Month: February 2022

I love that dog

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I was dogsitting NMD from Thursday to Sunday, on my (mostly) lonesome while Katy is away. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I love that dog. She’s really good for my mental health. She forces me to go on twice-daily walks and run around like a nutter with a frisbee and a squeaky tennis ball.

Normally when we have dogs over, Katy sleeps in the guest bedroom to be around the dog, while the cats are self-isolating in our bedroom. This time, the guest bedroom has been turned into Ben’s 2nd (gaming) room so I slept on the sofa. Wasn’t as horrible as I expected it to be. Even though I’m not sleeping well anyways these days, it was…. OK.

I love the fact she climbed up on the sofa with me this morning. Enough so that I made her breakfast in bed :)

She’s gone back home now, and I’m in my big (empty) bed.

Edit: a few more day-sits for NMD


And at one point I thought I was going to need to wade into the lake.

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And now I can breathe

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We’ve been working on a big, BIG, presentation for work for the last couple of weeks. Today, it’s been presented to top management of our institute and one of our partner businesses. It was only a 5 minute pitch with 10 minutes for questions.

I was remote for the meeting because I think I’m coming down with something but I dressed to impress, even if only the upper half :)

I’ve been bricking it all week, but it went well. I’d practiced my pitch, and I don’t think I messed up anything beyond an unexpected cough. I was happy when one of our stakeholders sent me this by email afterwards:

“BTW good job – one of the only projects [HEAD OF FOOD BUSINESS] complimented that was very clear and aligned 😊”

That’s me done for today. I’m beat, and I want coffee (and maybe a glass of wine after 5pm).

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