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Misc things:
Feb. 3rd, 2023 10:14 pmMy manager rearranged the whole office. My desk is about 18 inches shorter due to help from an instructor who is also a contractor, but while that's a mild bummer, our office area feels more open with the desks rearranged. (Instead of facing toward the door, the manager and I both face into the lobby, and instead of his desk being directly behind me, they're now next to each other.)
Still dead-ending on writing, and I know that I'm the only thing in my way at this point. (I mean... I have other reasons, but I'm afraid they're tipping more toward the excuse side than the reason side.) My back has been extra bad, which means I'm sleeping poorly, so I'm struggling to stay awake or focused. I've been annoyed by things like persistent typos and forgetting where a sentence is going, which makes it hard to want to try and write. I know that I've got to push through, because times will never be perfectly ideal, and I did a GREAT job of pushing through quite a bit last year... I'm just having a harder time doing that now.
Still working on reading City of Saints and Madmen, which I am still very much enjoying, but the whole pain and poor sleep thing has kept me from having much reading time, too.
Alex has had a few more PT appointments, but they don't seem to be helping much. The disks have been bad enough that the therapists haven't wanted to do much for fear of aggravating them, and he still winds up in more pain rather than less after almost all of the appointments. :/ They've been trying to help at least relax the seized muscles in his back, but it doesn't seem to do much, and then he just has knotted muscles that also feel bruised.
I had a mango start to ferment on the counter, and it makes me sad because they were really good mangoes. :(
I did *not* post to Dreamwidth yesterday for the first time in a couple years. I'm trying to prove a point to myself that breaking the streak does not mean that I will go on hiatus for years at a time again, lol. :p
Today was the first nice day we've had in *weeks.* I had to spend the entire nice part of the day inside at work, but we did get to open the door for a while, and that was very nice.
Next month is shaping up to be busier than I generally prefer... mainly because there are three concerts happening in a two-week span. Combichrist, Solar Fake, and Covenant. Alex of course very much wants to go to all three, which is already pre-exhausting me, lol.
I need to finish prepping my model for NaMoPaiMo. (National Model Painting Month. Which this year is not actually as formal event, as the friend who has run it for the last six years is deeply burned out from how big the event got. So this year it's actually "International Model Horse Painting Party" which is just a low-pressure "do a thing if you want to do a thing" month.) Still, I want to do it... but it's one more thing that takes time and focus and the ability to sit upright without crying!
Still dead-ending on writing, and I know that I'm the only thing in my way at this point. (I mean... I have other reasons, but I'm afraid they're tipping more toward the excuse side than the reason side.) My back has been extra bad, which means I'm sleeping poorly, so I'm struggling to stay awake or focused. I've been annoyed by things like persistent typos and forgetting where a sentence is going, which makes it hard to want to try and write. I know that I've got to push through, because times will never be perfectly ideal, and I did a GREAT job of pushing through quite a bit last year... I'm just having a harder time doing that now.
Still working on reading City of Saints and Madmen, which I am still very much enjoying, but the whole pain and poor sleep thing has kept me from having much reading time, too.
Alex has had a few more PT appointments, but they don't seem to be helping much. The disks have been bad enough that the therapists haven't wanted to do much for fear of aggravating them, and he still winds up in more pain rather than less after almost all of the appointments. :/ They've been trying to help at least relax the seized muscles in his back, but it doesn't seem to do much, and then he just has knotted muscles that also feel bruised.
I had a mango start to ferment on the counter, and it makes me sad because they were really good mangoes. :(
I did *not* post to Dreamwidth yesterday for the first time in a couple years. I'm trying to prove a point to myself that breaking the streak does not mean that I will go on hiatus for years at a time again, lol. :p
Today was the first nice day we've had in *weeks.* I had to spend the entire nice part of the day inside at work, but we did get to open the door for a while, and that was very nice.
Next month is shaping up to be busier than I generally prefer... mainly because there are three concerts happening in a two-week span. Combichrist, Solar Fake, and Covenant. Alex of course very much wants to go to all three, which is already pre-exhausting me, lol.
I need to finish prepping my model for NaMoPaiMo. (National Model Painting Month. Which this year is not actually as formal event, as the friend who has run it for the last six years is deeply burned out from how big the event got. So this year it's actually "International Model Horse Painting Party" which is just a low-pressure "do a thing if you want to do a thing" month.) Still, I want to do it... but it's one more thing that takes time and focus and the ability to sit upright without crying!
