Tenacious Tam

21+. Canadian. Self care, weight loss, outdoor adventures.

[tenacioustam]

well here I am in Indianapolis, hyping myself up for the race this weekend!

I didn't bring Cliff this time -- he's living it up at summer camp the kennel (honestly he loves it there so much; he gets outrageous amounts of one-on-one fetch every day and even gets to go dock diving in their pool), and Miss Mew is with my sister (she's a love bug and knows her/the house and is purrfectly content). That said, I miss them both terribly.

I am working (remotely) while I'm here, since it wasn't worth taking time off with my guy in the shop all hours, but it is so nice to have our evenings together just doing things like grocery shopping and laundry and cooking meals. The simple things you miss while doing long-distance. I think it's been especially hard for him: he's got a nice apartment in a cute neighbourhood, and has made friends and joined a social club, but it's not the same -- I'm in our cozy home, with our pets and my friends and family. He loves what he's doing, but when he's working long days I know its especially hard to come home to an empty apartment, so I'm really glad I'm here for a bit to help him out and spend time together.

With the exchange rate, I'm not looking to spend any money beyond the essentials while I'm here, so outside of work I'm just enjoying Free Shit like running (when it's not opressively humid or actively storming out), reading (just finished the latest murderbot book) and crocheting (there's a great yarn store nearby that is the antithesis to "don't spend money" but they do have a big room set up where people just drop in and knit/crochet socially, though I haven't made it since I have a day job I have to actually do during their open hours). Luckily all my expenses for the race weekend itself are sorted out by the team (tickets, parking, hospitality, etc) so unless I decide to buy Merchandise and Food Truck snacks, it's a pretty low-cost event for me 🙃

Also been reaching out to some groups online to make friends/social plans (since my guy will obviously be Busy during the race, and I am a social butterfly at heart), and already have plans to meet up with two ladies to mill around the track a bit on race day!

I've met a few of my guys colleagues in passing when I stopped by the garage last weekend, but tonight I get to join them for a team dinner, which should be fun!

Anyway, all that to say I know I've been quiet here, but I'm doing well and the online absence is just because I'm enjoying/focused on all the IRL stuff happening in my life :)

[the-big-mood]

At Toba aquarium in Japan, after closing time, some clever little otter pups help their grandpa tidy up their toys. As a reward, he gives them ice cubes

[hopefulmisanthrope]

[quixoticanarchy]

I do think it's kind of funny how john green wrote a book about tuberculosis that brought a lot of renewed attention to the subject and he's since become the darling of the tb world, speaks at tb conferences, my dad and every other tb researcher I know is absolutely smitten with him, and they'll be like "we love this guy! have you heard of him??" and I have to be like well yes, I have. for other reasons

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

"You mean the guy who got cyberbullied off of tumblr by 14-year-old anarchomarxists but then triumphantly returned as a coffee company?"

[shamebats]

[revcleo]

[tenacioustam]

A beautiful spring hike together! The water was absolutely frigid but it did not stop Cliff from diving in for a stick (or wallowing in mud puddles). Much needed sunshine and fresh air for myself too.

Tried to get a photo of some cool looking fungus on a fallen tree, but Cliff was SO excited to be part of anything I was doing, he kept bouncing around and throwing his shadow over it (he is way more photogenic, it's true)

It is also fully tick season, and despite carefully brushing and tweezing out at least two dozen of the little fuckers, a few more have still shown up crawling on his coat hours later ://// blegh

[tenacioustam]

Put my long weekend to good use and finished up this project:

Been casually working on this since November. 19 skeins of yarn later, and it's done! Ends woven in and everything. It is SO heavy and lovely. And honestly too warm now that we're into spring, but I'm already dreaming of curling up under it next winter.

Only regret is I was spot on with calculating the yardage for the body of the size of blanket I wanted, but did not have enough left to do a nice border 🤷 Ah well, I'm learning every day.

Pattern: Field and Forest Throw (or at least, riffing off this)

[michaelnordeman]

Värmland, Sweden (February 21, 2021).

[inky-sun]

[ladyoftheharbour]

[ladyoftheharbour]

[viaka13]

a friend of mine has a decently sized personal bar and one night he realized that a lot of his bottles and mixers were close to empty, not enough to make any given drink with, so he mixed them all together and it looked like the dirty water from those big floor scrubber machines. Dark purpley brown and thick and he decided it was the Floor Scrubber cocktail and actually drank it. It apparently tasted very bland.

[thelorewriter-inator]

A collection of similarly interesting/disgusting drinks from the notes

[ak-nm]

[rxttingcorpse]

[atreidespacito]

[atreidespacito]

[softwaring]

[tenacioustam]

April goals:

☐ finish my crochet blanket

☐ start back on running 3x week (spring is here, lets go!)

☐ finish reading one (1) book (a specific one that I've been enjoying but it is taking me forever to actually finish it)

[apolladay]

if you work a job where it is not typical to receive tips, and someone offered you a tip, would you accept it?

Yes

No

Tipuance (tip nuance)

Results

Voting ended onMar 31

[tenacioustam]

she knows she's not allowed on the table (especially when I'm eating) but she insists on being the centrepiece today.

i bought entirely way too many clementines and avocados this weekend (they were in bulk and on sale and looked so perfectly ripe and I my monkey-brain is weak-willed) but no regrets this morning. my guy should be coming home for a few days later this week so at least I will have some help eating them all!

[fitnessgeekandcoffeefreak]