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It’s definitely autumn here: cool and overcast/rainy all week. I’m alright with that, though!
As “first day back at work after a week off” Mondays go, today wasn’t bad at all. 
I did wind up logging onto both laptops last night, and spent ~90 minutes doing triage/making notes for today. I think that same work would have taken 2-3 hours this morning, though, plus I was ready to catch up with my boss when he was, so I’m glad I did a little prep.
Bailey wound up not being among the stressed Mumpets yesterday: the groomer was supposed to arrive between 2-5pm, and at 5:01 I texted the company. Turns out the client immediately before me fell down her front steps – hard – while going to get her dog from the grooming van! The groomer needed to stay with her until the paramedics arrived, which I completely understood. They rescheduled for Thursday morning.
As for me, I woke up with a very weird painful elbow. It feels quite bruised, as though I’d spent several hours holding something heavy in my hand with my elbow propped on a hard surface or something. When my arm is bent a little it’s not too bad (like when I’m typing), but trying to straighten my arm is painful – and if I forget and go to rest my elbow on my desk, it hurts. I sleep on my stomach, often with my arms up: maybe I slept with my elbow bent and my head on my arm, and didn’t move enough during the night? The pain isn’t where my head would have been, but maybe I messed up a tendon or something by keeping it bent with pressure on it. It’s such a strange part to be in pain without having hit it on something! While I sloth on the couch this evening I’ll apply an ice pack and take some Tylenol (that’s all I’m allowed), and will hope that whatever this is resolves after another night’s sleep.
It’s just about time for dinner and the aforementioned sloth…a small chicken pot pie and some PopSecret Homestyle are sounding pretty good right about now.
In the milliseconds between uploading the picture and copying the link just now, the Imgbb website became unresponsive. I’m not seeing an image at the moment, and clicking the link results in a 404 error, but maybe it’ll be working again by the time I click “reply”/anyone sees this. Anyway, here it is:
It’s not obvious, but it’s a small (1") lowercase “j” (my first initial) in the handwriting of the designer.
I 
her/that, too!
That sounds awesome!
When I first got Bailey, I used to daydream about renting an RV for a week and heading to some deserted stretch of beach with her. Unfortunately, by the time she was old enough for such a thing it was apparent that she wasn’t actually that kind of a dog…she would have hated something like that. Ah, well. Maybe I can still do it someday with a future doggy!
What does the second “F” stand for?
(she asks, all wide-eyed and innocent)
Ugh. 
Meh. Do you know how long he’ll be gone?