back to the present time

1. My stomach felt almost as bad this morning when I woke up, but once I got going, I started to feel a lot better, and it wasn't like yesterday where I'd feel better for a while but then anything I ate would make me feel worse again. Not quite 100% but mostly back to normal.

2. There was another ant invasion this morning, though not nearly as bad as yesterday. I was worried that despite my precautions and clean up this morning, I might come home to more after work, since yesterday we had both been home during the day to monitor any scouts and keep things from snowballing, but with Carla out of town, there's no one to keep an eye out during the day. But the diatomaceous earth I put down this morning seems to have been enough and there were no ants in the kitchen this evening and only a couple in the dining room near where they had been coming in. So hopefully I won't wake up to ants again tomorrow.

3. When I first moved offices last year, the area I was in was the coldest in the whole building, but then they made some change and it was the warmest. It was tolerable for the winter and spring, but it's really bad now and I was just sweltering at my desk this afternoon. I put in a request to the facility maintenance department and they said they will get it looked at ASAP so fingers crossed they can get it to a more reasonable temperature.

4. Look at this sweetie girl.

1. Woke up to a huge ant invasion in the dining room/kitchen this morning, which was not fun to clean up, but they seem to be staying away so far. Fingers crossed!

2. I have been having really bad stomach issues since yesterday afternoon and I am not sure what the original trigger was. In the evening I did have gyoza and the brand was garlickier than the one we usually get, so that definitely aggravated it, but nothing I ate earlier in the day should have affected me like that. D: I have been feeling really bleh all day because of it (and ended up working from home) but it has been a reminder that even with all my stomach issues, it's so much better than it was when I first developed them. I used to feel like this all the time and now it's really rare. I just hope this passes soon. :-/

3. I got Carla packed off on the train to Chicago this evening. She is going to be gone for a couple weeks to visit family.

4. This morning I went to Sidecar for donuts as they have a new summer menu, including one that is only available on Mondays. The Monday only one is a peanut butter filled malasada with raspberry icing. It was really good but not so much that I feel I need to plan a trip specifically on a Monday. I also got one of their other summer ones, a chocolate cake donut with potato chip streusel. The streusel was super good but I wasn't that into the donut itself. Carla got a passionfruit filled one that she was super happy with, so I'm going to try that one at some point for sure.

5. I love this picture so much. The randomly outstretched arm! His grumpy little face!