Feeling Good Monday-Perhaps an Idea?

     Another work week is starting and it is a doozy. I decided a good Monday to use my Paris mug for coffee-and day dream a bit of travel. I'm heading into REAL LIFE and working in the office on Thursday from 8:00 until early afternoon. I've got some real mail to deal with and get our office support staff set-up on all the printers. I'm giving a presentation (on-line meeting) to big deal decision makers, some of who are not friendly at all to my program(s) and some that think all the money should go there. Fun times, but all I can do is present details, facts, and data, and let them argue amongst themselves later. I've already decided I am treating myself to both coffee and a take out lunch. There is a local restaurant by work that does a phenomenal hot sandwich lunch special and I can bring one home for DH as well. With a late lunch, we can get by with just a cup of soup for supper-or popcorn as I am happy to have. Other details to the week are a couple open office hours and we begin the budget cycle  for next year, due by February 26th.     

Saturday was not as productive on the home front as I wanted. I got a series of texts and ended up working for a few hours to resolve issues. I did so again yesterday morning but that was quick review and sign off. I managed to find time to do a proper job scrubbing the kitchen floor, well over due, complete with moving out all the chairs so I could get really well under the table and right to the walls. Pup was a little annoyed-all his smell was apparently gone. Yesterday we watched the Super Bowl after a very lazy day up to that point. I made the artisan loaf and will recap on Wednesday. I watched Premier League soccer in the morning-the games worked well to time the rise time cycles on the bread. I looked through the Sunday paper, and bundled up for Pup's cold walk. My old high school friend who farms with her family posted how she was bundled to do their morning chores-walking pup is nothing in this cold compared to her work. 

Bundled for Pup's walk.

     The last couple years my family has done a Super Bowl contest-pick a team and a point spread. Winner gets a coffee card. We girls did not do well, all picking Kansas City, but I was the worst, picking them to win by 14. DH, with Tampa Bay by 7 was the winner. I gave DH a hard time about his love fest for Brady-and the obvious deference the officials gave to him-calling pass interference on an uncatchable ball, and not calling holding on his team that kept him from being sacked a few times, while being whistle happy with KC. None of us really care, but it made the game a little more fun to watch. 

     

I didn't realize how much I miss seeing friends and acquaintances, well maybe I did, until hanging up from Friday book club having a few tears in my eyes from laughing hard. One of the ladies, a good 15 years younger than me, but our girls are just a year apart and friends, is so funny. She is the one that had us laughing over naughty streaming shows like Bridegerton (I haven't watched) and Outlander (again, haven't watched) and chasing kids and husbands out of the room. She showed up on the January call wearing an Outlander chef's apron. It made me think, with the world of Zoom, and Web-Ex and Facebook video, couldn't there be a Blogger world meet-up? Is this a totally silly idea? It could be opt in, sort of like Ann's Christmas card exchange. I'd suggest no more than 10 or it gets a bit crazy, but maybe there could be Blogger groups-books and film discussion, food and recipes, travel and leisure, general chatter? What do you think? If you blog, would you have any interest in a virtual meet up? I'm assuming Zoom could do international so we'd need to account for time zone differences, but we're a clever bunch. I don't know-throw your thoughts in the comments. That's my Feeling Good thought for Monday, warm thoughts of friends and friends we have yet to meet on a cold February morning.