Surprising Hits & Misses

[thepnutgallery]

I didn't want to wake Julian too early but his alarm ended up doing it for me. He had an upset stomach, presumably from our snack-binge last night. I got into work fine, though the internet browser always takes forever. The claims from yesterday's reminders started flowing in, so I had a great day, work-wise. I really love working on them, helping people get their money, navigate the system, that sort of thing. We had a meeting at 3 about prefixes on appointment orders, and found a surprisingly simple solution. Non sequiturs made an appearance, courtesy of my brain spinning off into rabbit tracks all the time. Blue is my favorite color. Unfortunately, the meeting went a little long, possibly until just after 4. I hate that feeling. I just got written up for working off the clock, but here's this meeting with my bosses that goes over. I started going back and forth in the meeting to take care of work that came in so that nothing would be left for tomorrow. As long as we're tracking metrics, I intend to get mine as close to instant as possible. I cleaned after work - dishes, unpacked the soy curls, vacuumed, mopped, and took out the trash. Most of the mopping is based on how quickly my feet get dirty, since I have no concept of time, while the vacuuming is based on reducing the gnat population. See previous entries about how terrible it feels to have to kill them, and just try to decide which is the least terrible. Julian's raise hasn't even gone through yet, but he got paid over 1600. Good time to budget, even though that was a struggle. At first he said he couldn't afford to contribute to rent, but since I've been paying it while making far less...There's a weird guilt there, something related to his desperation to avoid blame. I just kept explaining that budgeting is just about awareness, so he can see where his money is going and plan for things. Kind of like counting calories is supposed to do. You're not supposed to "beat your score" like always did, just to be aware of the calories in the chips, candy, soda....vodka. Neither of us managed to get a full budget done, and it turns out I overestimated my paychecks. They're about 1350, but I make about 40k AGI, so I'm not sure how that works. I think the exercise was ultimately successful, at least. He's going to avoid buying beer at 7-11, since it turns out it's much more expensive there, though he needed to make a run for cigarettes. I bought our Halloween costumes - Sub Zero and Scorpion. Hopefully, they should be modifiable for our respective levels of slut. I just didn't feel like I had time to get our Little Mermaid costumes together in time. And while I'd have loved to have been Kitana to his Sub Zero, I also couldn't find a Kitana costume I felt I could pull off. It's fine. He called his mom and spoke for the next few hours, but came back in around 9:30. I don't know - I probably could have stayed up later, but didn't really feel like it. At least I skipped dinner.