Number Whichever's Next on the negligent poster/diligent reader bench.
Also on the hate strangly things around my neck bench. I have a couple really snuggly cowl neck sweaters I still wear: the white one is loose-knit, very airy and soft, the black one has a split in the cowl, which drapes nicely and shows off a sizeable brooch very well. Neither clings. I will also wear a very soft, open-knit scarf, one that drapes on my shoulders, back of the neck and bib-like in front for lucious warmth, and loose enough I can dip my nose, cheeks and chin into its welcome, warm folds. Anything more snug, fuggedaboudit.
Stef,I hope your surgery is completely successful and fixes your problems well, and recovery is on schedule and non-bothersome as possible.
Atropa. those symptoms do sound scary. Along with everyone else, I hope a successful treatment can be found, and has miraculous curative resolution.
Calli, I tried wearing compression gloves for my hands, but quickly had to stop. Now I rob DH's sock drawer for the black dress socks he really doesn't wear any more, lop the foot part off and wear the ankle-calf part around my wrists and forearms for warmth. Tension does not help, but the soft snug warmth is wonderful.
Matt and ND, I hope your period of depression has lightened and things feel easier and brighter for you now. It can feel futile and stupid to battle your own brain, and I truly wish you brighter days.
The rest of you, you're always in my thoughts, even if I don't manage to say so.
It was raining when I left work, not hard enough I needed my wipers (which I had just changed yesterday, how’s that for timing?) on for the whole drive. Went out to eat and could smell the petrichor through the restaurant’s open door the whole meal, still felt more like mist than rain when we came out but the parking lot looked good and wet. Hopefully decreased fire danger round about
Deferred from donating plasma today, have to wait 3 weeks after a Hep B vax and it's two dose so I won't be able to donate until mid October or so. But they gave me the Hello Kitty reward, which is pretty cute. And I can have some coffee now (I don't have it before to help with my pulse rate acceptability...)
Getting in a bathing suit to spend some dock time with my sister. Not sure how many warm days we will have left. Only 70 today, but sunny.
70 and sunny sounds delightful!
Atropa, here's hoping they were right and it was just an unusual migraine! Flights of obstacles should not hit when you're having a scary medical event.
It was absolutely delightful. Hot sun, cool breeze, and calm lake. Tonight we have great nephew's first soccer match of the season. Then this weekend the annual Fire Department Steak Bake fundraiser. Big event with tons of raffle items, music, food, booze, and frivolity. End of season activities.
From Press, yes I see that Bridget has passed. I shared a seat with her on a bus ride to something at the SF F2F. This is very sad news. Too young.
I hate that being honest about, like, my disabled life or what's really wrong with the safety net(Social workers aren't protective the way people imagine, in my experience, at least) make abled women strangers bust out the sad emojis. (I mean. I guess it is sort of sad, some people really do need that sort of protection and support, and they don't get it either, but for me, it's like "Wow, let's get a time machine and warn President Gore that sometimes these people are just neurotic, paper-pushing pinheads." It's hard enough to face these things yourself without having to cope with the end of their "America leaves nobody behind," illusions, too. (Not that I posted the pinhead assessment on an acquaintance's page, or anything. And I am sorry that the person handling my file is, well, not someone I'd call with any other option, ever. But it doesn't help to have a stranger feel sad about it.)
