which i improved by adding a selection of leftover charcuterie plate cheese bits
d wrote a letter with her gratitude notes from october; that many of them are also things i'm grateful for
d's excitement at learning guitar and bass, even as she encounters difficulty
last night and for our next few dinners, made long-cherished (the food 52 article i originally learned from was published 8 years ago) meal of roasted brussels sprouts with mac and cheese (my problematic fave go-to, which i improved by adding a selection of leftover charcuterie plate cheese bits to the cheddar and made a bit creamier (per d's preference) by using more milk and greek yogurt) and covering both with heaping spoonfuls of nam pla
saturday we tried a thai restaurant we hadn't had before and it was really great and we had leftovers for lunch on sunday
running first thing in the morning because that's the only way i know that i will actually do it (but also thankful, after skipping my run friday because i got stuck in a work black hole and then couldn't get it up to do it at the end of the day as i was telling myself i would, that i did it on both days of the weekend, since i think part of the sunday scaries for me is my brain chemistry being off after not running over the weekend)
thinking forward to the spring and summer when there will be sunshine and warmth and long days out in the air and the sky and the grass
boss is taking a short vacation, which is good because she works so hard
dicey dungeons, which, though it is not slay the spire, scratches some of the itches of that game in different ways and is pretty enjoyable so far
facetime with my mom, where she reiterated how much she's enjoying the game spiritfarer, which i got her on a whim for christmas thinking it might be right for her and so the satisfaction of knowing she's really enjoying it. hearing about the draconian points system that the company who employs both of my parents uses for automatically firing people who get sick, which is disgusting, but being grateful that they both have jobs.
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