Friday

Aug. 5th, 2011 11:42 pm
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Once again, I sorted, organized, and found homes for my stuff in the underground lair.

Jeff and Joni took a lot of canning jars on Wednesday, and Mom did some rearranging in there so that my board games could fit on an empty shelf. There is still more room on those shelves, so I will use it up as effectively as I can.

I put my slightly-larger-than-shoe-box sized tote full of doll-sized Christmas stuff next to the board games. I'm putting extra fabric for my quilts in the bottom drawer of the dresser in the bathroom as well as some yarn.

Mom and I had two ears of sweet corn each and a glass of milk for lunch. It was quite delicious.

For supper we had fresh beets, cucumbers, summer squash and zucchini. And hot dogs. Can't be completely healthy, can we?

All of this was garden fresh produce--some from my mom's cousin LaVonna's garden and some from my sister Tammy's garden.

I am really jonesing for a fresh-from-the-garden tomato. As I was moving and in a continuous state of chaos this summer, I did not plant my customary two tomato plants in pots. Mom has a couple of tomato plants in her tiny garden, but none are close to ripe enough to eat yet.

I'm now over half done reading the book Outlander. It's good and I appreciate that it doesn't go into complete gory detail in the sexy passages and there has been no use of terms like "his pulsing manhood" or "her heaving bosom." Less is more. Much more.

I do not know if I will be able to read the entire series...seven books of this? But, maybe I will. One of the things I promised myself when I landed in this fucked up situation is that I would read many many books--all the books I did not have time to read while I was teaching.

Not much else today--Mom and I went to my brother's house to feed and water and give affection to their three cats while they are on a short vacation up north.

Apparently they were up at the Canadian border today. I texted and asked how it was going. Jack texted back and told me that.

It was cooler today--but still hot when you are working.

Tomorrow I am going to see Rise of the Planet of the Apes with Ingrid. We will probably get something to eat afterwards. I've really been looking forward to this movie. I read the book when I was in high school, watched the orignal movie with Charlton Heston, and watched the TV series. I really loved it.

I always like Roddy McDowell. He played one of the apes..."cornelius" I think. Though I could be wrong.

I'd like to get Net Flix so I can watch some of those old tv series again. TV is filled with crappy reality shows. I can hardly resist vomitting copiously when mom watches them.

Wednesday

Aug. 4th, 2011 12:46 am
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Busy day today...

I woke up feeling greasy and gritty, but I don't like my mom's shower. It is very narrow and I feel claustrophobic. Also, my knees are so bad that it is hard to stand up for the full length of a shower. So, this morning while mom was at Bible study, I went up and cleaned out her tub which was a disaster due to sitting unused for eons. It was so dusty that when I rinsed it out, it actually made little streamers of mud.

I got it all cleaned up and then took a nice, relaxing bath. It felt so good to feel really clean again.

I made a couple slices of toast for breakfast/lunch and watched some judge shows for a while.

When mom came home, we chatted for a bit, then I sorted out some of the cleaning supplies from my house and brought some of them downstairs to use in my bathroom.

When I got back to my room, I began going through stuff and straightening stuff out. I packed a bunch of barbies into a flat under-bed storage tote and slid them under the bed. I picked up all the crap that had accumulated on the side of the bed, threw all the garbage into a garbage sack, and started a bag of recyclables.

There was a big orange tote full of books, magazines, and miscellaneous stuff. I sorted that out, put the books and magazines in appropriate spots, and put several of my blankets and afghans in the big tote. I may have to take something out as the lid won't seal, but I figured they would store better on the shelf in the top of the closet if they were inside something rather than just laying up there loose.

My Kelly doll, a boy doll which is a relic of my early childhood, was all sticky and dirty, so I took him into the bathroom and scrubbed him down with dish soap and a nail brush. His head is still discolored and a little sticky, but he is a hundred times better than he was. He is lying on my table right now, wrapped in a green hand towel. I just recently ran across some of his clothes, but I have no idea where they are at the moment.

All of my big dolls need a good scrubbing. They got pretty dusty in that spare room.

Once they are all clean and I have some order created in this sea of chaos, I will try to get each of them dressed. I'd like to make them all some new clothes--each having at least one outfit that is appropriate for summer, one appropriate for winter, and then seasonal garments for Halloween, Valentine's day, Christmas, and Easter.

I have tons of fabric. It should be fairly easy to get them all appropriately clothed. I will certainly have enough time on my hands.

My hand drill, dremel, and extra stength power cord are all under the sink. I have not put my cleaning supplies under there yet, but I may do that before I go to sleep, if I can dig myself out from under the pile of cats I seem to be buried alive in.

I came across a ton of laundry that needed to be washed up, so I sorted that. Two loads are washed. One is dry in the dryer. I have two more loads of clothes and then a bedspread and mattress pad and a blanket.

And an afghan. I forgot about that.

I cleaned off my bedside dresser and put my TV with the dvd player built in on it and plugged it in. I watched (really, listened as I was too busy to actually watch) the Planet of the Apes while I worked. I had a basket of clean towels from the last time I did laundry that I had not put away yet, so I got those put away. I cleaned out the bathroom sink, too, as it was pretty grungy.

I wrote out a check for the garbage service and put it in my purse to mail the next time I am out and about.

I feel pretty good about what I got done today. I did a lot of dusting as I put things away.

I noticed that Tyger Lily was licking her butthole today, so that means she has already lost a little weight since I took all the treats away. She wasn't able to reach around to clean herself before because she was too tubby. I feel happy about that.

Peaches is completely her old self again--playful and feisty. I am very happy about that. I was worried about my baby Peach when all she wanted to do was hide and sleep. I would hate to lose her.

I have not had anything for supper and I am rather hungry right now. I may go and commandeer the other half of my mom's Jimmy John's sandwich from yesterday. She went out to lunch with her Bible study group today, and I don't know if she ate anything upstairs or not for supper. If she did, she probably just had toast or cereal.

I wait eagerly all week for Wednesday so I can watch Ghost Hunters. At 6 pm, I left my little lair and set myself up in my recliner for my show. I watched maybe fifteen minutes of it and fell asleep. I woke up after both episodes were all over and the next lame show was on. Sigh.

At least I had a nice rest.

I have a doctor's appointment scheduled for tomorrow, but I think I am going to reschedule it. I was on such a good roll today that I want to keep going. I barely had a walk way through my room at the beginning of the day and it has opened up considerably now. I want to get everything organized so I can begin actually feeling like a normal person again.

Can't think of anything else at the moment. If anything super important comes to me, I will post again. LOL.
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I woke up nauseous AGAIN this morning.  If it were not for the fact that it is physically impossible, I would wonder if I were pregnant.

In order for that to happen, my body would have had to spontaneously grown a new uterus and ovaries AND there would be a second miraculous conception in the planet's history.  Unless some alien planted its spawn within me while i was unconscious or something.

So, I don't know what is wrong with me.  But i am pretty sure people are not supposed to feel nauseated all the time.

I am in such a mess and so disorganized at school that I just want to cry. 

I had planned  to come in on Saturday after my workshop and tidy up and get all this work corrected, but i woke up feeling horrid and did not go to the workshop.  I called Robin and told her that maybe i would come in for the afternoon session, but i went back to sleep and did not wake up until 3:30 pm. 

Whatever this illness is, it has been kicking my butt.

hopefully this week, when i get back into a routine with my meds and stuff, things will get better.

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