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Woke up at 1 PM. Yikes.

I heard Mimi thumping around, and at first, I thought that she was going after Zara, and I told her to cut it out. Then I looked, and she had a bandaid that had fallen off of my hand. She was tossing it in the air and playing with it. I took it away from her in case she might swallow it. This place is full of cat toys that she could play with.

Mower guy came by. He asked if he should wait to mow my lawn, and I said "Yes" because it looked pretty good. He said that he would come by later in the week.

Just heard thunder. The forecasters are predicting "on and off storms" this afternoon. Works for me. I'm staying at home. And here comes the rain.

Logged on briefly to print the recipe for my veggie lasagna off (need to find the notebook that I keep recipes in) and hastily got off because of the storm. I have the laptop plugged into a surge protector, but still, my mom's computer fried during a storm, so I'm paranoid.

Now I'm trying to get up the energy to make the lasagna. It's kind of a fiddly process in which you cook the mushrooms, spinach, tomato sauce, etc., and then assemble the lasagna. Need to bite the bullet and do it.

The lasagna is cooking in the slow cooker. I have to remember that my mind tells me that things will take more effort than they will take. That's a good topic for an article for my blog-to-be.

I think that it's nap time. Dozed for an hour.

Had a bite to eat. Got a load of laundry going. Started tackling the papers in the kitchen. Need to get them thrown out or filed away. Got my Google Home up and running again.

The lasagna is as good as usual.

I've made a lot of progress on my papers.

I'm playing around with a "where's my best place to retire?" Web site. You enter criteria, and it'll spit out suggestions. When I choose the West Coast, my top choice is Eugene, OR, which already is high on my list. East Coast, the top choice is the DC-metro area including Maryland, which is on my list. Now I just tried a cross-country search with no population requirements, and the top choice was...Seattle. (The rest of the choices were places in which I have no interest.)

Renewed AARP. They force you to auto-renew if you choose a one-year membership, which I really don't like. That reminds me, though, to contact AT&T and see if I can get an AARP discount on my cell phone.

Got my new Capital One debit card activated. The instructions that they sent me didn't match what I had to do to activate it. Grrr.

Changed my address with Hawaii Magazine, but need to wait until the address updates to renew.

Put my laundry on the drying rack.

Looked at the 30-day blog challenge that I signed up for. It requires creating a site on bluehost, which works for me because they're a good company, but they require a full years' hosting cost up front. Need to wait until next month.

Spent a little time on my TESOL class. I need to set up ID verification, and I'll wait until tomorrow to do that.

Crossposts: https://days-unfolding.livejournal.com/983905.html

I overslept, and decided to drive today. Starting next week, my boss will be back, and I'll be able to get in later, which will help with walking.

I read a book (Better than Before by Gretchen Rubin) that had a quiz that divided people into types how they behave based on expectations. Upholders meet external and internal expectations. Questioners resist external expectations, but meet internal expectations. Obligers meet external expectations, but resist internal expectations. Rebels resist external and internal expectations. I'm a Rebel :) I just looked at an article of hers about how Rebels can manage themselves, and it said to make the action part of your identity. I used to walk everywhere when I was younger and enjoyed it, so I need to see myself as a walker.

Gretchen Rubin's Web page also mentioned that she now has an app in which you can read more about your type and join an accountability group based on your type, so I installed it. She also has a book that goes into the types in greater detail, so I ordered it from the library.

I spent a fair amount of time today discussing Star Trek and old computer games with the other library worker. I found a Web site in which you can play an old Commodore 64 game, M.U.L.E., that I was addicted to during college. Uh-oh.

I've been second-guessing some of the stuff that I wrote on the Friendzy post. I completely didn't get what one of the questions was asking. And I didn't mention my schizoaffective disorder, while someone else did, but that's because I've had people (IRL) weird out on me, so I've generally stopped talking about it. Plus there's the danger of being seen as a syndrome rather than a person.

Back home for dinner, and Zara Lovebug is on my lap. Life is good :)

Crossposts: https://days-unfolding.livejournal.com/976241.html

I had a mild relapse of my mental illness yesterday. Maybe it was because of the lack of sleep. I've been on pins and needles wondering if it would get worse, but I seem to be okay today. Just what I didn't need with my presentation on Sunday.

While I was out, I tripped and fell. I wish that I knew why I keep tripping and falling.

The laundry room in the building is locked "for repairs". There's a note that said that it will open tomorrow morning. I hope so because I really need to do laundry. I suppose that I could go to the laundromat, but it's more expensive.

I have a headache, so I took some Tylenol and made myself my almost free meal: scrambled eggs with cheddar and toast with butter and raspberry jam. I managed to knock the bowl over in which I mixed the eggs, and one egg escaped down the drain. With a dozen eggs at $0.35, I can afford it. I also got raspberry jam on my beige jeans, but I think that it will come out.

I'm feeling slightly cranky, but need to snap myself out of it.

Added: Forgot to mention that a muscle in my back was threatening to pull out.

Crossposts: http://days-unfolding.livejournal.com/738079.html

I've been having a weird problem with my Internet connection. When I logged on to MSN, it went through the normal authentication and sign-on routine. Then it opened its Start page (using Internet Explorer). However, when I clicked a link on the Start page, I got a "This page cannot be displayed" error. When I opened a second IE window. it also displayed a "This page cannot be displayed" error. When I opened a Firefox window, it said that either start.mozilla.org or www.google.com could not be found.

I called MSN Support, and we mucked around with the networking settings. When I rebooted, the Firefox window worked, although IE did not. The service rep told me to reinstall IE and closed the problem. However, when I shut down MSN and started it again, Firefox was no longer working.

Then for several days, the connection worked after midnight and only after midnight. (That is to say, Firefox worked, and sometimes IE worked and sometimes it didn't.)

Now for the last 24 hours, I've been able to log on and use either IE or Firefox. Great, but I don't trust the machine.

When I had a similar problem in the past, I reinstalled Windows and it fixed the problem. A little like striking a fly with a mallet, but I've also been having problems with AdWare on my machine, so arguably I should reinstall Windows, reinstall software, copy backed-up data, install a firewall, and capture an image of the machine on my external hard drive. However, my Windows 2000 CD is not a recovery CD, so I need to find out what drivers to copy and how to register them with Device Manager, or I need to get CompUSA to do it.

It's a bad time for my machine to be out of commission. I need it for job search stuff plus I'm taking an online class in documenting Java APIs, which will require me to use Javadoc and such. So I'm in a dilemma: do I reinstall now, or do I wait, hope that the machine will keep working, and reinstall after my class is over?

In other news, I had my first meeting with my new psychiatrist, and I really like him. He's looking at my symptoms as a case of schizoaffective disorder (mixed schizophrenic and bipolar symptoms), which is what I've been saying for a long time. He wants to wean me off of lithium and see if the lithium has been causing some of the cognitive problems I've been having. I think that I'll like working with him; when I questioned some of the medication choices, he just explained why he decided what he did without getting on his high horse.

And on the kitty front, Harlee has been roaming around the entire place more, and Random has been ignoring her (instead of running at her) much of the time. There might be light at the end of the tunnel....

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