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I actually worked half an hour late yesterday. Gasp!
Fucking meetings!
Okay, there's also this: Jennifer asked me over Messenger about the weather forecast in relation to our plan to meet at McMicken Island State Park tomorrow afternoon. We exchanged enough messages that it took about 25 minutes. If not for that alone, I'd have comfortably left by 4:30 as usual. So I guess I have only myself to blame.
I have a lot I need to get done still, but multiple critical things are already done, so I'm still feeling fairly well positioned. Amanda is covering me with some very critical stuff on Wednesday and Friday next week, so I sent a very detailed email that went step by step over the things that absolutely have to happen on thoe days. Just writing up that email took quite a while.
Michelle from IT, who sits two desks to my left, has frequently commented in the past about how I reliably get up to leave just before 4:30. She was just out for major surgery for several weeks but was back as of this week. It was 4:30 pm when she messsaged me on Teams:
You are late in packing up. I was like, yep: too much shit to get done before PTO.
This reminded her of my Birth Week—which I already discussed with her earlier in the week—so she messaged me an animated Happy Birthday gif with a dancing birthday cake, telling me to have a wonderful week. I fully plan to!
Shobhit worked last night, his first shift since getting back. I made frozen pizzas for dinner. And then, just feeling like watching something, I rewatched the original
Deadpool on Disney+. Only because the new
Deadpool & Wolverine trailer got its hooks into me by using Madonna's "Like a Prayer." I don't think I've even seen
Deadpool 2, so I'll have to watch that next whenever I get the time.
Shobhit got off work at 9:00, and I walked to meet him at the Broadway Market QFC to take advantage of some deals: Special K cereal, Tillamook cheese I can use for my many picnic meals next week. I was in bed not long after we got back. I was kind of surprised by how wide awake I still was when I headed out at 9:30 pm, and was plenty tired by the time we got back.
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I still need to follow up with Danielle about Wednesday afternoon, but that's the only thing still slightly up in the air I think. Alexia is first this year, and is even picking me up from work at 4:30 today. She's on a trip the rest of the week so today was the only day I could schedule her. Then I'm off to visit Claudia for a couple of hours tomorrow in Port Orchard before heading to McMicken Island State Park on Harstine Island, where I'll meet Jennifer and later stay the night with her and Matthew. The next day: Anderson Island bike ride with Dad. Hopefully, anyway, if the weather cooperates—but we're going to the island regardless.
I'm going to Karen's house in Magnolia for lunch on Monday, seeing a movie with Laney that afternoon, and then going to see Edmount Island from Ballinger Park in Mountlake Terrace with Shauna that evening. Monday will be busy.
Tuesday is my actual birthday: day trip back to Lopez Island, this time with Shobhit!
I already mentioned Danielle on Wednesday. That's actually also Action Movie Night at the Braeburn Condos Theater—totally by chance, my pick!
Thursday is a picnic lunch with Valerie on Mercer Island, on my way to Snoqualmie for Gabriel and Lea's wedding rehearsal and dinner. Friday I do day drinking on a traffic island with Laney in the afternoon, and dinner with Tracy on Vashon Island.
Saturday May the Fourth is Gabriel and Lea's wedding. Totally separate!
Sunday the fifth will be lunch with Lynn and Zephyr in Everett.
Like I said to Laney recently: I'm a girly-man with a plan. She said I need to get a T-shirt with that written on it. I told her now she knows what to get me for my birthday.
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[posted 12:31 pm]
