You’re her favorite!
Took a gamble on a different bar soap scent and I’m obsessed with it
oh no I need soap and this company is gonna be bad news for my wallet
I was going to make some pasta last night as an easy-ish meal but wanted something different for the sauce. I remembered there was part of a bag of frozen butternut squash kicking around in the freezer so I was able to make a yummy butternut squash sauce to go with it. It even had browned butter, but that was more of an accidental almost-burn than on purpose.
Tomorrow’s 6 am flight got changed to a 7 am flight.
- my temu order arrived before Christmas
- my items were as advertised
It’s a Christmas miracle!
My engineers at work sent me a $200 Lululemon gift card for Christmas It was literally one of the worst weeks at work (of the worst year of work) I’ve ever had, and it legit made me cry because they wrote the sweetest most appreciative note along with it. This never happens at my job, so it was a huge surprise. Also the fact that they asked my work bestie for exactly what I’d want means a lot…
How fantastically thoughtful! And very non-engineer-like. Double miracle.
As far as engineers go, the dudes I work with now are pretty thoughtful and emotionally intelligent but this is big, even for them, haha. I switched territories to work with these engineers this year, but the previous ones I had worked with for 4 years never sent me more than a “Happy Holidays.” Teams text
Thank you technology. The return label has a QR code that the USPS can scan & print the label for me! I was all prepared to use the cumbersome print-at-library option, but this saves hassle and a little bit of money (like, 10 cents or whatever to print a page). Plus I don’t have to use my own tape or anything. So easy!
Husband sorted out the electrical issue in J2s room
Related: he found the problem in the first outlet he checked
Also related: that was the outlet he had swapped (because it was a complicated one and I asked him to - but I had visions of us finding the issue on the last one we checked)
I had the thought “I wish I had seen interstellar in theaters,” googled it and it’s been re released this week?! I know the thought was implanted by an algorithm that figured out I am a Christopher Nolan girlie, but still!
Took a book from the LFL, but wasn’t feeling it. Returned it the next day!
Also put together a kick ass White Elephant gift!
My secret santa gift today was a Starbucks cake pop. Those things are delicious! It’s not very secretive though, because it’s a very small office and we see people bringing the gifts in. Ha.
I tentatively booked 2025 vacation days for all work days following a stat holiday, which will give me an average of 6-9 days off with the weekends for each one.
Sooooo much grassroots and volunteer work went into this people can’t ID big wasps worth a damn lol, so there were so many entomologists volunteering their time on the FB group and so many putting and maintaining traps on their land. It was a huge huge effort I watched second hand, and I’m so happy it paid off.
My favorite fancy coffee brand, which I haven’t ordered in like a year because of the expensive shipping and high free-shipping minimums, turned up at the grocery store yesterday!
Christmas gift from work is $1000.
That’s great! It must have bern a good year.