Well, here we are nearly 4 months later

Thu, 25 Aug 2022 00:50:04 GMT

So, if you don't know this about me... I don't really spend a lot of time on my computer in Summer anymore. Generally speaking, I have other things that I want to do than sit on my ass in front of a computer. What this ends up meaning is that I don't write much in Summer either.

My activities have been different this year, because I haven't been feeling exactly stellar most of the year due to (probably stress induced) GERD. I'm doing better now. I had an upper endoscopy in which the doctor stretched a stricture. After the procedure I was really sick for two weeks and missed three weeks of work because it took me another week to get my strength back. GI doc thinks that I probably had a GI tract infection, backed up by the fact that the morning of the procedure I had some low belly pain which I mentioned to them, but I though it was just a little IBS due to being pretty nervous about my procedure. She said if that was the case, probably being inflated for the procedure might have just aggravated an already unpleasant bug. Also, my meds had recently been changed and turned out to be less effective so I was feeling worse instead of better. Went back to the original med, got the infection resolved and now things are going better and I feel more like myself except I still have to take a damned pill every morning, which I don't like. >_<

The good news is that as unwell as I have felt for the last 9 or 10 months, tests have verified that there is nothing seriously wrong. Just uncomfortable, and nerve wracking (and the nerve wracking part has probably contributed to how bad I've felt, and having those fears laid to rest is probably also going a long way towards me feeling more like myself, since this was probably stress induced in the first place.

Now Summer is almost over and I haven't accomplished much that I wanted to, but at least I'm feeling like myself the majority of my days. YAY! I didn't get the house painted. Can't really afford it right now. Next year for sure. My brother's estate will settle from probate pretty soon, and I'll have a little inheritance most likely so next year I'll probably just some of it to hire professionals instead of us doing it ourselves. Wanted to fix the gutters as well, which I could normally do myself, but haven't felt well enough to invest myself in a project like that. I wanted to start building my tiny house on the trailer I inherited from my brother. I totally planned to do that this summer, but I really didn't start feeling like myself again until maybe 3 weeks ago, so I'll make plans to start that as soon as the weather is nice enough next spring rather than start now, and have it sit half finished through Winter. Nope. Seems stupid to do that.

This weekend I'm going to go see Duran Duran. I'm excited about that, and also about getting to go with my friend who lives too far away to visit often, so I haven't seen him in quite a few months now. YAY! Music Festival type thing.

I managed to get the Irish Session going again at our local Irish Pub which is also awesome, but it's slow going because it's been two years, and now it's on a different day, and some of the original gang aren't as available as they would have been if I'd managed to get it on the same day we always played. But it's happening. Slowly but surely we're getting a group of regulars to come and play with us, and relearning the songs and tunes based on who knows what.

Now I think I'll try to spend a little time writing, since I'm up here in the Creation Room, windows open, and pleasant weather, cicadas singing outside. I'll try to speak more regularly now. We'll see. I do go long stretches. lol

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Donation Completed and other stuff I didn't want to do, and stuff I did want too.

Thu, 07 Apr 2022 04:51:47 GMT

Today, I finally got my brothers clothes donated. It took a minute because I wanted them to go to a service that would help veterans. Neither of us served, but our father was a Korean War era army veteran who served in Munich during the Korean War. Fortunate for us, as it increased both of our chances to have him as a father exponentially as he was spared (at the last minute from what I understand. His platoon was slated for Korea, but at the last minute a runner came onboard the ship with new orders and they went to Germany to serve in the restoration.) I felt like my brother would have like having his clothes got to help vets.

These four boxes have sat in my living room since January when I went over to his house and packed them up. I finally found a number for Vietnam Veterans of America that was supposed to service my area, that someone answered and advised me that they didn't, but when I ask if there was someplace that I could just drop them off, she gave me an address, and we immediately loaded Jana's car and took them over. So yay. that's done.

Also, my Windshield got broken in a windstorm last Wednesday night... Safelite (usually so quick) didnt' come until Monday and then the glass they loaded the technician with was BROKEN... so he put me off almost another week until Friday and asked me if that would be CONVENIENT???... I was livid. Not with him per say, but the fact that they did not have another windshield in stock for my car. This car is extremely popular in this area, and the windshield for it ranges 5 years worth of these little cars running around all over the place here. I see them ALL THE TIME. So why would you not have these in stock as the norm? You wanna tell me that nobody with a 2009-2014 Fit ever breaks their windshield? UGh... So Missed work Thursday dealing with getting that started. Took a personal day Monday to be there to the windshield technician got a ride to work Friday and Saturday (miserable... no place to eat my lunch but in the pokey break room. No place to sit outside... no car to sit in for lunch). The technician said it was safe to drive, so I did drive to work Tuesday and will tomorrow, but now on top of trying to see through a spidered windshield, the weather is foul and rainy because Ohio in April. AND I will have to burn ANOTHER personal day on Friday to hopefully actually get a new glass for my windshield. UGH.

So that's been my life this week.

Oh wait. Our Irish Session... After three days of arguing about it last week (from about 3 people who don't like the Pub setting of our Irish Session that started at The Dublin Pub and has only not been there because of this pandemic shutting the world down. After all the arguing and negation and eventually this trio actually casting aspersions against the pub, *I* gained an advocate who is WAY more connected with the Irish Session and Contradance community than I am or for that matter any of the annoying trio/quad. With his help, the Session is RE-Established at the Pub where it started, just on a new day, so we had a GREAT planning session on Monday, and even played a little music. First OFFICIAL session next Monday. So in all that obnoxiousness, some good stuff happened too. lol

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Well, here we are nearly 4 months later

Donation Completed and other stuff I didn't want to do, and stuff I did want too.