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Oct. 30th, 2004 09:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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stonebender's for the day:
My neighbors are out of town, so I walked over around 7:30 this morning and let their cat out for them before going back to bed.
Let me just repeat that for emphasis:
My neighbors are out of town, so I let their cat out for them.
I have neighbors!
I mean, I guess you could say I've always had neighbors, but I just love that I have neighbors I care about (including the ones with the cat, but also including a few others) in this place so far away from the home of my childhood. Happy.
My bruises are almost all better. My ouchiness is a lot better. However, a couple of spots on my chest, where the airbag hit me, don't appear to be getting better. I think I'll go to the doctor tomorrow or Tuesday (Monday is my first day at the new job, and shapenote sing in the evening).
Made a batch of my mother's spaghetti sauce, the thing I grew up on. It takes a full day or so to cook, and it's been simmering on the stove since yesterday afternoon. It's almost done, and I've already eaten the not-yet-done stuff over white bread a few times. This is the way it was done in my youth, and it sure does make me feel at home. Called my mom a few times yesterday while she was holding my brand new nibling (my brother's eighth child) to ask her for specifics on the recipe. I made a MUCH smaller batch than she does, but it's just about perfect.
On my walk to the neighbors' this morning, I had a thought. My happiness goes with me. I sometimes attribute it to my partners, but I think it's just part of me. This has been a hell of a week, so clearly circumstances are not to blame, and I have barely seen my partners, so that's not it either. I think I'm just a generally happy person, and forgive me, but that makes me happy, too. Yeesh.
Missing cute-poet-chick a lot lately. Wishing I had been better to her; wishing she had been what I needed, and vice versa. Wishing. *sigh*
I'm being pretty careful where I put my social energy these days. I should probably have more of it now that I'll only be working two days a week outside the home, but even so, I've blocked off lots of time on our family calendar for days of being home and unscheduled. I've also resolved not to schedule stuff on workdays unless it's a special case, which probably means weekend stuff is out for a good long time. Looks like Fridays will be my main social time, and I'm looking forward to having people over more often, especially because it takes *lots* less social energy for me to have people over than it does for me to get in my car and go to them. (This is one of the only real sadnesses related to my move -- it's impossible for some of the people I love to drop by my place, either because of access or distance.)
Now I'm going to finish up the sauce and head over tostonebender's. You all have a great day!
stonebender's for the day:My neighbors are out of town, so I walked over around 7:30 this morning and let their cat out for them before going back to bed.
Let me just repeat that for emphasis:
My neighbors are out of town, so I let their cat out for them.
I have neighbors!
I mean, I guess you could say I've always had neighbors, but I just love that I have neighbors I care about (including the ones with the cat, but also including a few others) in this place so far away from the home of my childhood. Happy.
My bruises are almost all better. My ouchiness is a lot better. However, a couple of spots on my chest, where the airbag hit me, don't appear to be getting better. I think I'll go to the doctor tomorrow or Tuesday (Monday is my first day at the new job, and shapenote sing in the evening).
Made a batch of my mother's spaghetti sauce, the thing I grew up on. It takes a full day or so to cook, and it's been simmering on the stove since yesterday afternoon. It's almost done, and I've already eaten the not-yet-done stuff over white bread a few times. This is the way it was done in my youth, and it sure does make me feel at home. Called my mom a few times yesterday while she was holding my brand new nibling (my brother's eighth child) to ask her for specifics on the recipe. I made a MUCH smaller batch than she does, but it's just about perfect.
On my walk to the neighbors' this morning, I had a thought. My happiness goes with me. I sometimes attribute it to my partners, but I think it's just part of me. This has been a hell of a week, so clearly circumstances are not to blame, and I have barely seen my partners, so that's not it either. I think I'm just a generally happy person, and forgive me, but that makes me happy, too. Yeesh.
Missing cute-poet-chick a lot lately. Wishing I had been better to her; wishing she had been what I needed, and vice versa. Wishing. *sigh*
I'm being pretty careful where I put my social energy these days. I should probably have more of it now that I'll only be working two days a week outside the home, but even so, I've blocked off lots of time on our family calendar for days of being home and unscheduled. I've also resolved not to schedule stuff on workdays unless it's a special case, which probably means weekend stuff is out for a good long time. Looks like Fridays will be my main social time, and I'm looking forward to having people over more often, especially because it takes *lots* less social energy for me to have people over than it does for me to get in my car and go to them. (This is one of the only real sadnesses related to my move -- it's impossible for some of the people I love to drop by my place, either because of access or distance.)
Now I'm going to finish up the sauce and head over to
stonebender's. You all have a great day!![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Date: 2004-10-30 05:05 pm (UTC)Follow the directions on the package and don't get any other brands. This brand of arnica gel is suggested by the women's competition team of Jae H. Kim's Tae Kwon Do Institute. We've been through nearly all brands and this one works the best.
Sometimes it comes with little arnica pellets, too, which can be good.
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Date: 2004-10-30 05:23 pm (UTC)2) You're doing shapenote singing now too? How nifty. Have you always done it, or did
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Date: 2004-10-30 06:29 pm (UTC)The sauce sounds wonderful. I can smell it from here!
Have a delicious weekend in every way! xoxxo's
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Date: 2004-10-31 07:54 am (UTC)yay! shapenote!
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Date: 2004-10-31 07:14 pm (UTC)(in related news, i was talking about how i converted michele from being a republican which she was when i met her, to being a democrat and how a friend said i should get some sort of small appliance for *that*. i told this story to
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