Yetis Are Adorable

 I had a peanut butter and tempeh sandwich for breakfast and it was terrific. This is going into my regular food rotation.

So much to do today. So much whining on my part. But if I really buckle down, I can get all my cleaning, tidying, and packing done in about two hours. Neighbor is coming by tonight to pick the house key up. I'm pretty much ready to run - I've even started carb-loading, which is going well based on what the bathroom scale is telling me. It's weird how the part of my mind that would normally flip completely the fuck out at seeing THAT NUMBER on the scale is totally quiet because ... apparently it understands carb-loading, glycogen and water retention, and all that other good shit. By Thursday afternoon "carb loading" will be the running joke of the trip as I shovel treats into my gaping maw while shuffling through the parks. We're FastPass'd up for some fun things up through Saturday, which is pretty much open in deference to my full marathon the next day. But we've even got a spot on Expedition Everest so, yay!

Need I mention that one of the email promotions I get routinely comes from a Tibetan travel agency offering a tour that includes a trip to the Everest Base Camp? And yes I am taking that under very serious consideration, including the fact that my sea-level dwelling ass will be very challenged at that elevation. I mean, I go to Denver, Colorado and I start wondering if they have any oxygen in their atmosphere. 

I lost one of my plugs in bed last night and still haven't been able to find it. I need to evict the cats and take the whole bed apart. Part of the problem is that it's a silvery-aquamarine color with a glass shaft, and my sheets are dusty pale turquoise. I'm wearing one of my silicone ear skins to hold the hole open but I need to find that plug. 

But for right now I'm just trying to warm up and get moving. So I may make another half pot of coffee. 

Accidental Cleanup

 I eventually found my plug - I don't actually know where it was hiding, but it did turn up. I started taking apart my bed, removed the sheets and blankets, shoved the mattress and pad aside, then shifted the bed frame, and I still didn't see it. I was using a flashlight, thinking that the light might glint off it. 

When I moved here, now almost nine years ago, I brought some things that were large and flat that just got shoved under the bed. Later, Ex Husband sent me a bunch more shit that also got shoved under the bed. ALL that was thrown out today. Here's what I don't understand 

"Hey, I have this stuff of yours, do you want it?"

"No, just toss it out."

"I can't do that, I'll just send it to you."

Yay, he sent it to me anyway so *I* could throw it away? Look, I already said for you to do it, and you spent all the money to pack and ship it to me when you could just have easily tossed it into a nearby dumpster just as well. Fucking idiot. So an ancient portfolio case, some shit of his that I still don't know why he sent it to me, some ... picture puzzles wtf ... old luggage. This shit is mildewed and covered with cat hair (and barf, in one case, lovely, I know) and just ... look, if I haven't wanted it in nine years I am not likely to want it in the future. I also ditched the bed frame and box springs and just put the mattress on the floor - why not? The only oddity is that now my bedside lamp is a little high but we've got a plan for that. I think I will sleep a lot better with that cleared out, also. And like I said, in the midst of this I'd actually given up, and was telling Fox I didn't understand where the plug could have possibly gone, when it was right there on the floor. It must have been in the blankets or something.

But it's good to get all that cleaned up. See, my year of cleaning and minimizing is starting to get its own momentum! The cats are a little sad that one of their favorite hiding places is gone though. Poor kitties ... LOL.

I'm baking another batch of chai scones to take with us, most of the packing is done. Now I'm getting antsy because time to go now go go go go go go go.  

So perhaps I'll go try to do some digital art for a while, or read. I'm not super hungry so dinner may just be an informal "eat when you get hungry" thing. I have no idea :D WHEEEE I'M EXCITED ABOUT RUNNING No seriously, this is going to be loads of fun, and moreso since Fox is running with me! We're in the same corrals for the 5k and half marathon, but he's in the last corral for the 10k, and I'm in ... F or G. I'm a Dopey Challenger so I'm getting bumped back a corral or two anyway. I'm not planning to stop for character photos unless Marie is out at the 5k again this year, in which case I gotta. 

Maybe I'll just go take a shower before it gets cold again.