03-14-22 A piece of Pi shaped day
My day blew up with happy no matter how tired I was when Emmy called out around 6 and I told her to come snuggle with me. She tucked in and then Missy surprised us both by coming for a cuddle and attention. She usually avoids everyone but me. Emmy was so pleased and gentle with her. Emmy finally decided she was hungry and since she was grounded from TV and other tech, up we got. I admit, normally I would put on Netflix to keep her happy for a little more sleep. We got up and had breakfast and then she put on a fairy fashion show for me and that I had to video it in spite of the sound of my Roomba interrupting. After that we played Wii games until it was time for her mom to pick her up and once again she mostly beat me 😉 I think that mostly happened because she was in front of the sensor, but it made her so happy, I don’t care. Danika picked her up just before 9 for her gymnastics camp and I got myself ready for work. The funniest moment was when she pointed out I must have collected my glasses travelling when I was young because old people don’t travel like that.
I got a fair amount done, although a lot of it was volunteer again. At least it is getting things off my plate. Much of the middle of my day was a big dip in my mood and higher in stress than I would have liked. I was very grateful when my friend Monika, a trained therapist stopped in with 15 free minutes to give me a skill to deal with the obsessive thinking. She taught me about visualizing a box to put thoughts away in until I had a moment to take them out and deal with them, not to suppress, but to delay for the moment. I am so thankful for her. I worked a lot on getting my volunteer commitments out of the way so I can blast through personal tax returns and not feel burdened or that I am letting anyone down in April.
After work I came home to find Gene had been here raking my yard and forgot a lunch on my step when he had to run for the bus. At first I was… WTF?
I started to work on my puzzle and realized I did not have the mindset for it and Rae had recommended The Adam Project. I poured a bath and dumped in a bunch of lavender, melatonin Epsom Salts that Rae gave me for Christmas. It is weird that I was able to rest in a bath for 3 hours this past weekend but after half an hour I was ready to get out. Only 35 minutes into the show, I was not totally invested but once I got dressed and set up in the living room and found out Mark was also watching it and Rae had watched it for the second time, I gave in and just enjoyed it. I really did enjoy it, Mark Ruffalo is one of my favourite, never mind, Ryan Reynolds and Jennifer Garner. The young Adam is also an actor to watch for. I did figure out that my jam for escape and relaxation is those kinds of sci-if non-horror movies. Pure escapism with a dose of hotness 😉
I received the results of my Ultrasound tonight and it has grown a centimeter although there is no talk of the big C. I am going to take this as erring on the side of caution. I will take my fear out of the box and revisit it, give it a pet and set it aside temporarily.
It was funny when we signed into Wii to see the original family that Jake and I signed in with back in the 20 zeros on Salt Spring Island
You all would probably laugh at me right now dancing my way to bed singing put it away in the box box put it away in the box
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