September 29, 2023
- I have made a DENT in the piles of detritus that threatened to take over my office! I cleared one corner of kid clutter, sorting things into giving-away-to-local-friend and recycling piles. Wiped down the baseboards and floor under one of the cabinets, vacuumed the nooks and crannies that the robot vacuum cannot reach, sealed and postaged the birthday package for our Lakota sponsee, and scheduled a mail pickup.
2. Also I reorganized things in Smol Acrobat’s room: filled a bag of things to give-to-local-friend, another bag of things to return to the lending friend, and remembered to mentally start a package for a third friend. There was a LOT of effort expended though by all appearances, I’ve only moved things around to new piles. Still. I did a good job.
3. The Waymaker Race: We still have two weeks in the Prove sponsor’s timeline to earn their matching dollars and we’re still pretty far from that $20K cap. Earlier on, I only had PiC do it because he logs many miles but since we’re still not even halfway, I put Strava on my phone, registered for the Race, and put myself in the Hermits Union, too. I’m only walking about a mile a day but that’s worth $1 a day and every bit counts. Also, it’s a chuckle that the Hermits Union has the most members and is the top of the leaderboard! Go Hermits!
Challenges this week:
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September 22, 2023
1. PiC and I treated ourselves to an adults-only lunch from our local Peruvian place. Total hole in the wall with food that cannot be beat. So so so good. We need to try actual Peruvian food someday from the source to see if it compares.
Challenges this week: I felt sluggish most of this week, and brain fog kept passing through. Not a fan.
Smol Acrobat’s refusal/inability to sleep through the night continues to hold us hostage.
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September 15, 2023
1. Normally this wouldn’t be a good thing but the start of the week was particularly hard. I woke up with less than nothing in the tank on Sunday morning and had the kids solo while PiC was out for the next four hours. I also spilled smelly stuff on the ground and had to commit to a full bleach and scrub scenario. I’m used to running on nearly empty and making do but starting from less than empty means that I’m just one or two missteps away from spiraling into a CFS flare. I could feel it coming on, all major joints were aching, my limbs were heavier, and I was having to dig deep just to breathe normally.
I made a real effort to do only the bare minimum of cleaning, restraining myself from the natural impulse to scrub the whole floor just because I was already there, assigned the kids solo play time, and forced myself to rest for two hours, twice. I wasn’t rested, but it was enough to let me push back the incipient flare up and that’s a huge relief.
2. I’ve been transferring my social media from Twitter to Bluesky slowly. It’s light on features and I don’t love everything about it but it’s enough like functional Twitter circa 2009(?) to be an enjoyable functional fallback for now. Edit to add: If you’d like to try Bluesky, leave me a comment with your contact info and I will share an invite when one becomes available. I’m Revanche on there.
3. We accidentally dyed one of JB’s white tops pink, and they need it for school, so PiC did two days of soaking in Oxiclean and I followed up with a detergent scrub and soak, and finally on the fourth day, we triumphed! The pink faded to purple to nearly imperceptible!
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September 8, 2023
1. Somehow Friday got ahead of me again. Having a Monday off has kept me off my stride all week. I hope your weekend is great!
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September 1, 2023
1. Well I guess this week going by in a blur means it ended “faster” which is good? I guess?
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August 25, 2023
I wish I remembered the good thing that I accidentally deleted from here because I have SUCH a headache now from a whole week of working on forcing school admin to do ANYTHING about a kid bullying my kid that I can’t remember anything good right now.
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August 18, 2023
1. I made a good decision to not stress myself out trying to do ALL THE THINGS one day this week and it worked out really well. I didn’t end the day hating everything.
2. Past Me froze an apple pie and Present Me got to eat it. Excellent decisions!
Helping folks:My friend Quiara lives on a low fixed income and recently got the bad news that not only won’t SSA cover her insurance premium this year, they’re making this decision retroactively. I don’t know where they think she’s going to conjure that money from but if you can, Help Q survive the year?
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