It was another grey and rainy morning. So we ran over to get some Sidewinder coffee before Genifer headed out to work…
And Sidewinder had new cinnamon rolls again…
Those new cinnamon rolls are really good. Sidewinder is always a great way to start a morning, especially a really rainy one. 😀☕️❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on May 5, 2020
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Looks like it’s going to be another rainy day in Cincinnati…
Good morning from Northside. 😀🌄❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on May 3, 2020
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It was a grey and rainy day. Good evening from Northside. 😀🌄❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on April 17, 2020
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Spring flowers on a rainy Northside morning. 😀🌷🌼❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on April 17, 2020
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It’s pretty chilly again. Last night’s storm dropped the temperatures from the high 70s to the mid 40s. And it’s all grey and overcast again…
Good evening from Northside. 😀☁️🌡️❤️
At least, the colder temperatures make it a little easier to sit in the house all day.
Posted by Thadd F. on April 9, 2020
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A big storm blew through Cincinnati this evening…
I took this video out of our third-floor bathroom window…
It was a pretty crazy storm. 😬⛈️❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on April 8, 2020
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I survived another pretty hectic week at work. It’s funny to me. My old job was a total cakewalk. It wasn’t very challenging. The people I worked with weren’t very appreciative of any amount of effort. And as a result, I never really felt like part of the team. It wasn’t great by any stretch of the imagination and I stayed there way too long.
My job now is definitely challenging. The deadlines are pretty intense. I have to work on projects in the evenings and sometimes over the weekends. But the efforts I make are noticed and very much appreciated. And I feel like an integral, valued part of the team.
I divide my time between two teams that service multiple clients. Big clients. I get to participate in client meetings and the clients appreciate the efforts as well.
Sometimes deadlines for the two teams overlap and it creates a bottleneck like it did this week. I had two big projects both with deadlines on Friday. It was a pretty stressful week, compounded by the fact that I took my birthday off. I had a bunch of stuff to get done and the asks kept evolving. But I got everything all done and done well. And when everything was finally done, it was the best feeling in the world.
I really like being busy at work. And I really like feeling part of the team. It’s rewarding.
I really like my job. I really like the work, I really like where I work,
And I love this view…
The only bad part after a long week is I don’t feel like doing much of anything afterward.😀🏙️❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on January 31, 2020
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This morning we woke up early again to head over to Trader Joe’s before it got too crazy busy on Saturday. The later it gets, the busier it gets. We usually try to get to Trader Joe’s as close to 8am when it open as we can. This morning was our best time
so far. We pulled into their parking lot at 8:02am…
I just thought that little berry bunny was pretty cute. We didn’t get any frozen chocolate cover strawberry pieces though. I wonder if they would be good?
After we were done getting groceries at TJ’s, we headed over to get our Saturday morning coffee at Biggby…
Biggby is our reward for getting up and getting groceries out of the way. We both got hot chocolates this morning. Biggby had more student artwork on display on their walls. I really liked the hills with the watercolor skies…
The owl and the elephant were really great too…
And if we had a daughter and named her Niala…
She would be Niala Fiala. Maybe Niala could be a middle name.
Later, we went over to Taft’s Brewpourium for another lunch with our gift cards we got for Christmas…
Taft’s had a new Hazelnut Latte Coffee Milk Stout on tap…
And it was really delicious. We watched the Michigan-Illinois game on our little tablet. We shared a small pizza with pepperoni, sausage and banana peppers…
We also shared some of Taft’s chicken wings…
We had six buffalo wings and six Cherrywood BBQ wings…
I think I really like the Cherrywood BBQ the best. But they’re both really good. And even though, Michigan lost. Again. It was a great lunch. We just love Taft’s pizza and wings.
Later, we started watching a series called 11.22.63 on Hulu. It’s pretty good so far. And even though it was another rainy day, it was another pretty good Saturday. 😀🌨️❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on January 25, 2020
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It was a very rainy and grey day in Northside…
And we didn’t do very much today. We watched some soccer and some basketball and a couple of movies on Netflix. And we looked into some ideas for a trip to celebrate our anniversary in February. It was a pretty relaxing and low-key Saturday. 😀🌧️❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on January 18, 2020
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It was really warm this morning with temperatures hovering in the mid-60s. But it was supposed to rain all day. And it pretty much did.
Before it started raining this morning we got up and ran over to Biggby for weekend morning coffee…
We saw on Biggby’s Instagram that they had a BOGO offer just for today…
My new favorite go-to drink is Biggy’s Cocoa Caramella hot chocolate with a little bit of butterscotch added to it. It’s a great drink. And I really prefer hot chocolate to coffee. The caffeine makes me feel too jittery.
We watched some of the soccer this morning. My favorite club, Arsenal drew 1-1 with Crystal Palace and my other favorite club, Leicester City lost to Southampton 2-1. The last time Leicester and Southampton played, Leicester thumped the Saints 9-0.
We hung out upstairs and I worked on some work stuff until the dogs let us know they wanted to go on another dog walk…
Later when it was time for the other football, we took the Taft’s gift cards we received for Christmas around the corner to the Brewpourium for some pizza and wings. Taft’s had a peanut butter version of their Maverick chocolate porter on tap…
And it was really terrific. We usually get Taft’s Cherrywood BBQ wings but tonight we tried their buffalo wings. And they really good too. Pretty spicy but really good. So good, in fact, we had already eaten half of the wings before I remembered to take a photo…
And we shared a small pizza with pepperoni, sausage and banana peppers…
Taft’s pizzas are so good! When we were leaving, the Brewopurium was getting crazy…
Apparently, there was going to be a comedy show in the back of the Brewpourium. When we got home, we walked the dogs around the block again in the rain…
We watched a pretty dumb movie on Prime Video and then fell asleep while we watched the rest of the other football playoff game. It was a pretty good Saturday. It would have better if I didn’t have to work on a bunch of work stuff. 😀☕️🐾🍕🐔🌧️❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on January 11, 2020
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