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Today wasn't actually quite as bad as I had originally predicted, it wasn't quite as stressful, or as insane has I had thought it was going to be. It was kind of paced well, due to one of the lunches going very late, and taking forever to go through, which made the day seem to go by at a good rate, and never got to a point where I felt like my heart was going to explode.

Of course, my day started off very awesome, I couldn't find my bus pass anywhere, and I was getting pretty annoyed or frustrated I guess. My bus pass has my debit card and credit card in it, and obviously it's my student id. So I missed my bus because I spent so much time looking for the damn pass, so I was late for work, had to use bus tickets and get a transfer, and because of this, started the day off with a bad start.

Once I got to work, I pretty much had to jump in right away, as we had two continental breakfasts, so I started getting all that stuff ready. I was running around a bit for the first half of the day, I got a bit of the BBQ ready but saved most of that work for Matt Y, this hilarious guy that only works once and awhile for things like the Thursday BBQs or Sunday brunch. After breakfasts went out, I did the picnic lunch and helped get the buffet that we had ready, and on top of that we had a plated lunch, and all of this was supposed to go at the same time, but the plated got pushed back to 12:15, but it kept getting later and later and they started taking soup at like 1pm. The entrees for the lunch didn't go out until 2pm. I made salads for it (greens, julienne yellow peppers and feta with a seasame dressing) and made the dessert, which I thought was really nice. I made Bailey's white chocolate mousse, with a nice fruit garnish beside it (mainly strawberries and kiwis) and the mousse turned out nicely. I kind of wish I had taken a picture because I think the presentation was really nice.

After lunch was over, I pretty much just spent the rest of the afternoon making salads, because we had none, and salads are things we need more than anything at work. We have so many buffets, and if you have buffets and no salads, you're screwed. Each buffet generally uses six different salads, so it's important that we have a supply to pick from.

Julie was at work and working on her dinners, so that kind of freed up some time and relieved some pressure on me so I could do some work that I wouldn't normally have time to do. I made mushroom salad, potato salad, pasta salad and bean salad. By the time I was done, it was already thirty minutes later than I was supposed to be there, but Kyle and Tom were in and Julie was confident that she had time to do everything without my help, so I cleaned up and left.

I listened to the Morning Stream on the way home, just relaxed on the bus... it was okay. Once I got home, I went through all my clothes and pretty much looked everywhere for my god damn bus pass, but I couldn't find it anywhere. I called my Mom about it and she reported my credit card missing, so a new one will be coming in the mail, and replacing my student card and bus pass requires me to go to the school at some point and pay some money ($25 I think), so I'll have to find time to do that (my Mom might help get me there) and until then I need to use bus tickets, which is quite costly, and annoying becaues there is a good chance I'll lose those too.

When it got to around dinner time, I wasn't feeling very hungry, or creative, or anything, I felt pretty blah and apathetic, and I decided I should eat, as it was getting late and I knew I would regret it if I just sat on the couch. I planned on just making a chicken caeser or something, because I had chicken in the fridge. I was looking in the fridge, and I don't know why but an idea for a mreal just punched me right in the face. There was fresh cherry toms and spinach, and the idea of those ingredients with a nice, tomato based rice with a chicken breast seemed really nice, so I decided I would make a meal. It felt good, I made it up as I went and it ended up tasting really good.

This is the dinner I made today.

For the rice, I pretty much just made normal twenty minute rice, just added some salt as it cooked, but once it was almost done, I added some tomato paste, oregano, basil, parsley and chopped black olives. For the veg I put on top of the chicken, I halved some cherry tomatoes and sliced black olives, put that in a pan on high heat, threw in some seasoning and fresh chopped garlic, once the tomatos were soft, I added in the spinach and let it wilt and that was that. I put some carrots on the side, tossed in olive oil, basil, salt and pepper. I enjoyed the dinner, I think it turned out well, although I think the rice could've used a slight bit of spice, something to just bring out a bit of flavor, but overall, a good dinner.

Tomorrow is again a busy day most likely, with a continental, two picnic lunches at work, and then two dinners (I think it was two)... it'll probably be another run around a bunch kind of day. I'm not looking forward to going to work, partly beacuse of the no bus pass thing, but also because I just don't want to go to work... I work hard and rarely feel appreciated it. I won't complain about it right now, but it's how I feel.

Oh yeah, and fucking Phantom Brave is really driving me nuts... the level of bullshit present in the random dungeons is so beyond frustrating. Like, I made this 10 floor dungeon with easy enemies on it just to farm exp without issue, and I spent an hour playing through it, no problems, get to the last floor, and it's some guy on level 122 (I'm on level 17 or something) and he just one shots Marona and it's game over. It's so frustrating... I'm pretty sure that the last three or four times I played Phantom Brave, I've turned it off after losing a bunch of progress. I want to just achieve something and make progress but I seem to keep getting such bad luck, it's making it hard for me to enjoy it. I want to be able to level my characters a bit, so that single player is a bit easier, but I just can't seem to catch a break! I want to play through it but can't seem to escape this anger that forms when I play it and the game fucks me over.

Besides that frustrating experience with Phantom Brave, I didn't play any other games, didn't even try. It's kind of sad, kind of disappointing I have to say. Normally I make it my goal to play games as much as possible, but tonight I got so mad at Phantom Brave after I turned it off, and with the late dinner, it was already almost 8:30pm by this point, and I generally get in bedtime mode around 9:30pm, but with my frustration, I decided to have a bath early, to write earlier, to go to bed earlier. It did work out that way... kinda... I took a sleeping pill at 9pm, so that by 10 I would be tired, and by 11 I would be stupid weird shell of myself (which has happened). I had a bath, shaved, listened to some Morning Stream, and got out. Once out, I imported the new In Flames album (woot) and then came out here, made popcorn, and then watched Jimmy Fallon.

Now I've been writing this, and I'm watching The Daily Show.

I'm just going to eat a snack (microwavable pizza) and watch the Daily Show and go to sleep, goodnight!

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