Done This Week

Work has reduced me to ground meat. If I'm really lucky, only Monday of this coming week will be similarly brutal, and then I get about a month before the whole process gets repeated. Yaaaaay...

The long weekend at least gave me lots of time to do garden stuff. That's likely the only reason I'm not completely unhinged at this point.

Lewisia: 3 new pieces written, December bonus drafted

Gratitude journaling: 35 new entries

Tumblr queue: 28 posts added

Day job: 32.75 hours, because I keep staying late in little drips and drabs

Cooking: lemon-blueberry biscotti, which had amazing flavor and an unfortunate tendency to disintegrate to rough crumbs if you so much as looked at them; many Thanksgiving foods

Cleaning: only garden work, no tidying--wait, no, I dusted for about 90 seconds yesterday--cleaning! woo!

Gardening: bought many more bags of topsoil and filled up the castle garden (that's what I'm calling it now that the wall is there), so as soon as the ground gets cold enough, I can plant the bulbs; rearranged the succulents at the front of the house to make use of a new metal rack we got for free; harvested the whole crop of bushel gourds and set them out to start drying

Listening: I mention this more for the irony than anything--I was recovering from my work week and getting caught up on episodes of It Could Happen Here, and I listened to their two-part piece on the anti-work movement, and wow, the bit where they talk about needing to get rid of the mindset that makes you do extra work unprompted was just a really rude way to call me out in my own damn home

Cotton Candy Bingo Fest - fills completed

Much-belated bingo card housekeeping from June/July.

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