Here We Go...

I report bright and early tomorrow morning. Well, actually I have to be there before it's even bright and early. Ha! My surgery time is first thing in the morning. I'm the first one of the day. 

I received my call with my instructions and I'm good to go. 

So I guess I'll catch you on the flip side. I'll post as soon as I can/feel up to it. 

And then I can get back to living life! Living life without constant pain! 

Let's go! 

Behave!

2 Days Until Surgery...

I'm all set... I've been medically cleared for Friday. I'll get a time to report sometime tomorrow. 

I have my bag packed. The house is almost clean. Stuff has been organized. 

I have to use this super weird smelling body wash. I can't sleep with my dog. 

Our bed part came, but it's taking it's time warming up so we're watching it. It will be a pain if we have to send it back. 

No writing has happened. My brain is working and I cannot wait until I can put some words on the page again. 

And that is all...

Behave!

Feel Good Friday on Saturday...Again

Well, here we are at Saturday again. I kind of fell down on posting this week, but in my defense, the week was absolute insanity. 

To back up, it barely snowed. So we trudged our way into work Monday to inventory data entry and report making. And trying to catch up on everything that didn't happen due to getting ready for inventory day. That continued until Friday. About the only thing I can say is that it was one of "those" work weeks. 

And it was one of "those" weeks period. So many stressful things. 

Still up in the air about whether or not surgery is really going to happen. I'm told not to worry and to continue as if it is, but there seems to be one thing after another. The "don't worry" is a ridiculous thing to say to someone. And I am continuing like everything is as it should be, but damn, so very much stress. 

We're still waiting for the part for our bed. the original place refunded me after I emailed for status (they apologized and said they were out of stock)and I had to do a pretty intense search for another one. Which I did find, and I paid way too much for it, but I had no choice. It's supposed to be here today and we're ready. There's a hose running through the living room in preparation. The hope is that we can be back to normal by Monday night. Fingers crossed. 

No writing has happened this week, and we'll see if I get to it this weekend at all. My brain is a little broken, but I might be able to spew some ideas out for later. I also want to go through the old man synopsis and query again, but I'm giving myself grace on that all of it. 

That's it for now. Hopefully this coming week will be better than last...

Behave! 

Weekend Wrap Up

Happy Sunday? 

I am torn about being happy it's Sunday. I mean, it's been a pretty decent weekend, but after Sunday is Monday and...well...no one wants that. 

Christmas is gone from this house. We packed it all up and put it away. There are some snowmen things here and there. The sleds and "winter flowers" are still on the porch along with the big snowman. I'm okay with that. We did some minor organizing in the basement. Well, we did a lot of organizing of various things and laundry. 

I spent most of yesterday writing. I think I figured out the beginning of the old lady story. That's progress. I'm just now getting to it today. 

My main purpose in posting was to update on our dinner tonight...

So this time last week, we dumped an entire bottle of wine into a pot with various vegetables, spices, and beef broth and cooked it into a marinade. Once that was cooled, we placed a small roast into a bag and poured the marinade on top. By Wednesday, we had to move the whole thing into a container due to leakage. It smelled like wine. 

This morning we pulled it all out, dried off the roast, braised it, and then put it all back together with the marinade and popped it into the oven at 300. It was supposed to go for 3-4 hours. 

Well, with all of the organizing we were doing, we lost track of time. 

And we burned it. 

We were supposed to take the marinade, strain it, add gingersnaps, and make gravy. Pssh. Instead, we made beef broth gravy with no gingersnaps. 

The meat was dry, but not inedible. It didn't taste burned so there's that. I can't say I loved the taste, but I didn't hate it either. If that makes sense. 

There was also a red cabbage side dish to go with it. That turned out awesome and we sunk the meat in the pot while we finished up the gravy. The red cabbage dish is going to stay in our back pocket for future meals. 

And there you have it. That Man is working on cleaning the burned dutch oven. I have opened my document and am getting to work. We have precious few hours until the week starts, but hopefully we'll get the snow they're talking about and tomorrow will be a work from home day. 

Behave!

Feel Good Friday on Saturday

Made it through the first few days of the year, but honestly... this year is not starting out so great. 

Let's get the crap out of the way first, shall we? You know how they say "crap happens in threes"? Yep. In just four days we've managed to fill the crap-o-meter.

1. Potentially having to delay my surgery due to a missed test scheduling. (Not my fault) For now, we are continuing like things are happening. But I won't know if we're a go until the last minute unless there's a cancellation. 

2. Our heater going out on our bed. That happened New Years Eve. We ordered a new one, but it hasn't even shipped yet. I'm in the guest room and he's been sleeping on the couch. It sucks because I have a week until I'm in the guest room full time for a bit. 

3. There is a three. 

So, let's do our best to side table the crap and focus on some good stuff. 

1. Work inventory going well. There's only a bit of entering numbers to do. We were done the earliest we've ever been and so far, things are lining up pretty well! Lunch was awesome and it was a good day even though it was a really long day. 

2. Snow in the forecast. Though I just saw an update that has the storm pushed to the south and shows us as not getting anything now. I hope that's wrong. I haven't had time to check it out yet. 

3. Since we're in self-imposed lock down, we've been trying new recipes. Next up is sauerbraten. I will let you know how it comes out tomorrow or Monday. The roast has been marinating for a week. 

4. Figuring out what the old lady story needs. I'm picking my way through, but it's a slow go right now. 

Okay. That's all I have. At least the good was more than the bad? Yeah. I don't think it works that way...

Behave! 

End...

Well, this is it! The end of this weird year! 

I have a lot of hope for 2025. Well, not really. We'll see what happens after surgery and recovery. Right now, that's all I'm focused on. 

I don't know if I'll do a year in review or not... Maybe. But it'll be short since I didn't post a lot in 2024. 

Mainly I spent the year in pain and it impacted so many things for me. I'm ready for the pain not to be an issue anymore. 

It's good that we opted out of the various evening invites we had. Everyone is turning up sick. I'm not convinced we're not going to end up with some form of crud, but we're trying our best! It is what it is though. All we can do is our best. 

That's all I have for now. 

Behave! 

After the Chaos...

It's done! 

I hope your holiday was as awesome as ours!

There was a ton of food, laughter, conversations, and good feelings. I wasn't allowed to do much as far as prep and clean up, but I did what I could and tried my best to be okay with sitting out. 

We had a blast, but I have to say, I'm glad it's over. Now it's just the clean up and reorganization of my house. 

We'll get to that this coming week. This weekend was about relaxing. This is the first weekend in months that we haven't had an obligation. I slept in both days and we just hung out watching dumb tv. And napped.

We also figured out our plan for New Year's Eve. Well, we knew our plan already. We're home. Staying away from germs and therefore missing out on any and all of the gatherings we've been invited to. But we're having an epic dinner that includes an appetizer and dessert. Yeah, we're going fancy. Ha! 

Hopefully you'll hear more from me in the next few weeks before surgery. I'm going to do my best. 

That's all I have for now though. 

Behave!