Friday Afternoon

Well, today is turning into a full day... As I type this, I've got meals in the works to finish and be prepared to make lunch and dinners out of for the next few days. Yeah, I'm a "few days at a time" prepper, a whole week feels like way too much to cram into 1 day of cooking. Plus, then how am I supposed to get my frustrations out later in the week?? So, today I cooked enough to feed us at least through Monday.

I work double shifts this weekend, so today was going to just be food prep and relaxing but then... people. Last week, I was complaining that I didn't have any good friends and that I couldn't find anyone to socialize with, and today I've got people swarming around. Maybe it's because they smell the food...

Woke up this morning to a text from my brother asking what I was doing. Snow day for his kids today means the 3 of them were bothering each other before the clock even struck 7:30. So, I get the oldest one. Cool! He's on his laptop in front of me right now, playing Minecraft. Oh, to be a 13-year-old boy seems so relaxing! Ha, no thanks.

Then, a few Deaf friends are coming over to my (hearing and ASL-clueless) mom's house for dinner. Should be a good time for sure! Whenever we have friends or family come over, we call the dinner a Smorgasbord, which I only recently realized isn't an English word. My mother always makes way too much food - she used to be a caterer and can't divide. ;)  Interpreting this shindig could prove to be interesting, though. I'll be the only hearing bilingual person there, with 3 other hearing people and 2 Deaf. Hopefully, I can convince my awesome friend to join us and help me, since he's fluent in ASL also.

Well, for now, I'm off to bother my nephew into playing a game with me, then errands that need to be run. You'll read all about it later, I'm sure. Or not. After all, it's not like I'm writing a novel that requires set information about my life events. It's just punctuated graffiti...
~A