WFH!

I started working downtown again---just 21 hours, of which, 2 days are in the office, and the other hours float as needed.  It's an amazing gig, and I am having the best time at it.  Honestly, I feel cheerful, energetic and have jumped right back in to the bitching at work about some dumb reports.

Anyway, it's at Cooking Light, Real Simple, Health and associated digital properties.  And, like I do anytime I work, I morph slightly in to the brand I am working for.

Hence, my freezer is FILLED with make-ahead meals, where I take the same basic ingredients (canned tomatoes, turkey, a minor carb (preferably a Quinoa or something that is not, god forbid, white rice) and a fresh veggie.  And Voila!  Turkey Chili!  Turkey-stuffed Peppers!  De-constructed cabbage rolls with turkey and Quinoa!

I wanted to update my wardrobe, but couldn't afford the fashion in Real Simple, so instead, hit the alley sale in Andersonville and found a garage filled with fashion from a gal about my size, with similar taste in style, but not in color.  She tends toward orange/brown/grey where I am much more pink/purple/blue.  We intersected at navy and black and white.

While I was there another lady shopper was wearing a "surf ohio" shirt which of course made me laugh. If I had any $, I'd go buy one now on Amazon.  Anyway, I asked where she was from---turns out, AVON!  Oh my god--that's where my aunt and uncle live, as well as my brother and family.  It abuts Elyria!  It's one of the "A" towns the white people move to when they get freaked out by Elyria and Lorain because those cities are too "urban".  Plus, Avon has a super nice shopping center with an Old Navy and a Kohl's.

Of course, one of her kids had my brother Paul as a teacher, and LOVES Paul Gilbert.  She moved to Chicago "mid-life crisis/left the burbs" and lives near me!  We are going to be friends!

And I know thought of what I am doing with my life:  Avoiding a mid-life crisis.

Anyway, she works from home, as do a few other pals, so maybe we will start a WFH club! (work from home!)