Tomorrow I Quit

fun doggy nonsense

The whole point of this last week was to decide if I was going to leave my job for good. I knew 20 minutes after my client died (I did that weird thing in movies where you just completely ignore it, and then break down a bit later, corny but true) that I was going to quit but my boss was right to give me a week to think about it. If nothing else now I know that I'm quitting because it's a good idea, and not just because I had a shit day.

Also now me and the Rat know that we can live poor (she has requested not to be called SO and since she's the only one that reads this ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ). Actually not only did we come in under our set budget but it's been a lot more enjoyable than imagined: the food tastes better, eating real food makes me feel better (my hemorrhoids cleared up completely the day after I decided to quit, and they were public defender BAD), and we have been having a lot of fun cooking together. 

Yesterday was a real "slow living" day. I hate "slow living," but nonetheless it was one, and we liked it. We woke up early, went grocery shopping, Rat bought 9 lbs of pork butt and put it in the slow cooker, I made Chinese pancakes and then scones from scratch, and we tested and mixed my most recent batch of corn whiskey. It took all day and it was the most relaxing and fun day we've had all year. 

whiskey cuts waiting to be mixed.

After all that we settled down to some delicious fried rice and watched the Invitation (really cool and unique thriller/horror which is also directed by a woman) and the remake of Amityville Horror. P.S. it's super hard to be afraid of a movie when Ryan Reynolds is in it because Ryan Reynolds doesn't act, he just Ryan Reynolds at things.

One of these is Ryan Reynolds being glib, one is Ryan Reynolds about to murder his whole family.
 Can you tell which one is which? No one can.

Anyway, the vacation ends tomorrow and I have to actually go in and give notice. I've always hated disappointing people, so this is going to be a bit hard for me, not to mention the fact that I'm going to be striking out into the wilderness with almost no safety net and only half of a plan. So it was a bit serendipitous that r/GetMotivated's pearl of the day is this quote:

I've spent a concerning amount of my morning photoshopping Ryan Reynolds pics.

Yes I signed up for motivational quotes and pics. When all you deal with is little (and sometimes big things) getting you down, it sometimes helps to have some little things just to help get you up.