Perforation Problems

Clyde doesn't let anything interrupt his sleep. Not even a pillow on his head.

My sister-in-law's birthday cake. Yum.

A little less than a year ago we got a Crate & Barrel gift card for our wedding. At some point it disappeared, which made me angry mostly because it's typical of something I would do. I lose things all the time, most frequently important things like my credit card. Yes, I'm 30 years old. Listen, I've got too many important thoughts in my head to worry about menial issues like where my credit card is. Important Thoughts like "How much of this salad do I have to eat before I can eat a cookie?" The good news is that I found the Crate & Barrel gift card recently, only about 10 months after I lost it. It slid out of the back of a drawer and was behind some pots and pans in the cabinet. Totally not my fault. I used it to buy some placemats. I remember watching Price is Right when I was little and seeing some woman win a washer and dryer. While the audience oohed and ahhed over her prize, ten-year old me rolled my eyes and made a promise to myself: ...

I spent today working on a new project. It was a pretty perfect day -- I met a friend for lunch, then climbed back in bed with my computer and got some stuff done. It's really satisfying to get wrapped up in a project and make progress. Saturday I ended up rearranging the furniture in our bedroom -- it still needs some work, but I'm much happier with it. It feels more like a room and less like a place we just stuck a bunch of furniture. Also now I can keep the shades up and let the light in because the bed is no longer blocking the window. That seemed like a reasonable idea at the time, but, nope. This is much better. I love being able to see the tree outside. It made for a nice sleepy, rainy day in bed.  Clyde's a good writing partner, sometimes. Other times he really just wants to be petted and you can't actually type. 

I was falling asleep at my computer when I realized I hadn't taken a picture yet. This is a horrible picture, but I do like how you can see Michael making a weird face in the background and Clyde sleeping between us. Typical. I almost panicked because there was no picture marked 9-27 in my folder, but then I realized I took this after midnight, so it's technically 9-28. It's okay -- still counts. It's still that day until I go to bed for real, meaning actually in my bed, not sleeping on the couch. (Falling sleep on the couch happens more than you might expect.)

We did this Strengths Finder thing at work, and I was pleasantly surprised at how interesting and helpful it was. It tells you your five biggest strengths and personalizes a report that touches on the way you work. Most of it seemed to fit, and I like the idea of focusing on your strengths instead of your weaknesses. The idea is that you'll only ever be able to be average in your areas of weakness, but you can be extraordinary in your strengths. It's been a tough week and I needed some coloring time, so I did this visualization of my team's strengths. It's nice to see how we all mesh together, and it's nice to see what strengths individual team members have. Some I expected, some I didn't. I like taking personality tests. It's like that little multiple choice quiz and trait rubric understands you. It's like a paper shrink.