My beloved kitty woke me up early today. Apparently that extra 20 minutes was just too long for her to wait for food. I resisted for a few minutes, wanting to get every minute of sleepy time I could, but then she began stampeding around the room, so I got up rather than have her wake Jess, too.
Yesterday was absolutely bugfuck at work. I had just gone into the morning thread at 7:55 and left a good morning message, wen I see my boss start typing on Teams. And I'm like "Oh. It's going to be that kind of Monday."
And I was right, it was. We have a woman who does admin work at one of the sites, and in addition, she also calls patients back for us, so it's not taking anyone off the phone on busy days. She was out yesterday, so they asked if I would do the calls. I said of course, and by the time I finished getting coffee, I had a list of people to call. This continued throughout the day, with emails dropping in on a fairly regular basis. I ended up taking 50 calls in addition, so it's not like I was slacking on my normal work, either. I was there almost 10 minutes late finishing shit up.
After work, I had my monthly psych meeting. We are keeping my meds the same, but he was a touch talky, so I was late getting to making dinner. It was a little late, but the Chicken Paprikash turned out really well, and had a nice flavor. We used Trader Joe's smoked paprika, which was very tasty. Like I said, it wasn't a traditional version, but it seemed from the stuff I saw that it was a very "throw whatever you have in the pot" type of dinner, so we had it with onions, garlic and rice. First, we seared the chicken, then we sautéed the onions and garlic, then rice to brown slightly, then we added the paprika, then some chicken broth. Once that was well mixed, we tossed the chicken in the liquid to finish cooking and let it go for a good 25 minutes, until the rice and chicken were done. It was very comforting, though slightly salty. I would probably not salt it, since the smoked paprika had some sat, and so did the chicken base. I made the chicken base a little bit strong, since I wanted some flavor in the rice, and I might cut back on that a little to cut the salt as well.
Once dinner and dishes were done, we took the doggo for a stroll. Then, I spent some time looking at note taking apps and D&D specific apps for worldbuilding. I think I've found the one I want in Kanka which is a TTRPG-specific app that helps to cross reference your notes to categories.
I'm slowly, oh so slowly, fleshing out the world. At the rate I'm going, I should have the first few chapters prepped, and be able to start playing. As it stands, I could probably still wing it, but I'd like a little more prep and to know who my characters are before we get into it, since they're still evolving. One of the characters completely changed species last night, going from Sea Elf to human, so that was a surprise.
I'll probably be sharing some of the worldbuilding and characters here, but no major spoilers, since two of my players read this. *waves![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
nilchance and poisontaster *
Okay, time for me to do a little more work on the world, and then get ready for work. Hopefully, it'll be a bit quieter today. We'll see! Everyone have an amazing Tuesday!
Yesterday was absolutely bugfuck at work. I had just gone into the morning thread at 7:55 and left a good morning message, wen I see my boss start typing on Teams. And I'm like "Oh. It's going to be that kind of Monday."
And I was right, it was. We have a woman who does admin work at one of the sites, and in addition, she also calls patients back for us, so it's not taking anyone off the phone on busy days. She was out yesterday, so they asked if I would do the calls. I said of course, and by the time I finished getting coffee, I had a list of people to call. This continued throughout the day, with emails dropping in on a fairly regular basis. I ended up taking 50 calls in addition, so it's not like I was slacking on my normal work, either. I was there almost 10 minutes late finishing shit up.
After work, I had my monthly psych meeting. We are keeping my meds the same, but he was a touch talky, so I was late getting to making dinner. It was a little late, but the Chicken Paprikash turned out really well, and had a nice flavor. We used Trader Joe's smoked paprika, which was very tasty. Like I said, it wasn't a traditional version, but it seemed from the stuff I saw that it was a very "throw whatever you have in the pot" type of dinner, so we had it with onions, garlic and rice. First, we seared the chicken, then we sautéed the onions and garlic, then rice to brown slightly, then we added the paprika, then some chicken broth. Once that was well mixed, we tossed the chicken in the liquid to finish cooking and let it go for a good 25 minutes, until the rice and chicken were done. It was very comforting, though slightly salty. I would probably not salt it, since the smoked paprika had some sat, and so did the chicken base. I made the chicken base a little bit strong, since I wanted some flavor in the rice, and I might cut back on that a little to cut the salt as well.
Once dinner and dishes were done, we took the doggo for a stroll. Then, I spent some time looking at note taking apps and D&D specific apps for worldbuilding. I think I've found the one I want in Kanka which is a TTRPG-specific app that helps to cross reference your notes to categories.
I'm slowly, oh so slowly, fleshing out the world. At the rate I'm going, I should have the first few chapters prepped, and be able to start playing. As it stands, I could probably still wing it, but I'd like a little more prep and to know who my characters are before we get into it, since they're still evolving. One of the characters completely changed species last night, going from Sea Elf to human, so that was a surprise.
I'll probably be sharing some of the worldbuilding and characters here, but no major spoilers, since two of my players read this. *waves
nilchance and poisontaster *Okay, time for me to do a little more work on the world, and then get ready for work. Hopefully, it'll be a bit quieter today. We'll see! Everyone have an amazing Tuesday!
