I don't like pina coladas, or getting caught in the rain...

[athenaltena]

As I was leaving work today it was just starting to drizzle, and I had stupidly left my umbrella in my gym bag. I figured I'd be okay as long as the train was quick.

Naturally, it wasn't, and by the time it came up to the street it was a downpour. I muttered "crap" to myself and walked as fast as I could back to my apartment, but I still got soaked to the bone. I dried off and threw on the Moose pajamas (which have more or less become my default "Screw the outside world I'm staying home tonight" attire), but my clothes are still dripping and it's nearly an hour and a half later. Bleh. It also totally sapped my energy, but hopefully I'll have enough after dinner so I can pack.

Speaking of dinner, as I was walking back through the downpour I found myself imagining tomato sauce and garlic bread, so that's what I'm going to make, and I have just enough garlic bread left to do it.

Today at work however I finally finished one of my big projects, which was putting 10 cardboard boxes worth of plans for our developments in their respective folders. This isn't as easy as it sounds because I also have to scan them, and if you've ever seen architectural plans you know that's not so easy because many of them are huge. All I had to do was scan one page that identified it, and if anyone ever needed to look at them full plans they could just look in the folder, but I still had to do a lot of photocopying and printing out the coversheets so they can be scanned into our database. I don't know exactly how many plans I scanned, but considering we have about 500 projects in total and these plans seemed to average about 30 to 40 a box I'd guess I did around 300. Yikes. Once I get back I'll have to sort them out by who has what folder and drop them off, but I no longer have to drag down boxes from the top floor.

Tomorrow's my volunteer training shift with the MSPCA (not to be confused with the orientation), and then after that I'm headed down to Cape Cod to meet up with my parents for the week. And then I can relax.

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Okaay ...

[ar-wahan.livejournal.com]

I found myself imagining tomato sauce and garlic bread,

So I came home with frozen chicken breasts stuffed with tomato sauce and mozzarella. You know how garlic bread goes over here, but I wanted some kind of "crunch" carb to go with it and picked up a box of frozen bread sticks with mozzarella! (Also a store-made salad, since I don't want to buy produce that I'll either have to take to the Cape or go bad here.)

Stop. Reading. My. Mind. :D (Recalling when you piped up at about age three from the back seat -- as I was driving in front and thinking silently, "Should we have spaghetti for dinner?" -- "Let's have spaghetti for dinner!")

I'll tell your dad what you said about the Moose Pajamas.

See you tomorrow! (And now I know why you are waiting so late to leave for the Cape -- the volunteer work.)


ETA: And I was in Your head, LOL. The bread sticks turned out to have garlic in them.... I hadn't seen that dreaded word (for your dad) on the packaging, but I smelled it as they were baking.

Re: Okaay ...

[athenaltena.livejournal.com]

LOL, I didn't actually remember the spaghetti one, but I do remember you telling me about the one where I asked about Jeff and Jane and when they were getting married.

Not quite sure who influenced who on this one.

Re: Okaay ...

[athenaltena.livejournal.com]

The volunteer shift is going to be from approximately 10 to 12, but I don't want to chance the T being flaky and/or the cab I'm planning to call being late, so that's why I left so much time. Plus I'll probably need lunch first.