I Need a Tank Day

I woke up this morning with my first thought in my head being that I needed a TANK DAY today. And if we were working at the FRB, I would have easily just drove to work and mailed the entire day in. And not that I couldn't do it working from home mind you. It's just that it has now been more than 10 months that we've all been working from home and by this time, there really IS no difference and in fact, it's more like a mental thing more than anything that I'm in work mode. That is to say, there really is no such a thing as TANK DAY anymore. Everyday could be a TANK DAY but no different than everyday could be work my ass off day too. Case in point, the last couple of days when I logged in at least 6 Zoom meetings. When did I have that many meetings when we were in person at the FRB? Today I even had another meeting as well though it's a non-QueensCare one. It's an eval meeting for the CCALAC Symposium which I agreed to sit on the evaluation committee, just so I could get some free admission to the symposium itself. And as an added cherry on top of the ice cream, I myself put in a submission for cybersecurity. Couldn't hurt to bolster my credentials for expertise on the subject couldn't I? And so it was that I basically DID tank most of the morning, actually staying in my pajamas until well past breakfast. And in the end, I didn't even take a shower. I did do my emails and I did put in some work in, including said meeting in the afternoon. And when that meeting was over, I headed on over to Trader Joe's to do grocery shopping, signifying to myself that I am ending my work day. Usually I'd hang around until 5 PM had we still been at the FRB. And I even posted a pic from exactly a year ago when I would walk over to 7th and Fig to get a pineapple and pepperoni and sausage pizza just to get my steps in and get dinner too. No need for that anymore. I was just doing another one of my time travel jaunts in my mind. Tonight was just dinner at home and doing steps, especially since I really didn't get started on the latter until after that afternoon meeting, which meant that I sat on 1600 steps until then. An hour of aerobics caught me up pretty easily and before it even got dark.  And then I decided to have one of those Cuban chicken bowls i picked up from Trader Joe's earlier for dinner. And some soup. And a cheese quesadilla. NO eating out tonight. No need. 

And for Friday night, I did do Netflix night just like I would if it were a year ago. Tonight it was about the WINx saga, yet another series on magic and a bunch of young people at a school for magic learning about themselves and their powers and coming into their own. Yes it was in the same ilk as the Magicians which lasted for many many seasons on the SciFi channel. And also the Order also on Netflix which lasted 2 seasons. And of course like those other series, there was no shortage of teenage angst and romance and relationships, with adults and with each other. This particular one seemed even younger than the other 2 series, made about high school kids really. As in freshman high school kids. What catches my attention about these kinds of series? About internal powers that need to be developed? How about a series about a guy who's had powers all along but does not really get to discover them and make full use of them until he's almost 60 years old?! Gee who could that be? Hey there's still drama, there's still relationships and this time, it is the guy who is the adult who may be dealing with kids of his own. Anyway I didn't stay up until late tonight, and that's because I needed to be at Lisa's at 7:15 tomorrow morning to pick up Johnnie since she has a patient at 7:30. Reality always gets in your face doesn't it LOL. But hey the short work week is over and now I look forward to the weekend...