I slept like ten hours last night and woke up around 6:45am which got my body clock back on track, even in spite of daylight savings (which is honestly the stupidest thing, why are we still doing this bullshit?)
It's finally cool enough outside that I don't have to run all the fans and all the AC (the latter of which is exhausting my wallet because whoever lives below me apparently keeps their heat on all year because if I don't run AC/fans or have windows open all day/night, my apartment generally hovers around 76-80 degrees thanks to them)
I hate fall/winter, but I do love that it's cool enough outside this time of year that I can have a cooler apartment just by having open windows/sliding glass door. My gas/electric bill always drops to like a quarter of what I have to spend the rest of the year and I am looking forward to the Nov bill being way the fuck lower yassss
I am so grateful for the fact that I submitted my vote a month ago and I don't have to stand in line to have my voice heard. Maryland's Board of Elections already sent me an email to let me know that my ballot has been counted, so given all the stress of today, at least I don't have to stress about having to deal with the polls today.
I woke up an hour before my alarm this morning, so I laid in bed and snuggled with my dog while listening to my audiobook for about 45 minutes, then got up, made the bed, got dressed, took the dog out for a walk and had time to go to Dunks for breakfast before coming home to feed him at his normal time. It was a nice way to start A Day.
Yesterday's CommuniTEA flavor was really bitter (I'm learning new ways to steep the tea to break some of that down, though!) and my review said so, so some random person in the CommuniTEA sent me a sample of one of the teas in my wishlist and sent a cute note to enjoy this instead. I've literally never talked to this person. It made my morning!
Honestly? I was really worried I was going to hate the News O'clock podcast after Hayes left since I cannot stand Casey, but their new guy is pretty cool, so I'm happy about it.
In a pretty good mood today in spite of the little niggles of anxiety poking at me. I'm in good enough a mood for now that I'm comfortable not obsessively refreshing AP election coverage, which is more than I can say for last presidential election. I'm not feeling confident or complacent, but I'm feeling good enough to just...let the chips fall
I'm still feeling pretty calm about the election. Not complacent, not hopeful, and definitely not confident, but I'm feeling calm. I know we have a much longer road ahead because this is going to be such a close race and 100% there will be recounts and lawsuits, but I'm not letting myself feel anxious.
Today's CommuniTEA was one I really love in blends but not so much, apparently, by itself but that just means I can make some of the Campsite S'mores sample I managed to grab when it was a sneak peek in the rewards (it's so fucking goooooood)
I've been officially diagnosed with a condition that makes me actually feel so much better about an issue I've been struggling through for years and, next week, I'll be seeing an endocrinologist for it to see what might be causing it so that we can treat it and I'm feeling really validated right now. Other doctors have kinda played it off before
Which doesn't surprise me because women as patients are seldom taken very seriously, even by female doctors, but I'm really glad this doctor was able to validate my concern/frustration with the issue and I'm looking forward to treating it and, hopefully, getting back to normal sooner than later
I haven't quite finished the project I was working on, but I have hit the 20 hours/week project limit, so today I get to just play around with code on the sandbox dev they gave me Today's goal: the perfect parallax scroll
I'm a smidge sidetracked by this incredible animation that's making me wonder how I can recreate it but with a DNA helix shape for a project I'm working on...
Right?! I mean I went back to the parallax because I don't know SVGs all that well and I would've needed a better base understanding of that, but I have all week next week to dick around with this stuff, so
I'm on the phone with GoDaddy trying to get my website off of Squarespace finally so that I can do my own coding on my own site. It's a bad look to have a web designer not even code their own damn site lol