Hey Howdy! Welcome to Thursday, and Day 4 of the J-DOC Mini-Mono-Blog. Really not much to report today. I did not have all that much time for food, so it's gonna be a short report. Kinda felt like an actual Thursday again. . . . . . will explain as we go.
Breakfast: Ok, so I'm slipping back into my morning bagel situation. I really hope I get this under control. It's hard. I REALLY like the bagel in the morning. I have certainly cut out the Red Bull. I think I'm truly cured of that, which is a HUGE weight off my shoulders, for now. But I have to do better with the bagel situation. Maybe limit it to twice a week or something . .. . . The problem is that I just need to wake up a little earlier. While it does not take me any more or less time to eat at home, it's hard to eat at home while getting the kids ready and trying to push them out of the house. So I end up stopping for a quick bagel on the way to work. I could just try to wake up 10 minutes earlier. That would likely do the trick. BUT the other thing is that I love the bagel. It really fills me up and my teaching schedule gets me lunch at 12:45 the earliest - usually much later. . . . . . . .
Lunch: So as I said, 12:45 the earliest. So at 12:45, I could either go home for the PM stuff or stay at school. I had a meeting with a few kids on Zoom and then a ton of stuff to do to prepare for jazz band. Long story short, I did not leave work until 3:15, so I had not eaten lunch yet. I was gonna go pick up the kids, so I had to grab some pizza. I figured at this point, I would eat a decent meal and that would be it, because I had to leave the house at 5:30 for sax quartet and jazz band. So I went to Ray's in Cresskill for a buffalo chicken slice and a penne vodka slice. Now I'm not all about Ray's plain slice, but their toppings are great. The Buffalo chicken is just COVERED in Buffalo chicken. And the vodka sauce on that slice is so creamy and delicious. I Tried to get a diet sprite, but it was flat. So i asked for a diet stewarts and they stopped selling them. So I ended up with a diet coke.
So let's back up to one of the reasons I had to stay at work instead of going home for the afternoon. I have a fridge in my office. It comes in very handy. I have not really used it much in a long time since we were out of school from March to June, then could not really go in the summer and then had lots of in and out from September to now. So The other day, I put a drink in the fridge. I then went to drink it hours later and it was still warm. So it turns out that the fridge and freezer stopped working at some point, since March. Now . . . .. . in the freezer, i had 10 ice pops, 4 italian ices and 4 Lean Cuisine dinners. So there was a crap ton of mixed liquid on the bottom and also a science experiment of mold. Like a huge moldy mold piece. So today, I had to clean that out because it got so nasty. I was scooping liquid out with a dixie cup into a pitcher, which by the way was filled up 3/4 of the way with nastiness. OMG. So gross. Sanitized, wiped down, etc. . . . . . . and at least it's not disgusting anymore. BUT that was nasty and time consuming. EEK! I'd show you a photo, but I don't want to make you puke. Text me if you want to see it. I'll send it to you. . . . . . . . .
So I came got the kids, came home and watched everyone have some pasta dinner about 2 hours after I had my lunch, and off to work.
Jazz band was great this week! The whole rhythm section decided it was safe to come after last week. (Last week, the bass and piano player tuned in via Zoom.) So I was able to work with them. The sax and brass sections rehearsed themselves in sectionals in other rooms and I was so much more organized this week. It really was great. Plus the sax quartet decided to start rehearsing before jazz band rehearsal and they sounded fantastic, so that was great too.
When I got home, it was 9:00, which is my deadline to eat. So I tried not to. We watched Mr. Mayor which is just a goofy and delightful show. It's a complete "shit show" at times - with some really crazy moments and an actor who I have never seen before who could be the 2nd coming of Zack Galifinakis. (Spelling?) and the Connors. After the Connors, I could not take it anymore. I had a handful of mini M&Ms and 3 pretzel rods. Sue me. I had dinner at 330pm. Come on! :-)
So that's it. It was a good and busy day. Because we live nearby, I was able to go home between school and jazz band, which was awesome. And because I live so close, I'm able to come back early enough for our sax quartet to rehearse at 6pm, which will be a GREAT group. Very pumped about this group.
Anyway, I'm out for now. Hope you are all doing well! See you next time.
Verderese - OUT!
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