Cal got his mysterious bonus last night, so we went hog wild. (If hog wild means buying stuff we need, like laundry detergent and ibuprofen, and setting aside money to get car car fixed). I bought a license for iMazing, so this weekend will be dedicated to fixing the itunes library. I also bought Cal his big Christmas present (A grey switch lite with all the trimmings). I asked if we could get a hotel room for the weekend of my birthday, but we decided that was too expensive, and Cal wasn't prepared to spend the night out. It's going to be hard on me, but we're having a daytrip, then.

My first day back at work was... okay. I spent most of the morning going through email and trying to get organized, which wasn't working very well; I was pretty overwhelmed. The latter half of the day was spent on a May bank rec I'd abandoned because it made no sense. There's still something wrong, but I managed to figure out the bulk of it: 15 cleared checks weren't on the post check register. I'm still figuring out what the ripple effect of that is, but I'm off by less than $100 now rather than $3000. My plan today is to simply print out everything again, one set at a time, and double-check my numbers. 

My trash can disappeared while I was gone; Scott has to order a new one for me.

We did not vote on the new contract; too many people out on vacation. On the one hand, I'm not too pressed about it; the owner took his time negotiating the contract, we can take our time ratifying it. On the other hand, I want my goddamn raise and backpay. 

I'm gonna try to sub on Unfuck Your Habitat's Patreon. Their tumblr is abandoned, and I really want the guidance in trying to, well... unfucking my habitat. It's stupid of me, in a way, to do this on my last day of leave, but really, I shouldn't have done the cleaning while recovering, anyway. 

I feel like I'm going to get sick. I've got a cough that sucks, and I'm nauseous. This better not be happening the day before I'm due back. I need to be at work tomorrow to vote on the new contract. I guess I'll see about getting some Dayquil today. Stop off at CVS and pick some up, if I can. 

Didn't get very far in my quest to rebuild our music library; I ripped one (1) CD, and that was Bleed Out by Within Temptation. I'm going to start the next in the pile before I go back upstairs to get dressed, but more and more I'm thinking it's just better to be patient and wait until I can buy iMazing. Hoisting the colors is out of the question; I don't know enough about downloading programs safely to do it (I don't even think you can download programs safely. IME they require turning off your virus protection and I'm not going to do that). So buying it it is.

Alrighty. An Acoustic Night at the Theatre is ripping. I'm gonna download the Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma soundtrack today (because I already own it but don't feel like opening the case - not that that would stop me otherwise). I'm getting there with my video game music, at least. For now, I've got to get dressed and take my meds. Later today I need to move my morning meds back downstairs.

Oh, hey, Theatre is done. Might as well start another.

I started playing Lunar: The Silver Star Story last night, and I forgot how hard that game was. I wish there was a difficulty switch. Alas, there is not. I don’t know how I feel about Luna’s new voice. She’s got a good singing voice, but it’s not the old Luna’s voice. 

You kids get off my lawn, etc etc. It’s hard when the IP changes hands so many times and the voice actors need to change. At least the song lyrics seem to be intact. 

So anyway. I got my Yamibuy box yesterday, and it was heavy. I picked it up to get it inside like an idiot, then realized what I was doing and called Cal to get it into the kitchen. I went to open it but Cal waved me off, proclaiming that he didn’t trust me with scissors. Inside the box was the loose stuff I’d ordered, and a smaller box with electrolyte drinks. I grabbed the scissors to open it, as Cal had walked away, and promptly stabbed my thumb with them.

It’s sore today, but nothing terrible.

It seems that Infinity’s Dragons was mostly untouched by the bug on 4TheWords; at least, the first two books were. I’m working through each book; I have Infinity’s Dawn, and Infinity’s Requiem to go, but so far, no missed words, thankfully.

I barely got anything accomplished yesterday. I was so ridiculously tired. I did manage to go grocery shopping, and we had Chinese food for dinner. We had such a hard time putting the leftovers away, and I had such a horrible stomach ache all last night. 

We watched Hollywood Graveyard last night, too, for the first time since Mom passed. We stopped because neither of us were feeling great about watching a video about dead people, regardless of it being a memorial thing and in no way disrespectful, so soon after her death. It's been two years now, and we got through it without feeling too terrible; adding to the terribleness for me was that it was so close to her birthday, which I almost got through without thinking about. My brother brought it up that night, needing comfort, and I kinda dropped the ball on that, because the mention of her birthday made me feel absolutely awful. 

In other news, Donna texted me yesterday that we have a contract! We just need to vote on it when I'm back; the vote will be the day I return. I don't actually know how I'm going to manage at work with my chronic issues; I didn't realize how bad it was until I didn't have to fight through eight hour days every day. I'm going to ask for Lyrica at my next doctor appointment. I need something to help with the fibromyalgia, and gabapentin isn't helping.