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I forgot about Dreamwidth
Weirdly, I forgot that DW existed when I promised myself I'd start my journaling again this year. To be fair, I spent most of my journaling time on LiveJournal over the years, and DW for the longest time was my "backup account." So I naturally gravitated back to LJ rather than DW, and was only reminded of it a couple of days ago.
So, now I shall resume my old habits of posting here and cross-posting to LJ. LJ has updated its UI, too, and I have cultivated a deep and intense hatred for it. ;) It's incredibly unintuitive and has lost a lot of the functionalities that the old UI had, including being able to just create entries either using rich text or my old friend html. God, I miss being able to use html on the internet on a whim.
I made a point of importing the entries I made on LJ since the beginning of the month, and that way I'll have them here in case anything happens to my LJ, not that I think it's in immediate danger of being deleted or anything.
Today's post is going to be short, because I've just finished a week of night shifts and had to stay for five extra hours today because two coworkers called in sick and they desperately needed someone to cover during that time. So needless to say, I am tired. I picked up groceries on the way home, then put them away, grabbed a quick snack of leftover tourtière, and then crashed for a three hour nap. Once I'm done updating here it'll be time to get the dogs sorted out before bed: I now have a routine of giving the Brittanies a quick brush/comb behind the ears so they don't develop mats, and then they get their teeth brushed. I wasn't good about it before, but we've been brushing their teeth pretty much every night for a year now, and I think it's doing everyone a world of good to have their oral hygiene better taken care of, especially Rika, as chihuahuas are prone to tooth decay. So, yes, soon it will be "time for ears and teefs!"
Then I will fervently hope that the enterprising rabbit pair who likely live in my neighbour's yard won't decide to go for a nightly stroll right past my back yard. The sight of them inevitably unleashes a torrent of excited Brittany screaming, and no one except the dogs enjoys that.
Tomorrow morning I have a woefully early start for Quaker Meeting, and in the afternoon I have the dual role of playing "tech support" (i.e. hosting the Zoom Meeting) and being a representative of Ministry & Counsel for a Claremont Dialogue we are having to get people's contributions for the State of Society Report. For those who are unfamiliar with Quakerism (which is most people), a Claremont Dialogue is a kind of worship sharing that takes the form of a circle process. We go around the circle and everyone gets a chance to speak what's on their mind, ideally letting themselves be guided by God/Spirit/the Light/etc., and a little silence is maintained after each sharing. There is no back-and-forth, and participants are encouraged to share their own leanings and not to "respond" to whatever others have shared, as the goal is not debate, but the pooling together of experience. I quite like the format, and it has led to some pretty transformative experiences for a lot of people over the years. Circle processes in general are pretty great for healing and processing and moving through difficult things.
So that's it for now. I've also been posting off and on on BlueSky, mostly progress pictures of my current knitting project, my first-ever sock! I posted a few preliminary pictures on my LJ too, but BlueSky is where I've been doing most of my wailing and gnashing of teeth, because turning a heel is an absolute bear. I am going to pick it up again when I'm less sleep deprived and have the time to devote to concentrate on it, maybe tomorrow afternoon after the Claremont Dialogue.
Catch you all later!
So, now I shall resume my old habits of posting here and cross-posting to LJ. LJ has updated its UI, too, and I have cultivated a deep and intense hatred for it. ;) It's incredibly unintuitive and has lost a lot of the functionalities that the old UI had, including being able to just create entries either using rich text or my old friend html. God, I miss being able to use html on the internet on a whim.
I made a point of importing the entries I made on LJ since the beginning of the month, and that way I'll have them here in case anything happens to my LJ, not that I think it's in immediate danger of being deleted or anything.
Today's post is going to be short, because I've just finished a week of night shifts and had to stay for five extra hours today because two coworkers called in sick and they desperately needed someone to cover during that time. So needless to say, I am tired. I picked up groceries on the way home, then put them away, grabbed a quick snack of leftover tourtière, and then crashed for a three hour nap. Once I'm done updating here it'll be time to get the dogs sorted out before bed: I now have a routine of giving the Brittanies a quick brush/comb behind the ears so they don't develop mats, and then they get their teeth brushed. I wasn't good about it before, but we've been brushing their teeth pretty much every night for a year now, and I think it's doing everyone a world of good to have their oral hygiene better taken care of, especially Rika, as chihuahuas are prone to tooth decay. So, yes, soon it will be "time for ears and teefs!"
Then I will fervently hope that the enterprising rabbit pair who likely live in my neighbour's yard won't decide to go for a nightly stroll right past my back yard. The sight of them inevitably unleashes a torrent of excited Brittany screaming, and no one except the dogs enjoys that.
Tomorrow morning I have a woefully early start for Quaker Meeting, and in the afternoon I have the dual role of playing "tech support" (i.e. hosting the Zoom Meeting) and being a representative of Ministry & Counsel for a Claremont Dialogue we are having to get people's contributions for the State of Society Report. For those who are unfamiliar with Quakerism (which is most people), a Claremont Dialogue is a kind of worship sharing that takes the form of a circle process. We go around the circle and everyone gets a chance to speak what's on their mind, ideally letting themselves be guided by God/Spirit/the Light/etc., and a little silence is maintained after each sharing. There is no back-and-forth, and participants are encouraged to share their own leanings and not to "respond" to whatever others have shared, as the goal is not debate, but the pooling together of experience. I quite like the format, and it has led to some pretty transformative experiences for a lot of people over the years. Circle processes in general are pretty great for healing and processing and moving through difficult things.
So that's it for now. I've also been posting off and on on BlueSky, mostly progress pictures of my current knitting project, my first-ever sock! I posted a few preliminary pictures on my LJ too, but BlueSky is where I've been doing most of my wailing and gnashing of teeth, because turning a heel is an absolute bear. I am going to pick it up again when I'm less sleep deprived and have the time to devote to concentrate on it, maybe tomorrow afternoon after the Claremont Dialogue.
Catch you all later!