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I'm tired.

Emotionally and physically.

My vacation wasn't at all what I had planned it to be. I didn't get to take any trips because my car is still pretty messed up - in fact, I don't think I should even be driving it to work. So despite a few enjoyable days with Toby, vacation was a whole lot of nothing. People kept taking me out to eat... My plans to cook a vegan meal for everyone did not happen. Schedules changed, and I honestly didn't feel like it. I ate way too much. I baked way too much. I stayed in bed constantly. Looking back, it wasn't that fun.

And yet, I was so not ready to go back to work. Now that I'm back, my boss is away on her vacation, so I'm covering for her in addition to my own classes. Yesterday, I came in to work at 11 in the morning and didn't leave until 10 at night. I'll definitely make up the hours that I lost, but I miss being lazy. I wish I enjoyed being busy, but I don't. Bed is my favorite thing.

I had more to say, but right now I'm blanking. I actually had a nice post completely written out a few days ago but I accidentally deleted it. The one good thing about my vacation was that I got so much art work done. I'm actually really pleased with the direction my paintings and drawings are going. And I reached an incredible 1.1k Sktchy followers! I believe I mentioned Sktchy and some more of my art in the previous post, with the pumpkin scone recipe. If you haven't made them yet, you need to.

Tomorrow I am finally off work again, but I have to do some serious grocery shopping. I've been living off of frozen vegetables, hummus, grapes, and peanut butter for a while now. My kitchen is almost completely empty, so tomorrow I'm going to stock up on everything. And maybe I'll finally grow up a little and plan my meals out so my produce doesn't have time to go bad.

Okay, I know this was a disappointment of a post but I am very tired. In addition to working crazy hours, I haven't been sleeping well at all. The other night I was feeling really upset over all these terrible murders and tense situations here in the US and just couldn't sleep for anything. The next night I tossed and turned, finally waking up for good after a pathetic four hours of sleep. I slept a bit better last night, but woke up far too early at 6. All of that mixed in with 11 hour shifts is enough to scatter my brain. So I'm going to just end this. I'd rather put something up now than leave a really long gap in between posts. After I go grocery shopping I'm going to come up with some new recipes.