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 Today's to do is very short

hardware store
ice skating

and probably grocery store but I don't feel like it since i don't know what I'm making for food this week. I haven't had much of an appetite again so I think I'm going with taco stuff, which I always love. I'll have to figure something out for lunch too. Maybe cornbread? 

so that's on the list to do. I'll head to the hardware store in about an hour so I can really start figuring out this laser scarecrow.

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ending up buying bread for lunch this week. I don't feel like baking. Canyon bakehouse is the best gluten free bread I've had. 

but it meant I can make grilled cheese for lunch so I did that with the sharp cheddar I've got and the stamen winesap apples which are super duper good, and even good cooked on grilled cheese. 

Slightly difficult to eat and I scraped the bottom of my mouth just under my teeth but it was delicious

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 I've hit the point in laying out my field this year where I'm super worried about how much I'm trying to do. Is it too much? Should I not do so much? I'm not even at the farm full time. 

ugh

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 I mention one possible thing about my job and that's the only thing my mom remembers about work and is fucking obsessed with it oh my god

Work has a thing in the contract that they may cut hours in the winter depending on workload and budget. I mentioned this offhand to mom when I first took the job and it is literally the only thing she will bring up over and over and over again. It's been almost a year since I took this job. I think she's brought it up every month or two. 

holy shit. 

I've gotten confirmation from my boss that I'm not getting my hours cut because I've got plenty to do and they like me and there's budget. 

But she won't. stop. asking.

I just responded to her email and said "they aren't going to cut hours. please stop asking about that"

okay, back to enjoyable things like seeds and maybe playing video games

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 Skating in the new skates wasn't bad. It was incredibly different than the rental skates which are either not sharpened or sharpened differently than the way the store guy did it because I was sliding all over. 

It was slipping sideways when I would push off so I'm guessing he put more of an edge on it, which is helpful only if you are already good at skating. I did get used to it and it actually helped after a little bit, I was much more stable and consistent with things

I also can now pretty consistently do left turning crossovers although some can be a little choppy and weird. I waited towards the end so most people cleared out to loop to the right in the middle of the rink to try right crossovers. Meh. I can do them but not gracefully or consistently. 

Increased my skating backward distance to the length of the rink!

I still cannot stop. 

I did leave ten minutes early because either my sock or the constant left turns were causing issues because my left arch started pinching a little and I was afraid it was a blister. It wasn't and I hopped back on the ice for a bit but it came back.

I also didn't really stretch after, mainly because I end up cold and I'm not sure how much help the stretching will be. I stretched a little while the zamboni was going halfway through. But my thighs and hips are cold the whole time I'm skating although I am sweating a little bit. 

I'm going to try and make it to the other rink on wednesday for skating. We shall see