Trip and gratitude

 
Gratitude list:

- Found a solution on what to get Doris for her birthday each year! Her birthday is in December. She can't afford to take her employees out to dinner each Christmas any more. So - my birthday gift to her going forward will be to take everyone out to dinner. We had a blast at it!

- Re-watching Brooklyn 99. That is how you end a show!

- A strange situation involving Sachin and my friend Mia has been resolved. Also a movie he is in is getting a wide release. Not sure when I'll be able to see it, and he doesn't have a big role in it, but still very glad!

- Loving having a hobby like writing fanfic. In which I polished off a gift exchange fic, wrote another chapter of my ongoing longfic, and then got inspired to write an addendum to a Shadow and Bone holiday fic. And enjoyed doing it all! And got some great comments, including one from someone who said they want to go back and read my other stuff

- Finally went to the DMV to get the Real ID. Having a 7:30am appointment on a Monday was awesome! I was the 2nd person in line, and I got in and out fast

- Dinner with the local Dems was nice.

- Work is good, something good happened with the project plan of my new team

And Doris and I did a Friday-Sunday trip to visit my sister!

Was good: no flight delays, we did some fun stuff, finally got to see her house and meet her cats, she lives near Athens GA so we explored the downtown which was cool, went to a holiday light show at the botanic gardens, went to an art show, food was awesome, walked in a forest preserve, also something nice but hard to explain happened involving Tina's work, a car door, and some helpful strangers. 

Not as good: Wtf Atlanta airport, on American Airlines. I have TSA pre check and it took forever. The employees hand-inspected EVERY roller bag. I can't even. One guy was doing it. Just one. And that was after my bag didn't even get put in line in the order it was received. Also, Tina put us up at an AirBnB which was super nice of her. Pros: the place was cute and cozy, kitchen was well-appointed and bathroom had tons of toiletries. Cons: beds were super-uncomfortable and the place was COLD and you could not adjust the temp. Also it was a duplex and we could hear the guy on the other side snoring, omg. (At first I was like "Oh good, Doris is asleep. And then...."Uh....that's not Doris")