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It's Tuesday, and creeping ever closer to the Ghost concert. I'm very excited about it! Sadly the meeting on Friday got moved to next month, so that's a lot of preparation for nothing, and no half day. But when it comes, I'll be ready!

Today, I need to do a bit more laundry, and also find time to make French onion soup for dinner. IT should be a stretch, but we'll make it.

Yoda has been very difficult since the twin traumas of the beeping noise and the 4th of July. He will only go out once or twice per day, and only if both of us are with him. It's somewhat inconvenient. We'll keep trying and working with him, but good lord, our dog is neurotic. He has a vet appointment on Monday to discuss upping/changing his medication. He definitely needs more crazy pills.

Tomorrow, I shall work half a day, and then I shall relax for a couple of hours before I get ready for the concert. Between now and then, I need to get some makeup wipes, because we will be sneaking in after the show, and I don't want to run water to wash it off and risk waking the dog. We're going to be little church mice.

I'm a little annoyed that they cancelled my meeting, though I was not looking forward to driving downtown in the rain and bad weather. Maybe I'll be lucky and the one in August will be less icky. Plus, I'll hopefully have a foundation that doesn't go cakey by then. I'm not fond of the Patrick TA foundation that I have right now. I don't think it's formulated for old person skin. It never seems to really settle onto my skin, always feels tacky--even with setting spray or powder. I'm going to try Haus Labs and Laura Geller to see if one of those works better. We'll see.

Geller markets itself for older skin, so we'll see. I just want something that will look natural. I don't mind it being a little stark for Ghost. That's just the way it's supposed to look, striking and a lttle stark. I found the best Fenty lipstick for it. It's a really dark red/brown. It looks really good, but very striking. It'll be perfect for nights out. The downside is that it takes at least two makeup wipes to get just it off, and in between getting it off and the first wipe, you look like the freaking Joker.

I'm hoping all my stuff comes in time. I've got Lakur nail polish due to come tomorrow, with a lovely color called Black Thorn that I really would like to wear for the concert. Normally Fedex comes early, so we'll see. I'm less hopeful about the pinafore dress that I got. It's supposed to come today via UPS, but it's not even in MD yet.

My Ipsy box will probably come on Friday, which is fine. I didn't have anything in particular I needed for the concert. It'll be here in time for the Philly concert on the 19th, which is fine.

My much needed box for makeup will be coming today. It was desperately needed. I've actually got two coming, one for travel and one for the countertop. We'll see how many things they'll fit. I got a LOT of makeup, which is currently taking up the majority of the bathroom counter on one side.

Okay, time for me to get myself together. We'll be walking the dog shortly, so I should get ready. Everyone have an outstanding Tuesday!

I am up super early after another late night. There were still fuckers playing with fireworks last ngiht, and the dog was flipping out. We're going to have to take him to the vet and get his shots, and get some better anti anxiety meds, because the Prozac isn't doing shit.

He's been just a ball of stress the last four or five days, between the beeping and now the fireworks. Just Jebus on a pogo stick, it's sucked. I was in tears listening to him cry last night and scratch the door.

Aside from that, it was an okay day. We had a nice lunch. Were not able to get the cat's ashes. Apparently the director's son is in the hospital, and things are backed up. It would have been super helpful to to know that before I wasted the gas to go down there, but it's okay. I 100% understand that life gets in the way.

Jess had a game last night, here Strixhaven game which sounded fun. Though, there was some mumbling about "here comes the consequences of my own actions," which always sounds delightful.

Today, we have a game in the morning, run by coyotegestalt and then we're restarting a former game, with me dming. This is another one of my homebrew worlds, which I'm nervous about, but also excited.

I'm almost done with the game, simply need to make one more character and I will be ready to go. I'm nervous, because this is all homebrew, so I'm very much hoping that they like it. The other server really enjoyed it, so the pressure is on to make this as engaging.

On that note, I'm going to go put on some clothes and consider breakfast. Everyone have an amazing Sunday!

I am very sore today. We got a new vacuum and it's a bit heavier than the stick vacuum that we had, and I may have overdid it. (I know, me?) And now, my back is seriously pissed off. Today will be a day for mostly sitting still, I think. I was considering going to the pool, but I think that'll wait til tomorrow or Sunday. I'm hoping it clears up by tomorrow, since I have shit to get done.

One of the empty apartments or something has a smoke alarm that's on battery low, and it's chirping loudly, which is freaking out Yoda. He hasn't been on a full walk since yesterday morning, and it's stressing us all out. Jess is taking him now, so hopefully he actually does some business. Addendum, nope. No business was done. We'll try driving him somewhere and see if helps.

Yesterday felt like a long day at work. We were surprisingly busy, and I just was not feeling it. I persevered and got shit done, but it was a lot. I don't have to work this weekend, so I have a glorious three days off. Then a 3 day week next week! (one day off, and 2 half days.)

My skirts are coming on Tuesday, so I'm looking forward to that. I'm cutting it a bit close, because if I need to go shopping, I've only got a couple of hours on Wednesday and the afternoon and evening on Thursday. I'm going to be up at ass o'clock for that meeting, since I need to get downtown. I don't know what time the meeting starts, so I can't really plot yet. I'm supposed to get an invite next week. If it starts at 9, which is what I'm hoping, I'll leave at 7:15, so I can get down, and go to pick up my badge. I should get a lanyard, in case they don't give me one. It might be an alligator clip, I have no idea.

We definitely will need to do some wash on Thursday, either before or after game. I am going to be stinky as fuck after Ghost. I figure shower first thing in the morning, because we'll be sneaking in. Then we can wash all the dirty clothes, and be ready for the meeting on Friday.

Today, though, I'm going to go put on clothes and see if the dog will go for a ride. or a walk. I'm not picky. Everyone have an amazing Fourth!

Yay, we survived Monday! I actually slept last night, which was nice. I had to get up to pee a couple of times, but not too bad. I know I slept hard, because I'm a little achy, which usually means that I didn't move much during the night.

Yesterday was a nice day. Work wasn't slammed (I'm assuming because of the holiday week) and I was able to fill in a pile of appointments. I also had some stupid patients who called to see if we had a cancellation for an MRI. Okay fair. We do get cancellations. But then, their insurance hadn't approved it yet, and it was a 150minute long appointment. We don't get those type of cancellations.

After that, we had Bonchon for dinner, because I really wanted fried chicken. It hit the spot.

It's funny, I spent so long thinking that I couldn't wear makeup, because it gave me a migraine, but it turns out that I can. I got tired of looking at the red blotches on my cheeks (never formally diagnosed, but probably rosacea, and a little bit of darker skin on my forehead. (Aging sucks.) So, I decided to give foundation a try. Problem was, then I looked dead. It needed some blush and lipstick. And if I'm doing all that, lets get those eyes to pop, since they disappeared behind my glasses.

Turns out, I love eyeshadow and eyeliner. I love playing with the colors. I need to get a palette with more colors, because right now, I have gold and purple with one blue. I want green and blues and oranges. I haven't tried mascara yet. I think the weight was what might have set off the migraines.

But add that to a Torrid padded plunge bra and I feel great. The hair, defintely helps too. It makes me love how I look, which is new. I haven't felt confident in my skin in a while. Its amazing how much a little bit of color helps. I said to Jess that I was annoyed that I looked amazing for the funeral, and it was wasted on their family. But on the other hand, I didn't feel like I was going to bring shame on my house.

I'm looking forward to the Ghost concert. I tested out some eyeliner. We got a black eyeliner pen with my sister's foundation order. She doesn't wear black, and gifted it to Jess. I tried it, with a gold eyeliner I got from my Ipsy bag. (Oh yeah, I signed up for that, too.) It looked pretty good, so I'm going to give it a try.

It's weird to have all this product. I need to get an organizer for our bathroom, so it's not just all laying out. I have a bag, but the one eyeshadow already cracked during travel, so I can't risk turning it upside down. Fortunately it wasn't one that I used a lot, but two of the others that I do use are loose, so I will be careful with it.

All in all, I'm really happy with it, and I'm enjoying experimenting.

And on that note, I shall go forth and get ready for work. Everyone have an amazing Tuesday!

It's pretty much going to be Ghost lyrics for subject lines for the next couple of weeks. The concert is in 10 days, and I am hyped.

Well, that's done. We got up at ass o'clock and slipped out of the hotel to drive from the Brighton Courtyard Marriott to the Detroit/Fort Wayne airport. It's not bad, about a forty five minute drive. Especially in our acid green car.



I really loved that car. It was super quiet and super smooth, and I never forgot which car was mine.

The handoff was super simple, and soon we were on the bus to the airport...which was packed. They were giving free trials of Clear, though, so we did that, and were through the packed security super quickly.

Our gate wasn't super far this time, so we trudged over, stopping to get my sister her requested Detroit keychain and some fudge and then continued onwards until we found a likely place for breakfast. It was solidly meh, but definitely fuel. Then, continued to the gate, and plopped our ass into the seats to wait.

The flight itself was pretty smooth and super quick. We were really lucky with flights this weekend. They left on time, they didn't have much in the way of turbulence, and they landed 20 minutes early both times.

Then, home again to decompress. Around 5pm, Shelly mentioned that she'd like to get a new key and fob for her car. I looked up and found a fairly good rated locksmith that would come to you. It was a total clusterfuck. IT took him 3 1/2 hours (most of which, I was standing out in the heat) to not be able to do the complete job. We have keys, but no keyfob, and they charged us $700 for the privilege of not getting what we wanted.

I was so disgusted when I went to bed.

Today, it's back to work. I'm not sure I'm going to be taking a ton of calls, but we'll see. I can't call out because we've got a date for Jess' top surgery and it's going to be 9/11, which means I'll need to hoard every hour of PTO that I can for the surgery, recovery and follow up visits. It'll be tight, but we'll make it.

It was a whirlwind weekend, but thankfully, it's done now, and we can get back to regular life. And now, I shall go take a nice shower. I was so disgusted by the time I was done with the locksmith that I didn't bother, but today I feel kind of gross, so off to the showers it is. I hope everyone has an awesome Monday!

It's Friday and it's Flyday as well! I'm up ungodly early to get ready to fly out to Michigan for Jess' Dad's funeral. Not looking forward to it.

It's not going to be a fun weekend by any stretch, and I hate that Jess' stuck doing it. They hadn't seen their father in nearly a decade (because he was an asshole who tried to bribe them into leaving me). I was not good enough in his eyes, being lower/middle class and a woman. I was just going to bring them down. And I won't lie, we've struggled, but we struggled together and that's the important part.

I don't really think anyone is going to throw a fit at the funeral. They're too midwest for that. Might get a few backhanded pokes, but nothing more. If anyone does want to throw down, I will probably punch them in the throat, but we'll see.

Tomorrow, we have the long-ass visitation. I am as ready for it as I can be. I've got a dress, tights, shoes and a fuckton of makeup, so I look presentable. Then Sunday, we fly home. I sprung for first class tickets, so we should have priority security and boarding, which will be nice. We'll be in around noon, and home by 1pm is there are no major delays.

Yesterday was busy. I ended up cancelling our game, because there was no way we were getting everything done if we had to do that as well. I'm sorry, because that's 3 games cancelled for this, but it needed to happen. Otherwise, I'd have been rushing this morning and that's how things get forgotten.

As it is, I need to open the suitcase and pack a couple of more things. I forgot to pack my tights and I think my makeup is going in there as well. That way I have room in my bag for my kindle and the sound machine.

I had a really bad brain night last night. Just completely melted down over the state of the house. The money from the estate means that we got a lot of stuff, and a lot of it requires assembly. So we have a ton of boxes, plus the problem our normal tendency to put stuff down on every single surface and never pick it up again.

We're going to work on that when we get home. I also couldn't reach my toenail clippers, which fell behind my dresser, which is kind of what set me off. All the frustration just bubbled over.

But today, I am goal focused. We will go to the airport and park, and then we will fly out. We will get to the Best Western, and then we will go see Jess' brother for a bit, maybe dinner, and then we will go back to the Best Western and relax.

Okay, time for that shower. Do I want to put on makeup today? I might a little bit. Just a little foundation and blush, maybe eyeliner. We'll see. Definitely moisturizer.

Everyone have an excellent Friday!