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I am not having a happy morning. My stomach woes continue, and this morning, I am not only still a touch nauseous, I'm also running to the bathroom every five minutes. Stupid body. I still have no clue if this is a tummy bug, or Mounjaro. I'm really hoping for the tummy bug. But the Mounjaro would definitely be a possibility. Stomach issues are one of the top side effects. I just need for it to settle the fuck down before work.

When my PTO for this weeks check dropped, I finally had enough time to put in for the Monday after we get back, so my vacation is completely covered, even if I cut it a bit close. I wish I had enough to call out on the Wednesday before we leave, but that's probably not going to happen. I do have 4 hours left of PTO, so if the stomach continues to protest, I might leave early today. We'll see how it settles down.

Once vacation is done, it's back to hoarding PTO like Smaug hoards gold. I have other places to go that I'll need it for. If I'm correct, I should have 9days of PTO by the time October rolls around and another 10 days by April when we're planning to go to Hawaii for a total of 19. OF that, I need 15 days between Animate!Philly, CONfab and Hawaii. So I'll definitely need to be careful of how many days I take off. I just need my body to remain illness free for a bit longer.

Today, we start with the new phone system at work. I offered to come in early, so that I can help out with the clusterfuck of getting everyone signed in and on the phones. It's likely to be a mess, though I did sign in yesterday and test everything, so at least my system will be working.

Apparently, we're going to be firing someone in the near future. They've been stealing a lot of time, so they are going to terminate them. HR is just processing the paperwork. This is the first time I've tangentially been involved in this, and it's weird to see if from the other side. I keep telling A. that if they backfill, I've got a list of people from IKEA who will be happy to apply.

Yesterday was a day. Nothing particularly exciting, aside from the whole firing thing. Oh, and I got to write, coordinate and post a scavenger hunt for Administrative Professional's Week. Also the first time I've been on that side of morale improvement stuff. It's kind of fun. Whie I was working, I had Yoda's dinner on simmer. At break, I pulled the meat out and added some sweet potatoes and some brown rice. Boiled that into submission and then re-added the deboned lamb and the chicken livers. It looked kinda gross, but he loved it. After work, we fired up the vacuum food sealer and made up a bunch of bags. It made 8, so that's a another four days worth.

Our disposal is currently not working, so cleaning the pan could be tough. A tiny shotglass fell down it, and I didn't know. I've cleaned it out, but there must be something still in there. I'm going to wait, and call in maintenance next week when the dog is in daycare.

Today, aside from the utter chaos of Talkdesk, it's going to be a nice boring day. Hopefully the stomach settles a bit.

The trip begins in just 14 days!! This time in 2 weeks, I will be sipping coffee in an airport lounge, waiting for the time to walk to our gate and board Alaska Airlines and wing our way off to Seattle.

I think all the important things are locked in. The itinerary looks pretty solid if I do say so myself. Not overly scheduled, but not under scheduled, either. We've got stuff to do in every port. I don't know if we're going to make all three of our stops in Seattle. Pike Place seems like it might be difficult to do in a short time, so we may end up devoting most of our time to it. The park sounded like fun, but it might get dropped. Of course, adding to the difficulty with Pike Place, we're probably going to be there right around lunchtime rush, so it might be very crowded. The nice thing is, if we miss something, we can just uber back the day after our cruise and visit a second time!

I've got reservations in Vancouver the first night, and as long as we finish in Seattle by like 3pm, we should be good to get there. We land at 9:51, so figure 40 min for luggage, and we're in the car by about 10:45. We get 3-4 hours in Seattle. First shall be the Space Needle then Pike Place. We leave around 2:30, we can get to Vancouver in 3 hours, and have an hour to relax before it's time to go have our dinner at Hy's Steakhouse.

That day is honestly the one that has the most moving parts, so we'll have to see how it goes. Oooh, the food option has come up on the Air Alaska app. Now I have to decide what I want for breakfast on the flight. Decisions!

Okay, time for me to go forth and get myself together. Everyone have a Fantabulous day!