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I guess I haven't done one of these in a while. Looking back at my old paper journals, I realized that I never really gave an account of a normal or typical day; I was too busy fussing about this or that or crushing on this or that person or just generally being ridiculous about something.
So, here's my day to day life these days:
Thax gets up at 5am. Sometimes his alarm wakes me up but usually it doesn't. If Boba wakes up, Thax puts him in the bed and then I sleep with all 3 dogs until my alarm goes of at 7:30.
I get up, wash and dress, feed and water dogs, walk dogs. We go through the park and around the neighborhood. It's a nice way to wake up and get moving.
I come home, have breakfast and coffee. Check email, goof off online.
Go into the work/computer/craft room and start work at 9:30 am
lunch break 1:30-2, go into the kitchen and have leftovers usually.
Thax gets off work at 2, he will go by the grocery store, or come home and the dogs have a big crazy welcome home ceremony for him (so much barking and howling!) When he started this job in August , he would nap after work but he's more or less used to the schedule now so he stays awake now, sometimes unloads/reloads dishwasher, and has recently discovered a computer game called 'Kenshi' (sp?) that absorbs a lot of his time and attention. He has a couple of crafty things he's working on, this and that. He just does his thing for a few hours, basically.
I get off work at 6. We walk dogs. I make dinner M-F, I don't usually cook on weekends. We eat leftovers or order pizza or chinese.
After dinner, we read or watch tv or play computer games until bedtime. (around 10:30)
Sunny sleeps with us every night. She jumps up into the bed and licks our faces until we pull up her little pink fleece throw blanket for her to snuggle under. She will curl up against me, or Thax, about waist-level. She sleeps in the middle of the bed, basically. She is an equal opportunity snuggler, she doesn't seem to favor one or the other of us for snuggling.
Boba usuallly sleeps on the floor in a dog bed by Thax's side of the bed. Sometimes he has bad dreams and Thax will put him in the bed with us. Sometimes at bedtime Boba will be agitating to get in the bed and Thax usually lets him. Sometimes this leads to Thax being smooshed out of the bed by the dogs and he ends up spending part of the night on the couch.
Pepita sleeps in the bed next to me, either at my shoulder or under my arm on my left side. She occasionally wants to sleep by herself in the dog bed on the floor on my side of the bed, I've noticed that's usually in warmer weather.
Neither Boba nor Pepita can jump up into the bed by themselves. Our bed is one of those with drawers built in underneath so it's pretty high off the floor.
We go to the dog park on weekends and are friendly with most of the dogs and people who show up regularly.
We don't really socialize much outside of that. I don't find that I particularly miss it.
Thax has continued to host the "texas steampunk connection" podcast he and Flavio started a few years ago, every other Tuesday. He has two co hosts that join him and they interview people and such. Mostly it's just chit chat.
Physically, I am just over 250 lbs and indifferent about it. Wrinkles and bags, jowls and pouches are settling in around my face and neck. I shop for and buy various cosmetics and moisturizers and whatever, but don't use any of them very consistently. I hate looking at myself in the mirror,but then again I always have. I am indifferent to my own self loathing and self disgust. It's just like, "Whatever, scumbag brain. I know you lie and always have. I'm hideous, so what,. I don't have time for your bullshit."
My left knee that I hurt doing Krav Maga when I was 35ish hurts from time to time. My right ankle hurts sometimes. I go to a tanning place and use their red light bed once a week, I take Amla and Turmeric, I use Incrediwear socks and wraps, and I recently bought an under-desk elliptical machine that I use intermittently throughout the work day and sometimes in front of the TV. I don't think it's effective as 'exercise' but it puts my knees and ankles through a range of motion that I think is helpful to keep them from being as stiff and painful as they might be otherwise.
My brother A. worked 3 jobs for the last couple months, then took off to Indiana to help our sister H. clean up and sell Mom & stepdad's house in Greencastle In addition to general clean up, he's going through all of the pictures and memory cards/thumb drives/etc. that stepdad G. saved over the years. What a task.
Normally this time of year I pick 5 or 6 cookie recipes and make them in quantity for neighbors and my aunt & uncle. I haven't a clue what to make this year. I kinda don't wanna. But I know I will eventually. Blerg. This year feels like ti's been endless and endlessly awful but at the same time, wtf, it's already December?!? It went by very quickly and seems like there's not much to show for it.
Anyway....that's life right now.
So, here's my day to day life these days:
Thax gets up at 5am. Sometimes his alarm wakes me up but usually it doesn't. If Boba wakes up, Thax puts him in the bed and then I sleep with all 3 dogs until my alarm goes of at 7:30.
I get up, wash and dress, feed and water dogs, walk dogs. We go through the park and around the neighborhood. It's a nice way to wake up and get moving.
I come home, have breakfast and coffee. Check email, goof off online.
Go into the work/computer/craft room and start work at 9:30 am
lunch break 1:30-2, go into the kitchen and have leftovers usually.
Thax gets off work at 2, he will go by the grocery store, or come home and the dogs have a big crazy welcome home ceremony for him (so much barking and howling!) When he started this job in August , he would nap after work but he's more or less used to the schedule now so he stays awake now, sometimes unloads/reloads dishwasher, and has recently discovered a computer game called 'Kenshi' (sp?) that absorbs a lot of his time and attention. He has a couple of crafty things he's working on, this and that. He just does his thing for a few hours, basically.
I get off work at 6. We walk dogs. I make dinner M-F, I don't usually cook on weekends. We eat leftovers or order pizza or chinese.
After dinner, we read or watch tv or play computer games until bedtime. (around 10:30)
Sunny sleeps with us every night. She jumps up into the bed and licks our faces until we pull up her little pink fleece throw blanket for her to snuggle under. She will curl up against me, or Thax, about waist-level. She sleeps in the middle of the bed, basically. She is an equal opportunity snuggler, she doesn't seem to favor one or the other of us for snuggling.
Boba usuallly sleeps on the floor in a dog bed by Thax's side of the bed. Sometimes he has bad dreams and Thax will put him in the bed with us. Sometimes at bedtime Boba will be agitating to get in the bed and Thax usually lets him. Sometimes this leads to Thax being smooshed out of the bed by the dogs and he ends up spending part of the night on the couch.
Pepita sleeps in the bed next to me, either at my shoulder or under my arm on my left side. She occasionally wants to sleep by herself in the dog bed on the floor on my side of the bed, I've noticed that's usually in warmer weather.
Neither Boba nor Pepita can jump up into the bed by themselves. Our bed is one of those with drawers built in underneath so it's pretty high off the floor.
We go to the dog park on weekends and are friendly with most of the dogs and people who show up regularly.
We don't really socialize much outside of that. I don't find that I particularly miss it.
Thax has continued to host the "texas steampunk connection" podcast he and Flavio started a few years ago, every other Tuesday. He has two co hosts that join him and they interview people and such. Mostly it's just chit chat.
Physically, I am just over 250 lbs and indifferent about it. Wrinkles and bags, jowls and pouches are settling in around my face and neck. I shop for and buy various cosmetics and moisturizers and whatever, but don't use any of them very consistently. I hate looking at myself in the mirror,but then again I always have. I am indifferent to my own self loathing and self disgust. It's just like, "Whatever, scumbag brain. I know you lie and always have. I'm hideous, so what,. I don't have time for your bullshit."
My left knee that I hurt doing Krav Maga when I was 35ish hurts from time to time. My right ankle hurts sometimes. I go to a tanning place and use their red light bed once a week, I take Amla and Turmeric, I use Incrediwear socks and wraps, and I recently bought an under-desk elliptical machine that I use intermittently throughout the work day and sometimes in front of the TV. I don't think it's effective as 'exercise' but it puts my knees and ankles through a range of motion that I think is helpful to keep them from being as stiff and painful as they might be otherwise.
My brother A. worked 3 jobs for the last couple months, then took off to Indiana to help our sister H. clean up and sell Mom & stepdad's house in Greencastle In addition to general clean up, he's going through all of the pictures and memory cards/thumb drives/etc. that stepdad G. saved over the years. What a task.
Normally this time of year I pick 5 or 6 cookie recipes and make them in quantity for neighbors and my aunt & uncle. I haven't a clue what to make this year. I kinda don't wanna. But I know I will eventually. Blerg. This year feels like ti's been endless and endlessly awful but at the same time, wtf, it's already December?!? It went by very quickly and seems like there's not much to show for it.
Anyway....that's life right now.
