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Sunday: walks!
Mar. 24th, 2024 10:36 pmI walked with M.
I did the long walk by myself, and I called Priestess and we talked for a long time. It’s been a while, and I miss just chatting with her. We see each other on Friday zoom, but still, it’s just to just be together, even when apart.
A. and I did an indoor walk. So, pretty good all around! I’m kinda tired now tho.
Only C. showed up for family zoom, so that was brief.
A. had a really nice portal playdate, so that was great!
I had an evening zoom with I. She went to brunch and it sounds like it was fun. She’s going to try a spa next week; I’m excited to hear how that goes.
I’m feeling a lot less grim. I pushed book group out a week, because I really want to read the book (Age of Deer) and I just haven’t been in anything like the right head space for it. I’ve been rereading JAK Lost Colony books (Sweet Starfire, Shield’s Lady and Crystal Flame, in that order), which I have not done in a long time, and I see _way_ more of the reuse than I used to. Also! Crystal Flame is High Fantasy! I had not realized that at the time. Now that I know better what “High Fantasy” is, and I _expect_ to hate “High Fantasy”, the experience was way less painful. I mean, still not a favorite, but way, way, way more comprehensible.
I pulled some books off the shelf to donate (mostly national parks related). I pulled some art off the wall to donate. HG is looking for art, and R. and I each picked something that we didn’t want to have any more, and then rearranged things a b it. I was going to donate the fish in the bathroom, but it turns out R. really likes that one, so we just moved it because I was sick of looking at it every time I sat down in the master bathroom. I got a couple landscape photos out that I like and haven’t had up for a while. I thought about donating them, but then I was like, nah, I’ll look at them for a while, first.
It is _wild_ how heavily curated the shit on our walls is. I mean, there is so much of it, that it seems like some of it would be easy to get rid of, but a huge fraction of it is either family photos or family/friend produced art. Not getting rid of that. What’s left after that is apparently the stuff we loved enough to not allow the photos / family art to crowd out, which is a high bar.
I did the long walk by myself, and I called Priestess and we talked for a long time. It’s been a while, and I miss just chatting with her. We see each other on Friday zoom, but still, it’s just to just be together, even when apart.
A. and I did an indoor walk. So, pretty good all around! I’m kinda tired now tho.
Only C. showed up for family zoom, so that was brief.
A. had a really nice portal playdate, so that was great!
I had an evening zoom with I. She went to brunch and it sounds like it was fun. She’s going to try a spa next week; I’m excited to hear how that goes.
I’m feeling a lot less grim. I pushed book group out a week, because I really want to read the book (Age of Deer) and I just haven’t been in anything like the right head space for it. I’ve been rereading JAK Lost Colony books (Sweet Starfire, Shield’s Lady and Crystal Flame, in that order), which I have not done in a long time, and I see _way_ more of the reuse than I used to. Also! Crystal Flame is High Fantasy! I had not realized that at the time. Now that I know better what “High Fantasy” is, and I _expect_ to hate “High Fantasy”, the experience was way less painful. I mean, still not a favorite, but way, way, way more comprehensible.
I pulled some books off the shelf to donate (mostly national parks related). I pulled some art off the wall to donate. HG is looking for art, and R. and I each picked something that we didn’t want to have any more, and then rearranged things a b it. I was going to donate the fish in the bathroom, but it turns out R. really likes that one, so we just moved it because I was sick of looking at it every time I sat down in the master bathroom. I got a couple landscape photos out that I like and haven’t had up for a while. I thought about donating them, but then I was like, nah, I’ll look at them for a while, first.
It is _wild_ how heavily curated the shit on our walls is. I mean, there is so much of it, that it seems like some of it would be easy to get rid of, but a huge fraction of it is either family photos or family/friend produced art. Not getting rid of that. What’s left after that is apparently the stuff we loved enough to not allow the photos / family art to crowd out, which is a high bar.