Today you will find me lying stretched out on the couch in my pajamas with a cozy blanket and my laptop.  I have not showered.  My hair (which, yes, is gross when not washed every day) is pulled back in an old scrunchy.  The cat is draped across my feet.

Today I am nursing one hell of a that time of the month.  Yesterday, no joke, the only position I found any comfort in was this weird frog-esque yoga-y pose that felt halfway between being curled up in a ball and halfway between “oops, I meant to sit cross legged on the floor and somehow face planted into the carpet.” Honestly? I haven’t had one of those days since long before I began taking the daily “no baby” pills.  I can’t say it is a sensation that I have missed.

Today I am also nursing an “I have a hell of a lot to get done, like, last week.”  And sometimes when you hit the workload overload that I hit this week (which, really, is my own fault), the only thing you can do is curl up on the couch, turn on something you’ve seen a billion times and just…work.  Get it done.  Worry about the rest tomorrow.

I’m really grateful that I work freelance and that I am able to wear my grungy sweats/pajamas and not shower and just focus on the work when I need to.  The idea of wearing real pants right now–no.  The idea of being around other people right now–no.  The idea of having to sit in a chair right now–no.  Get stuff done and screw the formalities–yes.

Oddly, I’m usually better able to focus on work when I make the effort to get up, get dressed in halfway decent clothes and force myself to keep my butt in the chair.  Today, though, no.

In better news, last night we went grocery shopping.  Have I mentioned how much I love Winco?  While Will did homework in the car, I filled a grocery cart with real food and still the total only came out to $137.  The same amount of groceries at Albertson’s or Safeway would have easily been $200 or more.  And? now we have more to eat in our house than beef and top ramen and no, I’m not even kidding.  That’s where we were at yesterday.  Roughly twenty pounds of beef in the freezer and five packages of ramen in the cupboard.  I’m so glad we went shopping!  Because honestly I was about five minutes away from discovering what top ramen with round steak would have tasted like.