Done yesterday (20110610 Fr)

[mdlbear]

0610 Fr
  * up 6:30; W=197.6; drugs, nose, teeth, hair, dishes, coffee
  * one of my two SW award coupons expires (used for the last Seattle trip)
  % mood seems slightly down, libido perhaps slightly up, after a week of
    slightly tapered-down SSRI.  We'll see.
  @ The Rotund blog around fat
    acceptance and related issues.
  * Shopping trip at lunchtime.  Whole Foods, Office Max, Southern Lumber, OSH
    * buy:  bees oil or butcher-block oil.   Southern?  OSH?
      Lowes didn't have it, and the checkout experience was obnoxious
      Whole Foods doesn't have it, but mentioned that flax oil = linseed.
      Southern Lumber had basically mineral oil, but did have pure tung oil,
      which I've been looking for for decades.  OSH had beeswax and carnauba in 
      mineral oil; also a power-controller strip that's just what I need
      for the desktop (so the monitor goes off when the system does).
    * FUL mini-backpacks big enough for a tablet, but don't have a good place to
      hang keys, and don't allow for a shoulder strap.
  * One lingering bug at work, but worked around.  Software shipped.
  * buy:  pantsu
  ~ Still looking for a small backpack/shoulder bag; they were all the rage as
    purses a couple of years ago.  Now?  Forget it.
  * made dinner:  salad, scallops (tequila, lime, pepper), ravioli
  * Bacon Lettuce and Tomato BLT Spring Roll Recipe (haikujaguar)
  % I seem to be particularly bad at keeping track of invitations
  * oil cutting board, print flier
  * 15min:  went through all the piles in the office.  Failed to turn up the
    item I was looking for.  :P  Feeling particularly stupid for not writing
    the information down when I had it in front of me.

A rather tense day at work, since our software had to be shipped to the factory by close of business, so they can start pre-loading it onto flash next week. Found one (stupid) bug, which luckily can be worked around by entering a command line directly instead of through the simplified wrapper script. I outsmarted myself, basically. It was (diagnostics lead) Bill who came up with the command line workaround.

At home, on the other hand, I out-stupided myself by misplacing a wedding invitation, after having neglected to copy the information into my to.do file. Fortunately I remembered the date and the venue, so I was able to call this morning and get the time. At least the paper stacks in the office and parts of the living room got a thorough going-over, so all's well that ends better, as the Gaffer used to say.

Knowing that I had the fallback of calling in the morning is probably what made it possible for me to get to sleep -- it took out a lot of the pressure and negative self-talk.

I seem to be particularly bad at keeping track of invitations, and certain other forms of paperwork. I'm really not sure why that is -- I seem to manage quite well with bills and tax forms, for example. Weird.

While I was out trying to buy butcher-block oil (which I finally found at OSH) I spotted a one-day sale on scallops at Whole Foods. Colleen bought them on her shopping trip, and I cooked them up with butter, olive oil, pepper, lime juice, and tequila. Yum! The YD tried one and didn't like it. More for us.

Only two links, to The Rotund, a blog around fat acceptance and related issues, and to a recipe for Bacon Lettuce and Tomato Spring Rolls. Cool!

A good day, on the whole, though it really didn't seem that way at the time.

... but why did I leave this sitting in my editor for two hours before posting it? I must have gotten distracted after thinking there was something else I wanted to say. *shrugs and posts*

Comments

[danceswithlife]

I seem to be particularly bad at keeping track of invitations, and certain other forms of paperwork. I'm really not sure why that is

Just a thought...I think you've mentioned before that social situations can be difficult for you. Perhaps that part of you that knows that is trying to protect you.

[mdlbear]

That may well be how it started, though I actually enjoy social situations; they're still stressful, which probably keeps the problem going.

Other kinds of paperwork, like mailing in rebate paperwork and even depositing checks, may just get avoided because they're unpleasant, though there may be some more stressful association there. More analysis required.

[tibicina.livejournal.com]

Tuna salad also works amazingly well in the rice-paper spring roll wrappers. Particularly with lettuce and/or sprouts.

[mdlbear]

Hmm. Sounds good -- I'll have to try that.