Long weekend
Jul. 7th, 2024 04:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flexagonI've rarely felt so completely okay about taking four entire days for rest & recovery. Along with the word-vomit here there's been a lot of sleeping, a bit of drinking, a lot of going out to eat. Some handstand workouts. I got back wanting all the fruits and vegetables, and with some desire to do a small thing or two for my own house. We finally saw Furiosa, which I found mostly sad but which at least didn't require effort. I took a load of clothes and things to the Goodwill, ordering a few items also but with a lot more departing than arriving. And, after a long date with the squirrel in which he decided he was tired of Animal Well, I played that for many many more hours.
I blew off the 4th of July entirely, and napped, and let the squirrel pet me and buy me dinner.
Getting into more of the usual little things of my own life (I broke my sewing machine, sigh), although there've been some phone calls about drugs and things. My dad's INR is too high and he's been read the riot act about heart-patient diet. Shrug. Of course he never planned to comply with that. I'm glad he's on week-to-week monitoring now and that it's out of my hands.
I find it strange how some of my thinking about my dad has been in terms of opportunity cost. Generally I dislike the very idea of opportunity cost (it's just a fancy word for FOMO, a thoroughly unhelpful concept for me). But in some cases when an ROI is that high, like "take a few pills and live longer", apparently I can invent it for myself. I feel this way about a few things -- health and housing mostly. Which ultimately is just a window into my own values, like everything else. It's just interesting to have been pushed far enough, by seeing someone else's value system in operation, to reach for concepts I generally don't.
Today I guess I go back to work, which is a whole other pile of addressable nonsense that I don't care about in this moment. Presumably I'll care again in a while.
I blew off the 4th of July entirely, and napped, and let the squirrel pet me and buy me dinner.
Getting into more of the usual little things of my own life (I broke my sewing machine, sigh), although there've been some phone calls about drugs and things. My dad's INR is too high and he's been read the riot act about heart-patient diet. Shrug. Of course he never planned to comply with that. I'm glad he's on week-to-week monitoring now and that it's out of my hands.
I find it strange how some of my thinking about my dad has been in terms of opportunity cost. Generally I dislike the very idea of opportunity cost (it's just a fancy word for FOMO, a thoroughly unhelpful concept for me). But in some cases when an ROI is that high, like "take a few pills and live longer", apparently I can invent it for myself. I feel this way about a few things -- health and housing mostly. Which ultimately is just a window into my own values, like everything else. It's just interesting to have been pushed far enough, by seeing someone else's value system in operation, to reach for concepts I generally don't.
Today I guess I go back to work, which is a whole other pile of addressable nonsense that I don't care about in this moment. Presumably I'll care again in a while.
