An older one, but a surprisingly good song. I am not a Coldplay fan, so why I like the Chainsmokers, I have no idea. It definitely makes me think I should listen to some of Coldplay again and see how I feel now that they're not being shoved down my throat on the airwaves. But this song, I like. It's on a goodly chunk of my playlists, most notably, my interview playlist, which I listen to when I need a pick me up, or when I have an interview. It's not quite as inspiring as This is the Moment, even if in the play it's the moment of absolute hubris. But there's something very good about the lyrics if you can ignore the context. I listened to it on Friday while I drove to the interview for the job I don't want.

They have not yet gotten back to me, and the job posting is in limbo while our HR person is traveling. Argh. I am not patient, dammit. On the other hand, a friend from IKEA who I referred had her interview on Monday, so hopefully she hears back relatively quickly. I think she'd be a good worker, and she hates IKEA so much.

The boss either slipped during the interview, or said exactly what she meant when she said "You'll have an offer by the end of the week." The friend thinks that she meant "you'll know by the end of the week, but I'm not so sure. I mean, I've turned my job into something completely different by being smart and proactive that is infinitely more useful than just taking calls, and the other friend who's been there a year is beloved and doing great, so it's pretty good odds, I think. Plus the bosses love me. But we'll see!

Yesterday was good. I got a lot done, a lot of new Cardiacs filled for Columbia. We're getting to the end of how many I can scheduled solo, I think. I've looked through most of April and the appts are in March, so It could be tough from here on out. Aside from that, I took calls, filled more Cardiacs, and generally did my thing.

Right now, I'm watching the queue to see how the phones are doing while I'm doing the admin stuff. And if I see more than 8 or 9 in there, I'll hop in.

I do know our trainer asked for documentation of some of my tricks, so apparently that'ls being added to the curriculum, which is cool. Adding created training materials to my resume. That always sounds good. My resume is long, but one more line won't hurt.

Today shall me more of the same, I think. Filling in Columbia, taking a few calls, and just generally being a little happy Sunbeam. Work doesn't get any of my shit, of course. They pay me to be kind and functional, Not that I have anything to be angsty about. I'm pretty happy right now. Which is kind of weird to say. The world is a dumpster fire, but all I can do is what I can do, and try to keep my mental health on an even keel. So far, so good.

Today is payday, which is lovely. I have a few bills to pay, and then the rest shall go into savings to prepare for Alaska. I'd like to have decent money in all three accounts, since I know the hotels and boat will all put holds on the cards, so I'd like to have two for those and one for fun.

Tonight, I will make Turkey or beef bulgogi. Depends on if I get off my ass this morning to make the Bulgogi marinade. It's some chopping and grating, so it's a little time consuming. I also need to make sure one of the Korean pears is ripe to grate.

Tomorrow, I will have the other. We got a small upright freezer (like 3 feet high, front loading), so I ordred a bit of meat to put in it. I'm also going to go through our freezer this weekend. We have so much shit that is probably freezer burned that needs to go. Once done, between the two, we'll have plenty of tasty and accessible food. Right now, it's terrifying pulling out something, because everything is jenga'd in there so tightly.

I've got baby back ribs, pork chops, chicken and Polish Sausage coming tomorrow. There's a local butcher who delivers, so I've been using them. The meat is far superior to the grocery store. I did get some from the Asian Market as well, since they have bulgogi and stirfry meat.

Okay, time to decide if I want to make bulgogi marinade, shower or both. Everyone have a wonderful Wednesday!

And we're back to Monday. I love having a ton of games, but it does mean that I don't get much time to just chill. I did take a nap after my game yesterday and went to sleep early, (thus why I'm awake at 4:30am) so that helped.

Yesterday was fun. I did have some quiet time in the morning, and was craving fruit and my sister was craving donuts, so we got both. I ordered from the H-Mart, which is a Korean/general Asian grocery store. They have a great and varied fruit selection, so I ordered some Korean pears, oranges, kiwi and dragon fruit. I also got some bulgogi and stew meat and extra gochujang, soy and sesame oil to make said bulgogi. Oh, also some Salted Vanilla Pocky, which was super good and a Japanese cream cake. It was a good haul. I immediately opened the Pocky and had an orange. Donuts were very good as well, but that was more my sister's craving. The fruit mostly needs a few days to ripen, so I'm aiming for the bulgogi on maybe Wednesday.

Then it was game time. I had an awesome time playing as my little gothy disaster. I know it's a lot of heavy lifting for our DM poisontaster because everything I've heard says that Strixhaven is more of a suggestion of a module than an actual module, but she does a great job. We got to visit the Wandering Shop, which is a pop up shop of magical items. I think I came out of it best, having gotten a book that lets me cast some pretty high level spells. We're first level, with first level spells only, but this thing had some 5th level spells in it.

After that, I was very tired as five games in four days caught up with me. We had an early dinner and I took a half hour nap that turned into an hour and a half. I dragged up at 6:30 at night, we walked the dog, and I went right back to bed.

Today, I feel pretty good. I'm well rested and ready to go to work and get this week started. I'm hoping that the job is posted today, but we'll see. I'll be keeping an eye on the jobs board for sure.

I didn't have a leg cramp last night, though my leg is still tender and achy from where I had it Friday and Saturday night.

This weekend is pretty quiet on games until we reach Saturday, at which point I'm GMing two games. I had planned on them being all Monster of the Week, but I I did get a couple of D&D oneshots that I need to look over, so I might switch one out. I'll read the module and see what the players think.

Or I'll see if it can be adapted to Monster of the Week, that is a possibility too. That might actually be fun. I'll see what it's like. We do have a game in the morning on Sunday and I'm also working Saturday, so I think I'd rather stick with MotW, just because it's easier to run. Less prep, especially if I do the PDF of adventures rather than a premade one on Roll20.

I am both looking forward to Monsters of Murka, and dreading, because it's a lot of adding things to Roll20. Though I do think they're doing a virtual tabletop version for another site, so I might consider playing it on there. We'll see what I feel like doing.

We meet the dogsitter this Saturday, so we'll see how that goes. In email, I really like this woman, so I'm hoping the dog does too. She seems sweet, and she'll stay in our house for the 10 days, so that's important to me. I want Yoda to have someone with him to keep him calm and give him love and snuggles.

Today, I think our small chest freezer arrives. With the dogs food, I don't have a ton of room for ours, so we needed a little more space so that I can shop for a couple weeks at a time instead of every few days. We need to clean out a space for it, but I think I know where it's going. The tricky part will be plugging it in. I believe the plug is behind our pantry, so that'll be fun.

I need to stop ordering teas. We've got so much, plus like three more orders coming. One order is a reorder for some samples we'd gotten, because it turns out that Creme Brulee Earle Grey is really tasty.

Personally, I'm waiting for the Bourbon Sugar Tea that comes on Wednesday. I only drink tea now and again, but Jess is a total tea person. They have at least a cup or two per day, and a pot with game.

I need to get a couple of ring or baby monitor cameras to put in the living room and in Jess and my bedroom so we can check in on the animals while we're on vacation. I fully plan to let the sitter know that they're there. I'm not the spying type. If I don't trust this woman to take care of the animals, she won't be staying.

Today is sure to be busy at work, being a Monday. I wonder if my counterpart will be back. She had injured her knee on the ice and was out all week. It made for a very busy week for me. I'm sure, since I work on Saturday, I'll get another to do list. I think they've forgotten that I haven't started the new job yet. I definitely don't mind, but I'm a little confused as to whether I'm supposed to be taking calls or not. I've been averaging between 25-30, because with my counterpart out, I've been making a lot of calls, plus the cardiac spots have been dropping like flies.

Okay, time for me to go forth and get myself together. Maybe read one of those one shots first and see if it would be good. Everyone have a super Monday!