Soup, mammogram, windows, poly update
Apr. 27th, 2019 07:54 pmHome alone making soup, and the recipe lied hilariously about the time required and also, as far as I'm concerned, how much food it makes. (What are these, servings for elephants? Maybe I shouldn't have doubled this.) Cooking is worth knowing how to do, but I think the best thing it has going for it is the promise of short, doable projects.
This morning I got my first-ever mammogram, so that's a milestone of sorts. It wasn't bad at all. Standing in awkward positions is literally what I do for fun, so that wasn't challenging, and my boobs are too small to feel painfully squished. They were a bit awkward for the technician to get all the way into the machine, but she managed. All in all, a good thing to do with a Saturday morning -- I've known four people around my age who've breast cancer, including two of my Dreamwidth friends, sooooooo yeah. Squish away, technician.
And an interesting moment of mastery that happened on Wednesday: we had a substitute handstand teacher who doesn't know the usual rules, and so when she put a minute on the clock she didn't know that folks who hold the whole minute are supposed to stay up. Therefore, I had the astonishing experience of kicking up, holding for a minute and coming down on purpose, which was itself pretty epic (and another first for me).
I also ordered some window shades. I don't quite know why (was this triggered by playing games on the NES?) but I seem to have embarked on a slow project of making our shared office a more usable room for me, and the damaged, cheap Venetian blinds back there definitely bug me. The same crap adorns our windows in the bedroom. So we ordered some samples for those windows, and some more shades that match our existing ones to finish out the rest of the windows in the front of the house. Still unsure whether to get![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
heisenbug his own office chair to stop him from stealing mine. :P
And ooh, I nearly forgot some of the most interesting news: after nearly six years, my boyfriendnorwoodbridge finally told his kids that we're non-exclusive! He'd gotten permission from his ex-wife to do so about two weeks ago. But he was so extremely worried and sad about possible consequences last week that I thought maybe he shouldn't go forward (despite my excitement to that point, plus desire to be honest with the kids and dislike of real secrets in general). He did anyway, and it was fine, of course -- the kids just want him to be happy and have been raised super-tolerant. They didn't ask enough follow-up questions to learn about heisenbug, the incurious little narcissists, but at least now they're in a position from which they could ask at any point. Maybe I can stop removing my wedding rings, on the rare occasions when I see them.
This morning I got my first-ever mammogram, so that's a milestone of sorts. It wasn't bad at all. Standing in awkward positions is literally what I do for fun, so that wasn't challenging, and my boobs are too small to feel painfully squished. They were a bit awkward for the technician to get all the way into the machine, but she managed. All in all, a good thing to do with a Saturday morning -- I've known four people around my age who've breast cancer, including two of my Dreamwidth friends, sooooooo yeah. Squish away, technician.
And an interesting moment of mastery that happened on Wednesday: we had a substitute handstand teacher who doesn't know the usual rules, and so when she put a minute on the clock she didn't know that folks who hold the whole minute are supposed to stay up. Therefore, I had the astonishing experience of kicking up, holding for a minute and coming down on purpose, which was itself pretty epic (and another first for me).
I also ordered some window shades. I don't quite know why (was this triggered by playing games on the NES?) but I seem to have embarked on a slow project of making our shared office a more usable room for me, and the damaged, cheap Venetian blinds back there definitely bug me. The same crap adorns our windows in the bedroom. So we ordered some samples for those windows, and some more shades that match our existing ones to finish out the rest of the windows in the front of the house. Still unsure whether to get
heisenbug his own office chair to stop him from stealing mine. :P And ooh, I nearly forgot some of the most interesting news: after nearly six years, my boyfriend
norwoodbridge finally told his kids that we're non-exclusive! He'd gotten permission from his ex-wife to do so about two weeks ago. But he was so extremely worried and sad about possible consequences last week that I thought maybe he shouldn't go forward (despite my excitement to that point, plus desire to be honest with the kids and dislike of real secrets in general). He did anyway, and it was fine, of course -- the kids just want him to be happy and have been raised super-tolerant. They didn't ask enough follow-up questions to learn about heisenbug, the incurious little narcissists, but at least now they're in a position from which they could ask at any point. Maybe I can stop removing my wedding rings, on the rare occasions when I see them.
