Today I am grateful for...

• Cats.
• Comfort stuffies. (See last week.)
• Turtles. Home is wherever you carry your shell. See also this cartoon. And this project.
• Tech writing project as distraction.
• Bean broth (made with fresh-ground roasted beans, of course).

Welcome to September, 2021!
Flu vaccine is available, but apparently its effectiveness wanes (much like covid vaccine), so older folks in particular should probably wait until around the end of October -- or later -- to get jabbed.

[Crossposted from mdlbear.dreamwidth.org, where it has
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On the whole probably not a bad week. I've started trying to both exercise and make music a little more regularly. Having considerably more consistency with the exercise than the music, which is... strange?
I had an appointment Friday with Dr. Chopra, who had been our doctor ( Read more... )

So I have a half-hour concert coming up in a few weeks, at the next FotLR. So far, the only definite things on the setlist are "Eyes Like the Morning" and "The River". Probably "Wheelin'", and possibly "Riverheart", which was one of Colleen's favorites. (Probably not "Lily ( Read more... )

Today I am grateful for...

• Platty, Colleen's platypus stuffy. (I've been spelling her name wrong all this time -- sorry about that.)
• The box on my desk that the cats are finally learning to sit in instead of wandering all over the desk.
• Pro Git, by Scott Chacon and Ben Straub (Creative Commons by-nc-sa/3.0, ( Read more... )

I realized Saturday morning, after waking from a dream involving a moving van and a house that was sort of like the one I grew up in, that some of the grief and anxiety that I'm feeling now is for places. It's ( Read more... )

It's just barely possible that I'm getting a little productivity back, after several years of drifting. Maybe. I did more work Thursday and Friday on $writing-gig-2 than I have in months. Maybe? And I've actually played my guitar(s) and/or sang three times this week. Which I think beats the previous two or three.
The previous ( Read more... )

Today I am grateful for...

• The Rainbow Caravan.
• The household cats.
• My studio apartment converted garage in Seattle.
• Chocolate hazelnut spread.
• Professional organizers.

It's been over a month -- just short of five weeks -- since we lost Colleen. I still wouldn't be surprised if I fell apart completely at some point, but I haven't yet. I don't know how I want to feel about that. And it's mixed with a lot of anxiety and some grief around moving.
Hopefully this week was my last week couch-surfing -- ( Read more... )

... so I've been thinking on and off about "Nancy" by Cordwainer Smith. (Go read it. I'll wait.) It still feels a lot like it did during her last few months, except that I can't call to tell her about... It's actually a very familiar feeling; Dad died back in 1999 and I still have to remind myself sometimes.
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