not dead yet

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Evie Cat, knitting, projects, random shit that falls out of my brain, sick

I’ve had a mostly uneventful day, which is mostly good. Evidently there were only TWO doctors working at the fucking clinic today, so by the time I got through on the phone (at 8:15), there were no appointments left. However, when I told the receptionist that this back issue is fucking with my breathing now and again, she had me talk to a nurse, and the nurse got me a spot tomorrow afternoon with my preferred doc. And I won’t have to leave work too terribly early.

For the most part today I’ve dealt with the discomfort by getting up (to pee) a lot, hanging out on the sofa for a bit, and then taking a rather hot shower. (honestly that was due in part to no longer being able to stand the smell of myself, but still) Oh, and I took some Tylenol. (didn’t help much)

I did get some things done for work, got posts written up through Thursday (oh wow, that was really only 2 since Wednesday’s post has been written for ages), took some pictures for posts I didn’t write yet, found a great image I want to sketch, and decided what I’m going to draw for this week’s CCC – the theme for which is “happiness.” (make your pingbacks here, please) Oh, and I hung out on the sofa with Sissy Cat watching tv and attempting to knit. She’s not a good helper. And this morning I cleaned the bathroom down here (totally gross, it had to be done), emptied the litter box, and found an article that said you should feed the felines from a shallow dish that has a single layer of kibble. Allegedly this will keep them from leaving warm, wet piles of undigested food on your bedside rug. We shall see.

I have some fabulous ideas for things I’d like to do, but no clue when I’ll manage to do them. Story of my life, really. Sweet jezuz, is it really that late? Dammit, I better go start the dinner prep. Laters gators.

building rome – weekly update

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building rome, goals, motivation, projects, sick

As I’m sure y’all know, last week was not so super. I had some unpleasantness going on at home and work just keeps getting busier. I had set fewer goals for myself hoping that would help. It did, a little, I just feel bad that I didn’t get more of the “little” done. C’est la vie. I think I still got more done than I otherwise would have because I had the Building Rome / setting goals structure in place.

On to the update…

Goals from last week:

• Keep scanning/sorting the picture prints. Done. I didn’t get a whole lot scanned, but some.
  
• Do a sketch at least 3x that is not tied to the Cartoon Challenge. I managed to get 2 done, so almost.
  
• Do something creative (which is neither a sketch or the CC) at least 3x. I didn’t get anything creative done except for the 2 sketches. I did go to the craft store on Saturday and get some supplies for future projects, but that doesn’t really count.

Established Goals for every week:

• Take pills every morning. Done. I found a way to make it even easier when I found a tiny round divided pill box thing at the pharmacy. The spaces are just big enough to hold the 3 pills I take in the morning and having it marked by day makes it way easier to see if I taken them. Best part – only $1.49.
  
• Make bed and tidy living space every morning. Josh is still evidently thinking he needs to make the bed. I was grumpy enough last week that I just left it at that and called it good. This week I’m going to try to do a better job.
  
• Do something creative at least 3x per week. Not quite, but I tried.
  
• Keep a list of one good thing that happens every day. Not exactly, but I made something work. I’m calling this a success because I was able to think of 7 things that were “good” in my mind that happened over the course of the week.
  
• Participate in the Cartoon Craziness Challenge. Yes, got my entry posted just about as late as possible, but I did it.
  

Goals for this week:

• Keep working on sorting/scanning photos.
• Keep sketching. I need to get at least one done.
• Finish the bits for the care package for M. I need to get that in the mail.
• Try to come up with a creative way to express “letting my freak flag fly” – that’s the theme for this week’s challenge.

That’s going to be it for this week. My calendar for work looks like a bad game of Tetris and it’s only going to get worse. Not sure if I’ve mentioned or not, but the week of Aug 11 I’ll be teaching 9 classes over 5 days and going in for a brief demo Saturday morning. The following week I’ll be staying late two nights for orientation sessions for adjunct instructors. I do get a week of vacation in September, which I’m looking forward to. No plans, other than a dental appointment, but just being off work will be nice.

My (un)happy little ass will be staying home today. I did something over the weekend to seriously piss my back off and didn’t sleep worth a shit because of it last night. I remember trying to wake Josh up at like 2am to see if he’d take me to the hospital. It actually hurts to breathe. Anyway, I’m waiting for the doc’s office to open to see if I can get a regular appointment. Much cheaper.