In which it’s the Super Bowl.
Let it be known that three o’clock this Sunday was the first time I’ve seen rainbows in my living room in 2023. Window prisms are the best!
I made my TV re-scan for channels, but we don’t get Fox in this house so I guess I’m not watching the Superb Owl ads this year. I could probably find some way to watch online, but I don’t care that much*. We did get Fox in the house across the street, so a slightly bigger antenna would probably work, but I don’t think I ever watched anything but football on Fox anyway.
Slept until two, had beans on toast** and a latte. Considered going out, if not to watch the game per se but more to just be around people, to participate in the holiday: the neighborhood bar with the cheese tots? A tasting room, maybe? Los Rocosos or Watermill? La Ramada?
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Spent, oh, much of an hour looking at stuff to make boba tea. Tapioca pearls. Recipes. Fat straws. People, I very nearly bought a bunch of stuff to make 30 glasses of a drink I’d only want one or two of? This happens a lot. I frequently take deep dives into stupid things like bubble tea, learn all about them, fill a cart someplace, and then very nearly drop the hammer on the purchase… and then I don’t. It’s basically a hobby? Almost spending money on things? I guess it’s the internet form of window shopping, without the leaving the house or all the healthy walking and fresh air.
Decided I can’t be bothered to go out. He won’t go because he’s an introvert who won’t go anywhere (well, anywhere that isn’t a quick errand) without being strong-armed into it, and going alone sounds meh. Sometimes I really enjoy going somewhere alone, with my traveler’s notebook and maybe the Kindle or some cheese test stuff to study, to sit and eat and drink, but I guess I’m not feeling it this afternoon.
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We lost our manager at work; her husband got laid off and they’ve moved to the Southwest to chase jobs. Another manager had been hired to replace her, but decided to take her previous job’s apparently generous counter offer, so now we’re short a fully-trained full time worker. I fully expect the place to descend back into the kind of chaos that results in regularly running out of mission critical items (because nobody’s in charge of ordering them and everybody else is part-time and under-trained). I offered to work F/T until someone can be hired, but so far my schedule’s the same. Guess the cheesemaker’s gonna wing it for the time being.
I do have to go in tomorrow morning to make and give out a pre-ordered cheese platter, but it’s always me when there’s a pickup outside regular shop hours, so that’s not unusual.
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On the subject of the en suite bathroom, which we totally weren’t discussing: it’s less drab now! Yay! Entirely by accident, I found wall decals on Temu [basically an Amazon-killer superstore site and app, it sells everything cheaper because it ships directly from China eliminating the Amazon markup] that, amazingly, match the colorway of the en suite’s floor, baseboard, and trim, not to mention the bedroom itself’s lavender walls!
They’re abstract shapes in various shades, the exact same semi-gloss as the extant paint somehow, and installation took only minutes.
I bought two sets of decals at $1.68 each, plus a couple of small fuzzy rugs, and a matching set of wash cloths small enough to fit in the weird hanger next to the sink, and now the room no longer strikes me as cold and ugly.
Been struggling since last March trying to figure out what to do with that odd bathroom without having to invest much time and money, and it turns out to be a cheap-ass sticker set that I bought on a whim, thinking it was a different colorway entirely because the images on the site aren’t terribly accurate?!
I doubt it’s cool, using cheap and tacky stickers to make an accent wall, but hey! Because of them all the disparate features match now, and I like it! (I’ll never know why there’s gray and black tile in an otherwise entirely cream and sand brown room, but whatever.) Much better than ripping out the tile around the sink, which is what I was considering before. The same flooring and baseboard run throughout most of the house, so they weren’t gonna go anywhere. But because one of the shades of the decals is marble grey, and two more match the floor and baseboard exactly, IT ALL MATCHES. Sticker-covered accent wall! (“Wow. It looks like wallpaper,” he said.) Fucking amazing! Who knew?
*Turns out that Fox lifted the paywall this year, so it was easier than expected to find the game.
**Not English-style beans on toast; I don’t like baked beans. (Nor white sandwich bread, really, for that matter.) I eat this weird dish of generic canned (meatless) chili beans over toasted, buttered Ezekiel bread with grated cheese. It’s cheap, quick, and filled with fiber and protein! Yum!
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