two week experiment
Per life coach Mark Reklau
3 things I’m thankful for
3 things that made me happy today
3 things I did well today
2 Affirmations
How could I have made today better
What’s my most important to do tomorrow?
I am thankful for my mOm and pOp and brO.
- food in the freezer 2. tea in the cupboard 3 I have enough printer ink to print out the book mOm wants
1 I made fried bread 2 I slept like a boss 3 the weather’s glorious again
Every day in every way I am getting deader and deader
I affirm that affirmations suck and they really only work for people who don’t have Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria LOL
I could have made today better by staying off social media
Tomorrow I will continue to clean small focussed areas of the house.
saturday has no meaning
Media drive is acting weird; Jeff is on it.
Normally I’d be hearing from Katie for breakfast today but all of our habits are shot and besides she has a boyfriend.
Chadwick Boseman’s death (he was the Black Panther) is really ruining a lot of Black people’s weekends right now. The outpouring of grief, of feeling cheated, of feeling that anything good is immediately ripped away, is palpable. See how other black creators held him up on his way to the stars.
Bed back together
I now have a fresh mattress on my bed. As I was putting the weighted blanket back in its cover, I became glad I have two covers thanks to the kids (they gave me an extra cover, I guess they know me or something) because the zipper broke on the winter-weight one. BUT I HAD A SPARE and carried on regardless. I’ll get the other one repaired.
I should call Burnaby pickup.
My west coast Indigenous style masks came. They look like this. and this. I was going to give the hummingbird one to mOm but I think I’m going to keep it, it’s fantastic, and I do love the other ones. And I is greedy. Anyway mOm if you do love the hummingbird one so much you have to have it, just make sure you wash it when I bring it o.O he he
I see from social media that cousin Alex is making a skirt for herself today, and as she wryly commented it was a better activity choice than doomscrolling through the news.
9859 10059 words on the fic
Weather continues unbelievably fine
scanged from twitter
Some son of a seacook stole my bank card details so TD fraud prevention called me and cancelled it and I went in to the New West branch to get another one. Much standing in line, but they come out and bring the elderly into chairs, so that was okay. Picked up batteries for the D’Addario tuner Mike bought me at London Drugs. Also some thumb drives, the 64 gig ones were cheap like borscht.
Poked my head into the New Westminster Library; there’s this writer called Silvia Moreno-Garcia I follow on twitter (I almost met her in real life but she’s TOO GOOD for spits (dunnett events) so No) and she’s forever going on and on and fucking on about a book she wrote called Mexican Gothic, so I put it on hold at the library. I poked my head into Freshii and got a strawberry banana smoothie – delightful, rather small, and not too sweet – and picked up some plant trays for the seedlings I’m growing indoors and finally moved them to their permanent spot in the only remaining south facing window, the one under the cat tree.
Walked about 1.5 k in total, and now I am home. Stayed masked the whole time, took the bus into New West and wandered around. You are obliged to wear a mask on transit now.
mellow day
I’m planning a calm day at home. I’ve already loaded and unloaded the dishwasher. The two sunflowers have flowered, and we’re gonna have A LOT OF SQUASH, MOSTLY ACORN which, funnily enough, was from an acorn squash we’d just eaten.
I think I forgot to mention that the dogwood flowered again the first week of August.
finally have an appointment with the doc, but it will be weeks before the gtt
Jeff’s off to the dentist. I have replaced my mattress and am now trying to get rid of the debris.
quiet work
I’m continuing to find small areas to clean up and dejunk; got rid of all the kitchen pens that don’t work, always a satisfying activity. Practiced on various instruments; tried to do a small shop but visited the bank instead; hung out with Paul and fed him a toasted ciabatta with chopped cooked asparagus and bacon, jalapeño havarti and sweet onion. He pronounced it tolerably edible and dragged away another piece of bacon like a damned dog to eat separately.
Fic’s up to 9500 words. I’m going to dab every trope on that damned bingo card, see if I don’t.
Finally got hold of the doc, now I have to check the req is there.
Cartoons
Inkyrickshaw.com
Credit @nobonzo on twitter
also this
also the above noted. I’m following her on instagram now, she has some AMAZING tshirts on Etsy.
Ordered Indian food last night. I shouldn’t have but I love butter chicken.
Pet shaming: the public internet practice of hanging a hand lettered sign over your pet’s neck detailing the dreffle thing they did and posting it. Demon shaming (artist unknown)
slept most of the morning
I’m sleepy, but Paul and I got out for a walk and I ran the dishes and now Jeff and I are going to watch Elementary.
Lentil soup for brekky, and when Paul came over I made him a jalapeño havarti and cucumber toasted bagel, and tea, which he devoured as is his wont.
Starting to think that a trip to Victoria should happen sooner rather than later.
Fanfic is 9400 words. If only I could care about Upsun, but I can’t bring myself to do it.
Splendid hummingbird
Rainbow Starfrontlet Hummingbird Ecuador/ photo credit Jorge Luis Cruz Alcivar /San Jorge Ecolodge Quito
Alex was here!
Katie and Alex came over and we watched the Pompeii short animation, and the five most deadly volcanoes video and he played Xenon (‘the tube shot is my favourite’ he said earnestly) and Katie and I talked for a while and it was lovely lovely lovely and he gave me a little hug on the way out the door and he’s missing his two front teeth and he looks like a wee longhaired pumpkin and he had a Captain America shirt and Minecraft socks.
Bureaucrats with weapons
From David Graeber’s Utopia with Rules -open in new tab to embiggen
Heard from Mike last night, it was SO good to hear his voice. I’ve been out of my house more than he has in the last week, which is tragic.
My emoji
trending on twitter
this coffee table book is currently trending on Twitter
mOm and pOp of course recognize it – it’s been floating around their living room since the year it was published. At the time, the concept did not exist – that hundreds of photographers, professional and otherwise, were supposed to go forth and take a picture on the same day for curation and collection as a snapshot of the zeitgeist.
Since then, dozens upon dozens of books have been published along this theme, for dozens of countries. This kind of omnibus album became popular.
People have been posting pics from inside the book and making hilarious, occasionally anxious comments about them. It’s great. And that poor cat. And what is the baseball for? is she going to talk to the priest about his handsiness? it looks like a confirmation dress…
and Canada, it was qwhite something then
Also from social media, figureoutthesea AKA Nicolas Demers on Instagram took this at Deer Lake – quite the action shot eh??? He has tons of amazing bird photos, the abovenoted link goes to his blog with better res pics hint hint mOm.
THE INTERNET HAS A CAT AND IT PURRS headphones or good speakers required.
sleeeeep
Me singing “Buy me a beer” at the company Christmas party when I dyed my hair and was still employable.
Lots of Laundry yesterday. A couple of months back I instituted Jeff and I using different hand towels to dry off after we wash our hands, trying not to pass any illnesses that come into the house off to each other. True that COVID is virtually never transferred off objects, but there’s still tons of shit that is hand transferred, especially foodborne stuff. It adds about two minutes to my laundry duties cause there are two washrooms and we both use both of them.
Also, Jeff installed a bidet downstairs. I have dubbed it Neptune’s kiss.
Watching the new Perry Mason show, finding it quite entertaining and better set up than many, many prequels.
Stayed up late last night, I have no idea why. I feel kinda bleary this morning.
Calling the doc tomorrow, trying to start this whole test thing up again.
My new mattress has arrived. I need to open up the box and let it offgas for a while.
There are names for specific ableisms
Vidism is the bigotry encompassing hatred, fear and disgust of Blind people or people with differences in vision;
Audism – bigotry against people who are deaf and hard of hearing
Distantism – bigotry against people who don’t have senses which allow them to communicate when physically removed (hearing and sight)
Phonocentrism – bigotry based on perceived differences in vocal ability, fluency and timbre