Fairly peaceful

This week was... drifty. I kept thinking I felt relaxed, but my eye also kept twitching, so I decided I was full of bullshit on that topic and should take Friday off work. Which I did.

• It seems to be personal-bookkeeping time. Met with a tax person and the squirrel to discuss how we'd go forward with the (rather complex) rental situation, and his tax people and my tax people. I'm working on next year's budget for my own condo association, and trying to open a bank account related to that, and the bug and I are still struggling to square up 2022 annual taxes after our last tax person ghosted us.


• I kept the work-email monster at bay all week (yay!), except of course that it will have roared back to life after my day off.


• I got everyone's okay to put Hypercube back on antibiotics, again, because her cough has gotten a lot worse and she's resisting her medicines and ugh. :( Nobody knows why antibiotics help but they always have in the past. I hate how there's nothing I can do for her while she coughs.


• Our grocery store closed. Boo. As it was closing I bought a few random things really on sale, and that's how I know that adult-me still loves strawberry Pop-Tarts... whups.


• I did the first two workouts of my new Perth-coach session. There are exercises in it that make me worry my hip will get sore, but so far so good.


• Went to the ballet with the bug; finished playing Unravel Two with the squirrel.


• Signed up for my city's perhaps-ridiculous Adopt-A-Drain program, to keep the two storm drains outside our house clear before and after heavy rainfalls. People mostly seem to think this is silly, or wrong of the city to ask for, but I think it makes sense to crowdsource and is also the kind of small civic engagement I can handle.

Hilariously, I did read The Sunny Nihilist, as was foretold. The very first thing I highlighted was about weekly blog entries:

On Sunday nights, reviewing the weekend, all I could see was what I didn’t do, didn’t achieve. Ordinary days were marked down as dismal failures. As if waking up, feeding myself, spending time with other humans, and generally not doing catastrophic harm was something to be deeply ashamed of.

LOL.