2024 Happy Blog Challenge Continues

Tuesdays are one of the hardest days for me to find happy things to write about.  I think the reason for this is exhaustion.  I transition from day life to night life between Mondays and Tuesdays.  Today I got home and fell asleep.  That was a good thing.  Other happy things for today include: It was hot at work.  Another employee handed me a bottle of water.  I'm bad about taking the time to drink when I'm falling behind on my task.  I needed that water more than I realized and I am very grateful to my coworker.  I was also much better about drinking water the rest of the night. At work they gave us hamburgers (catered in from Red Robin ) and bought us drinks from the vending machine.  The burger was pretty good, even though it had lost most of the heat of a fresh cooked meal.  Happy National Hamburger Day! At home I noticed that the peony opened.  From what I have read, it appears to be a fairly easy plant to care for.  ...

Today's happenings: This morning I went to a cafe in Concord to meet up with friends.  There is a group of us that meet most Sundays, I don't tend to make it there often.  There is research I have been wanting to do and this is the time I set aside to do that.  The research didn't happen.  Instead we talked about secret shenanigans.  It was a good morning. In the afternoon, my friend Amy came to help me move things.  She brought me plants for the apartment!   New plants! A polka plant and a crispy wave. Keziah was taking a nap, and Zed and Gideon were at the store.  Amy and I got boxes from my old room and took them downstairs to the living room in the house. Then when a bunch of boxes were in the living room, we brought them to the apartment being careful to not let the cats out.  I didn't see the cats, but we made sure to keep the door closed. When Keziah woke up I asked if she wanted to help and that if we could lock the cats in her r...

As I write this, the weather app on my phone says that it is 83 degrees outside.  I'm too tired to enjoy it much.  Each time I walk between the house and the apartment, I pause for a moment to appreciate it.  Here are some happy things from today: After not getting much sleep last night I made it through the entire ten hour shift without falling asleep.  The company made it hard, too.  There was a meeting about seven hours into the shift that I had to sit down for longer than I would normally.  Falling asleep in front of the person that runs the building I work in would have been bad.  😅 A week or so ago I noticed something growing in the triangle where the tulips and crocuses are.  I didn't look closely but I thought it was staghorn sumac and almost pulled it.  I'm glad I didn't, I think it is the peony I planted sometime last year.  Yay new plants! Peony? There are some other new things in the yard.  I assume that the flower and ...