my soul has been psychedelicized
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the_siobhanNovember 2023
28 – French Toast Day: Do you like French toast?
29 – Throw Out Your Leftovers Day: How do you feel about leftovers? Are you happy to eat the same food more than once in a row, or do you crave variety in your diet? Do you take leftovers home from a restaurant when/if you eat out?
30 – Stay Home Because Your Well Day: Have you ever taken a mental health day from your job, or just decided not to go to work even though you weren't sick, because you felt like staying home or for some other reason?
28 - Nope. 29 - I eat leftovers all the time. Leftover turkey is my favourite part of thanksgiving/christmas dinners. 30 - Of course. Not often, but I do it.
December 2023
1 – Cookie Cutter Day: Do you own any cookie cutters? Any unusual ones? Tell us about them.
2 – Play Basketball Day: Have you ever played basketball?
3 – Make a Gift Day: Do make gifts for anybody? How about cards?
4 – Wear Brown Shoes Day: Do you own any brown shoes?
1 - Nope. 2 - Once. For some reason when I was growing up gym was mostly volleyball and square dancing. The teachers swapped for one week and the boy's gym teacher introduced us to football and basketball. I was the tallest person at school that year and I loved the basketball and I never played it again. 3 - No time. 4 - Nope. Brown shoes don't make it. (Edit: That's a line from a Frank Zappa song - I linked to it and then I went and looked at the lyrics and went, NOPE that did not age well, holy shit.)
5 – National Repeal Day: December 5th marks the end of prohibition in the United States (back in 1933). If you're not American, did your country ever prohibit the sale of alcohol (or maybe it still does)? Does it make sense that alcohol is legal, but other substances aren't?
Somewhere in a box I have a book about prohibition in Canada called Booze – When Whisky Ruled the West. It was pretty fascinating stuff and it covered prohibition. Weirdly, only distilled alcohol counted, you could still buy beer.
Basically prohibition happened here on a provincial level so different times in different places. And prohibition on any drug doesn't work, I think we're better off decriminalizing and offering better social support & medical help.
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Things I Need To Remember To Do, when the housemate says, "I'll do it before I leave," I need to insist they do it while I have availability to go check up on them. Because they will inevitably leave the house when I'm trapped in a meeting or something and can't go look that they actually did the thing.
This realization brought to you by having to get up early on a Saturday morning to haul furniture out of the way when the kitchen cabinets were delivered.
On the plus side, kitchen cabinets!
They are offgassing like woah - my whole house smells like glue. I'm taking a walk as soon as I'm done this post just to clear it out of my head.
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I suspect the housemates memory drop yesterday happened because they were upset - they missed their head doctor appointment after setting three separate alarms and then sleeping through all three of them. They called the doctor's office and were told it's a $200 fee to reschedule. And like, I get that specialists are backed up to God right now and want to prevent no-shows, but that still seems unreasonably punitive for patients who are specifically coming to you to find out if they have a fucking brain injury.
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Elderly gentleman cat weight-gain project continues. I cooked down some chicken bones to make broth and have started adding a couple of tablespoons to his breakfast. It definitely works to get him to eat more of it. My main problem now is that I have to be careful how much I give him because he such a pukey cat.
And why under my desk? Why always in places that are hard to reach? Is he thinking, "Well she needs to clean under here anyway, seriously, look at all these dust bunnies" before he lets it fly?
***
I finally found a physiotherapist for the Old Man. Arranged for an appointment. Was on the streetcar on my way to his residence when I got a phone call. Physio tested positive for Covid.
"So what's your comfort level around that?" Uh, waiting a couple of weeks until you're not a walking plague bomb around an 80+ year old, that's my comfort level. He's going to call me back when he's testing negative and we'll set up another appointment.
***
Hung out with my dad and some other family members last weekend. He really seems to snap back to normal when he's around other people so we think lack of mental stimulation is a factor in his health issues - he just doesn't have a reason to get out of his chair on a regular basis.
Sister dragged him to the local library and is trying to find book clubs and other local activities for him join. I honestly think adding some gentle routines will make a huge difference for him.
Sister has been staying with dad & his wife while she job-hunts and I think she's finding it a little frustrating. She has tons of suggestions for making his daily life more accessible and the wife is being - inflexible. We'll work on that.
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Work is kicking my ass. Nothing new there.
28 – French Toast Day: Do you like French toast?
29 – Throw Out Your Leftovers Day: How do you feel about leftovers? Are you happy to eat the same food more than once in a row, or do you crave variety in your diet? Do you take leftovers home from a restaurant when/if you eat out?
30 – Stay Home Because Your Well Day: Have you ever taken a mental health day from your job, or just decided not to go to work even though you weren't sick, because you felt like staying home or for some other reason?
28 - Nope. 29 - I eat leftovers all the time. Leftover turkey is my favourite part of thanksgiving/christmas dinners. 30 - Of course. Not often, but I do it.
December 2023
1 – Cookie Cutter Day: Do you own any cookie cutters? Any unusual ones? Tell us about them.
2 – Play Basketball Day: Have you ever played basketball?
3 – Make a Gift Day: Do make gifts for anybody? How about cards?
4 – Wear Brown Shoes Day: Do you own any brown shoes?
1 - Nope. 2 - Once. For some reason when I was growing up gym was mostly volleyball and square dancing. The teachers swapped for one week and the boy's gym teacher introduced us to football and basketball. I was the tallest person at school that year and I loved the basketball and I never played it again. 3 - No time. 4 - Nope. Brown shoes don't make it. (Edit: That's a line from a Frank Zappa song - I linked to it and then I went and looked at the lyrics and went, NOPE that did not age well, holy shit.)
5 – National Repeal Day: December 5th marks the end of prohibition in the United States (back in 1933). If you're not American, did your country ever prohibit the sale of alcohol (or maybe it still does)? Does it make sense that alcohol is legal, but other substances aren't?
Somewhere in a box I have a book about prohibition in Canada called Booze – When Whisky Ruled the West. It was pretty fascinating stuff and it covered prohibition. Weirdly, only distilled alcohol counted, you could still buy beer.
Basically prohibition happened here on a provincial level so different times in different places. And prohibition on any drug doesn't work, I think we're better off decriminalizing and offering better social support & medical help.
****
Things I Need To Remember To Do, when the housemate says, "I'll do it before I leave," I need to insist they do it while I have availability to go check up on them. Because they will inevitably leave the house when I'm trapped in a meeting or something and can't go look that they actually did the thing.
This realization brought to you by having to get up early on a Saturday morning to haul furniture out of the way when the kitchen cabinets were delivered.
On the plus side, kitchen cabinets!
They are offgassing like woah - my whole house smells like glue. I'm taking a walk as soon as I'm done this post just to clear it out of my head.
***
I suspect the housemates memory drop yesterday happened because they were upset - they missed their head doctor appointment after setting three separate alarms and then sleeping through all three of them. They called the doctor's office and were told it's a $200 fee to reschedule. And like, I get that specialists are backed up to God right now and want to prevent no-shows, but that still seems unreasonably punitive for patients who are specifically coming to you to find out if they have a fucking brain injury.
***
Elderly gentleman cat weight-gain project continues. I cooked down some chicken bones to make broth and have started adding a couple of tablespoons to his breakfast. It definitely works to get him to eat more of it. My main problem now is that I have to be careful how much I give him because he such a pukey cat.
And why under my desk? Why always in places that are hard to reach? Is he thinking, "Well she needs to clean under here anyway, seriously, look at all these dust bunnies" before he lets it fly?
***
I finally found a physiotherapist for the Old Man. Arranged for an appointment. Was on the streetcar on my way to his residence when I got a phone call. Physio tested positive for Covid.
"So what's your comfort level around that?" Uh, waiting a couple of weeks until you're not a walking plague bomb around an 80+ year old, that's my comfort level. He's going to call me back when he's testing negative and we'll set up another appointment.
***
Hung out with my dad and some other family members last weekend. He really seems to snap back to normal when he's around other people so we think lack of mental stimulation is a factor in his health issues - he just doesn't have a reason to get out of his chair on a regular basis.
Sister dragged him to the local library and is trying to find book clubs and other local activities for him join. I honestly think adding some gentle routines will make a huge difference for him.
Sister has been staying with dad & his wife while she job-hunts and I think she's finding it a little frustrating. She has tons of suggestions for making his daily life more accessible and the wife is being - inflexible. We'll work on that.
***
Work is kicking my ass. Nothing new there.
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Date: 2023-12-10 03:15 am (UTC)"So what's your comfort level around that?"
Wow. /o\
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Date: 2023-12-10 06:43 pm (UTC)Like I'm just going to say, c'mon in!
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Date: 2023-12-10 06:44 am (UTC)Woof.
I'm assuming the $200 fee is 'lost earnings' (not like they don't always have patients waiting (and maybe some new client fee?). But i agree, seems weird.
And why under my desk? Why always in places that are hard to reach?
Because cat!
"So what's your comfort level around that?" </i. We really did learn nothing. That Zappa song is... pretty much what I have assumed every Zappa song is, basically.
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Date: 2023-12-11 01:14 am (UTC)(Me, I just blow off MAKING the appointments...can't bill me for a missed one, if I didn't have it set up! lol)
And why under my desk? Why always in places that are hard to reach? Is he thinking, "Well she needs to clean under here anyway, seriously, look at all these dust bunnies" before he lets it fly?
Does he ever leave the deposits in your typical walking path, or just like under things?
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