drug treatment programs get stripped from the budget. They showed up and fought BART expansion. They showed up and put up fences and locked themselves away in Pacific Heights.

I was there. I was there for all of it. I have scars both mental and physical. I watched it fall apart. And I ran. I ran for a better life. Here I am a decade later living my best life but my heart never left. My heart cries for the Union Square of my youth. I wail at the closing of theaters and monuments that stood for so many years. To all of you who still live in my city, thank you. Thank you for doing your best to keep it safe and healthy. Fight every day. Keep small businesses open. Refuse the gentrification of neighborhoods. Fight for mental health programs. Fight to put the pigs back in their cages. Make me want to come home.

ANA Y2 D241

Went down a rabbit hole on a client issue yesterday. They had a technical problem and next thing you know I have spent hours looking into it. Oops. Meh it kept me busy. Had leftovers for dinner. Went to bed. Nothing exciting.

ANA Y2 D240

Having a flashback to the 80s when the 49ers would be in every StupidBowl. Apparently the Lions are one game away from their first ever. If that happens this city will go insane. I will be locking the doors and hiding that day. I know these idiots will riot in the streets regardless. Not fun.

Had a busy but uneventful day. C worked and I went to the store, did laundry, cleaned the house, baked bread, and assorted other little things. We had little chickens for dinner, watched tv, had some fun time to ourselves, fell asleep. 

Today I have to go to doctor's and give blood, C works 4-9 (stupid), and assorted work shit in between. Here we go. Another week of fun. whee.

ANA Y2 D239

We had a much deserved "normal" people day yesterday. A day out. We went to the outlet malls right when they opened at 10am. First stop was Kate Spade. I went in to see if they could do something about my purse. One of the letters fell off the bag and I was hoping they could point me towards a repair center. Instead they swapped it out!! I bought that purse well over a year ago and they just said fuck it, here's a new purse. NICE! I ended up buying a new wallet too because I felt bad they did the swap for me on such an old item. Plus it's a cute wallet. Then we walked around the mall. C got some new shoes from Adidas which are her VD present. Some Ultraboost which is funny because she gave me shoes last VD. We had a nice lunch at the rain forest cafe because I had $25 credit on my Landry's account. We came home, rested a while, then went and had sushi/noodles for dinner. Came back, snuggled on the couch, and watched TV. It was a good day.

We're also disappointed in the new neighbors. The other day they had one of the local A/V companies in their driveway all day. I was excited because I thought they might be doing something cool like a theater build or in wall speakers. Last night from our bedroom we could see what they had done. Fucking giant projector for the football. Sigh. Just another Midwest white people neighbors. So sad. I was hoping for some cool people but instead just the same old shit. Bitch if your tv is so big I can only see 1/4 of it from across the street because that 25% fills your window and then you use it for just football? Ugh. Not our kind of people. Sad.

C works today. I am house cleaning, then we're doing little chickens for dinner.

ANA Y2 D238

I am working on about 3 hours sleep. We stayed up until almost 1am and then I couldn't sleep until nearly 3:30. I *almost* got up but finally fell asleep. Okay, so 3.5 hours sleep. Close enough. It was worth it though. We had a friend over and he stayed until after midnight. C needed that. She has been sick and tired of going to bed by 10pm every night because of her stupid job. She needs to find a new one. Her childish boss is playing game sand cutting her hours down to nothing. She can't live on it. She came home yesterday a wreck because of it. We didn't even eat dinner she was so upset. We had a girl dinner later of just snacks. It's okay. Sometimes it be that way.

Today we are off to the outlet malls to find her some jeans. This will be fun I hope.

ANA Y2 D237

Yay it's friday. It's payday. It's bill paying time. Woo. Thanks to the way things fall this period I have to pay my mortgage out of this check which is just annoying. But it must be done. It's going to be a fun two weeks. 

Worked on a variety of things yesterday. Had a horrible meeting with a horrible man. Potential new client who I knew was going to ask for something specific that he wasn't going to want to pay us to do. Oh look, I was 100% right. What a shock. Indian manager at a tech company. The worst people to have to deal with when it comes to training shit. I told him to talk more with the sales guy next week. I can do what he wants but not at the price he is willing to pay. Sucks to be you buddy.

Worked on some other stuff for a potential new client plus did some random things. That kind of day. It snowed more and I had grocery delivery. I was worried but they made it okay. Been watching the new neighbors across the street slowly moving in. Earlier in the week they had a moving truck show up. Now yesterday the local audio/video store was there. I am so curious to see what they have done. I would assume maybe some in wall speakers or other types of stuff. Hey at least it means our neighbors aren't likely to have little kids or be janky. Might be a bit karen and snobby, but better one than the other.

Okay C is off to work and I have to do things. Like pay bills. Sigh.

ANA Y2 D236

Hello. It be snowing outside. About 3 inches between today and tomorrow expected but then the weekend the sun comes out. We don't need to go anywhere today which means we can just enjoy the snow. It's always nice when you can just enjoy it. Apparently the schools around here have been closed the last couple of days because it's been too cold. It's easier to do remote teaching than try to heat a school when it's in the negatives. I never will know the joy of a snow day nor it seems will today's kids thanks to technology. Poor bastards.

Spent the day working on a number of different things all leading up to an afternoon webinar. Had about 75 people join. Went well I feel. I got at least one lead out of it. That's what I do. Make money for the company. Hopefully new people will see that and leave me alone.

After my meeting we went to the grocery store. Given the weather I am glad we did. I do have a grocery delivery coming today and am nervous about it's chances. We shall see. Made steaks for dinner. Watched some TV, played some games, relaxed. Went to bed around 10 and got a good night's sleep for once. I needed it. This is the first day this week I haven't felt groggy waking up. Nothing else too exciting is going on. Just making it through kids, just making it through.

ANA Y2 D235

Another day. Ice and snow still outside. It's still in the single digits. It's cold. I'm cold. Trying to keep this house warm the best I can. Recorded all day. Had leftovers for dinner. Hung out until C got home from work. Played some games together. Went to bed. Nothing exciting going on right now thankfully.

ANA Y2 D234

It looks like it may have snowed a little overnight. Doesn't look horrible but there's definitely some fresh powder out there. Happened some time between 11 and 6. But then again all of what we had dumped in 7 hours. When it gets a little lighter I will be able to tell. Hopefully it won't screw with garbage pickup.

Spent the first half of the day recording. Got one of three done. Today is number two. Then had an internal webinar. Got through with no problem. After made chicken with pasta for dinner. Played games together. Went to bed.

Today is more of the same except C works a closing. Bleh.

ANA Y2 D233

Currently it's -4 with a feels like of -20. Nope. Just nope. It was cold as fuck all day yesterday getting down to -1 when we went to bed. It's going to stay this low all week too. Lovely.

I had the weirdest dream last night. I was in a river race in like a zodiac boat. But the thing was my team (whom I never really saw clearly) found a way to leverage something odd. The river had these giant squids in it. They were "gentle" but huge. My team figured out a way to "ride the squids!" and was skimming from squid to squid. This allowed us to not only win the race but set a new record of 3:23:07. I remember the number very clearly. The judges didn't want to award us the win because we were the black sheep team and I had to fight for them to acknowledge we didn't cheat and that we actually won. I made them look at the camera footage to see us crossing the line and that timestamp. I also made them say that we had set a new record. Explain that one kids. No, I have no idea what happen on March 23 2007 if anything. I don't know where my brain came up with that number. I had another weird one I don't remember quite as clearly but it too was just out there. Thanks brain.

We spent the day indoors. C called into work because she literally couldn't get out of the driveway. Our snow guy couldn't get to us in time because they didn't do the streets in time. Sunday. Holiday today for the city and government. I guess they assumed no one needed to get out on a Sunday. By the time everything got cleared it wasn't worth her going in. Oh well. It's not supposed to snow for another week so this shouldn't be a problem but I warned him this would happen. Funniest thing was the new neighbor across the street came over to do his driveway. He looked just like me 5 years ago when I realized how fucking long these driveways are and how hard they are to do manually. He got about halfway and had to break. He was watching my guy with this look of jealousy or something. He looked liked he kept debating whether he should come over and ask for help or not. In the end my guy drove off and the neighbor just looked so sad. He will learn. 

We stayed inside and played games and relaxed. Did some rearranging of my desk but nothing too strenuous. A quiet day. This week I have webinars, videos to record, and stuffs to do. Let's get it done.

ANA Y2 D232

C may not be getting to work on time today. Not only is our driveway covered, but they haven't done our street yet. Just showed her and she is calling in. Not out just let them know she can't get out. I messaged my snow guy and let him know they haven't done the street yet either. Stupid snow. It stopped for a good period yesterday but must have started up overnight. Plus it's Sunday and the city trucks move slow. We shall see what happens.

Went out in it yesterday early. Went grocery shopping at 7am, had a hair appointment, then came right back home. It is so clear here which cities prioritize snow removal. You hit the city divider and there's like a clean line between them. Ours is not so great. Of course. It started snowing again on my way home but stopped around 1pm. Our friend came over last night and we had ribs for dinner then all three of us played rock band until about 10pm. We went off to bed only to awaken to this nightmare. This should be the end of it for now. We will see.

ANA Y2 D231

About 3 1/2 inches. That's how much snow we got from 2pm until about 9pm last night. Nothing new has stuck. I know this because I went out and played in it at 9pm and cleared off the concrete on the patio. There is no new snow on the concrete. Hopefully that will be it for the day as I have shit to do. I messaged my snow guy and said you need to be here early but he hasn't come yet. Guess I will yeet out of this driveway in two hours. Fucker. He's had all this time and the one time I need him, he's not here. Grr. 

Worked on recordings yesterday. Took a nap. Made salmon for dinner. Watched it snow. Making ribs tonight and having friends over.

ANA Y2 D230

I think I am turning a corner. Just in time for it to snow 3-4 inches. My life eh? I spent yesterday in and out of a haze. My throat hurt and I would get brain fog at the worst times. Just sitting here staring at the screen doing nothing. But this morning I am feeling a little better. Thank goodness. I did manage to make fajitas for dinner. But that was about it. No energy for anything else. I am going to try and record stuff today for work, let's see how that goes. Then it's the weekend. House cleaning time. We did laundry last night. But the rest of the house has been slacking due to me being sick. C has helped of course but I feel it's still messy. Reflection of my own body feeling icky I think. I did manage to push my webinar out to Monday at least. One more day of reprieve. I am curious to see if I lost weight this week since I spent much of it in the bathroom. Yeah yeah TMI. Why else do you read this blog? It's not like exciting things happen to me. 

Well, sometimes they do.

ANA Y2 D229

Tested negative yesterday morning but this morning I've got the sore throat. Going to see if it gets worse then test again this afternoon. Felt like my body weighed 1000 pounds all day. Achy, cranky, tired. Still feel that way. Managed to do a little work but not much. Made comfort food for dinner. It finally started snowing. Let's see how bad it gets.

ANA Y2 D228

 Still feel like shit. Can't breathe. Other issues.

Worked, C had night shift so I ate breakfast for dinner. Meetings today but may go back to bed.

ANA Y2 D227

Nothing of any real excitement to post. I worked on stuff. I went to the grocery store. I fixed a problem with my computer. Made a large batch of chicken tinga for dinner and froze half in a vac seal bag for next week. I was supposed to wake up to snow and there is none. A has covid, B doesn't. But I might have been exposed. Lovely. Meh. Nothing else going on really. Welcome to January. When is a January ever really that exciting?

ANA Y2 D226

I decided to sleep in this morning. C doesn't work so why get up at 4:30 if I don't have to? I need a break. I also need to start looking for a new job. Seriously. I am done. I wish I could just retire. I am tired of this shit all together. Whatever.

Went to the pharmacy, got my meds, cleaned the house, made fondue for dinner. Just cheese. We also had soup and salad with it. Watched TV, went to bed. Same shit different plane of existence.

ANA Y2 D225

This morning I realized I have documented 14 years of my life. What a feat. If at any point I fall to dementia or something tragic befalls me, it's nice to know that my experiences have all been recorded. Maybe there's some nugget of wisdom that can be shared. Maybe future generations can read it and see what the life of the average village idiot was all about. Or maybe it's all been a waste of time and it will vanish into the ether. Who knows.

Anyway. I slept in until 5:40 this morning. C let me sleep and I appreciate it. I needed it. We had a busy day yesterday. I got up and first went off to my annual eye doctor appointment. The good news is that I was able to get my name and all my info changed. Another lingering thing with my old name gone. There's something that would be interesting to read over 14 years. The journey of a trans woman. How I've gone from an angry human to one who has found some kind of peace. Saw the doctor, lovely woman I might add, and the best news is that there's been no change to my eyes. That's awesome. In 2022 there was no change, in 2023 we adjusted by 1/4 point, and now no change again. Nice. When I got back home we started in on our big project: reorganizing that fucking kitchen. We pulled as much out as we could and started moving shit around. I got quite a bit moved and enough that I can function. I need to fine tune things today. I have huge swatches of unused cabinet space now. Threw away two bags of expired out dated food, things that are broken or we just don't use. Leveraged my new containers from the container store. I'd like some more. There's a number of things I uncovered that I could use a few more containers for storage. But that can wait. Not the end of the world. 

At around 2 we went to the park for community day. In the morning I was talking with the girls at the eye doctor about how this was the first year there hadn't been any snow in the parking lot. We all commented on how weird it was. Guess what it started doing during community day? Yep. Snow. There's a good covering outside right now. Joy. After we went to our favorite pizza place. Sadly it was a bit crowded and neither of us could hear each other. While that would have been tolerable, we ended up next to a woman wearing too much perfume and had to leave. Like it was giving us both headaches and affecting the taste of our food. I quietly told the server why we suddenly had to leave and she understood as she was serving them and I could see her body language when she was at their table. She got it. Took our pizza home, had it here while watching some tv, and enjoyed it more. We went off to bed around 10:30. 

C heard back from one of the new jobs she applied to. Sadly the original position has been filled but they may have more in the near future. She needs out of where she is. One of the managers has a personal vendetta against her and it's making life hell. She used to have fun going in. Now it's cut hours, blame where it shouldn't be, and just a negative time. I am pushing her gently to apply for other things. I think this year is where we get her on a path. I am going to help her find a career counselor to discuss this all with soon. Get some direction.

Okay, shower time and then more kitchen work. Have a great Sunday my friends.

ANA Y2 D224

Up early on a saturday. Why? My own issue today and not C's. I have an eye appointment. Whee. That time of year. Have dentist next week. Then blood work at the end of the month. Get them all done at once. Self care for the win.

Worked on my doc yesterday. Finished. 20 page technical paper on AI in analytics. I am pretty proud of it. Can be reused in multiple places. Could even be turned into a training class it desired. Good use of time. Had my afternoon meeting. B came over around 5 to trim Marble's nails. They updated me on some shit in their life. More drama than I want or need. I will take my boring life thank you very much. Slow cooked pork yesterday for pulled pork sandwiches. Watched some tv. Went to bed around 10.

Today is kitchen overhaul day. When I get back from eye doctor we're going to go off on this kitchen. Look out!

ANA Y2 D223

Go go go. One of those morning. Have too much to do and not enough time to do it in. Bills. Work. Meetings. Get through the day.

Worked. Grocery store. C doctor. Eat. Sleep. My life in 2024 so far.

ANA Y2 D222

Nothing of any excitement to report today. I worked all day yesterday. We took a break to go to the container store where I got some stuff to start reorganizing the kitchen. We're going to work on that together this weekend. Going to also clean the house this weekend. I think it's Thursday right now so just got to get through a couple more days. Made pasta for dinner. Watched some tv. Played games. Went to bed.

ANA Y2 D221

I got some horrible news yesterday around noon. A coworker, friend, and good human being passed away over the holiday break. Our CFO, my tax guy, my coworker for 15+ years. He has been sick for a while with type 1 diabetes and kidney issues. We had all hoped he would get past it, get a transplant, and come out the other side. Sadly, on Xmas eve it moved into his lungs and he passed away on the 26th. This was very heart breaking news. I am very sorry for his family and other friends. Many of us at the company have worked with him for a long time. We watched his struggles and are deeply saddened by his passing. That threw me off for a good chunk of yesterday. I managed to do some other work, do laundry, and make dinner. But it was a rough one.

Today's Wednesday I think. The world is still out there chugging along and so must I.

ANA Y2 D220

Since yesterday's post was so late, there really wasn't much going on after we got home. We put all of our things away, did some laundry, relaxed, and chilled. We didn't feel like cooking last night and decided to go to Culver's for dinner. Simple but satisfying. We then played some video games and went to bed. A good way to end a hectic time off.

Now we're back into reality. I have work, C has work, yadda yadda. It is January so soon enough I will have eye doctor, dentist, etc. Get all that done in Jan as usual. Different year, lot of the same. But as with last year I'm coming into it in a healthier more stable mindset. That's what really counts.

ANA Y2 D219

We are home. We left around 7:45. We didn't have the best time. WE had a good time with each other, but the hotel was less than stellar and we left the party early after being chased by some old couple looking to have an orgy. No, seriously. Let's back up shall we?

As expected C called in yesterday. She also called in today so tomorrow we will see the aftermath of that. Neither of us really gives a fuck though. It's all irrelevant. Yesterday we woke up to snow which caused me massive anxiety. We left around 11:45 and rolled in just before 2. Luckily the snow was going the other direction and while cold, it was an easy drive. We got checked in and right off the bat I was unhappy. Low floor next to an elevator. The two things my account says never to do. Whatever. We're there to sleep not stay for a week. But there were other things I didn't like about the room either. Just a lot of little things. We start unpacking and discover that C forgot to pack a bra for the night. We then had to find some place open to get something to deal with that. While normally that wouldn't be a problem, we were battling two things - a holiday and a Sunday. Nothing was open and anything that was closed at like 2pm. We did find one place open and got something to fix the issue, but it wasn't fun. We then tried to figure out what to eat for dinner. The restaurant downstairs wanted $40 for pad thai and we both said the fuck not. But again, it was sunday and a holiday. Three places we wanted to go to were either straight up closed or closed at 4pm. Motherfucker. We did finally find a place within walking distance that was open and surprisingly good. It was Burger Theory inside the Holiday Inn, but it was tasty. Plus it was only $35 for both of us for the full meal. 

We went back to the hotel and had sex. Yep. No wait, we had sex before dinner. Shit. Now I can't remember. Either way we finished the year the right way for sure. We then proceeded to get ready for the party which started at 8pm. We asked when we checked in if there would be food or beverages of any kind. Cash bar and cash snacks. Really? $500 and I get to pay for more shit? Fine. A little after 8pm we head down to the ballroom area. Well decorated, well setup. We get a bottle of champagne ($50 but not the most expensive, that was $1100. For real.) and find a table to chill at while we wait for the band to start. We're there for about 45 minutes when this old couple comes up and asks if they can share our table. By old I mean my age, but old looking. Over the next 20-30 minutes I don't know how it got there, but they were telling us how they were already drunk and high on mushrooms and edibles. Next thing you know they're telling us how wonderful transgender people are and how they're bisexual and like to party. Like WTF?? You really just want us to come back to your room and fuck?? It both pissed us off and grossed us out. We ended up going back to the room and just being annoyed and sad for a while. We then around 11 tried to go get cookies at Insomniac but they were so busy they had to kick us and like 10 other people out because they literally couldn't keep up with orders. We go back to the hotel and try to order room service. 11pm mind you on a holiday. Nope. Closed at 9pm. Again, wtf?? We ended up sharing a pack of nutter butters and watching Anderson Cooper in bed until midnight. WE had fun being together and walking around and people watching. We did NOT enjoy the other parts.

C was up at 5am to call in again and I was awake. I had already slept poorly due to the bed, the AC/heat, and light from outside. At 7 I woke her up and said we got to go. She was amicable and here we are. 11am and we're home. Luckily we don't have anything else to do today. I need a break from my break.