Lounge Day

Jan. 5th, 2020 12:15 am
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Zara has changed her spot to my bedroom. A blanket of mine fell off of the bed, and she's claimed it. I tried to get her to join me on the bed last night, but she stayed where she was.

I woke up briefly around 10 AM but went back to sleep and woke up around noon. I was dreaming that I was going to go swimming outside in 30 degree F weather. WTF?

I'm lying down to take a nap, and Zara came to join me! Yay! Love sleeping with Z next to me.

I bought some new ankle boots on eBay because my old ones are falling apart. (I usually wear the same pair of black shoes or boots all the time. I'm not a shoe person, probably because it's hard to find shoes in my size, 6.5 wide). They work. And as an added bonus, they're waterproof. I'm going to wear them around the house to break them in.

I think that I'm going to stay home today and lounge in my sweats. Trying to decide what to do next. I think that I'll pull out the DVD player in the bedroom and hook it up to the TV and see if it works. My mom has the complete set of Harry Potter movies, which I'd like to watch, and she said that she'd lend them to me. I talk to her later tonight. It's the TV that's the issue. Whoever set up cable plugged the TV into the A/V sockets because that's color. I can replug the A/V cables into the DVD player.

I'm eyeing some hiking boots at half-off on eBay.

Talked to Mom. She still sounds awful. She went for chemo on Friday, and they told her to just go home and rest because she had a fever (and go to Urgent Care if her fever spikes). They're trying to get her in to see her oncologist next week.

Errand Day

Nov. 28th, 2019 03:00 am
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I stayed up and watched an Amazon movie that someone on my Facebook running group recommended, Brittany Runs a Marathon. It was pretty good. While watching it, I learned that there are armbands for cell phones that you can use while running, so I ordered one.

Last night and this morning, it's been windy, and I keep hearing thumping noises. I keep looking outside to see what's going on.

Holy cow. I went outside, and the wind is fierce. It ripped off part of the skirt of the mobile home. It's knocked over my garbage can. The thumping noise that I've been hearing was the screen door on the empty mobile home next door. I went and latched it.

Threw in a load of laundry.

Woo-hoo! I've got the Vivosport. I did the setup, and now it's charging. I like it.

Looked to see if there are 5K "Turkey Trots" in Springfield, and indeed, there are. Next year!

I went to take a short nap and shut the bedroom door to muffle the sound of the dryer. Mimi started meowing outside the door. (She has a bad case of FOMO.) I let her in and shut the door. She climbed on me for a while and then started meowing by the door. I let her out, and I guess that she went away because I fell asleep.

Threw myself together. Ran errands. I paid my car off!! Picked up my grocery order at Walmart. It's the first time that I saw multiple people waiting for orders. They didn't include a pumpkin pie because they were out of no-added-sugar ones, so I ran in and bought a normal one. Unloaded the groceries and put them away. Realized that I forgot to get hummus for the extra celery, plus I'm getting low on bread and milk, but I don't feel like going back out. I'll go out on Friday.

I'm a little sore from yesterday, but not too bad. I have exercises that I'm supposed to do to build up my running muscles.

Just synced the Vivosport. It's saying that I was stressed out while I was running errands. Don't ask me why. It's also telling me to get more steps in. I really like it though.

Okay, now I am really sore. Took acetaminophen. Lay down for a while. Woke up at 10 PM, when I was supposed to wake up, but rolled over for a little more sleep. Woke up at 1:30 AM after an elaborate dream in which my mom and I were pulling stuff out of various places to take home. I told her that we had too much stuff.

Fed the girls. Made grilled cheese and tomato soup because it was too late to do something elaborate. Time to go back to bed.

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I slept late and woke up with Zara nestled against my legs. Cozy.

There's a guy whom I was acquainted in high school who friended me on Facebook several years back. I was surprised because I didn't know him very well, and was even more surprised that he was active on my page. I got the impression that he had a crush on me in high school. I'm wondering if I blew it because he's a really cool guy. Anyway, I dream about him a lot, and that's why I slept late :)

It's a lot warmer today. Excellent.

Zara is being manic and running around like a goof.

Put the registration tag on my car. Watched some Disney ride videos.

Now I'm feeling cold and shaky. Took a nap and am feeling better. Started laundry. Had a bite to eat. Now Mimi is on my lap.

Started tidying up the kitchen. Got groceries put away. Scrubbed a litter box, which fascinated Zara. Did two loads of laundry.

Talked to Mom. She's doing okay. She's about to book the hotel in Chicago for Christmas.

OMG, was Home Chef good (Chicken with Dijon Demi-Glace and Creamy Chive Mushroom Gnocchi). Now I have a mess to clean up, but it was worth it. The dishes are soaking in the sink.

TMI, but I've been having digestive issues all day long. Maybe I should find some Imodium and take it tomorrow morning.

Done!

Jun. 29th, 2019 12:39 am
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Woke up a little after my alarm went off after a dream about a robot who seemed human. (West World, anyone?)

Got squared away on everything that I needed to get done at work, and now I'm off for a week.

So. Freaking. Tired. I need to work on my grocery list, but I'll probably just crash.

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Overslept a little. Feeling wiped out. I'm not going to go to class. I've decided to withdraw from the class. I have too much going on. Need to make an appointment with my advisor. Made an appointment for tomorrow.
 
Lying down with the girls in their positions of honor (Mimi at my head and Zara at my feet).
 
Slept for a while and overslept. Had a weird dream in which I was stranded with my wallet stolen, and my mom wouldn't come get me.
 
I think that Dad is starting to stress. He's questioning everything that I tell him about my health issues, but knowing him, I think that he's worried. That makes two of us.
 
Apparently I came to work with a sock stuck to the Velcro on my coat. Elegant :) Made me laugh.
 
Checked out San Luis Obispo as a possible retirement place, but real estate is ridiculous. I need to forget California.
 
Back home because I went in early. Fed the girls. I might do a little packing, but I want to go to bed early and get up early to run errands.
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I woke up around 10, and was sitting with Mimi on my lap, and was falling asleep, so I went back to sleep.
 
I had a strange dream in which IT was taking over our Web sites from us. They were switching to a display that was kind of like a virtual reality or holographic display, only it was real and you could take certain items out of the display. They thought that it would be good for the library because patrons could take books directly out of the display. I asked them how we would know that they had the books, and they didn't have an answer to that. I said that our catalogs were written for only two dimensions, and have they talked to our consortium about this? They said that we should leave the consortium. Then I woke up, thank goodness :)
 
I don't usually dream about my current job. I do dream about IBM occasionally though. That place, apparently, is still under my skin.
 
I read an article in the New York Times about people having problems going off antidepressants. I know that if I forget to take my morning meds, I get "brain zaps," electrical zaps in my brain. One of my antidepressants, Venlafaxine (Effexor) is supposed to be really hard to taper off. I'm assuming, though, that I'll be taking my meds the rest of my life. Venlafaxine saved my life four years ago. I'm still not the same as someone who doesn't have depression, but the meds help.
 
Wow, this place is a mess.
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I did some planning and goal-setting last night. Go me. But the typos in my planning book are driving me nuts. Maybe I'll try another book when I'm done with this one.

I'm giving up on trying to read in bed at night because Mimi wants to snuggle. I'll read at the kitchen table.

Woke up at 8 AM after an extremely disturbing dream. I decided to get up to let the dream dissipate. Snuggling with Miss Zara helped.

I'm doing my normal morning routine. I want to stay up until 10 to feed the cats and start a load of laundry. Then I'll go back to sleep for a few hours.

The plan is to do some cleaning and organizing after I wake up. And then go to the movie at 6:30. I might run to Walmart to get a power strip for the microwave.

I need to find a place to store full bottles of soda. I can't use the top shelves in my kitchen because the cats use them to look out the window, and I exist to serve them :)

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