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From a podcast, I learned about a new documentary on HBO about Y2K called
Time Bomb Y2K, which I am now really interested in. I hoped I could maybe watch it last night, but the debate among the eight finalists to replace Tammy Morales on the Seattle City Council took up basically all the screentime.
It was interesting, though, to watch Seattle City Council candidates outside the context of all the time Shobhit spent running last year. I found myself much more inclined to think to myself,
These people are all full of shit. Or, I guess if I want to be more fair, more likely most, if not all, of them just don't know what they're talking about. The person who seems to be the front runner was one of the candidates in last year's primaries who I did not care for, from a different district.
The upside, I suppose, is that one person who isn't great on a council is just that: one person out of several. They can be outvoted on key issues. I can't really speak to who I think
should be appointed; I haven't looked into it anywhere near as much as Shobhit has.
We baked our frozen Beecher's macaroni & cheese for dinner last night, a product we bought on sale sometime back at Costco. With Shobhit's Weight Watchers points, he calculated that with the entire tray separated into six "servings," each serving is eighteen points. And then? We polished off the entire tray between the two of us.
We did not do any exact measurements of how much each of us ate, but Shobhit definitely had more than I did. He figured he consumed around 60 points' worth of the macaroni—which, arguably, was worth it: that shit is fucking
delicious.
And then, a minor miracle: Shobhit predicted his weight would be up this morning from yesterday, and he was right, but only barely: 0.4 lbs. Somehow I was actually
down from yesterday, by the same amount: 0.4 lbs. (Another 0.3 lbs and I'll finally get below 160 lbs again.)
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I spent some time on logging Letterboxd movies recorded in my Google Calendar as movie watches with friends as far back as 2006; I'm up to 2009 currently. And we tinkerd with my budget, much of that discussion being a deeply stressful session of Shobhit's crazy-making micromanagement. (Seriously, Shobhit himself is by far the biggest source of stress in my life because of things like this. Thankfully, even that is only sporadic.) Then, we went grocery shopping.
This was after he had already met me at my office at 4:30, at my suggestion actually, so he could get a lot of steps in—he walked. Then, we walked together, first to the Central Library so I could return my book and check out a new one. Then we went to the Downtown PCC, which closes today, and discovered it was so gutted there was
nothing left worth buying. Instead, we went to the Central District PCC later in the evening, to stock up on cat food, and five half-gallons of Blue Diamond Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Breeze because it was on sale. Shobhit asked me to drive when we went out at this point, and I also drove from there to QFC to get a few things on sale there. We came back home and put groceries away and by that time there was really no time left to watch anything. I went to bed.
I have another movie-centric weekend ahead of me: taking myself to a movie tonight; Braeburn Condos theater double feature with Laney tomorrow; Laney and I are going to see another movie on Sunday. So it is with January overall this year: my packed social calendar with holiday events through December once again gives way to movies, movies, movies. It's what I live for!
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Oh, I guess I could briefly mention I also did a Zoom lunch with Karen today. And we covered a
lot of topics, way more than usual actually, ranging from the postponed holiday trip she had with her family to visit her mom in Massacusetts last week, to shit going down at my work (including the Downtown store
closing today—on the two-year anniversary of the Grand Opening, no less), to my difficult IV experience at my colonoscopy on Monday.
We talked about plenty more, even, than that, but I can't remember it all now. It was a lovely and engaging conversation as always. But now I have work to get back to.
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