Oh my god, how is it only 2 weeks are left in the year?! EEAAAKKKK!!

Anyway, welcome to week 50.

We played D&D with our new characters last night, which was interesting. Its hard after you play a character for so long to go and play with a new one and figure out how they work. But we had a good time, and that’s what’s important. My new character is called Lexi, and she is a battle sorcerer. Haven’t played one of those before, but she seems to be fun so far.

I woke up around 8 this morning, just wide awake. I got up and had a something to eat and then I lied down on the sofa and turned on GBBS and fell asleep to that for a while, until Fiks came out actually. Then I started working on my math final, then I started doing everything not to work on my final, because it felt very overwhelming to do. I did the one which made the most sense to me, which was writing basically 5 page long mini papers on certain topics that I got to choose from. So at least that was nice. But I was easily distracted. I got up and started laundry, I asked Fiks what he wanted for Christmas and then went and ordered that. Talked with my Cousin, who yelled at me to get my final done so we could watch a movie tomorrow. Then I put on a movie and did more shopping… yeah, I just… yeah.

I worked on my paper for a good hour or two with it being my soul focus. I put back on GBBS for a while, and then I put back on Doctor Who so I could finish it before I started the new stuff that just came out over the past few weeks. I’m on Peter Capaldi’s last season, and then I have all of Jodi Whittaker’s stuff to get through.

Fiks played Boulders Gate III while I was working on my final and delaying the inevitable. I got up and straightened my hair before getting out of PJ’s and into real clothes, then I sat down and just worked on my exam some more until it was time to go to my Brother’s house for dinner. He was making chicken and dumplings, yummy. We went over and hung out and had dinner, and took my parents back to their house and made sure they were all settled before coming home.

Once we got home we did the recycling and garbage and I started to finish working on my final. It only took me another hour and change, but I got it done and submitted. Hopefully I’ll get a good grade on it, because, somehow, I’m managing to maintain an A in the class. I still have a few things to submit before Friday, so I’ll work on those tomorrow and Tuesday after my final. But right now, I have Doctor Who on and I’m snuggled in my horse quilt and just working on this and hanging out. Fiks is back to playing Boulders Gate III.

I managed to sleep through most of the night, which was nice. I vaguely remember kissing Fiks goodbye when he left at the dawn for work. I woke up when my alarms for class went off, I moved to the sofa after grabbing my shake and snuggled down to GBBS. I dozed to that for a while before getting up and going to the grocery store after talking to some friends and Fiks. To be honest, I cheated when it came to getting dressed. I put on jeans, some fresh deodorant under the shirt I slept in, grabbed my hoodie and Santa hat, grabbed the grocery bags and left.

The drive down the mountain to the grocery store was fine. Parking lot was kinda busy tho, which I thought was odd for that time of the morning. But it is the holidays, so, whatever. I got what we needed and came home. Some jerk sped up so I couldn’t merge over even though I had my blinker on before I started moving, the jerk. But he backed off and I got in so that’s fine. I came home and parked the truck, rolled in the garbage can and took up the groceries. I put the cold stuff away and then I sat down and started watching some Doctor Who before watching a movie with my Cousin today. Its the first time in a while and I’m really looking forward to it.

We watched Love Actually today, and chatted the whole time through it. Its a good movie if you haven’t seen it yet.

After the movie I did some puttering around and outside the house. I hung up the Christmas lights, so at least I got that done today. I made up some cookie bags and threw some Gatorades in a cooler and then I printed out the sign for the delivery people to take a drink and a bag of cookies and taped it to the cooler. Fiks always said he enjoyed it when he saw that on someone’s steps at the holidays. Made him feel appreciated, so I want our delivery people to feel appreciated. Because they have a hard job this time of year. Long days, lots of deliveries, time away from their families.

Of course I manage to take my picture when the lights weren’t all on Oh well.

I hung out inside and watched Doctor Who until Fiks said that he was on his way home. Then I got up and started making dinner. Slight flaw in master plan. No peeler for the potatoes. So I decided to turn them into roasties and continue with the rest of the recipe. It was a pork chop covered in panko and cheese, so once those were all prepared I threw them on the same tray as the already cooking potatoes and put it back in the oven. Fiks came home while I was cooking, and went sand sat down with his Monday night gaming group. I took him his plate once everything was cooked and then I sat down and watched more Doctor Who. I played on Duo for a while, scrolled through Instagram, before deciding to go and soak in a nice hot bath.

I soaked for half an hour in a wonderfully hot tub. I read my book and listened to the Ralph Report while I soaked, and then when I felt like getting out, I did. I came back into the living room and sat down and turned on Great British Baking Show and tried to read a little bit more. I eventually got tired and went to kiss Fiks goodnight, thinking he was still gaming. Nope, he was playing Boulders Gate. He said he was tired and was coming to bed soon.

I slept okay until about 3, then I was wide awake. I moved to the sofa and turned on Great British Baking Show for a while, and then I managed to sleep during that for a while. Then I woke back up and so I put on Kung Fu Panda and dozed to that until Fiks came out and kissed me goodbye. I then fell back asleep to Bake Off until my phone alarm went off, then I just dozed off and on for a while before getting up and going and feeding my Sister’s cats. One of them hissed at me when I walked in. I fed them and then left.

I have my final today at 10, I think that’s why I didn’t sleep well, too anxious I guess. Well, it got close to my time and so I hopped on Zoom and joined the meeting. It went okay. Apparently I didn’t do the assignment correctly. But I made it through the meeting, apologized for my misunderstanding of the assignment, told her that it was a great class and she was a great teacher.

Afterwards I went and got dressed and drove over to 100 to hang out with my parents for a little while. Poppa was out doing errands, so it was just me, Mom, and Lumi for a couple of minutes. She asked how my final went and I told her I think I did okay on it. Not great, but not bad. Told Poppa the same thing when he came in. I went through the boxes that were delivered yesterday and put names on the boxes. I told them more were coming today. After we got the boxes sorted Poppa gave Mom her medicine and then she went and got dressed. I came home afterwards and talked with Fiks for a little bit on my way home before he had to leave to put gas in his car. Then I had a sammich and watched the last Capaldi episode of Doctor Who.

I got a couple Amazon deliveries while I was watching Doctor Who, and I heard the driver rifle through the cooler and say thank you 🙂 Made me feel good. I put on Home Alone next and called and made reservations at the restaurant for dinner on Sunday and then I booked tickets for Wonka. One of Fiks’ presents came in, so I’m going to have to wrap that before he gets home. Or hide it… I put on Home Alone (the original) and watched/dozed to that for a while.

Fiks called me when he was almost home asking what we wanted to do for dinner. He was hitting up the brewery for beer, so I suggested fast food. He picked that up and came home and we sat down and finished off Season 2 of Loki. Then we watched some YouTube videos for a while before I went to bed.

I didn’t sleep well last night, I was up sick for most of it. I remember Fiks kissing me goodbye and I meant to text my manager then but I wasn’t with it enough. When my alarms went off I texted her what happened and she told me to stay home and feel better. I fell back asleep for a while, then I remembered I needed to feed the cats, so I got up, fed the fish, and went over to my Sisters. Thankfully they had eaten everything I had put out last night, so that made me feel better. But I still got hissed at. I gave them some kibbles with water and came home and passed out to Great British Baking show for a while.

When I woke up I put on the last few episodes of Big Bang Theory I had to watch before turning on Doctor Who and staying with that the rest of the day. I called Fiks and told him I’d been sick and was wondering if he’d pick some soup up for me on his way home, and he said yes. I put on The Super Mario Bros movie and watched that. I enjoyed it. Fiks came home at the end of the movie with my soup, so I warmed that up while he took a shower. I put on the Great British Baking Show for the rest of the evening before going to bed.

I slept pretty well last night, so I felt better this morning when Fiks kissed me goodbye and left for work. I passed back out afterwards. When my alarms went off I got up and moved to the sofa after grabbing my shake and turning on GBBS. Once it was time I got up and got dressed, made my lunch, and went to down the mountain to work.

I got to work a few minutes early, so that was nice. The day went pretty well. We had a staff meeting in the back, and my Manager wanted to talking with everyone about something after the meeting. She said this at the start and at the end. Well, the new girl punched out and took off without talking to the manager, which pissed her off. When it was my turn I asked if I was in trouble and she said no, so that was nice. I got some good news about work, and that’s all I’ll say. The rest of the day went by in a flash, so that was nice.

I came home and there was a package waiting for me. I wasn’t expecting anything so I was very confused. I came in and took a shower and watched some TV, waiting for Fiks to get home. He seemed in a better mood today, so that was nice. I told Fiks I wasn’t super hungry and all we had was greasy food, which wasn’t really good for my recovering stomach. We went and got sushi for dinner from our favorite sushi place down the street. When we were done I opened the package that was waiting for me and it was from my one and only Partner In Crime, who got me some coloring books.

Fiks handed me a package and said it was my birthday present from him. So I opened it. It was a stuffed highland cow and a stuffed turtle. He had adopted me a highland cow and turtle for my birthday!! I was so excited. I gave him a hug and a kiss and said thank you, and sent a picture of the highland cow to one of my work friends. We watched YouTube videos for the rest of the evening.

Today is the day! Its my Birthday!!

I woke up in a good mood, grabbed my shake and watched GBBS while I woke up. I got dressed and ready for work, made my lunch and then headed down the mountain. My friend who I texted last night got me a cookie for my birthday, and whished me a happy birthday. I just went about my day at work, texting Fiks and a few friends and family who wished me well. My parents scared me by calling me, so I went off the floor and it was them calling to sing me happy birthday, I just laughed and told them I thought something was wrong. Then I went back in and went back to work.

My manager whished me a happy birthday when she saw me, that was nice. The day went fairly well. We got out early and I came home and took a shower and went and grabbed the dog from my Sister’s house, and they were all still there. I got birthday hugs from everyone and helped load Mom and Poppa up in her car so they could go see their show of the evening. I brought Lumi over and he just hung out by the Christmas tree while I cleaned the kitchen and made dinner. He didn’t even bark when Fiks came home, which was a surprise. We sat down once dinner was done and watched some YouTube until it was time for me to head to bed.

I woke up at 630 and Fiks was still in bed next to me, so I nudged him awake, told him the time and he got up, and I snuggled down to go back to sleep for a little bit. Then there was a crash, I asked if he was okay ‘that’ weren’t me’. So I was very confused, because it sounded super close. He said it sounded to him like it came from the kitchen, so I got up and went to the kitchen and saw that one of his tulip glasses had dropped on the floor and broke because another glass had fallen out of the cabinet and hit it. I cleaned it up and when I went back into the bedroom and Fiks was almost ready to leave. I told him it was one of his glasses that broke, and he was sad but said it was okay.

I was awake after that, so I just went to the sofa after realizing I didn’t have any shakes in the fridge and waited until I got dressed to order myself some Starbucks. I ordered a salted caramel hot chocolate, but I just got a regular hot chocolate. Disappointing, but not the end of the world. I went to work and punched in and showed T my stuffed highland cow, and she loved it even more in person.

The day went pretty well, was uneventful. After work I went and said hi to Fiks really quick and then I came home and went over to my Sister’s to give Mom her medicine that Poppa had dropped off at work. We sat and talked for a little while, then I came home and went and had a sammich and watched more GBBS before heading back over with my turtle and coloring books. After I came home I put on some Doctor Who and got a good nap in while that was on.

Fiks came home and got cleaned up and we ordered pizza for dinner for gaming, which showed up an hour late and not very warm. But we were both hungry so we ate it anyway. Fiks fell asleep while we were gaming, so I sent him to bed and the rest of us finished the session. We got done early (for us), so I sat and watched some TV and did some coloring before heading to bed.

Alright, that’s it for this week.

~Just keep Swimming~