Sunday...

[fajrdrako]

It felt like one of those days better unmentioned, because I was sick with a noxious chest cold.

Nevertheless, I managed brunch with Lisa and Lynne, and watched Lynne dig up irises and other plants from Lisa's garden. Then I came home for a long nap, after speaking briefly to maaseru and josanpq.

Worked on sorting out my bedroom. Felt good about it. But really got precious little done otherwise. Finished listening to Torchwood: Lost Souls, which was just the thing, under the circumstances.

Comments

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

Aww. So sorry you have a cold. Get better! Think warm thoughts about Captain Jack and ... uh, whomever!

Good for you for doing the bedroom cleaning-out-thing. This is genuinely commendable.

I had a crappy day, here, I have to admit. Work was a bad joke; the acting-supervisor was a former part-time-flexible who is known far and wide for abusing the time limits on breaks and lunch-time, who spent the day following us all around asking what we were doing. Go away, please, we're doing a fair day's work for a fair day's pay -- hey, there's a concept for ya! And then he let a PTF go home early, just because she made a pouty-face, and pulled me off my principle assignment area to do the job she'd left unfinished! GRRR! Sigh. Okay, better now. Home to cuddle soft cats... and think about Captain Jack and, um, whomever. Hee.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Good for you for doing the bedroom cleaning-out-thing. This is genuinely commendable.

Very satisfying. Good for doing while I feel sick, too, as I could stop and rest when I needed to. The room still needs work (mostly on the shelving) but the worst and best parts are done.

Then I attack my locker in the basement.

Thoughts of Captain Jack tend to be very comforting.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

I'm starting a pretty major housecleaning this week, too. I have two weeks to make the place presentable for stop-by-whenever visitors, now that my sister's family is moving to Frostburg, Maryland, only 2 and a half hours away. It'll be some job! Especially with the kitties helping.

Then I attack my locker in the basement.

Aha. I remember well when you were limited in your mobility and kept mentioning how you wished you could get to that -- to find this or that, or to neaten it. Congratulations, now you can!

Today was a less upsetting day than yesterday, but not a less annoying one. The plant manager was stalking around being obvious about watching people. And all we were doing was our jobs. Uh, gee, duh. Part of the reason might be that the former postmaster, who has been gone on another assignment for many months, is now supposedly coming back, next week. The two of them don't get along. And, um, also part of it might have been she was just keying on me, being still riled up from that last article in the union newsletter... which people saw her carrying around last weekend... which is none of her business, literally, as it is a private publication, a protected activity for me... but I think she was very upset that I did not use the phrase "plant manager" even once, in my current work of irony, and so she can't really find a way to attack me for what I wrote. Ah, such a place I work in. All I want is to work for competent, professional managers! It seems an unlikely goal. But I can hope.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I hope things get more comfortable for you... Both in terms of sensory levels, and being treated decently by you co-workers. Especially supervisors.

The locker isn't urgent, but it will be nice to have it done. The shelving has collapsed and I'd like to remove it before anything is damaged. It doesn't look safe any more.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

Thanks. It's been on high-overload for most of a week, straight. It's getting so I can actually get my bearings within this painful, stressful chaos enough to look at individual portions of it... this is hard to describe. It's like when you have broken your hand badly, and finally, within the searing pain and the horrible oogie-ness, can look right at it and make note of where the bones are now compared to where they were just a bit ago. It's a weird state of mind to inhabit.

I realized today that the stress level might be making all that sensory stuff as bad as it has been most of the year. You know I perceive energy from other people as sensory input, too. Well, the bad feelings being showered on me by my boss and the supervisors might be what's pushing everything into an overload. And the stress from the other issues I've been handling this year. Could be, this sensory chaos is just from how much else I've been having to deal with all year? Could be. Interesting thought. And I may as well use the opportunity to try to understand it as thoroughly as I can! (Other option: whimper and hide.)

Hope you get to your locker and safely deal with all of that. The ladder/perch thing I built for my cats out of fancy extra-thick cardboard has started to collapse, and I must take it apart again and try to make them something to take its place. They like jumping up on it... it puts them high enough that I can pet them without bending over at all.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Luckily, I can put off working on my locker indefinitely - I just don't want to leave it forever. I hope to go through it all and get it done this year. I've got so much done so far, that shouldn't be difficult.

I hope your stress level eases, too.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

And I want to finish building my cat-gym stuff before cold weather sets in. And, now, before I have weekend visits from nephew Daniel to factor in! But I'm always so wiped out by the time I arrive home from work. Maybe tonight I can do a little more on it. I need to disassemble the cardboard platform I built, as its structural elements proved too weak and are failing; and use part of it to build something more sturdy yet still lots of fun to jump around on. My kitties are counting on me.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

There's something very satisfying about doing a project you enjoy.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

Indeed, there is.

The two smallest cats have decided that it's time to start sharing my blankets at night. Silver hugs up in the crook of my elbow, and the little tiger ducks under the blanket till she wakes up, realizes she's too hot, and makes a dash out for fresh air! Then she'll come back an hour later and say "Mrrrpp?" right in my ear, then bump the top of her head against my cheek just in case that didn't wake me up enough!

I've realized I rely on their company quite a great deal. And it's not like they're accessories... no, they're friends. They share my life. They have complex personalities and we interact on many levels. And I'm quite happy that they all like me so much, frankly!

Any further work on the river-pebble landscaping will have to wait till my back stops hurting... ugh, I overdid it, just that little time on Wed. and Thur.! I could barely move today when I woke up. Got better over the day, at work, luckily. But... whew, I feel for anyone who deals with that more than just now and then from physical exertion.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Ugh! Back pain is horrible (You don't need me to tell you that.) I hope it gets better soon. That's one of my problems with walking now - I don't have the right muscles to sustain me, and my lower back aches after a while. I need to walk more. But when it hurts, I don't want to. So it's a bit of a catch-22.

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

In another month, you will remember this with a sense of relief that you no longer have back muscles that weak [g].

Today, it was my knees that pained me. Luckily, the back pain went away for good on Tuesday. Ain't it always something?

I can't imagine you not being able to walk as much as you want... walking is a key part of your being. You'll get it back, I know you will.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

In another month, you will remember this with a sense of relief that you no longer have back muscles that weak [g].

I certainy hope so! Note to self: as soon as I've written this and a few other messages, I'm going for a walk.

Today, it was my knees that pained me. Luckily, the back pain went away for good on Tuesday. Ain't it always something?

Hopefully at some point all the pain will go away. Be good to your body.

I can't imagine you not being able to walk as much as you want... walking is a key part of your being.

It always has been. Funny how much of oneself you can lose. It was far, far worse than this when I was depressed and lost what I thought were key parts of my personality. But I was still 'me' even when all the things I'd thought were integral parts of me were gone.

So, yes, walking. I'll get it back and soon, I hope.

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

I listened to Lost Souls while home sick too. For some reason, it's just right for that. :-)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's perfect, isn't it? A comfort-listen. Just enough substance to keep a person interested, and those lovely familar voices.

[janne-d.livejournal.com]

I have a cold too. *sniffles in empathy*

But I've been reading Buffy fanfic instead of TW (I wasn't that impressed by Lost Souls).

Btw, what happened to your Buffy reviews? I was really enjoying them, but it seems you haven't posted any for ages.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

*sniffing back in double empathy, with a cough thrown in*

I have a commentary/review of "The Zeppo" half written. I was going to finish and post it yesterday but I had a nap instead. Maybe tonight?

I didn't find Lost Souls impressive, I just found it... pleasant.

[filkferengi]

Boo for the cold! Yay for the nap!

Extra yay for cleaning the bedroom! You know, I still tell friends about your "get rid of a thing a day" resolution & get inspiration from it intermittently. Last Saturday I took 5 bags of mysteries to the sf club meeting. What the members didn't want [precious little; that's a book-inhaling crew ;)] got donated to the library sale-cart.

It's not where I'd like yet, but is definitely better than it was. Our lives as Works In Progress. :)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

The cold is progressing as colds always do. I hope it will soon be gone. I also hope there's another nap in my near future, but I'm still at work, so it has to wait.

I'm so happy to have been a good example to you! My 'getting rid of one thing per day' seems to have morphed lately into getting rid of seven things each weekend, but the ultimate effect is the same. Fandom? Libraries? That's where my books go, too.

And it's such a liberating feeling to see my little apartment less cluttered.

[filkferengi]

Now I'm hearing Mr. Rogers in my head. "It's such a good feeling / to know you're alive."

:)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

...? I've never heard Mr. Rogers.

[filkferengi]

He's the perpetually popular PBS host of "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood." Very low-key, nonthreatening, fun. His show was excellent all the decades it was on. He was quite the advocate/activist for children.

kids--Mr. Rogers--A Place Of Our Own 02 It's Such A Good Feeling.mp3
https://www.yousendit.com/download/bVlBT2pPUzdiV3lGa1E9PQ

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Now I've heard it! Very nice. Thank you. I've heard of "Mr Rogers" all my life - or at least, from when it started - but never saw it. As a kid, I was desperately jealous of Americans because they got to see "Captain Kangaroo" and "Superman" on TV - things I loved to see. But we got "Razzle Dazzle" and "The Friendly Giant", and I wouldn't have wanted to trade them.

[filkferengi]

You're very welcome. Would you like some more by him?

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yes, I would.

[filkferengi]

kids--Mr. Rogers & Josie Carey--Tomorrow On The Children's Corner.zip
http://www.sendspace.com/file/b6oxj8

kids--Mr. Rogers Mix Part 1.zip
http://www.sendspace.com/file/m1d21i

kids--Mr. Rogers Mix Part 2.zip
http://www.sendspace.com/file/0tx0sv

kids--Mr. Rogers--A Place Of Our Own.zip
http://www.sendspace.com/file/hoxf0b

kids--Mr. Rogers--Josephine The Short-Neck Giraffe.zip
http://www.sendspace.com/file/qeiztu

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[filkferengi]

I hope you enjoy them! [Let's just say, no artificial shortages! ;)]

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

LOL - yes!

It's a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood...

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

So sweet! Fred Rogers started out on WQED-TV, channel 13 in Pittsburgh. He's from the town of Latrobe, about six miles from where I am sitting at this moment. He was indeed a strong advocate for children... he concluded his television show after, as he openly said, he had made an episode on every topic that he thought something needed to be said on, and they are all in the Smithsonian now (along with his original sweater, which his mother knitted for him). We were all sad to see him stop original production, but reruns of course continued. And then, not very long after that, he reached the end of his life -- end of February about three or four years ago, I think. Sad. There are lovely streets named after him now.

Re: It's a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood...

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

they are all in the Smithsonian now

The wideo-tapes? DVDs? Is that unusual?