The Start of a Busy Week
Jan. 27th, 2025 04:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mousmeToday is Day 1 of taking only my prescribed blood pressure medication and none of the wacky supplements I've been trying in the desperate hopes that they will do something about my crushing levels of fatigue. I also didn't take any melatonin last night, which I started a while back as a way to encourage myself not to go to sleep stupidly late. I am still taking my iron supplement and Vitamin C in the evening (because low iron is not something to fuck around with), and a multivitamin in the morning, but that's it. I've cut out everything else, and there is an embarrassing amount of it, quite frankly.
I did go to bed late, but still within acceptable parameters (around 23:30), especially given that I'm working evenings this week, so I'll actually be getting to bed after 01:00 until Saturday, since my shift ends at midnight. Back when I worked for Boomerang I really liked the evening shift, but it was 14:00 to 22:00 rather than 16:00 to 24:00, and I find that finishing at midnight really throws me off my game. However, this morning I had an appointment at 08:00 to get my car rust-proofed (past!Phnee thought this was a perfectly reasonable time to schedule things, curse her). I was pleasantly surprised at how little time it took, and a little unpleasantly surprised at the price, although I encountered that surprise many weeks ago when I was first researching rust-proofing. I also caught sight of two tiny rust spots starting on my car already, and I am deeply annoyed. I will have to contact Steve the Wonder Mechanic and arrange to have him do a hopefully itty-bitty cosmetic job come the spring. I doubt it will be like the nearly-two-month ordeal from October/November, because these two tiny spots have only just appeared and haven't been festering for, oh, six or seven years the way the previous one had been. I'm hoping it will just be a question of a bit of sanding and re-painting.
Peggy's 11:15 appointment to get her bum squished went just fine. Poor thing, she did have one impacted anal gland, and it's really quite painful to have it all cleaned out, but she was a trooper and got lots and lots of treats out of it. Our favourite vet tech is pregnant and will be going on maternity leave in a month, and we are going to miss her dearly while she's away, but we're very excited for her, as this is her first baby! I should make a note to get her a card before she leaves.
I managed to be even a little productive when I got home, which is kind of unusual for me. I cleared the kitchen sink, ran the dishwasher, and gathered up all the recycling to put in the bins outside. It's kind of depressing that this is what counts as "being productive" for me these days, but I will take even the smallest of wins these days. Then I packed up a lunch and a snack for work, crated the dogs (much to their dismay), and managed to get to work on time! Frankly, it's something of a miracle that everything got done and on time today, given my track record.
There is still no word about my composting worms. I am very disappointed. On the other hand, I wouldn't have had time to pick them up today, so I suppose that's okay. Tomorrow or even Wednesday is probably better, because I only have one commitment on those days outside of work. Thursday I theoretically only have one appointment too, but it's likely to take longer than the others, and Friday's M&C meeting could take an hour or it could take three, it kind of depends on a bunch of factors. Anyway, I guess we'll see. I will be following up by email tomorrow to see what's going on with the worms. Maybe they needed an extra business day to scoop the worms out of wherever they keep them, I don't know. Maybe they're growing a new batch of worms from scratch. ;)
KK asked me yesterday if it was still okay to call worms "hermaphrodites," since that word is considered insulting by the intersex community, and while the question was hilarious I am happy she thought about it, because I had honestly not given it any thought at all. We talked about it and landed on the conclusion that it was probably fine because worms aren't intersex the way people are, they truly do have the full sexual characteristics of each sex and are capable of reproduction both ways. But yeah, discussing the appropriate way to gender worms was not on my Bingo card for this weekend!
In the meantime, I took a few days "off" listening to audiobooks, and am back in the saddle today. What's a tiny bit frustrating is that there don't appear to be available copies of the books I'd like to listen to at my local library. As in, they don't have any copies, not that they've all been checked out. So if I want to listen to them, I think I may be forced to acquire them through Audible. BLECH. If you all have any suggestions for audiobook resources that aren't Audible/Amazon, I am all ears! Pun fully intended.
I think that's it for today. I'm going to settle in for my evening shift with my latest audiobook and hope things go smoothly.
I did go to bed late, but still within acceptable parameters (around 23:30), especially given that I'm working evenings this week, so I'll actually be getting to bed after 01:00 until Saturday, since my shift ends at midnight. Back when I worked for Boomerang I really liked the evening shift, but it was 14:00 to 22:00 rather than 16:00 to 24:00, and I find that finishing at midnight really throws me off my game. However, this morning I had an appointment at 08:00 to get my car rust-proofed (past!Phnee thought this was a perfectly reasonable time to schedule things, curse her). I was pleasantly surprised at how little time it took, and a little unpleasantly surprised at the price, although I encountered that surprise many weeks ago when I was first researching rust-proofing. I also caught sight of two tiny rust spots starting on my car already, and I am deeply annoyed. I will have to contact Steve the Wonder Mechanic and arrange to have him do a hopefully itty-bitty cosmetic job come the spring. I doubt it will be like the nearly-two-month ordeal from October/November, because these two tiny spots have only just appeared and haven't been festering for, oh, six or seven years the way the previous one had been. I'm hoping it will just be a question of a bit of sanding and re-painting.
Peggy's 11:15 appointment to get her bum squished went just fine. Poor thing, she did have one impacted anal gland, and it's really quite painful to have it all cleaned out, but she was a trooper and got lots and lots of treats out of it. Our favourite vet tech is pregnant and will be going on maternity leave in a month, and we are going to miss her dearly while she's away, but we're very excited for her, as this is her first baby! I should make a note to get her a card before she leaves.
I managed to be even a little productive when I got home, which is kind of unusual for me. I cleared the kitchen sink, ran the dishwasher, and gathered up all the recycling to put in the bins outside. It's kind of depressing that this is what counts as "being productive" for me these days, but I will take even the smallest of wins these days. Then I packed up a lunch and a snack for work, crated the dogs (much to their dismay), and managed to get to work on time! Frankly, it's something of a miracle that everything got done and on time today, given my track record.
There is still no word about my composting worms. I am very disappointed. On the other hand, I wouldn't have had time to pick them up today, so I suppose that's okay. Tomorrow or even Wednesday is probably better, because I only have one commitment on those days outside of work. Thursday I theoretically only have one appointment too, but it's likely to take longer than the others, and Friday's M&C meeting could take an hour or it could take three, it kind of depends on a bunch of factors. Anyway, I guess we'll see. I will be following up by email tomorrow to see what's going on with the worms. Maybe they needed an extra business day to scoop the worms out of wherever they keep them, I don't know. Maybe they're growing a new batch of worms from scratch. ;)
KK asked me yesterday if it was still okay to call worms "hermaphrodites," since that word is considered insulting by the intersex community, and while the question was hilarious I am happy she thought about it, because I had honestly not given it any thought at all. We talked about it and landed on the conclusion that it was probably fine because worms aren't intersex the way people are, they truly do have the full sexual characteristics of each sex and are capable of reproduction both ways. But yeah, discussing the appropriate way to gender worms was not on my Bingo card for this weekend!
In the meantime, I took a few days "off" listening to audiobooks, and am back in the saddle today. What's a tiny bit frustrating is that there don't appear to be available copies of the books I'd like to listen to at my local library. As in, they don't have any copies, not that they've all been checked out. So if I want to listen to them, I think I may be forced to acquire them through Audible. BLECH. If you all have any suggestions for audiobook resources that aren't Audible/Amazon, I am all ears! Pun fully intended.
I think that's it for today. I'm going to settle in for my evening shift with my latest audiobook and hope things go smoothly.
