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Oct. 28th, 2019 10:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckI'm in that stage of convalescence when I *can* do some things but need to stop and think about how much of the day is left and what else I may have to do. That is, bringing the laundry upstairs is possible; it's just not a great idea because it probably means not eating lunch and might mean not eating dinner.
Our absentee ballot applications are in the mailbox, awaiting the mail carrier. I'm debating ordering stamps online versus just going to the post office and buying some. The downtown post office is on the way between where the bus route starts/ends and the library, and I'll be going down there tomorrow morning. I'm just not 100% sure I'll be taking the bus. Still, if I don't, Scott will be able to get stamps on Wednesday. I'm not sure how long it takes the USPS to deliver stamps purchased online, but I can't think they'd get here before tomorrow's mail delivery.
One or the other of us needs to buy more bus tokens for Cordelia. Those are a PITA because the bus company only sells them in bags of 100 (full price tokens can be purchased in smaller quantities. These are half fare and meant for kids and people who meet certain income and/or disability guidelines). Otherwise, I'd just send Cordelia to buy her own since she'll be downtown tomorrow afternoon and again on Wednesday afternoon.
The hard to do things are still at the top of my to-do list as they have been for weeks. I was hoping to have Scott sit with me while I worked on them, just for moral support and help focusing, but he was busy yesterday evening with bills and with canceling Comcast. I'm still not up to sitting in the living room for more than an hour or two a day.
I've successfully used my c-pap the last two nights. Both mornings, however, I've awoken more tired than I expected to be, so I'm not sure this is a net win. I'm still taking half a tablet of halcion at night rather than two tablets. I think I'll manage to keep that dosage, but I don't think I'm going to be able to drop it entirely. I need that and the Tylenol in order to sleep around the pain.
Also, once Scott starts working 2nd shift, sleep is going to be harder to come by. He'll get off work some time after 11 p.m., have a half hour drive home, and still need to eat and shower before bed. I can't sleep through him getting home. His current plan is to get up with Cordelia in the mornings at about 5:45 a.m. I think this is a bad plan as it means he'll only get about four and a half hours of sleep a night, but it is the only scheme by which he'll get to interact with her at all during the work/school week, so... I don't know.
My best guess for my sleep is that I'll sleep from about 1 a.m. to when Scott and Cordelia get up. I may be able to fall back asleep again if I don't get out of bed during that hour that Cordelia's getting ready to leave. I can manage the going back to sleep thing some mornings now. I just think it will depend on what Scott does when Cordelia leaves. My impression is that he'd like to be up for the day then because it gives him time to do things. Theoretically, at least.
The front door is having issues with not latching properly. It needs double checking because it will look shut but pop half open when the screen door shuts (the screen door has a separate issue with not closing properly unless it's pushed firmly). It will still look closed from the outside, but it will be half an inch to an inch off from shut. It's getting cold enough that this is going to be a real problem. I don't want to have to keep getting out of bed to check after Cordelia leaves in the morning.
I'm actually half thinking that I should ask Cordelia to go out the back door in the mornings. Even when the driveway is a sheet of ice, that would add less than a minute to her walk to the bus, and it would avoid the issue of the front door.
I'm planning to weed my shelf of unread books. If I've had a book for a decade without even taking it down and opening it, I think it's time to pass the book on to someone who will read it. I know of seven little free libraries within six blocks of here, so when I'm up to walking around, I'll try to make some trips to leave some books at each.
I'm starting with some mass market paperback romances. I don't think that books are going to become magically easier to hold or that my general, anxiety-related difficulties with finishing books are going to evaporate. They haven't done in the last twenty years. (The revelation that I don't read many books or watch TV actually shook my mother. She thought I was still reading a book a day, minimum, because that's fundamental to her image of me.)
Our absentee ballot applications are in the mailbox, awaiting the mail carrier. I'm debating ordering stamps online versus just going to the post office and buying some. The downtown post office is on the way between where the bus route starts/ends and the library, and I'll be going down there tomorrow morning. I'm just not 100% sure I'll be taking the bus. Still, if I don't, Scott will be able to get stamps on Wednesday. I'm not sure how long it takes the USPS to deliver stamps purchased online, but I can't think they'd get here before tomorrow's mail delivery.
One or the other of us needs to buy more bus tokens for Cordelia. Those are a PITA because the bus company only sells them in bags of 100 (full price tokens can be purchased in smaller quantities. These are half fare and meant for kids and people who meet certain income and/or disability guidelines). Otherwise, I'd just send Cordelia to buy her own since she'll be downtown tomorrow afternoon and again on Wednesday afternoon.
The hard to do things are still at the top of my to-do list as they have been for weeks. I was hoping to have Scott sit with me while I worked on them, just for moral support and help focusing, but he was busy yesterday evening with bills and with canceling Comcast. I'm still not up to sitting in the living room for more than an hour or two a day.
I've successfully used my c-pap the last two nights. Both mornings, however, I've awoken more tired than I expected to be, so I'm not sure this is a net win. I'm still taking half a tablet of halcion at night rather than two tablets. I think I'll manage to keep that dosage, but I don't think I'm going to be able to drop it entirely. I need that and the Tylenol in order to sleep around the pain.
Also, once Scott starts working 2nd shift, sleep is going to be harder to come by. He'll get off work some time after 11 p.m., have a half hour drive home, and still need to eat and shower before bed. I can't sleep through him getting home. His current plan is to get up with Cordelia in the mornings at about 5:45 a.m. I think this is a bad plan as it means he'll only get about four and a half hours of sleep a night, but it is the only scheme by which he'll get to interact with her at all during the work/school week, so... I don't know.
My best guess for my sleep is that I'll sleep from about 1 a.m. to when Scott and Cordelia get up. I may be able to fall back asleep again if I don't get out of bed during that hour that Cordelia's getting ready to leave. I can manage the going back to sleep thing some mornings now. I just think it will depend on what Scott does when Cordelia leaves. My impression is that he'd like to be up for the day then because it gives him time to do things. Theoretically, at least.
The front door is having issues with not latching properly. It needs double checking because it will look shut but pop half open when the screen door shuts (the screen door has a separate issue with not closing properly unless it's pushed firmly). It will still look closed from the outside, but it will be half an inch to an inch off from shut. It's getting cold enough that this is going to be a real problem. I don't want to have to keep getting out of bed to check after Cordelia leaves in the morning.
I'm actually half thinking that I should ask Cordelia to go out the back door in the mornings. Even when the driveway is a sheet of ice, that would add less than a minute to her walk to the bus, and it would avoid the issue of the front door.
I'm planning to weed my shelf of unread books. If I've had a book for a decade without even taking it down and opening it, I think it's time to pass the book on to someone who will read it. I know of seven little free libraries within six blocks of here, so when I'm up to walking around, I'll try to make some trips to leave some books at each.
I'm starting with some mass market paperback romances. I don't think that books are going to become magically easier to hold or that my general, anxiety-related difficulties with finishing books are going to evaporate. They haven't done in the last twenty years. (The revelation that I don't read many books or watch TV actually shook my mother. She thought I was still reading a book a day, minimum, because that's fundamental to her image of me.)
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