Wednesday morning
I slept normally! This morning the pain in my knee is not gone, but seems to be improving, more of a stiffness than a sharpness. I think I will try to stretch normally before breakfast, and then go on at least a short walk at some point today. Maybe I can do the non-leg weight lifting during my afternoon class. I'll keep hydrating and skipping anything that would dehydrate me, such as alcohol or hot tub.
K's state tax refund came through, so the mistake I made filing his return wasn't as disastrous as I'd expected. My own federal refund came through also, but I wasn't expecting any problem with that. With his refund, K should be able to pay me back the cash I'd lent him for his moving expenses last year.
And T is still caught up with his share of our joint bills after falling so far behind last year, although I expect he will fall behind again, it's a relationship-long pattern for him, and as I've written several times, perhaps the main reason why I cannot see myself continuing to live with him into retirement. How could I cover his arbitrary lateness on a much reduced income of my own? It seems like a problem that isn't going away, sometimes people are just who they are. With T currently focused on helping his mother to move into assisted living, and then his trip to ANZ, I actually expect him to fall behind on bills at the end of this month.
[We're basically not living together as things are, although we're still sharing bills for the house he's not living in. Returning to living together full time would be a shock at this point.]
But, my bank account is now well fortified for the next batch of federal shutdown drama -- the next deadline is now 9 days away. There's not much in the press about it this time, perhaps it feels like "the boy who cried wolf" now, after so many threatened shutdowns (plus that debt ceiling crap) since Republicans took the House.
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Yesterday I deleted my Grindr account and then the app. I'm back to having only Recon, and not having met anybody new via that app in over a year. But maybe I'm polysaturated right now, with enough of a social life to deter me from expansion. Grindr is just too wacky and also too expensive. It's not good at matching people who have any sort of standards at all, it's only good for people who want random sex right now. So many blank profiles, so many headless shirtless pics that could be old or fake, so many guys sending pics of their cocks and wanting to meet up now.
The one guy who seemed to have some mutual interest with me is on Recon also anyway.
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OK, Bug, stretch, breakfast, telework, hopefully with some sort of exercise today, hopefully with knee pain continuing to improve. Try not to anticipate Friday's quarterly evaluation meeting with my Boss, as I cannot actually predict how that will go.
I'll see David tomorrow night, and Ben Saturday night, I'll have Friday night to self at the condo, and get a haircut Saturday.
Oh, today is my Name Day, LOL. I'll celebrate by cooking myself a BA tonight and skipping alcohol LOL. At least I have no problem skipping alcohol when it may be causing or aggravating something painful. I do have the priority of being healthy.
K's state tax refund came through, so the mistake I made filing his return wasn't as disastrous as I'd expected. My own federal refund came through also, but I wasn't expecting any problem with that. With his refund, K should be able to pay me back the cash I'd lent him for his moving expenses last year.
And T is still caught up with his share of our joint bills after falling so far behind last year, although I expect he will fall behind again, it's a relationship-long pattern for him, and as I've written several times, perhaps the main reason why I cannot see myself continuing to live with him into retirement. How could I cover his arbitrary lateness on a much reduced income of my own? It seems like a problem that isn't going away, sometimes people are just who they are. With T currently focused on helping his mother to move into assisted living, and then his trip to ANZ, I actually expect him to fall behind on bills at the end of this month.
[We're basically not living together as things are, although we're still sharing bills for the house he's not living in. Returning to living together full time would be a shock at this point.]
But, my bank account is now well fortified for the next batch of federal shutdown drama -- the next deadline is now 9 days away. There's not much in the press about it this time, perhaps it feels like "the boy who cried wolf" now, after so many threatened shutdowns (plus that debt ceiling crap) since Republicans took the House.
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Yesterday I deleted my Grindr account and then the app. I'm back to having only Recon, and not having met anybody new via that app in over a year. But maybe I'm polysaturated right now, with enough of a social life to deter me from expansion. Grindr is just too wacky and also too expensive. It's not good at matching people who have any sort of standards at all, it's only good for people who want random sex right now. So many blank profiles, so many headless shirtless pics that could be old or fake, so many guys sending pics of their cocks and wanting to meet up now.
The one guy who seemed to have some mutual interest with me is on Recon also anyway.
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OK, Bug, stretch, breakfast, telework, hopefully with some sort of exercise today, hopefully with knee pain continuing to improve. Try not to anticipate Friday's quarterly evaluation meeting with my Boss, as I cannot actually predict how that will go.
I'll see David tomorrow night, and Ben Saturday night, I'll have Friday night to self at the condo, and get a haircut Saturday.
Oh, today is my Name Day, LOL. I'll celebrate by cooking myself a BA tonight and skipping alcohol LOL. At least I have no problem skipping alcohol when it may be causing or aggravating something painful. I do have the priority of being healthy.