Playing a bit of catchup

Belated and otherwise big Libra Ups so far to athene, inle_rah, riordon, Twinky Assistant (even though he don't read this) and truetooneme...

and that's just so far. I am kinda amused and horrified by the breakdown of the rest of this month!

Urglewop

Definitely overestimated my spoons today. I'm not quite wiped out, but I am firmly not doing anything horribly taxing for the rest of the day. I think I burned through my initial morning bouncies by making myself breakfast this morning, but you know, I wanted to let sunny sleep, she's been doing so much of the waiting on me hand and foot thing... bah. Oh well, it was at least a tasty and satisfying breakfast, though I think next time some toast will be in order as well.

Swelling continues to recede, though I'm still appalled at my Stay Puft Toasted Marshmallow ankles. Still, it's very very nice seeing my knees again.

Blood sugar has fallen to normal! *dance* I was very good and did not immediately celebrate by binging on something horribly sweet, even though I did have this dream that involved probably the best vanilla shake ever made last night, lol. Also got the summary of my full hospital report at the doc's today, which thankfully the invisible hematologist had contributed quite an extensive report to. No more blood thinner again ever, holler if I get pregnant, don't sit dead still for more than 2.5 hours at a stretch. I'm going to do some research on Vitamin K and stuff on my own simply because it will make me feel better to be aware of it, and in the spirit of doing medical homework and stuff. Plus I find it perversely funny to have a medical reason to not have salad, lol. ;) Not that that's actually true, cause i could have kale every day if I wanted to, but I'm not gonna. Still. it'll be nice to reintegrate broccoli and spinach and seaweed and the green leafys I actually like back into my diet.

I get to start weaning myself off another med tomorrow, dance. No more headmeds for now until the rest of this shit stabilizes. Pretty much the consensus is that I'm doing amazingly well, now all I gotta do is rest, feed up and get better. And you know, not push it/stress/get eaten by to-do lists. ;) Easier said than done, lol.

sundart is making applesauce downstairs. Nom.

Doo doo doo doo doooooooooo, doo doo doooooooo doo dooooooo....

I think if Mom knew that I just spent the last couple hours squeeing over the pilot episode of Murder She Wrote, she'd laugh. I mean, come on, who among us that grew up in the 80s doesn't have that theme wedged into their subconscious?? I mean, I'm gonna be humming it for like a week...

Gods. Angela Lansbury was the cutest little old busybody, wasn't she?

New Years, beginnings, whatever

As I wish my Jewish friends Shana Tova, my own head is turning to the fact that Samhain is coming up... and after that the orgy of $winterholidays. It's gonna be interesting from a news/economy perspective, the Giftmas hype, and I'm somewhat perversely looking forward to dramatic woeful reporting of the holiday belt tightening afoot. But that's neither here nor there.

It's amazingly hard to conceptualize a new beginning or an end without some sort of calendar marker to identify that time is passing. I just find it interesting that there are so many events by which to mark a cultural new beginning - New years, be they in January, February, September, October, or December. Anniversaries of things, births, deaths, major milestones... It's just kinda interesting to me that throughout the year, there are so many opportunities for renewal, with each one having their own interesting traditions...

Anyway... in terms of my own journey through the cycles, I'm realizing that I'm at a curious point in my life where things are indeed coming to ends/beginnings. I'm 30, coming down from probably one of the worst years health and sanity wise I've ever had just by itself, and I have been rather ready to be done with my 20s for a while, as though they have brought me many hard earned lessons and blessings, I also regard them as a period of loss... of focus, direction, people, aspects of myself... So this month there is a definite sense of staring ahead into the ether and going "okay... done with x, y and z... now what?" and at the same time being aware that some major chapters in my life are tying up and winding to a close, and... being okay with that in a way that I really would not have been even two weeks ago.

What's next? what is the new year, whenever it may start, going to be like? I have no idea. But I'm optimistic about it for the first time in a very long while, and that's something.

Time to take my meds and put myself to bed, I think. Shower can wait until morning.

Tweets for Today

Andee...

• 03:09 is awake for a few minutes
• 07:39 is awake for real, and kinda both appalled and looking forward to another busy day.
• 12:59 has overestimated her spoons for today, but is not unduly troubled by this.
• 16:11 is a bit better after a nap and homemade rosy applesauce from heirloom apples. mmmmm.
• 19:26 was just watching the pilot ep of Murder She Wrote. I feel so dorky.
• 20:18 is now a fan of Very Vanilla Silk. That stuff is TASTEH.
• 22:37 is going to bed.

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