Done This Week

For the holiday events, my workplace decided to do a voluntary gingerbread house team competition. I, in my infinite wisdom, wrangled my work friends into doing this with me. Cue me staying late by at least an hour every day for the past week to work on it. Technically, we were allowed to work on it on the clock. This was all well and good for operators, because we have very little work at this time of year. I, however, have approximately five thousand machines to clean and couldn’t really spare the work time.

This activity was fun, but gods, at what cost?

Lewisia: 3 new pieces, plus another bonus piece written

Day job: 44 hours, not counting all the extra time I stayed over to work on the gingerbread house

Cooking: biscuits, sauteed mushrooms and gravy (sadly not in conjunction with the biscuits)

Gardening: succulent club holiday party

Reading: Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake, which was fascinating and unexpectedly poetic--so much so that I bought the audiobook just so I can listen to him wax on about fungi as background noise

Listening: Out In The Moonlight by Skyhill (another project involving Dan Avidan of Game Grumps, and so utterly up my street I can hardly stand it, “Live Another Day” could not have arrived in my ears at a better time)