Productive girl is productive

[serene]

Proud of myself for all I did today:

1) Got up early and went to work.
2) Went home from work after 4.5 hours, before I was too tired to run errands.
3) Took a nice walk with someotherguy.
4) Went to the County Clerk and filed Fictitious Business Names for 42 Magazine and JAFSP (the small press that's going to publish our books)
5) Went to the post office and got a PO box for the magazine (P.O. Box 3086, Oakland, CA 94609).
6) Made yummy chicken and rice for dinner.
7) Organized all my medical receipts, and all the receipts for the magazine, and recorded them all.
8) Talked my mom down, for about an hour, from just ending it all. Truth be told, we're figuring out what to do if and when she decides to check out. I'm sad about it, but ultimately completely in favor of giving her all the power in this situation.
9) Took a shower.
10) Remembered all my meds, and took them all on time.

Now, I know a lot of those sound like easy things to do, but my energy has been iffy lately, and came and went today, so the way I figure it, I rock like a rockin' thing.

Comments

[leback.livejournal.com]

You totally rock! To me, that sounds like a *ton* to accomplish in one day, and none of it easy. Seriously.

I'm sorry to hear your mother's so close to letting go, but you are awesome for letting it be her call, and also for putting your support behind her continuing to hang in there. I hope tomorrow is better for her than today was.

[redandfiery.livejournal.com]

Seconded, on all points. serenejournal, honey, you do indeed rock like a rockin' thing.

[firecat]

To-done lists can be pretty useful.

8. [hugs]

[redbird]

Few of those strike me as inherently easy, and a post I read just before this was from someone who was belatedly realizing that the reason she'd felt so bad for hours was that she had gotten off schedule and forgotten her meds.

Figuring out what to do if and when your mother decides to end it is not easy, but well done (or well worth doing, at least). You rock hard for recognizing that just now, while you've talked her down from ending it today.

[custardfairy.livejournal.com]

Woo! Go you! (Strangely, I also ended up making chicken and rice for dinner when my dolma plan failed after not finding grape leaves in two different stores.)

[tracytreefrog.livejournal.com]

You so ROCK!

[tiger-spot.livejournal.com]

8 all by itself sounds like a good day's work. ::hugs::

[darklily1.livejournal.com]

I think that you got alot accomplished...more than I did! (note to self...pay and mail my business license renewal stuff off today, Serene is is showing me up). ; )


I'm sorry to hear about #8. That's an exceptionally hard thing.


It's like juggling. You start out with one ball and once life sees you can handle it, she tosses another and another...

[vito-excalibur.livejournal.com]

Uh, actually, for me that would be a lot to get done in a day. Don't have artificially inflated expectations for your energy level leading to an artificially deflated sense of accomplishment! You are still kind of amazing.

And all my sympathy for your mom. :/

[ptigris.livejournal.com]

I am constantly amazed at the grace on positive outlook you display every day under such extraordinary circumstances.

Serene, you are so unique and so wonderful - I'm so lucky to know you.

[nolly.livejournal.com]

Frankly, none of those sound all that easy to me. It's mor ethan I accomplish most days.