And then, there's a bearded fetus.

It's Sunday and I've been up for an hour! Why, you ask? I was excited about making bagels. I'm weird, I swear. I'm on a bit of a yeast bread kick, I suppose. Yesterday, I made cinnamon rolls with cream cheese icing. And of course, we had left over cream cheese, so I was like "Bagel? How hard to make bagel? And it doesn't look terrible, so we're going to try it.

Yesterday was a good day. I woke up to a dog panting in my face, which is unusual, because normally the dog isn't allowed in our room. We leave our door open at night, and my sister had to get up early to go in for work. So he was able to come right in. I got up and shooed him out while the cat looked at me like WTF. Once up, I spent a few hours fucking around before it was game time.

This was the Arvandor game, which went swimmingly. I tried to kill my spouse's character repeatedly, we had some intrigue and role play, and now my players are thoroughly paranoid. I really enjoyed myself.

I'm going to try to do more homebrewing, even in the modules I'm using, because that's when I really feel like I enjoy myself the most. When I look back at all the games, the times that I remember is when my players went off the rails and I had to pull stuff out of my ass. I've got another module coming up soon, but I'm going to try to make it more interesting.

In the evening, We had a fairly short game, the conclusion of a MotW game. I knew it wasn't going to last too long, but it was pretty short.

In between, I made cinnamon buns. Next time, I will definitely cut down the recipe, becuae it made a dozen rolls. There is NO way we can eat all of these. I'm leaning towards giving some to the neighbors.

Okay, time to go start the water to boil for the bagels! Everyone have an awesome Sunday!

Today we have a loving send up of fandom in vid form by Astolat and Speranza. It reminds me of the good old days, when we'd drive or fly hours to go to a vaguely sketch hotel with workers that looked at us weird, just to celebrate the joy of loving something. I got a little snippet of that with the CONFab this past winter, and it was glorious.

Yesterday was wall to wall busy, and I'm hoping for a slightly easier day today to slide into the weekend. A lot of it was of my own making, but still.

Work was busy, but more than the usual, I was getting emails. My counterpart was out, so I got all the emails. I started out the day trying to fill in a couple of appointments, a diagnostic mammo and two cardiac CTs. Then, almost as soon as I did that, the emails started rolling in. All day it was "call this pt and offer this appt." Or one, "call this patient and offer this appt, but we're still working on this second appt." (I found the second appointment easily, and looked really good.) Then, the mother of all emails. Here are these seven people who called downtown. No, it's just names (Every single one of them misspelled) and phone numbers. So that took forever to work through.

At lunch break, I made more cookies--this time cardamom cookies. They're quite good. Faintly salty and sweet, and delicious.

Right after that, I put in a pork roast. The internet told me 3 hours. (The internet lied.) First, I needded to make some BBQ sauce. I found a recipe that sounded interesting, then I added some chipotle powder for a tiny bit of heat. It turned out really well, so I basted the pork and then I made baked beans with it. I wasn't mad about how it turned out.

Then the big stuff. I had made my pie crust yesterday, so it was ready. I rolled it with a bottle of oyster sauce, and slipped it into the cupcake tins. Then, I melted the chocolate. On Too Good to Go, I had gotten the Ikea Spring pack, which was 10 of their leftover chcolate bunnies, two of which I put to good use. My plan was to make custard, and do a little bit of chocolate and a little bit of custard, then the strawberries I got from the farmer's market. Instead, I added a little bit of milk and vanilla to the chocolate and made mousse. Then, I stewed the strawberries with a little sugar and red wine vinegar and just a sprinkle of cinnamon. Paul hollywood would not have approved of the results--the strawberries were very wet, and the pastry was a little soggy, but goddamn, they tasted good. I will definitely make it again. It was like a chocolate covered strawberry, and I loved it, especially the mousse.

Today, I have to decide what I want to make. I'm still debating, but I need to pull something out of the freezer. I'm considering a garlic alfredo to go over some pasta with chicken. I've got some lime to brighten it, so That might be a good plan. We have game tonight, so it needs to be something simple.

And on that note, I'm going to go forth and take a shower and put on some fresh clothes. Everyone have an excellent Friday!

Today is an old favorite, which debuted at the last in person con.txt I was able to attend. I fell immediately in love, with both the video and the song. Through it, I also discovered talitha78 who makes amazing, perfectly timed vids. You will see that name again before the end of this week.

Yesterday we had shitty weather and I had a headache. I left work a few hours early, but my brain informed me that I shouldn't waste the time. Too Good To Go had an IKEA spring pack, which promised chocolate for $5.99. I really wanted some chocolate, so I grabbed it. Turns out, they're cleaning out the easter chocolate, namely their stand up bunnies. They gave me ten goddamn boxes. We have SO much chocolate.

Then it was off to the farmers market. I'm pretty poor this week, so we got pea shoots, asparagus and some strawberries. The pea shoots went really well in the chicken I made last night. I didn't even know those were a thing, but they're delicious. I'm already figuring out where I can use them again. The asparagus are really tall things, so I'm looking forward to that. Might have them tonight with some chicken thighs.

By the time I got home, it was almost time to make dinner, so I started that a bit early. I made a big thing of mashed potatoes, and then I sliced up and cooked some chicken. Then I took the chicken out, added a bit of onions and sauteed them. Then, added garlic, and then the chicken and some broth. (Shout out to Sam's club Chicken base, of which I need to get more.) Then, I let it simmer for a few minutes, and threw in the pea shoots. It turned out really well, and I was very pleased with it.

Today, I need to make some more cookies or something. I'm torn between Snickerdoodles or cardamom cookies. Snickerdoodles are my favorite cookie, but I don't have the old recipe I used, so I'm afraid that they won't be as good and I'll be disappointed. The cardamom cookies are basically snickerdoodles with cardamom, so we'll see. Both sound pretty good, honestly. I've been pretty much baking every few days, because my family is going through these cookies fast. (I'm certainly helping.) I'd make a strawberry tart, but I have no rolling pin to roll out the dough. I don't even have a jar that I could makeshift. I put it on my amazon wish list, so I can find it easily. I need to add tart shells to it, and a pie pan, because I'd like to make a strawberry rhubarb tart.

I didn't think I'd need all the baking stuff, but I've found myself really enjoying the baking. Cookies, cakes, bread, I make it all. I might also make some bread today, but we'll see. We don't currently have any, and I have a super fast recipe. it only takes about two hours to make. It's a French bread recipe. It's pretty tasty, so that's possible.

Tonight, we have a game, so I definitely want to bake something. I need game snacks. Everyone have an outstanding Wednesday!

Okay, time for me to get my ass in gear. Everyone have an amazing day.

This week's theme will be Fanvids! We know them, we love them! I'm going to spotlight the fanvids that made me love a song. If I don't hear a song via Jess or via Tik Tok, I'm probably not going to hear it, unless it's in a fanvid. Fanvids have a pretty good portion of my playlists. So, I figured I'd start off with an oldie but goodie.

Related, why the fuck doesn't Demon Hunter's "I Am a Stone" have more fanvids set to it? It's an amazing song that could lend itself to any fandom with a tortured woobie, yet I'm only finding one SPN vid? Where is my Marvel videos? "And when you think this is the end, you will find me there where I have always been." It could be SUCH a perfect Bucky song. "It's hard to say that I'm back on a straight line. You see, my path, is in fact just a fault line." I wish I had the slightest idea of how to vid, or that my computer was up to the task, because I can even see the scenes that I would use for each line. Ah well. Alas. This is not my talent.

Sunday was a good day. Didn't do a whole lot. I spent a lot of the day prepping, and then, I just relaxed. There was a lot of switching positions so the dog didn't get cranky and bark a lot. Then, I was perusing the internet, and found an app called "Too Good To Go." It's. meant to cut down on food waste. Different restaurants and grocery stores put up "surprise bags." They cost about $5-6, and are valued around $20. You pick them up towards the end of the day, and and they add stuff that didn't sell, or leftovers.

I decided to try it out and put in an order at a bakery. It meant driving downtown, but we got a cupcake and two little pies. They were very tasty. They were citrus, which isn't normally my thing. But the little Key lime pie was stellar. Today, I'm picking up a bag from Whole Foods which may have bread and scones.

Restaurants do it too. There's a Jamaican place nearby that offers it, so I might try that one day.

That was pretty much my day. We didn't do a whole lot else.

Via Smart Bitches Trashy books, I found a new series of books that I've been devouring. Filthy Rich Vampires has been super fun so far. It's on kindle unlimited. It's very much a nobody turns out to be the chosen one book, but those are fun sometimes. I started the series on 5/8, and am currently on book 4, which for me is a hell of a lot of reading. After this, there's her other series, Filthy Rich Fae, and there may be other vampire books, I don't know. Will report back when I've finished the last book of this story.

Okay, time for me to get myself ready for work. Everyone have the very best Monday!

Hey, I managed another non Marvel movie! Many many years ago, Jess got me into Oingo Boingo, and I fell in love with Danny Elfman's music. This came out with the movie wanted, and I immediately loved it. (Sadly not so much with his more recent stuff.) I wrote a lot of porn with that man in it. Probably lost in the wayback machine like most of my older fic, but that's okay. It's somewhere on my Livejournal.

It's Saturday! I'm up early because I have to take the doggo to his grooming. He definitely needs it. Looks like a freaking puff ball at the moment. I'm hoping it goes quickly, because we have a game at 12:30. If not, we can go get him on our bio break at 2. He's an angel for them, so I'm not worried about leaving him for an extra 90min if he's not ready before game.

Game day is finally here! I'm very excited about this one. We shall have ship to ship combat to start, and then onto the undersea kingdom. Yesterday, I spent time putting a bunch of characters into the Kanka, and marking them private. I'll reveal them as the session goes on and they meet people. I think this is going to be a good session. I've prepped my ass off, and I am ready for whatever the players throw at me. (I'm totally not, the players never fail to come up with something I didn't plan for.)

Aside from that, not much going on. After game, I will bake some cookies maybe.

Yesterday's meeting went well, but I was boggled that out of 8 leads and managers, not one knew that you could make multiple outlook templates. They were very impressed, it was like I was giving the gift of fire to the mortals. The big boss said they needed to shake me to see what fell out of my clever brain. Apparently, I'll be presenting that at the team meeting, so that people can set up their templates. *boggle*. How the fuck did these people work with outlook so long and not notice that?

I'm trying to think what other tricks I use for work. That's really the only one that I don't think other people use. But if I think of something, I will definitely bring it up.

I spent a lot of time the last two days fixing people's messes. They come to me for "sensitive" issues. Like patients being scheduled at the wrong site, or patients who scheduled themself at sites where the machine can handle up to 350lbs, and they're 400, or just pissed off, difficult patients. I'm the closer. If I can't settle them down, no one can.

According to my Quality person, my bosses have been spreading the good word of me. When they have their meetings to go over the people she oversees, they sing my praises. Which is kind of cool. Even the people above our dept know about me, because sometimes, they send the emails that are for pissed off patients. And so far, 100% of the time, I've been able to send back a reply that says "I spoke with the patient and explained the situation. They're still not thrilled, but they understand why they can't be seen at that time. I was able to find a sooner appointment, and have alerted Financial to start auth. They will sign a waiver if it's not approved in time."

Okay, time for me to go forth an grab a shower before I take the dog to see Miss Robin. My hair is doing unfortunate things. Everyone have the very best Saturday!

Today's subject line comes from a movie trailer. It 100% made me excited about that year's Mission Impossible. And it had Henry Cavil and his great punch reloading, which was hilarious.

It's Thursday! Two more days to the lovely weekend. I'm not working at all. the only thing I need to do is take the dog to the groomer on Saturday. We have one game on Saturday and that's it for the weekend. We'll have to see if we can afford to do something. My sister is going to the BILs for Mother's Day, so it would have to be after game on Saturday if we do.

Yesterday was a pretty good day. Busy, but not ungodly so. I had my Quality meeting, where I continue to be solidly middle of the pack. I had a few spots to fill in for high value appointments.

I also mentioned in passing to the head of Radiology that I appreciated that they had given some templates for stuff that we email for regularly, because I was able to create signatures with them in outlook, and it was speeding up those emails. Apparently, that's not something everyone knows how to do. Her little mind was blown, and I have been invited to the manager's meeting tomorrow to present my idea, and probably to present to the team. So that'll be fun.

I didn't think it was earthshaking, but apparently it is? So, that could be fun.

I would also like to advocate for people being trained to look at the schedule so that they stop scheduing in the middle of a block. Like for cardiac MRIs, most sites do 2-3 a day. So they allow 2-3 hours. When you have a 2 hour block, say from 9-11, and the appts are an hour long, scheduling at 9:30 kills that block. Thats an hour appt that I could have scheduled and now can't. And then, I end up calling the patient to move them thirty minutes one way or another. And it's a thing that drives us all crazy.

Today, I have work, and then I must go to the office of Vital Records to get a death certificate for my mother so we can sell the freaking house. She's been dead for 10 years, so I'm not sure why we need it, but they are requiring, so off I go.

Okay, time to do some more work on game and then think about pants. Also need to decide what baked goods I'm making at lunch. Everyone have a astounding Thursday!

I'm afraid that most of these songs are going to be from superhero movies, because I am predictable. I'll try to throw in a few others. I'm going to include trailers as well, because there were some amazing trailers that were baller.

Yesterday was a busy day. The phones were hopping, plus I kept getting other people's stuff that needed to be corrected. The first one was a triple failure. The first person who transcribed the order did it wrong. The second person scanned it correctly, but failed to update the order to the correct test. And then the third person ignored either and scheduled it wrong for both possibilities. So I got in there and looked and was like "WTF?" The final link in the chain is someone who's been there for 21 years! She certainly knows to look at the physical order. Especially when there's a link on it that has the scanned document with the correct test name. My assumption was that she didn't look at the order at all. She just clicked reschedule from the appointment page. It just was a fail all around, so they sent it to me to fix.

The second, wow. That was lawsuit bad. We have an email address where you can send test orders, so we can scan them and be able to schedule. And this guy sends two orders. He notates in the email that there are orders for he and his wife. And so, they both get scanned and transcribed into his chart. One order clearly has his wife's name on it. I went in and fixed it, but goddamn. And again, the person who fucked up had their 8th or 9th year anniversary last month.

Fortunately both patients were kind, so it didn't end up being a big deal. But goddamn, that's a rookie mistake.

I mean, we all make mistakes, but c'mon.

During lunch, I made more cookies. Oatmeal this time. They're some of my favorites. I'm thinking for christmas, I may make cookies for gifts. I'll have to come up with a list of cookies to make. Definitely the chocolate chip, the oatmeal. Maybe some gingerbread and possibly some sugar cookies, and then maybe something else. Dunno what. I'll look and see. I want to keep it as allergen free as I can, so no nut cookies. Instead of chocolate, I may do toffee or butterscotch chips, even.

Yoda was a little terrorist last night. He didn't want to go to bed, and when he did, he proceeded to bark at my sister for a half an hour until we opened the door. Just a little fuckface. I don't know what's going on in his little head, but it needs to stop.

We only have one game this weekend, and it's the homebrew game. I'm very excited. I've got two more character sheets to make and beyond that, I believe I'm ready. One of the characters, I need to actually figure out who they are, as well. I've got quite the cast of characters. I've actually had to develop an orgaizational system for them. I actually made folders for the sheets so I'll be able to find them in case of sudden need.

I'm going to have more characters to make, of course. As the campaign progresses, there's more characters to make. I've been working in the mornings, and somewhat in the evenings as Yoda will allow.

Okay, time to get back to it. Characters to make and a shower to take. Everyone have an awesome Tuesday!

Somehow it's already Sunday again. Go figure. The weekend goes super quickly when I work half a day on Saturday, but on the other hand, money.

Today, I'm going to try again to donate plasma. I could use the extra few $$ this week. We've got three days to payday and we're out of butter, low on creamer and could possibly use a little bit more in the way of meat. I can stretch it if I need to, but if I could get a little something, I'd like that. I'd kill for a hamburger. I tried to donate a long time ago, but was turned down because I was on pain meds for my neck and head. I'm no longer on them, but on the other hand, I'm on a lot of other new shit, so it may not work. But I'll try. If it goes well, I might do it more often. It wouldn't be a ton of money, but every little bit helps.

Yesterday was a good day. I worked (though of course, I got the 11:59 call, and the pt was a total wench. I did not have any appointments available, and she was unhappy. I felt for her, but I also couldn't materialize what I didn't have. She decided she is going to call on Monday to complain. so I'll shoot Josh a message first thing Monday. I was too disgusted to deal with it yesterday. I'm not worried. I was sweet as pie, and told her repeatedly what I had option wise, and offered her different sites and was empathetic and not at all impatient. She was the one being borderline verbally abusive.

While I was working, my other server crew was like "I don't want to wait for next week for game." And I looked at the schedule and said fuck it. So we agreed to play from 4-6 to get in a quick one so that they didn't have to wait. Honestly, this game is SO good for my ego. Having my players so excited to play that they're trying to make games happen is kind of awesome.

The movie went a bit over, so we probably only played for 90 minutes, but we managed to pack a lot of trauma into that 90 minutes. I brought two more players backstory into the plot, which was fun, and they're on the boat to the risen undersea kingdom with a naval battle looming. I've added some more shit. If anyone wants to gawk at my nerdiness, the campaign can be found at: https://app.kanka.io/w/310530

The movie itself was really good and fun, though there were parts that Bucky's characterization was wobbly for me, and he wasn't in it as much as I'd like. It was really Yelena's movie. Fortunatley, I like Yelena, so I still enjoyed it. And Bucky had some really good beats that I enjoyed. Verdict, 100% back on my Bucky Bullshit. I love him stepping up and taking a sort of leadership role. The downside was on the way out of the garage, there was a long line, and someone ahead of us was smoking up hardcore. The pot smell gave me an instant headache. I butched through it for my afternoon game.

After the first game, I made the mistake of relaxing and having dinner, and the pot headache roared back. I ended up cancelling the second game, which pissed me off, but I was nauseous and having trouble with looking at bright things, of which the computer screen is one. I'm sure the oncoming storms didn't help either.

I discovered that for the most part, in the new place, storms don't really bother me as much. I'm not freaking out that if the power goes out, there's dad's oxygen to keep going, or his bed getting stuck in place. It's just...maybe our power goes out. And we play on our phones til it comes back. Whoop. I fell asleep during the worst of it, I'm still not fond of them, but it's not as bad as it was by any stretch.

Tonight we have another fun game, where I'm going to get my ass kicked a lot. poisontaster has us in a dungeon where one wrong move could be a big problem.

Okay, time for me to maybe put on pants and do some housework. Everyone have a stupendous Sunday!

I love this song, but the video makes me a little sad. It's after Freddie's AIDS diagnosis, and you can see the decline starting. Tomorrow will be Show Must Go On, which breaks my heart. I like to think he'd like what they've done with the touring version of Queen. I think Adam Lambert would have made Freddie happy, both for his voice, and his out and open personality.

It's Friday! We've almost made it! I've got a busy couple of days planned. First up, today is work, and then game. Tomorrow, we have the Thunderbolts, and then game. Sunday, we have a game, but nothing else. I need to bake something, because we have nothing sweet in the house. I'm leaning towards cake, because I'm low on butter, and cake uses oil. (I really want oatmeal cookies, but I definitely don't have enough butter for those.

Yesterday's baby shower was okay. I'm not bad at baby trivia, which, after 15 yrs as a medical assistant is not shocking. I kick ass at the names of baby animals. And I'm useless at translating emojis into nursery rhymes. I also cannot guess how many hershey's kisses are in a jar. It wasn't horrible, but it wasn't how I'd spend my time otherwise.

Next week's check is going to look good, since I've done a lot of overtime. Two Saturdays in a row, plus staying late a couple of nights. I'm looking forward to it.

And now, I shall get myself together for work. Everyone have a most excellent Friday.

It's Wednesday and we're halfway through the week!

Good lord, yesterday was a very Mondayish Tuesday. The phones were crazy busy, to the tune of 54 calls. But more than that, it was the callbacks. I'm the troubleshooter for management. So I'll get shit that needs attention. Sometimes, it's because my coworkers can't be trusted to do their job. They've had problems about people going into another status, saying they're calling a customer back, and then being in that status for thirty minutes. Or with them not checking their email or responding to their email about mistakes they've made. Or being out when there's a mistake they've made. Or, and my favorite, the customer booked the appointment, and the system booked it completely wrong.

Yesterday was that kind of day. I had one from our trainer, who managed to miss the big red note on his chart that said that he had artificial hips, and booked him for a rectal mass on the 3T machine. It wouldn't hurt the pt, but the pictures would be absolute garbage. So I got to call and rebook it for the 1.5 machine. I know people are human, but this is the woman we have trainining the team, and that was a rookie mistake.

Then, it was calling because the radiologist looked at the doctor's order for an MRI, decided it was trash, and wrote it in a way that it needed to be done as two separate MRIs, with a specialized protocol. Of course, he did this *after* the patient had already booked it online. Another call to
fix something.

And then my favorite. They sent me a message saying "can you reach out to the patient and book these appts. Here's the times we want them done and where. And I was like, awesome! This'll be easy. Dear reader, it was not. The doctor's orders were scattershot at best. They were her best guess at what she wanted, but not the correct type of orders. So when I tried, I couldn't schedule. I spent a good 20 minutes figuring the shit out and booking them. I had to bypass the orders completely, book for what it needed to be, and then go back and link the orders. By the end of it, my brain was dead, and I felt like I'd been taking crazy pills. Surely the doctor can't be that clueless on how to order this test!?! Oh wait. This order can't even be scheduled off of. *headdesk*.

But then! I got to go to the farmer's market! It was very small, only about six or seven stalls, though I've been assured that it gets larger as the growing season kicks off. I still enjoyed it, and got some artisan cheese and bread and cider and really good mushrooms. I used the mushrooms in my stir fry last night, and I'm tempted to chop some up and saute them with butter and garlic for breakfast. They're oyster mushrooms, which I don't believe I've ever tried.

I'm looking forward to having more vegetables in the comming weeks, but I was happy with my little haul. The accordion music wasn't bad. It certainly added something to the proceedings, even if what it added was a touch of the surreal.

Afterwards, I went to bed early with a bit of a headache, but spent probably an hour and a half chatting with poisontaster which is always good. I managed to get an idea for a sequel to a game that ended probably a year ago. I was going to run another module, but the one that made sense really didn't work for me. So I've been debating, and I think I was about to move it to the finished campaigns section, but then while I was talking about D&D in general with PT, I had a bit of an epiphany about something that I could write and run. Lately, I've had more fun with doing that than using modules anyway. I have the kernel of an idea, and it's one that will pull the party's backstories in, and give them a personal reason to stop the baddies.

But for now, it's time for me to get myself together. Everyone have an awesome Wednesday!