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Dept. of Weekend's End
Sunday, 9 February 2025 08:23 pmPositivity Exercises
I was looking for positivity a day or so ago, and found it in a couple of livestreams and YouTube videos; certainly nothing productive. I needed some escapist activity because we got some unhappy financial news - nothing fatal, but something that has to be handled slowly just at a time when I need to work quickly. That was why Friday turned into a "Chocolate and Ice Cream Because Reasons" day.
Saturday was a tad better, although poor Bob was dealing with pain that he couldn't get rid of. He's no longer able to take any nsaids, and won't take any type of opioids, no matter how mild; too many bad memories from a few years ago. As of Monday, he'll be able to do something about that, but I still feel bad for him.
In terms of other evidence of positivity, I got something cooked or baked every day this week, from June Allyson-Velveeta mac and cheese (upgraded the next day with sauteed onion, peppers, mushrooms and bacon; the JA-V version was a necessary comfort feed, but as much of a faunch as I've recently had for Velveeta, it doesn't hold up well without such an upgrade) to potato soup and pan-seared chicken, and bread pudding. What's that, you say? Not very healthy? Yeah, and? The nice thing is that our freezer is now full of things I can pull out, defrost, and serve up for supper.
I almost forgot; we had the bathroom designer come in to take a look at our bathroom. The cost of a full renovation was way, way beyond our means, but the designer didn't look at us askance when we told her that. She suggested a strategy that we are going to try.
I finished reading "The City in the Middle of the Night" by Charlie Jane Anders; excellent reading, with difficult to like characters, almost all of whom I, as a reader, became fond of. And the world building is pretty breathtaking, as are the different human societies on a tide-locked planet. So, too, is the depiction of a non-human intelligent species. I liked it better than Anders' "All the Birds in the Sky" which I liked and was very, very good.
I've put a hold at the library on Han Kang's "We Do Not Part," a novel that includes a retelling of a 1948 Korean atrocity. I'd never heard about the Jeju Uprising massacre, and it's horrendous, but Han won the 2024 Nobel Prize for literature in part because of this book. My recent interest in many things Korean doesn't always involve Kpop.
I was looking for positivity a day or so ago, and found it in a couple of livestreams and YouTube videos; certainly nothing productive. I needed some escapist activity because we got some unhappy financial news - nothing fatal, but something that has to be handled slowly just at a time when I need to work quickly. That was why Friday turned into a "Chocolate and Ice Cream Because Reasons" day.
Saturday was a tad better, although poor Bob was dealing with pain that he couldn't get rid of. He's no longer able to take any nsaids, and won't take any type of opioids, no matter how mild; too many bad memories from a few years ago. As of Monday, he'll be able to do something about that, but I still feel bad for him.
In terms of other evidence of positivity, I got something cooked or baked every day this week, from June Allyson-Velveeta mac and cheese (upgraded the next day with sauteed onion, peppers, mushrooms and bacon; the JA-V version was a necessary comfort feed, but as much of a faunch as I've recently had for Velveeta, it doesn't hold up well without such an upgrade) to potato soup and pan-seared chicken, and bread pudding. What's that, you say? Not very healthy? Yeah, and? The nice thing is that our freezer is now full of things I can pull out, defrost, and serve up for supper.
I almost forgot; we had the bathroom designer come in to take a look at our bathroom. The cost of a full renovation was way, way beyond our means, but the designer didn't look at us askance when we told her that. She suggested a strategy that we are going to try.
I finished reading "The City in the Middle of the Night" by Charlie Jane Anders; excellent reading, with difficult to like characters, almost all of whom I, as a reader, became fond of. And the world building is pretty breathtaking, as are the different human societies on a tide-locked planet. So, too, is the depiction of a non-human intelligent species. I liked it better than Anders' "All the Birds in the Sky" which I liked and was very, very good.
I've put a hold at the library on Han Kang's "We Do Not Part," a novel that includes a retelling of a 1948 Korean atrocity. I'd never heard about the Jeju Uprising massacre, and it's horrendous, but Han won the 2024 Nobel Prize for literature in part because of this book. My recent interest in many things Korean doesn't always involve Kpop.
