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Apr. 16th, 2015 08:58 amI think I overdid yesterday. My foot hurt enough this morning just from the pressure of lying on the mattress that it woke me. It hurts in a different place than usual, too. Sadly, the only thing I did differently yesterday was to shower, so I may have to go back to baths for a while. At least I should still be able to get myself out of the tub.
We emptied the bag on my walker yesterday and put the walker away. For the first time, I looked at the written instructions they gave me. I'd been going from the oral instructions they gave me, but the written instructions are different-- The written instructions say to use the boot at first and gradually transition to the brace rather than to use the brace all the time at home and boot just for going out. That's quite a difference. The written instructions fit with what I had decided to do anyway.
The parent organizing this year's Disabilities Awareness Workshop emailed me specifically to ask me to help this year. Unfortunately, I really have to go to that doctor's appointment, and I don't think I'll be able to help with set up even though it happens while I'm free. I think set up would involve too much walking and carrying.
The PTO is really planning to go all out for this year's Teacher Appreciation Week. Four out of the five days, they're asking families to send something in. Tuesday, they want a flower, Wednesday a pie, Thursday a gift card, and Friday a dish of some sort for a lunch for the teachers and staff. I have learned, from years past, that, if we send something in for the lunch, we shouldn't expect ever to see the pan/bowl again. I suspect that this agenda for the week reflects the fact that the school has, in general, become wealthier due to all of the new students. In years past, they just asked for the flower (and they emphasized that it ought to come from a child's yard or a park rather than from a store) and the dish for a lunch. I know they filled in one other day with cards handmade by the kids. I don't remember what else they did, but it generally didn't cost much money.
(The reason I think the school has become wealthier in general is that the families from outside of the school's normal attends area are responsible for getting their own kids to and from school. Having the ability to bring at kid across town to school at 8:00 and to pick them up again at 2:50 is a luxury that many families simply don't have. That introduces a certain selection bias.)
Cordelia remembered to pick up the permission form for Cross Country Kids at the office yesterday, but she then left it at school. She has promised that she'll bring it home today so that she can turn it in tomorrow. I'm a little frustrated, but I don't see anything I can do short of walking over to the school and filling out a form on the spot. I bet my foot and ankle would love that.
Scott ran his FATE game last night. Our characters pulled off a bit of a con. I'm not entirely convinced we should have gotten away with it, in spite of one of the characters being an extraordinary conman. Scott did throw in an npc that freaked out my character-- Magic in this game is very, very dangerous, and most people who really get deep into it end up destroying themselves. My character does a little magic, mostly sensory and protective stuff. The npc last night had a powerful magical aura and looked to be in his 40s. My character considers him an impossibility because, at his power level and by his age, he should be very, very dead (and possibly have taken a lot of other people with him).
I still haven't put away my laundry, and with my foot hurting the way it is, I hesitate to do it today. I guess I'll see how I feel in an hour or two. I've got two baskets of laundry in the living room, and some of it is stuff that I may not wear again this year. It's warm enough, at least inside, that I'm transitioning to short sleeves, and the baskets are full of my long sleeved dresses. I think it's been in the 50s and 60s, so I'd probably want long sleeves if I went outside, but those temperatures mean that it's in the 70s inside even without the furnace running much.
I am finding that it gets a little chilly overnight. I tend to start the night with just a sheet. Generally, by the time Scott's alarm goes off at 5:00, I'm cold enough to want a blanket on top of the sheet. This morning, I was actually dreaming about being cold and trying various things to get warm when Scott's alarm woke me. Of course, by the time Cordelia's alarm goes off at 7:00, the heat has come on, and a blanket is too much. I'm not sure there's a great solution. Putting on and removing blankets tends to involve using my feet some, and that hurts.
I already have a ton of links saved off for the next issue of![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
metanews. It's enough that I'm thinking I might send half of them to the other link finder and ask them to write those up. I haven't been particularly looking for links; these are just what's turned up in my normal internet wanderings.
I need to find out where we're going for our vacation with Scott's family this summer and exactly when. I know Scott's told me, but I didn't record it in my calendar, so I've forgotten. Mainly, I want to find out if there's going to be internet (it seems likely given what we're paying for the place) and to figure out if that's a week when I'm supposed to post formetanews. If there's internet, I can probably link find and post as usual. Everybody else will be out a lot, but they don't expect me to join them most of the time.
This particular house costs about twice what the house cost that we all rented two years ago. Scott and I were not expecting that, and paying for our share is going to be a stretch. I think Scott's parents (who made the arrangements) forget that we don't all have their level of disposable cash. This place is in Ohio and is (I think) relatively close to Cedar Point and to a couple of other things the family (apart from me) will probably do day trips to explore. For what we're paying, there better be a nearby grocery store. The last place was a good half hour drive from the nearest place to buy food and such so we did without anything we forgot in the initial shopping trip.
We emptied the bag on my walker yesterday and put the walker away. For the first time, I looked at the written instructions they gave me. I'd been going from the oral instructions they gave me, but the written instructions are different-- The written instructions say to use the boot at first and gradually transition to the brace rather than to use the brace all the time at home and boot just for going out. That's quite a difference. The written instructions fit with what I had decided to do anyway.
The parent organizing this year's Disabilities Awareness Workshop emailed me specifically to ask me to help this year. Unfortunately, I really have to go to that doctor's appointment, and I don't think I'll be able to help with set up even though it happens while I'm free. I think set up would involve too much walking and carrying.
The PTO is really planning to go all out for this year's Teacher Appreciation Week. Four out of the five days, they're asking families to send something in. Tuesday, they want a flower, Wednesday a pie, Thursday a gift card, and Friday a dish of some sort for a lunch for the teachers and staff. I have learned, from years past, that, if we send something in for the lunch, we shouldn't expect ever to see the pan/bowl again. I suspect that this agenda for the week reflects the fact that the school has, in general, become wealthier due to all of the new students. In years past, they just asked for the flower (and they emphasized that it ought to come from a child's yard or a park rather than from a store) and the dish for a lunch. I know they filled in one other day with cards handmade by the kids. I don't remember what else they did, but it generally didn't cost much money.
(The reason I think the school has become wealthier in general is that the families from outside of the school's normal attends area are responsible for getting their own kids to and from school. Having the ability to bring at kid across town to school at 8:00 and to pick them up again at 2:50 is a luxury that many families simply don't have. That introduces a certain selection bias.)
Cordelia remembered to pick up the permission form for Cross Country Kids at the office yesterday, but she then left it at school. She has promised that she'll bring it home today so that she can turn it in tomorrow. I'm a little frustrated, but I don't see anything I can do short of walking over to the school and filling out a form on the spot. I bet my foot and ankle would love that.
Scott ran his FATE game last night. Our characters pulled off a bit of a con. I'm not entirely convinced we should have gotten away with it, in spite of one of the characters being an extraordinary conman. Scott did throw in an npc that freaked out my character-- Magic in this game is very, very dangerous, and most people who really get deep into it end up destroying themselves. My character does a little magic, mostly sensory and protective stuff. The npc last night had a powerful magical aura and looked to be in his 40s. My character considers him an impossibility because, at his power level and by his age, he should be very, very dead (and possibly have taken a lot of other people with him).
I still haven't put away my laundry, and with my foot hurting the way it is, I hesitate to do it today. I guess I'll see how I feel in an hour or two. I've got two baskets of laundry in the living room, and some of it is stuff that I may not wear again this year. It's warm enough, at least inside, that I'm transitioning to short sleeves, and the baskets are full of my long sleeved dresses. I think it's been in the 50s and 60s, so I'd probably want long sleeves if I went outside, but those temperatures mean that it's in the 70s inside even without the furnace running much.
I am finding that it gets a little chilly overnight. I tend to start the night with just a sheet. Generally, by the time Scott's alarm goes off at 5:00, I'm cold enough to want a blanket on top of the sheet. This morning, I was actually dreaming about being cold and trying various things to get warm when Scott's alarm woke me. Of course, by the time Cordelia's alarm goes off at 7:00, the heat has come on, and a blanket is too much. I'm not sure there's a great solution. Putting on and removing blankets tends to involve using my feet some, and that hurts.
I already have a ton of links saved off for the next issue of
metanews. It's enough that I'm thinking I might send half of them to the other link finder and ask them to write those up. I haven't been particularly looking for links; these are just what's turned up in my normal internet wanderings.I need to find out where we're going for our vacation with Scott's family this summer and exactly when. I know Scott's told me, but I didn't record it in my calendar, so I've forgotten. Mainly, I want to find out if there's going to be internet (it seems likely given what we're paying for the place) and to figure out if that's a week when I'm supposed to post for
metanews. If there's internet, I can probably link find and post as usual. Everybody else will be out a lot, but they don't expect me to join them most of the time. This particular house costs about twice what the house cost that we all rented two years ago. Scott and I were not expecting that, and paying for our share is going to be a stretch. I think Scott's parents (who made the arrangements) forget that we don't all have their level of disposable cash. This place is in Ohio and is (I think) relatively close to Cedar Point and to a couple of other things the family (apart from me) will probably do day trips to explore. For what we're paying, there better be a nearby grocery store. The last place was a good half hour drive from the nearest place to buy food and such so we did without anything we forgot in the initial shopping trip.
