I woke up before my alarm this morning (thanks, DST? I guess?), and my reward was a nasty drive through bad traffic. It makes it seem undesirable to be virtuous.

Walter and the cats do mind,

Charlie keeps trying to get me to take him for a walk, but then turning around as soon as he hits open air and gets wet.

I am taking a sick day, because I sound like a frog and have a fever. I already finished one work task that needed to get done, and now I get to go back to bed. YAY

Thanks for all the dragon mask compliments! I'm going to see if I can hang it from the wall and put LED lights in its eyes. Maybe I'll trigger the lights with a motion sensor, so the lights only come on when someone is moving around in my apartment.

Plus I got blisters on my fingers from using a scissors to cut the cardboard. But it turned out OK.

For future reference, an X-acto or carpet knife works much better on cardboard (or anything thicker than cardstock or bristol board) than scissors do.

Yeah, I used an X-acto on the more difficult cuts--I'd slide the knife along a metal ruler to keep the cut straight. But the scissors seemed easier to use in general. I was using a sturdy kitchen scissors, which worked OK until its blades got dull.

And they just annoyed with me for suggesting they could all be on one phone in an office.

That's how my boss conducts all our team meeting conference calls. Four remote workers on our phones, and six or seven people sitting around one phone on speaker. I can barely hear anyone, but my boss wants everyone all together in one room.

Zenkitty, an email like that would pretty much guarantee that I woul become cranky and rebellious.

That's the effect it has on me too. It was part of a whole big graphic that someone had created about "Wellness" which is something else my company has gone all-in on. I guess they just don't want to pay too much for our health insurance.

I hope the rest does you good, Lee!

Maybe I'll trigger the lights with a motion sensor, so the lights only come on when someone is moving around in my apartment.

That's awesome.

He was charmed by her and more social than usual. So, the whole thing went better than expected. Then we stopped by to see some other relatives who were fighting over who could hold her. Now ltc is looking at me and wondering where the rest of her fan club has gone.

Aw!!

It was part of a whole big graphic that someone had created about "Wellness" which is something else my company has gone all-in on. I guess they just don't want to pay too much for our health insurance.

That whole thing would really make me want to call out sick in order to eat bacon and smoke cigarettes all day.

I guess they just don't want to pay too much for our health insurance.

We get reduced rates on our insurance if we trundle through yearly health measurements and "counseling." They don't keep track of the numbers--I checked--and they've always beamed at me when I say "I discuss these things with my doctor at my quarterly appointments." I don't discuss my medical issues in a big room full of my co-workers.

Our Wellness program is actually pretty nice - they subsidize gym memberships and Weight Watchers (and have meetings on site (which is not my thing, but nice for people who are into it)) and we can earn an extra day off by going for walks during lunch breaks, that sort of thing. Last year they did a Maintain Don't Gain thing during the holidays that I wasn't crazy about, but it didn't actually require you to either lose weight or not gain weight to participate or even win something and it was entirely voluntary. And the Health Fair every spring makes for a nice break from working if nothing else, with "healthy snacks" that are often the unhealthiest thing I eat that day (popcorn and frozen yogurt, and spring tends to be when I get really draconian with my diet).

It's open enrollment right now, I think I have things to think about re: FSA and whatnot. Don't want to. Just because it's one more damn thing.