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A little music to start your morning! Two songs that in no way should work together, but do.

It's Friday! Yesterday was a productive day. I fetched mail from the house (a lot of it.) and went to pick up my sister's prescription. Once that was done, it was time to go give my opinion on some Doritos. The first sample was okay. A little bland, but nothing egregious. The second one was just like eating a lightly salted tortilla chip. No flavor whatsoever. The next was slightly better, and the fourth was really quite good. Then I left, and will be getting an amazon gift card for $40 sometime today. If you live in the Towson area, it's pretty good for what you need to do to get it. Sometimes, they have focus groups, and those are fun, and worth $80.

Then, it was home to do two loads of laundry and cook dinner. By "cook" I mean "made some Kraft mac and cheese."

Today, if my gift card comes in early, I'm going to get some cheese and bacon, so I can make some bacon cheeseburgers and fries, maybe with a touch of bbq sauce. That sounds really good.

I'm trying really hard to make good meals. Flavorful and mostly healthy. Though it's possible I'm using a little too much milk and cream to be strictly healthy. But I'm enjoying cooking, and I'm fairly good at it.

Tomorrow, no clue what we're doing for dinner. I'm also getting some cabbage, and thinking about sautéing that with some bacon for flavor. I've been wanting some good cabbage that isn't cooked to hell and/or boiled to death.

And deep down, I wonder if I'd been able to cook like this for Dad, if I'd had the energy or a decent kitchen, if he'd maybe not have turned down just about every meal. Then, I remind myself that we were all killing ourselves to take care of him, and that just wasn't the reality.

I think we all are suffering from some PTSD from the *waves to encompass everything* of the last few years. The house was so unclean, and we were living off paper plates and plastic forks because no one had energy to do anything more. We were triaging what we had energy to do, and the living person came first.

All in all, its a much better situation now. The house is clean, and I've got the energy at the end of the day to make tasty food and do laundry. Financially, it's harder, but it's still better.

I also got to spend time with Jess yesterday. They're writing a new piece (which they posted about). It's going to be amazing. We spent hours talking about the plot, and what direction they were going to take with it. It felt awesome to stretch those muscles again. I don't know that I'm able to write, but plotting and bouncing ideas, I can definitely do. I think this could be a really cool book, and they're keeping it away from D&D parlance, so it's 100% publishable. It could even be a trilogy! Right now, it's in the early stages, but I like the plans they have. I'm honored and lucky that they let me and a select few beta. I know they're going to be reaching out to a couple more people to see if they'd be interested in watching it grow.

Okay, time to go forth and put on pants and get ready for the day. I don't really want to, but hey, at least there's only one day til the weekend! Everyone have a most excellent Friday!