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Oct. 10th, 2021 04:26 pmStill here, still plugging along. Who knew 2021 was going to be like a reboot of 2020 where time means nothing? The weather has finally started edging into autumn which is such a relief, but we had so much rain in late summer that the trees are still really green. It's a bit of a cognitive whiplash.
( cutting for caregiver ramblings b/c that's 90% of what I think about these days )
( cutting for random medical stuff for me )
( work stuff )
The best thing that's happened is that L & the other Beach Week moms kidnapped me to Hilton Head, where I didn't have to do anything but sit in the hot tub and put on the (super comfy but still cute) dresses they had for me to go to dinner. It was pretty awesome not to have to think about anything other than whether I wanted coconut rum in my Dole Whip float or if I wanted to go with the spiced dark rum on that run to the snack bar. At some point, I'll get a few pictures up on Insta. (scenery only prob)
Reading has been at a total standstill lately, with about a dozen books going back to the library with maybe 20 pages read in each. Even at HH, I couldn't summon the focus to even read graphic novels. The only saving grace has been a run of Elizabeth Peters' books that I read in the 70s and 80s that are available w/o purchase on Audible. The narrator for the Included In Your Membership versions is not the best, but she's good enough for keeping my brain from spiraling while I do the dishes or dust or whatever. I still have 13 books on hold at the library, trying to figure out what might work, so maybe this logjam will break? I hate not being able to read; it makes me cranky as shit.
The other good thing is that I've cracked 30k words on the Darcy/Bucky slow-burn romance fic and sort of know where I'm going next with it all (all in the quest for the HEA that my brain always demands.)
So, yeah: waiting in the eye of the storm, still rated on the Teen end of Mature (though at some point I could see this going over hard into Explicit, because, myGOD but they are taking this slowly and when something finally gives, I feel like it's going to go nuclear.)
( cutting for caregiver ramblings b/c that's 90% of what I think about these days )
( cutting for random medical stuff for me )
( work stuff )
The best thing that's happened is that L & the other Beach Week moms kidnapped me to Hilton Head, where I didn't have to do anything but sit in the hot tub and put on the (super comfy but still cute) dresses they had for me to go to dinner. It was pretty awesome not to have to think about anything other than whether I wanted coconut rum in my Dole Whip float or if I wanted to go with the spiced dark rum on that run to the snack bar. At some point, I'll get a few pictures up on Insta. (scenery only prob)
Reading has been at a total standstill lately, with about a dozen books going back to the library with maybe 20 pages read in each. Even at HH, I couldn't summon the focus to even read graphic novels. The only saving grace has been a run of Elizabeth Peters' books that I read in the 70s and 80s that are available w/o purchase on Audible. The narrator for the Included In Your Membership versions is not the best, but she's good enough for keeping my brain from spiraling while I do the dishes or dust or whatever. I still have 13 books on hold at the library, trying to figure out what might work, so maybe this logjam will break? I hate not being able to read; it makes me cranky as shit.
The other good thing is that I've cracked 30k words on the Darcy/Bucky slow-burn romance fic and sort of know where I'm going next with it all (all in the quest for the HEA that my brain always demands.)
So, yeah: waiting in the eye of the storm, still rated on the Teen end of Mature (though at some point I could see this going over hard into Explicit, because, myGOD but they are taking this slowly and when something finally gives, I feel like it's going to go nuclear.)
