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Well, Friday.  I’m usually happier about it, but I dunno.  Pretty blah today.  I guess I just want the day to be over.  The work day, that is. 

We had a company meeting that was not very happy.  Tough times, and more tough times ahead.  No guarantees there won’t be more cuts. 

I’m working on a budget update, oh fun.  And we’re meeting this afternoon about transitioning the tasks that the lead admin does to the new admin, and eliminating what we can.  Like maintaining a lot of paper files will go bye-bye.  Which is fine by me.  I like to think that most of the time I have what I need either in e-mail and/or in the network computer drive.  That means that most of my “desk files” can be tossed after a while.  Yay.

Yesterday at work was generally okay.  Bf made chicken stir fry for dinner last night.  He didn’t start until well after 7:30, and I complained about that and was really irritated when he was finally going out to buy veggies for the stir fry because I knew it would take forever if he bought fresh veggies and chopped them himself.  I told him to buy a bag of frozen stir fry veggies, so he did, except for some fresh shiitake mushrooms.  He didn’t want help, so he did it all himself. 

We finally ate, and it was really disappointing.  Truth be told, bf loves to stir fry, but I hate bf’s stir fry.  He usually overloads our little wok and things tend to steam rather than fry.  This one was no different, in fact it was worse than usual.  Because we didn’t have enough white rice, he made brown rice.  We rarely eat rice at home, and usually never brown rice.  The box sitting in the cabinet was really old.  But I don’t think it goes bad, so I just think that brown rice is just something I don’t like and I’d forgotten because it had been so long since I ate it.  We’d just bought a package of jasmine rice and I wish he’d used that, but he thought it would be good to use up the opened box.  He didn’t use enough veggies, and they weren’t all that great anyway, for which I take the blame, because I told him to buy the frozen ones.  The whole dish was bland; I have no idea what kind of sauce he used.  And I even hated the shape he cut the chicken into.  I know I’m being horrible about this, but it was a pretty sucky dinner.  And I know he wasn’t thrilled with it either.  Overall, I really just wish I’d eaten a frozen diet entree instead. 

This weekend.  Nothing planned tonight.  We have another pound of chicken breast tenders to use up (I thawed a 2-lb package).  I should probably cook them tonight because Saturday we’re spending the day w/ bf’s mother and aunt, and then in the evening is book club.  There probably won’t be time for a proper dinner, and there’s always a lot of food at book club anyway.  I haven’t decided on what to bring to book club for a snack, let alone shopped or prepared anything yet.  Not super excited about this book club.  I read the book a couple years ago and didn’t bother re-reading it.  I did like the book, so I’m sure I’ll enjoy the discussion.  I guess it’ll be difficult trying to avoid overeating all the snacks people bring, so that sort of takes some of the enjoyment out of it.  Hopefully we actually discuss the book and not everyone’s kids and their friends, teachers, soccer teams, etc. 

Sunday I hope the weather is good enough to let me get out in the yard to get things cleaned up for the winter. 

That’s about all, so I’ll publish.