Long time no post. I read all your posts, but just haven’t had it in me to talk about my life, other than in comments. No idea why. No idea why I can’t seem to do a book review, although I *must* work on that today or at any rate soon. Nothing horribly bad has happened, but nothing extraordinary has happened, either.

Mother Nature seems to hate us ( Read more... )

Finally managed to get appointments for vaccines. The doctor told us to wait until November to get them, so they’d still be active come spring, and I’m regretting that. I ended up calling all over town to try and find any. Finally, on the last try, I hit pay dirt. Safeway actually had all three- Covid, flu, RSV. Which NO ONE in town had. The only ( Read more... )

Well, it’s been a little more than two weeks, and, while the rib is better, it’s still bothering me. I did finally get into the car and go to hospice a couple of days ago. There was SO much to do. I only got half way done with it before my rib (and back) said to quit. I’ll have to hope that next week there won’t be so many newly bereaved, so I can ( Read more... )

Finally a day that wasn't just miserable cold; I don't know if it made it up to 32 F during the day but at least it wasn't horrible just breathing outside. For a couple of days it was below 10 F for the highs and around 0 F for the lows. And the wind was blowing, quite hard. Of course a pipe broke in the irrigation well house, because the warning ( Read more... )

It has been A Day. Bowels were bothering me last night, and were no better come morning. Took imipramine; it didn’t quiet it down. Took another one and it’s helped tremendously, hours later- It doesn’t normally take that long to take effect. Then late morning I had a bad low blood sugar reaction and of course over did it on the eating, so my sugar ( Read more... )

Arg. Spent too long on the bike. Curse my out of shape self. Legs and hips hurting like crazy. Hopefully I don't do the bullshit of staying awake all night because of it ( Read more... )

Last night I slept like a dead thing, and then after I got up this morning, Hoover got in my lap and I fell asleep again, sitting up. And not just one of those 'nods off and jerks head right back up' things, either. Full on sleeping for quite a while. I feel much better today- still fairly shitty, but the fiery pain is gone. I even dared the weird ( Read more... )

I have achieved FIRST CONTACT! As of 3 (or so) days ago, I am able to give Sylvester chin scratches. Today he accepted petting on the top of his head and down his body to his tail. At first only while he ate treats. Now he's allowing it at any time. Still have to approach slowly and don't startle him. He's using a lot of the house now, but only ( Read more... )

I am totally done with the heat. I work out in the sun, in the middle of the day, drinking a couple of bottles of water or iced tea, and when I'm done my bladder hurts but I have hardly any pee. (TMI, I know)So I spend the rest of the day and the next day drinking fluids like crazy, hoping to make my kidneys happier ( Read more... )

Just wanted to let everyone know that I still exist. I seem to be overwhelmed with... something.. I've got the world's worst case of writer's block and I'm not sure if it's depression, a med side effect, or something else. I'm way behind on reviews, I am barely making the deadlines for the newspaper articles, and I'm so far behind on personal ( Read more... )