mousme | Full of Greek Food (Reply)

My parents took me to Philinos, a frankly delicious Greek restaurant on the Plateau. Did I have Greek food with Luanna yesterday? Yes. Do I care that I had it twice in a row? Absolutely not. Philinos is pricey (I am so glad my parents paid for it as a birthday present), but oh my God it was so good. Mouth-watering. We shared entrées of calamari, roasted vegetables, and dolmakiate, and then my mother and I shared a main course of rack of lamb. Dessert was baklava and a walnut cake whose name escapes me and a Greek coffee. I will say the dessert was not the best part of the meal, and if we ever go again I am likely to skip directly to the coffee.

I am so very full, I may never walk normally again.

I slept in today until 11:30, which was absolutely delicious. Sleeping in my parents' guest bed is always something of an adventure in discomfort, because the mattress is extremely soft and therefore it tends to throw my back out of whack. Yes, I am officially Old because I throw my back out two to three times a year (old and in poor physical condition, I should specify), and at home I have a mattress that's far m0re firm as well as a nice orthotic pillow to help keep all my various joints aligned, which keeps my back from doing terrible, painful things to me. Also, the guest bedroom is hideously hot at night, for some reason. I will try cracking open the window tonight to see if that helps.

Many months ago, possibly a couple of years back at this point, I mentioned to some of my friends that you can tell when you start aging because you start needing more and more equipment to get a restful night of sleep that doesn't end up with you waking up in pain the next morning. These days I have my orthotic pillow, as mentioned, as well as a mouthguard so I don't grind my teeth into bone dust, and now wrist braces to help with suspected carpal tunnel syndrome. And of course I have an eye mask for when I'm working nights and have to sleep during the day, because it's the only way I can block enough of the daylight (yes, I have blackout curtains) in order to stay asleep for at least five hours. Ideally I try to sleep for seven hours, but sleeping during the day can be something of a challenge, so five hours is "good enough."

Honestly, human bodies are ridiculous.

Since my flesh suit insists on being fallible, I have decided to make a deliberate effort to take better care of it this year. Specifically I am talking about seeking more medical care, not the usual New Year's stuff about eating healthier or exercising more and all that. Not that that isn't important, but it's not going at the top of my list. I have a few things that I've been not exactly ignoring, but definitely not prioritizing, and this year I have resolved to push past my reluctance to put myself at the mercy of doctors and at least try to get some of these issues dealt with.

I have a lot to get done before I go back to work on Tuesday (I have Monday off to compensate for New Year's Day falling on my "regular time off"), so hopefully I will have time to get to all of it tomorrow evening after I get back from Montreal and on Monday. Somehow this whole week has gone by in an absolute flash, and I got much less done than I'd hoped.

Tomorrow morning I will have to get up a bit early because I've volunteered to be the Online Greeter for my Quaker Meeting, and that means logging into the Zoom Meeting a bit early and then monitoring things, and providing a relevant reading for people to ponder, should they so desire. That means that, unlike last night when I went to bed at nearly midgnight, I need to get to sleep at a much more reasonable time. (I also had several glasses of wine with dinner which have caught up to me, which is yet another reason to call it a night).

I keep thinking of things that I should write about here that would take much longer to write about, and promising myself that I will devote later posts to them, so eventually I will have to actually write those posts instead of just promising that I will. Maybe I will try for one of those tomorrow. It will be my birthday, after all, so maybe I will indulge myself and write about a pet topic of some kind.

In the meantime, good night folks! See you on the flip side. :)