persnickety sluggard
i'm off until the new year. today was the first day.
i packed the fabric bins and bags all up and piled them into the bottom of my closet. likewise i folded and shoved the summer bedding haphazardly onto the piles of other bedding in the closet. i was about to have a shower, but stopped and looked at my hair. it had been up in 2 buns yesterday so the curls were all stretched out. i'm digging this look for today, i said to myself. so i didn't shower then. i took the seat raiser off the toilet and cleaned it real good. underneath....barf face emoji. so that was real. i also sprayed down the shower seat. they were due back at the red cross on november 29 but i was sick then. i remember when dr. howie filled out the requisition form so i could get them. it was may. he put november on the form. i was all pffft. i'm not going to need them in november! naive girl. well i don't need toilet raiser but the shower chair still is nice. mom and dad have an extra shower stool so i'm using that.
anyways i brought them back to the red cross. the day was mild and i felt easy and light. free. the start of my vacation with so many possibilities before me. once back home i checked in on a fumfery mudsy who texted me a few hours earlier that she was leaving for the pool and still hadn't left yet. but she was on her way out with her bathing suit under her clothes.
back upstairs i tackled the table. it was piled high with piles of all sorts and i cleared it off. yes. some of the stuff was just moved to the dishwasher top because i don't know what to do with it, but the point is that the table is clear for wrapping and crafting or whatnot. fatima is an earnest whatnot sayer.
i finished the doll. the doll is something i made for myself although am giving it as a gift. of course it's for me. j9 and i were brainstorming funny things i could give our co-worker dan for the secret santa gift. out of my mouth came the words "i'm going to make him a doll of himself. with a track suit, moustache and newsie cap." (all things dan wears on the regular) and once it was said--it had to be. all through the different stages of making the doll, the doll made me laugh and chortle to myself. mom helped and consulted, especially with the track suit. pulling the velour material tighter around lil dan, she said "well if he plays with it a lot there might be holes." and we both giggled. i stayed up past 1 two nights in a row trying to get lil dan done in time for the staff christmas party but it turned out that real dan couldn't make it to the party so i had a reprieve on time. otherwise i would have stayed up all night. the drive to make lil dan was real. so today i finished him. i embroidered his eyes and made a bushy moustache and drew on some freckles and an up-turned nose.
meanwhile jane arrived. talking a mile a minute. the energy she has really juxtaposes my inner sluggard. i got a work call of a person in crisis and went upstairs after dad, not knowing, made a few jokey comments that the person could hear. dad thought i was mad but i wasn't. just realized that i should have left in the first place.
there's this warm crispy cabbage salad that i had been meaning to make. it has a maple blasamic tahini dressing and pomegranate seeds. it was pretty yummy. it gave me a case of the turkey trots.
dad had a nap after dinner and i went upstairs to wrap lil dan and big dan's other presents. but instead i had diarrhea and lay down in my bed a-wash with sleepiness.
i've been volunteering on the crisis clean up line for the flood victims. today there were a bunch of volunteers on from tennessee and i got no calls.
after doing our advent we played 2 games of skip bo which is a break from our daily dice games. dad and i were a team and mom and jane were a team. i was being persnickety. mom and jane won both times. jane was still a rush of energy an words and laughing uproariously because she won. when i was going back upstairs for the night jane was rolling mom's winter tires to her car for her.
i got naked and slumped on the stool in the shower. you know what? i haven't been using soap in the shower for a couple of months. i'm so radical. well, i had this rash since 2020 and during the summer when i couldn't shower for almost 3 months it finally cleared up. i mean i got 2 different prescriptions for that rash and i was religious about it. didn't do a thing. then when i started showering again and using body wash it came back. so. no bueno. i guess i need hypoallergenic soap. allergies. bah! i woke up friday morning with a bad case of the allergies. no idea why or from what. like virulent nose itchiness and sneezing and then it moved on to itchiness all over my body for a couple of days. very similar to the hydromorphone reaction. weiwd.
the beginnings of the track suit. j9 said he looked like hugh hephner.
the end
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