So I’m staying at a friend’s house with my dog, to help take care of her dog, and I miss my cat.

I like to go for a walk for one of my two daily workouts. At home I have this route I take that involves two massive hills (at least they feel massive when you’re going up them!) so I feel like it’s a decent workout (and good for dat ass.). Here in my friend’s neighborhood, there are no hills, it’s all just flat, but at least there are sidewalks. I dunno if it’s just my mood, or the shitty weather (it was SIXTY FIVE DEGREES YESTERDAY, which for Central Texas is some serious bullshit) or what, but walking through her neighborhood was depressing. It all seemed very desolate and empty, like every house was this lonely, isolated little kingdom. Every time I think I might like to buy a house I go through a neighborhood and it feels so isolating and lonely. And I don’t know why I always get this feeling because it’s not like my apartment is so awesome, most of the neighbors I talk to I wish I didn’t have to (there are some nice ones though)….I dunno. I think if I ever buy something it will definitely be a condo.

Technically this is my last month working from home, although I really, really hope they will push it to the end of the year. I like being able to spend this much time with my dog, and I really like the freedom it has, and I really, really, really like how successful I’ve been with dieting and I attribute a large part of that to being at home. I can workout twice a day with relative ease and there’s no one bringing in snacks, no snack carts being filled up, no soda fridge to make me lazy about drinking water, and no cafeteria with boring healthy options and pizza right there. I think most of my co-workers feel the same. We’re all hoping that some kind of permanent work from home options comes out of this, but HR has been shady about agreeing to anything. Our current CEO HATES remote work and honestly I kind of agree. I think it’s more effective when everyone is in the office. Buuuut….from a selfish, personal perspective, I really like being at home all the time. Anyway, we are supposed to get an update towards the middle of the month which I guess is next week some time.

When we do go back to work, I’m planning on totally reinventing my look. I will have lost a lot of weight by then (I mean right now I’m 30+ lbs lighter than I was the last time I saw any of my co-workers!) and I’m going to stop dressing like a sad homeless person all the time. My closet is still in piles on my floor from when they had to replace my hot water heater (who the fuck would put that in a closet, seriously….fucking stupid 70’s -designed apartment complex) and I’m going to trash all of it & start over. I’m going to look nice sometimes damn it, I might even wear skirts! :-O

Anyway. I should I guess go do some work. My only meeting starts in 15 minutes and then I’m free, but I got added to a big presentation on Monday so I actually have a ton of shit I should be doing.