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Jan. 19th, 2025 07:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
greenstormInto the city for another MRI. I'm claustrophobic, so I need to take drugs when I do them, so I can't drive afterwards. So: hotel.
The timing is such that Josh is coming up today, the MRI was ysterday, so I managed to find a ride into town and will be going home with him.
That meant I could end up in the hotel with no parking, which was literally a block away from the candlelight Coldplay string quartet concert I'd been thinking about coming in for last year, but had then decided too much was going on. Right day, too.
Between chores yesterday morning, getting to the hospital (a few blocks), wandering lost in the hospital for a full 20 minutes trying to figure out where to go, coming home, and walking to the concert I covered 8km yesterday. The concert was an hour, and by the end (I wasn't checking my watch) I had ust about decided I needed to stand up and walk out because I was at the edge of my ability with sitting so long, then they announced the last song. So that was amazing.
The hotel mattress is excellent, I did get rest in between everything, and my body hasn't tanked yet. Maybe it can wait till Josh is gone?
I definitely needed to get out of my little box a bit. I also need to make my little box nicer, which hopefully Josh can help with. It's got piles and dirty floors and everything askew. I'm hoping to enlist him to remove all my clothes older than 5 months or so (saving t-shirts and jeans legs for projects), figure out organization for some of my shelves, and do a gigantic dump/thrift store dropoff run.
Plus I think the cats need a bunch more Places, like wall steps and boxes in corners etc. They're socially unstable right now and that isn't ideal; with more cat-habitat I believe the situation will be better.
Not fully convinced I'm not becoming allergic to the woodsmoke from my chimney, which is problematic, though for a heating system I probably do eventually need something that's not splitting, stacking, and carrying several tons of wood each winter. Not sure I can be convinced to get rid of the woodstove as a backup, though, since every other heat source needs some kind of electricity, even the pellet hoppers and blowers. I say that as if I have money to install alternatives.
Been talking to Tucker some and there are hard bits but also we're both better at compassion for each other now. I'm very happy about how it's going, and very curious about how his practicum with my former employer (different person, different ministry, but still) will go. I steered him to this guy, who seems pretty good and reasonable, so my fingers are crossed.
The light is racing back after solstice. You can see outside by 8am and even after 5pm now. It's so good.
The timing is such that Josh is coming up today, the MRI was ysterday, so I managed to find a ride into town and will be going home with him.
That meant I could end up in the hotel with no parking, which was literally a block away from the candlelight Coldplay string quartet concert I'd been thinking about coming in for last year, but had then decided too much was going on. Right day, too.
Between chores yesterday morning, getting to the hospital (a few blocks), wandering lost in the hospital for a full 20 minutes trying to figure out where to go, coming home, and walking to the concert I covered 8km yesterday. The concert was an hour, and by the end (I wasn't checking my watch) I had ust about decided I needed to stand up and walk out because I was at the edge of my ability with sitting so long, then they announced the last song. So that was amazing.
The hotel mattress is excellent, I did get rest in between everything, and my body hasn't tanked yet. Maybe it can wait till Josh is gone?
I definitely needed to get out of my little box a bit. I also need to make my little box nicer, which hopefully Josh can help with. It's got piles and dirty floors and everything askew. I'm hoping to enlist him to remove all my clothes older than 5 months or so (saving t-shirts and jeans legs for projects), figure out organization for some of my shelves, and do a gigantic dump/thrift store dropoff run.
Plus I think the cats need a bunch more Places, like wall steps and boxes in corners etc. They're socially unstable right now and that isn't ideal; with more cat-habitat I believe the situation will be better.
Not fully convinced I'm not becoming allergic to the woodsmoke from my chimney, which is problematic, though for a heating system I probably do eventually need something that's not splitting, stacking, and carrying several tons of wood each winter. Not sure I can be convinced to get rid of the woodstove as a backup, though, since every other heat source needs some kind of electricity, even the pellet hoppers and blowers. I say that as if I have money to install alternatives.
Been talking to Tucker some and there are hard bits but also we're both better at compassion for each other now. I'm very happy about how it's going, and very curious about how his practicum with my former employer (different person, different ministry, but still) will go. I steered him to this guy, who seems pretty good and reasonable, so my fingers are crossed.
The light is racing back after solstice. You can see outside by 8am and even after 5pm now. It's so good.
