maharetr

Today:

'tis wet. Very wet. be careful of water on the roads wet (not flood warnings, but the 'if you have a road that floods, it will' levels of wet)
driving tour for G attempting to hit as many items from their wishlist as possible. Beach and Bell Tower were possible; Fremantle Markets, caves, and whatever I've forgotten were not. We headed for Woodman Point, which is one place where I know that there is a car park right on the beach, so that G didn't have to walk very far (say, 10m total). Then drove what could be an interesting walking tour of Old Fremantle (markets, oval, gaol, arts centre, 2 * high schools), a drive past Heathcote, up the freeway, loop the loop around the Bell Tower, and then out to the aeroport.
relaxed afternoon, doing bugger all.

Yesterday:

Having a somewhat lazy day, after the hectic pace of SwanCon over the weekend (by which I mean that I was in bed well before midnight, and in fact did zero carousing, including failing to go to the Dead Dog). Slept in, dropped G in Innaloo, had anniversary lunch with A in Gwelup.
Other notable tasks of the day include bringing the washing in before it rained, running (and hanging up) two loads of washing, and setting the table back to 'every day' arrangement after having people to dinner on Friday. Every time I do that I think 'should do this more often' because there are so many fabulous people I don't get to catch up with nearly often enough.

Tags:

IT's Tuesday and I have Regrets. I wet for the ASMR back scratching last night, and it was lovely. Relaxing and a little ticklish, but very good. (I need to get some of those little brushes, I loved them.). However, towards the end of my appointment, I noticed that my lower back was a little annoyed, and when I tried to get off the table, it turned out that it was SUPER pissed.

It's still angry today, and work is going to suck. I'll manage, but ouch.

We're officially closing on the house tomorrow, which is nice, I'll have to go over tonight to get a few more things, and then we'll be free!

There's really not a ton of stuff at this point, but I want to do a last run through and make sure I have everything. The most important thing is our documents. We need to grab the handful of stuff that's still relevant out of Dad's file cabinet. We're also picking up the frozen body of our dead cat, Mao. He died like 10 years ago, and we put him in there so we could cremate him when we could afford it. And somehow, we just never did. So now, we're going to do that. He deserves to be on our bookshelf o'ashes.

I'm not sure if I'm going to the farmers market today, we'll see how my back is feeling.

I did the post yesterday for the opening of CONfab's registration. It's virtual this year, held between Discord and zoom. It's a lot of fun, held between 10/17-10/19. If anyone is interested the registration link can be found here.. For more information about the con, you can check out the main website at https://confabcon.com/

Okay, time to go forth and take some fucking motrin. Everyone have an amazing Tuesday!

And somehow, we're back to Monday.

I had an excellent weekend. Saturday and Sunday were both filled with my favorite things, and while I am sad that I don't have another day to fuck around, I'm okay with work today. It's bound to be insane, but it's okay.

It's going to be a busy Monday, but in a good way. I've got work til 4:30, then an appointment for an AMSR back scratching at 5, and then back home for a psych appointment at 6:30pm.

https://www.instagram.com/fitzhairstudio/reel/DJzmxavy1S-/

The morning isn't getting off to the best start, as the dog has begun acting like an asshole. My sister insisted that he had to go, so I took him out, despite the fact that the pain meds haven't kicked in and I am hurting. He'd drag her down the stairs. No matter what she thinks.

I walked him up and down the apartments, and he did absolutely nothing. Then I gimped back in and now I'm pissy. Both with my sister, who wouldn't listen to me when I said that he absolutely did not have to go, and the asshole dog.

I was going to take a shower, but I don't feel like I can go in there, because the moment I did, the dog barked at a noise outside.

The dog is frustrating the hell out of me lately. He's such a sweet baby, but he's also neurotic and a total asshole.

Maybe this weekend, we'll take him for temperament testing at the doggy daycare.

Okay, anyhow. Sunday was fun. I had D&D, and then we made cheese fondue. I think I need a different recipe, because it stayed really thick, but it still tasted amazing. The hot pot still owns my heart, though.

Tonight, I think we're going to have carry out, and then tomorrow when I only have the farmer's market, I'm going to cook steaks. I have two Tbones, and an enormous tomahawk ribeye to cook, and I'm looking forward to it.

I'm debating what I want to have for breakfast now. I usually have a couple of hard boiled eggs, but right now there is so much food in my fridge that it's hard to decide.

Okay, time to get myself together for work. Everyone have the best Monday you can Monday!

I have made zero progress on The Artist's Way in the last, hmm, three? weeks (maybe four, maybe more? I have stopped tracking). I do intend to keep working through it, but I've been doing the cycle of find the book, put it somewhere to progress later, forget, lose the book. My general thoughts

the morning pages are working. I'm doing them in 750words, and that makes it easier in some ways and harder in others. The later in the day I do them the more grumpy I am about doing them, because they really do work for me if I can clear my mind in the morning.
the artist's date idea doesn't work for me. I suspect if I didn't already have space carved out in my life for me to just do my thing, it would make a huge difference, but as it is there is more stress in trying to Do The Thing.
I hate the principles, I stopped reading them daily because I kept wanting to argue with them. Too culturally Christian, and too USian alien mind set (I have the same reaction to a lot of self-help type books out of the USA).
I understand the point of the affirmations, and I have a document of them I can read whenever (I just keep it open, but I should do something more accessible with it), but I find doing that daily beyond tedious. I had it in my daily to do list; I'm taking it out as part of my going-back-to-study paring down (post pending, still making the choices on that)
In the bits I've read, I've felt quite othered, because I don't have a strong feel of myself as a blocked creative.

Long term, I intend to at least read the rest of it. I don't think I want to try and do as many of the exercises. I did a decent job of the week 1, and I might have of the week 2, and I have a log document that I'll leave open. But I think that reading the book and ignoring the exercises might be the best way for me to get anything out of it now. Possibly stopping at the end of each chapter, looking at each question, and allowing max 5 minutes on each writing task (if I feel like writing at all) and then not trying to do a bit every day.

the tl;dr: I didn't like this enough to try and work on it daily.

Tags:

Backdated entry

Three of us got our annual flu vax today; this was slightly less organised than it might have been, and if I'd realised that the web page wasn't going to send the bookings through correctly (we got our confirmation SMSes after we got home) then I might have just tried walk-in (which the sign out the front says they are doing). Very much appreciate that for this month and next flu vax is free for everyone so we don't have to do the 'who is covered' thing. Reminder for Aussies -- flu vax! Get one if you haven't!

addendum Youngest attempted the walk in option, it was even less organised, which I didn't realise was possible.

Tags:

( You're about to view content that the journal owner has advised should be viewed with discretion. )

Tags:

songvid,
srk

( You're about to view content that the journal owner has advised should be viewed with discretion. )

Tags:

I woke up SO fucking sore today. My head and back are just thoroughly pissed off. I took some meds, ad I may lay down for a few minutes. I had trouble gettin to sleep, until after 2 am. I'm very tired. fortunately, I don't have anything to do until 1pm and that's game.

Yesterday was an awesome. My back was behaving, and then I got up and futzed around, then went to go get a pedicure. I opted for the Spa pedicure. and had my legs rubbed until they were limp noodles. Then, we played Arvandor, which was a particularly awesome game. The team dealt with the reality of the Dracolich, and searched for clues, which had some truly outstanding role play. I was very proud of mu babies. They've come a long way from Dragn Heist and Mad Mage. It was really well done, and I'm deeply curioius to see what the players will do next.

The, I began setting the table with the assumption that my new hot pot would come, and lo, it did! One side, we used mushroom soup broth. Very tasty, very mild. On the other, we used Little Sheep hot hot pot broth. I was assured that it was meant to be the less spicy alternative! I may well have been, but it was still pretty spicy.

I had gotten all my Asian groceries from a online retailer named <href="https://www.sayweee.com/en">"Weee!". I really liked them, they have every type of asian you can imagine. They had the hot plate prepared meat, wihch was lovely, made my life easier. and easy mix broths.

All in all, it was a lovely sucess, with delicious food and sauces. I overbought a bit, so we're definitely going to be doing it again. soon. I just need to get another box of mild soup. I'm thinking a nice Miso this time.

After that, we took Yoda on a nice walk, and then came hom. It was the perfect day. Tonight, we shall have cheese fondue for dinner! I stocked up with sourdough bread and granny smith apples. I grated my cheeses, and got some white wine to add to the pot. I'm hoping this works as well as the hot pot did, and is tasty. We shall see.
First, game at 1pm. That'll finish up at 4, at which point, I'll start the garlic and wine in the fondue pot.

Tonight, we may go to IKEA to look at a cabinet for a potential pantry for our kitchen. We desperately need one, as the cupboards are jam packed. I'm hopeful. I'll probably do a bit of a walkthrough and see if there's anything else we want for our apartment. I wouldn't mind a squeezie for the bathroom mirror. And maybe a new kitchen rug.

Monday will be busy. I'm going to be busting my ass all day, then immediately afterwards, I'm going to go get my AMSR Scratch therapy at Fitz Studios. https://www.tiktok.com/@fitzhairstudio/video/7504892058067422494?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7320965213670114859

I've never done this, so I'm curious how it'll be.

After that, I hurry back to have my monthly check in with my psych doctor. Then, sleep.

But first, today! Right now, I am a giant sloth on the couch. Everyone have an amazing Sunday!!

( You're about to view content that the journal owner has advised should be viewed with discretion. )

Tags:

It's Saturday! And a day when I don't have to work, so I slept in until nearly 7:30. It was lovely. My back feels a bit better today, which is nice. I'm still going to take my anti infammatories for a couple of more days, though.

Yesterday was bugfuck busy. We had a bunch of late cancellations, so I was getting a TON of emails to schedule urgent patients in those spots. It was a lot. But that's okay, we got a lot of urgent patients the slots they needed. After work, I had our annual training material to work through. Honestly, I did most of it while I was working, and just fucked around for the majority of the hour afterwards that I was supposed to be training. I get paid OT for the extra hour, so I'm happy.

Today is kind of a question mark. We have a game at 12:30, and my sister has a birthday party, so that part is done. The question will be what we do afterwards. I got a grocery order to make hot pot, so that may be what we do for dinner. This may depend on whether the hot pot itself gets here on time. Otherwise, we may do the hot pot in a fondue pot, which will sadly only allow for one broth. (the hot pot has a divider that lets you do two. My grocery order, which has the hot pot meats is due in between 9:30 and 12:30, so hopefully it gets here before game.

I got so much shit. Dipping sauces and rice cakes and gyoza as well as the meats. I ordered from Weee!, which is an Asian grocery delivery service. I swear, they have everything. If the delivery goes smoothly, and the stuff is good, I can see making them a regular part of our shopping.

Tomorrow my sister has another birthday party, and I have a game at 1pm, so I'll have to see what we're going to have for dinner.

And now, I must get myself together, as I am going to get a pedicure. My toenails desperately need attention, but with my back, I definitely can't do it right now, so off to let a pro handle it.

Everyone have an excellent Saturday!

In a magical version of the medieval Middle East, a middle-aged single mom, who was once the notorious pirate Amina al-Sirafi, is dragged out of retirement for one final job.

This book is a complete and utter delight from start to finish. It has all the pirate tropes you could possibly want - sea battles! sea monsters! quests for magical objects! loyal crews! tossed overboard! marooned! - and sly twists on others. It's got great characters. It's got hilarious dialogue and character interactions. The world is wonderfully detailed and varied, full of plausible historical details and with a lovely faux-historical feel. There are stories within stories. It's all marvelous.

As a child, I had a book called Muslim Saints and Mystics, which was a translation of parts of the Tazkirat al-Awliyā, a collection of stories about Muslim saints written around 1200. It was funny and magical, and some of the stories-within-stories in Amina al-Sirafi have a similar feel. The novel neatly toes the line between dialogue that feels fairly contemporary and a plausibly historical mindset. Amina is horny as hell, but a serious Muslim who believes in not having sex before marriage; as a result, she's had five husbands. There's a major trans character, in addition to several gay characters; Amina has come across people before who prefer to live as the other sex, and takes it in stride without resorting to Tumblr-esque labels or attitudes.

I loved every moment of this book, and was delighted that though it has a reasonable ending, it is the start of a trilogy. It's the first book I've read by Chakraborty, and I'm excited to read her City of Brass series.

( Read more... )

Tags:

I've not been posting, because life has been exhausting. Some paperwork, some attempting to get the house under control with a different deadline than previous, some house-guest G, visiting from Canberra. They arrived Tuesday. Wednesday they had sorted to go out with a friend, and I spent much of the afternoon scanning SwanCon history stuff. Thursday we went to the Shipwrecks Museum and talked about what I know of Fremantle history; had a very mediocre lunch at a cafe that wasn't as good as I remembered from a couple of years ago; failed to go to the library; and went and watched Thunderbolts (I have opinions, but I haven't attempted to articulate them much). Today, we did a potted tour of the hills, going up Crystal Brook Road, stopping at the lookout at the junction of that and Welshpool Road; lunch at the Kalamunda Dome; G learning that gum nut babies (of May Gibbs fame) are actually based on real gum nuts and that May Gibbs is claimed as a local; a detour to the car park at Lesmurdie Falls and discovering that the path is short but too many stairs for G to see the Falls; wandering out to Mundaring Weir; taking a random set of roads that seem like home to me and meant that we could see the cut of the ZigZag down the hill; not doing a stack of things that would have been good due to limited time and energy. And then a small dinner party where we half arsed a range of things, but the food was tasty and the friends were fabulous.

and having written that out, I don't have the oomph to edit into more coherent and less run on sentences.

Tags:

it's Frostmaiden day again! we're headed back to my paladin Skink's hometown. he's.... not very happy about it. so here's a song for his years in Baldur's Gate:

Watch on YouTube

( a rambling explanation )

Tags:

Yesterday was all set to be a bad day, and then I figured I'd call the bank, and see why the change. The dude I spoke with was very alarmist. He said it was something to do with the issuer of the check, that the check might have a stop payment or something like that.

So, I texted Lisa at the financial team, who basically said that the bank is on crack. So, during my break, I called them back. This time I went a little Karen-y, I will admit. And I got tossed from rep to rep, and held forever. Finally, they said to call them back. I did, and they said that Edward Jones couldn't verify the check.

So, back to the financial team, and at this point, I was pissed. I got nowhere with them, but figured I had nothing to lose if I called one more time. I called out of work for the afternoon, and called the bank back. Things looked grim, but then I got a really sweet rep. Shout out to Tasha, who went above and beyond to reach out to the local level, and get the check verified.

And lo, after six reps, two calls to Edward Jones and two and a half hours sunk into it, they released the full amount of the check into my account, and I used the rest of the day to pay a fuckton of bills, and get tickets for Ghost.

For the Baltimore show, they still had the Ascended package. Hopefully, the seats will be okay. Then, I got tickets for the Philly show the next weekend! Lower Level, good views, and booked a hotel room for Philly.

We'll get there around 3:30pm, have dinner at 4:30, then at 6, we'll take the hotel shuttle over to the Wells Fargo center for our second ghost concert.

It's going to be awesome. (After much research, I also picked up a couple pair of Loop Experience 2 Plus earplugs. I love Ghost, but I love my hearing, too.

So, as of this morning, my bills are all paid for the month, I have a grocery order coming tomorrow, and the farmer's market on Tuesday is going to be epic.

We also had really good Chinese food from Red Pepper Sichuan Bistro. Excellent Dumplings. I overbought mightily, so we all have plenty of leftovers.

Today, it's back to work. Then, I shall go forth and DM Frostmaiden. And now, off to prep for it.
Everyone have a brilliamt Friday!

( You're about to view content that the journal owner has advised should be viewed with discretion. )

Tags:

This post on tumblr suggested contacting local politicians whenever you're in the mood to shout at someone online for being wrong on the internet, and it occurred to me that might actually work for me, if only as a way to divert my occasional FIGHT ME mood away from getting me in trouble. I've tried contacting politicians before when I was feeling like Being Productive and it felt overwhelming and depressing.

I haven't actually done it yet but I looked up some information! So I'll summarise what I've found here for anyone who might find it useful, further advice/info definitely appreciated!
( Read more... )

Tags:

It's Friday eve, and I'm hoping for a quieter day today. It ended up being a good day, but whoo baby, it was pure chaos.

I started the day working on the PET exam queue. When we get orders, we call the patients to schedule. Don't want to risk the cancer patients on them calling, so we track them down. During some downtime, I texted the financial people to see if I could get the tracking # for the check. Once I got it, I refreshed that shit every 30 seconds.

It was a busy morning--lot of calls, ad a fair amount of emails of people to call. One time when I was calling someone back, Jess popped in to say that they got the email to schedule their appt for a top surgery consult. Unfortunately, the doctors who have availability are in Washington, DC, so that's going to suck, but we'll manage. They have their consult on 6/25, which is sooner than either of us expected, which is awesome. I'm very excited for them, though I know they are very nervous.

Around 11:45am, I checked the tracking and lo, there was a picture of my front door, with an envelope in front of it. I immediately grabbed it, and found my check. It's lovely and has a lot of numbers on it.

At 12:27, I couldn't stand it anymore and went to lunch 3 minutes early so I could deposit said check. It was smooth and easy, and I had the cutest little teller. He was personable, and sweet, and seemed to feel like I'd be angry that there would be a hold on some of the money for 5 days. My dude, I literally made this account two weeks ago, and I just deposited over $40k. Yes, I expect that you're going to hold my money til it clears. They actually are clearing a generous amount this morning at some point, so I'm happy.

All in all, I was back home by 12:45, having taken less than 15 minutes in the bank.

Then I got back from lunch and all hell broke loose. Our scheduling software was letting adult patients be scheduled in a pediatric room. So there were a dozen patients who were scheduled incorrectly, and I got to call each of them to break the news. It sucked and took most of my afternoon. But I got most of it done. I have three patients to try back today.

Either way, busy, chaotic day. Add to it the excitement over Jess' consult and the check, and you get a severely discombobulated Teresa.

Today will hopefully be slightly less chaotic. I have my "you hit all your goals for the month" hourlong lunch, and then I'm staying a bit late to do some annual training package.

And motherfucker. I just got an email from Wells Fargo that my deposit will not be available until 6/6 at all. Goddammit.

Oh well. That sucks. But there's nothing I can do about it, so I'm just going to have to suck it up.

I may call them this morning, just to touch base and verify that they're not going to honor the original information.

Well, guess we won't be going out this weekend after all.

And on that note, going to go forth and get myself together. Everyone have an excellent Thursday!

( You're about to view content that the journal owner has advised should be viewed with discretion. )

Current Mood: calm

Tags:

Watch on YouTube

Gender seems to be occurring.

Tags:

fandom: music

Daily notes

You put the boom-boom into my heart (whoo-hoo) you send my soul sky-high when your lovin' starts

55 years from now, I know it sounds insane The dark fascist regime might be gone

update: The Artist's Way

Daily notes

VID: "I don't feel like dancin'" (Bollywood, Teen)

Swancon news

No, we don't need no friction, we don't need to do it dry, yeah, we can keep it liquid

Ruler

Ripping through every poem like a vampire should, and it takes one to know 'em like I knew you would

The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, by Shannon Chakraborty

(no subject)

disorganized TTRPG musical flailing 32

One day, fate will find a way through the marches of death and right back to the bearer of light

Rainbow Mermaid

Pondering contacting local Australian politicians

Any day now one of us could die, if we make you suffer, don't you want to find out why?

Doing my stretches

Music Wednesday

Profile

Most Popular Tags

Page Summary

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags