inventory

3 hours of sleep

15-hour shift

dinner at 11:30 p.m. (leftovers: wild Minnesota rice mixed with brown Thai rice; a quarter pound of shrimp with heads on; mayonnaise)

3+ wintermelon-rum slushies



(The glass was a gift from my big brother and his husband.)

1 amused and sympathetic spouse

1 power outage

1 professional performance gig in limbo

2 refunds expected

1/4 radish cake remaining. The source radish was so big (3+ pounds) that the BYM jumped back a foot when he opened the fridge:



1 emotional hangover from Monday's spate of correspondence and quasi-poetry blogging

2 fresh Christmas cactus blooms

1 workout with José skipped (too much work + twanging shoulder)

a half-dozen spotted rose leaves pinched

1 horoscope side-eyed

3 Zoom backgrounds tested

1 joke about my fat/big head suppressed

1 board invitation declined

95 XP points in Duolingo

4 red bean paste buns consumed for breakfast, before 7 a.m.

1 hot bath awaiting me