Chastity's Boudoir

Missed posting this weekend, alas!

I've seen a lot of memes about "what you miss most," or "the first thing I'm going to do, once this is over" about life in quarantine, life before and after this pandemic. Some are funny and some are sweet, and some make me sniffle.

Mine is just...sigh...sooooo trivial.

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This has felt like a very long week, and I find myself mildly surprised that there's still another day to go before the weekend.

Lot of stuff going on at work, and no real letup in sight for quite a while. Although I had planned to take a couple weeks off, that's been down-sized to a couple days, as we're not going out of town as we had intended.

psyfic posted the other day that we'd scrapped our plans for heading up north, and the more we read about the surge of cases across the country, the happier I am about that decision. We're still going to have to take some time to deal with my mom's house up there, but it's going to have to wait a while.

In the meantime, it's not like we don't have plenty of projects around this house. *rg*

We just watched The Trial of the Chicago 7 tonight on Netflix. Wow. It was really well done, and sadly relevant to what we're still going through now, fifty-some years later. Amazing performances from a remarkable cast. Not always easy to watch, but it needs to be seen. We don't do a good job of teaching this sort of history in this country. We need to do better, if we ever expect to learn how to be better, as a nation.

Well, it was a work-filled day and not all that exciting, so it's not like there was much to miss. *rg* I had to get up early on Monday and go into the office for an in-person meeting (brainstorming sessions are awkward via web), and I stayed up late to finish up a couple things for work - and then had to get up early again this morning for an online meeting, followed by another meeting, followed by another meeting...

Eh.

I'm kinda meeting'd-out, y'know? And need to catch up on sleep, per usual.

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Wonderful, wonderful day!

I let out that breath I'd been holding and it felt *marvelous*!

I saw the news on Twitter this morning and went to wake psyfic and tell her. Her mom had texted as well, and after she'd replied, we spent some time -ahem!- celebrating.

And then it felt like all the exhaustion of the past weeks, months, years came crashing down, and we curled up and caught up on some much-needed sleep.

Watching Joe's speech this evening, when he gave a shout-out to Delaware, I teared up thinking of our dear friend Lynn, who was from Delaware. She spoke with him many times and used to say what a kind and considerate man he was. She must be looking down from the hereafter, grinning from ear to ear.

And since I was already teary, listening to a speech that included actual plans for the work to come, not just a babbling jumble of meaningless, incoherent wordslaw, just kept the waterworks going.

There is so much work to be done, so much cleanup and rebuilding, but we can start that in the morning.

For now, this is a time of joy, and we're celebrating it.

We're coping.

psyfic's been reading me "choice" tidbits of the idiocies that have been proliferating as we wait through this maddening process, so I'm cussing more than is customary or polite, but psyfic is tolerant, and the cats just look at me with their heads tilted, trying to figure out wtf is mama's problem?

Anyway.

I made a rather nice beef stew yesterday, if I do say so myself. For some reason, a couple months back I really got to wanting stew, which is a weird thing to want in the roasting SoCal summer heat! Anyway, the weather had cooled down a smidge, so I got a nice chuck roast and a bottle of Cabernet, and last night I hacked up the meat, seared it to get a good brown crust on it all, simmered it in broth and wine, then tossed in some veg, simmered a while longer, and ta-da, stew!

It was yummy. 🍲😊

We've managed to stay away from the news and most social media today, until this evening, when the polls closed and we started tracking the various reports.

At the moment, it looks like we won't have a full count until sometime tomorrow, but I'm choosing to believe that the majority of this country will vote to reject hatred and bigotry and callous, casual cruelty, will vote for sanity and competence and for turning away from the precipice.

It's been a long day; it's been a damned long four years. My beloved and I are going to turn in early tonight.

May it be the start of a better world for all of us in the morning.

On the recommendation and encouragement of my beloved psyfic, and inspired by lore, I thought I'd attempt NaNoBloMo this year and see if I can get myself back into blogging.

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