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Thankful Thursday – Jack-o-ballot

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Still not quite over the bug from last week, but I’m still trucking- or at doing me best to at least. Here’s the things that have made life doable since last Thursday.

No Covid
I officially got tested before letting myself out in the public again and the bug I had last week was just that. A nasty bug. Probably a head-cold gone bad. I’ve been a little tired this week, but it’s most loosened its grips on me. The cough’ll hang on until the middle of next month, but that’s cough-variant asthma for you sometimes.

Jack-O-Lanterns
Finally got the chance to carve jack-o-lanterns. I never did get to decorate properly for Halloween due to coming down with a bug right at the beginning of Fall Break, But I’m fairly happy with the jack-o-lanterns me and the hubby carved this year. And at least this way they’ll look fresh for Halloween proper- rather than nearly falling into on themselves like they’ve done in some years in the past when it was an overly warm October.

My Ballot is Cast
Voting was easy, and I was able to get it done without much fuss. Even in a small rural area, I at least have to stand in line for a few minutes, but that wasn’t an issue. I was in and out within ten minutes all said.

Back into the Swing of Things
I think I’m slowly finding my groove again, with the whole long-term sub thing. The first week was rocky, for several reasons, but I’m starting to feel like I’ve got my feet under me again, at least some of the time.

Fast Food French Fries
Granted, as previously said, I’m still tired. Especially with the whole recovering from the crud thing. So grabbing something through the drive-thru for dinner tonight was a relief. I swear, fast food fries never taste so good as when you’ve given up on having any maintainable level of energy.

Thankful Thursday- Pod People and Pale Blue Eyes

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Well, this has been a week. A rather exhausting one. I don’t have much energy for writing today, and I’m not about to go into the whys, but I wanted to put this together anyway. 

Fall Break
Thankfully, I’ve had some time to recover from all the not-good this week. It’s fall break and it’s been nice to have a bit of an escape. 

I Passed
There’s nothing like getting a good score on a test- especially when you’ve been waiting on the results for over a month. It was an English Praxis test- my subject area, so I wasn’t too concerned overall- still it’s nice to not have that hanging over my head.

Good Omens
Finally, a year after its release, I’m watching the show and it’s so good! I always forget how much I love that story, until I get back into it again, though typically before now that just meant rereading the novel. 

The Velvet Underground
I love finding new music- something that shouldn’t be too unexpected if you’ve read these posts of mine before. And thanks to a post from Neil Gaiman I’ve found myself diving into the work from a rock band I’d never paid much mind to before. 

Old Horror Movies
I’ve been indulging in some older stuff- 70s and back, and I really appreciate the lack of jump scares and gore. The atmosphere and set up is what I really like- the creeping sense of wrongness. That sense of foreboding and rising paranoia. I’m thinking it’s the same reason I enjoy horror podcasts so much.

Thankful Thursday- Relief and Exhaustion

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And Thursday rolls around again. It’s been an eventful week, to say the least, and my brain feels vaguely like cotton candy right now, so let’s just start before my brain shuts down on me completely due to lack of sleep.

One More Chapter Down
On the book front, I finished the edits on another chapter, and I’m actually pretty happy with it. I finally feel like the end of this round of revisions is within sight. Of course, my progress might be a little stuttery again for the next bit.

Sub work
Why, you may ask? And also, why am I so tired? Well, I managed to get a longer-term subbing job. I try not to mention work too much, It has a way of taking over my brain if I let it, and I need a space where I can completely shut it out, but I’m happy for the stable-ish in-the-same-room-every-day experience. And knowing that I’ll have a job for the day. I swear, sometimes waiting around in the morning, waiting for a phone call, is one of the worst parts of subbing. 

Frozen Pizza
Of course, with long-term subbing comes a lot of exhaustion. And it is for that reason that I am very thankful for frozen pizza. Dinner in fifteen minutes, and I don’t have to stand over the stove. Can’t beat that. 

My Best Friend
Because when the stress inevitably gets the better of me she’s one of the only people who can get my brain to shut up and quit being such a jerk.

New music
Another thing that keeps me sane. Good music. I haven’t had much of a chance to listen to the rest of Talkie’s stuff yet, but “Fuzzy Disco” was the ‘weather’ on a Nightvale episode, and I’ve had it on repeat since I heard it early this week.