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May. 12th, 2024 02:11 pmIt's the Sunday before the chorus concert weekend. Since the last show or two, we've expanded to having an additional rehearsal, so it's Sat-Sun-Mon-Tues-Weds-Thurs-Fri-Sat with only the unbolded & italicized as days without hours with the chorus, rehearsing or at the shows. So this is that italicized Sunday, and I'm attending to a whole lotta things. Next up, after posting a postcard, will be taking out some of the rest of the week's trash & recycling, taking some donations to the PTO thrift, returning some won't-work power strips to Amazon via the Whole Foods (they're now charging a buck to drop them off at the UPS store), and hitting the regular grocery store. (Yesterday I had a hankering to make lasagna, but resisted--- lotsa labor there.)
The PA at a nearby U stadium has been insanely loud of late. There's a track-and-field tournament going on, and I can follow the action even with the windows shut. It's booming. Hoping by some chance it's extra equipment for that occasion. Cuz really.
Had a nice deck guy lay out a nice deck for me, along with helping me figure good options for the steps out front. Next step there is to ask him to price out a much more modest version, in size, so I can see how much the diff is. It's been so good not to have a big debt hanging over me, and my car's 10 years old now. And maybe you know how much cars cost now, including used ones. That I have hope of completing the power surge follow-up AND getting a deck by fall is pretty amazing, however. Really gotta find time to open his stuff in the next few days.
I feel like I came here to write about something else entirely, but I dunno. Still blown away by the aurora the other night. Might give you some pix from that soon--- I told Peter I'd shoot him some, since my phone's camera turned out to be better than his camera-camera, for the occasion. We both wished we'd studied the options for our devices a bit more before the event. I was mostly just glad he gave me the heads-up. It wasn't as amazing last night, but was still worth going out for; I'll check tonight too.
Just as I'm narrowing in on options for glasses (have picked out one wild pair and aim to go for a pair of regulars that are still a bit nicer that my current everydays), the nose piece broke off my current ones. So I'm rocking the round yellows that I found, conveniently enough, while clearing the kitchen for the electrician and oven guy. The fella at SEE remembered me from last time, and suggested the giant round ones I've settle on from there; he reminded me of my "Emma Stone story", and said he'd been sharing it with others. I said oh yeah, I'd just seen that film then, and all those orgasms, whoa. :)
Finished a many-Saturday-nights recovery workshop last night. Got a bit behind in the third set of 4 weeks, and won't finish all the work of it for a while, but that's okay. It was good stuff, though really designed a bit more, I realized, for folks who have alcoholic or other substance-y backgrounds, and behaviors. Folks from my "home" program don't need to be convinced to be more concerned with other people and our perceptions of their needs and feelings. There were some pretty comical moments when examples were given of how we could be considerate and take into account that there are other people in the world who have feelings and needs, and some participants seemed to have lightbulbs going off over their heads. One list of suggestions for how to be kind to others and in the world was well over half-filled with things I do routinely. Things that seem like common human decency, many of 'em. And I have my ongoing self-care imperative/direction, and a therapist nudging me back to it here and there over the years, and the codependency recovery that has that aim as well. So there's a way that I have realized I've got to do a kinda special cobbling-together customization take-what-you-like-and-leave-the-rest, and I've been face-to-face with that sorta lonely idea, while working this workshop. I suppose it's appropriate, but sheesh. It is pretty lonesome.
Reminds me a little bit of my personal experience of gender identity, and having rather designed my own, negotiated my own way, like Will Shortz putting together a major in puzzles. Suddenly I'm feeling like giving myself credit for that, and acknowledging what a challenge it's been. When I think about it that way, I'm impressed with myself. Proud, even. Usually my thoughts around that have been about how annoying cultural gender stuff has been---how unjust, irritating, stupid, limiting, power-structure-supporting, brainwashy, etc. Nice to stop and think that I've found ways, that work more or less with the times & my circumstances, to be more comfortable in my skin, and at least a little free of a good chunk of the bullshit.
Wonder if I'm writing here as a way of putting off chores. Did the payroll already, along with 11 other things on my list of 28 items, a good handful of which are optional. Procrastinated a little more to count the items on the list! Hahahaha. Aiming to fill the compost bin after the out-in-the-world chores, so really should get t'movin'. It'll be sunny and 72 by the time I'm back from the store.
Still haven't remembered what I was gonna write!
The PA at a nearby U stadium has been insanely loud of late. There's a track-and-field tournament going on, and I can follow the action even with the windows shut. It's booming. Hoping by some chance it's extra equipment for that occasion. Cuz really.
Had a nice deck guy lay out a nice deck for me, along with helping me figure good options for the steps out front. Next step there is to ask him to price out a much more modest version, in size, so I can see how much the diff is. It's been so good not to have a big debt hanging over me, and my car's 10 years old now. And maybe you know how much cars cost now, including used ones. That I have hope of completing the power surge follow-up AND getting a deck by fall is pretty amazing, however. Really gotta find time to open his stuff in the next few days.
I feel like I came here to write about something else entirely, but I dunno. Still blown away by the aurora the other night. Might give you some pix from that soon--- I told Peter I'd shoot him some, since my phone's camera turned out to be better than his camera-camera, for the occasion. We both wished we'd studied the options for our devices a bit more before the event. I was mostly just glad he gave me the heads-up. It wasn't as amazing last night, but was still worth going out for; I'll check tonight too.
Just as I'm narrowing in on options for glasses (have picked out one wild pair and aim to go for a pair of regulars that are still a bit nicer that my current everydays), the nose piece broke off my current ones. So I'm rocking the round yellows that I found, conveniently enough, while clearing the kitchen for the electrician and oven guy. The fella at SEE remembered me from last time, and suggested the giant round ones I've settle on from there; he reminded me of my "Emma Stone story", and said he'd been sharing it with others. I said oh yeah, I'd just seen that film then, and all those orgasms, whoa. :)
Finished a many-Saturday-nights recovery workshop last night. Got a bit behind in the third set of 4 weeks, and won't finish all the work of it for a while, but that's okay. It was good stuff, though really designed a bit more, I realized, for folks who have alcoholic or other substance-y backgrounds, and behaviors. Folks from my "home" program don't need to be convinced to be more concerned with other people and our perceptions of their needs and feelings. There were some pretty comical moments when examples were given of how we could be considerate and take into account that there are other people in the world who have feelings and needs, and some participants seemed to have lightbulbs going off over their heads. One list of suggestions for how to be kind to others and in the world was well over half-filled with things I do routinely. Things that seem like common human decency, many of 'em. And I have my ongoing self-care imperative/direction, and a therapist nudging me back to it here and there over the years, and the codependency recovery that has that aim as well. So there's a way that I have realized I've got to do a kinda special cobbling-together customization take-what-you-like-and-leave-the-rest, and I've been face-to-face with that sorta lonely idea, while working this workshop. I suppose it's appropriate, but sheesh. It is pretty lonesome.
Reminds me a little bit of my personal experience of gender identity, and having rather designed my own, negotiated my own way, like Will Shortz putting together a major in puzzles. Suddenly I'm feeling like giving myself credit for that, and acknowledging what a challenge it's been. When I think about it that way, I'm impressed with myself. Proud, even. Usually my thoughts around that have been about how annoying cultural gender stuff has been---how unjust, irritating, stupid, limiting, power-structure-supporting, brainwashy, etc. Nice to stop and think that I've found ways, that work more or less with the times & my circumstances, to be more comfortable in my skin, and at least a little free of a good chunk of the bullshit.
Wonder if I'm writing here as a way of putting off chores. Did the payroll already, along with 11 other things on my list of 28 items, a good handful of which are optional. Procrastinated a little more to count the items on the list! Hahahaha. Aiming to fill the compost bin after the out-in-the-world chores, so really should get t'movin'. It'll be sunny and 72 by the time I'm back from the store.
Still haven't remembered what I was gonna write!
