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I spent a little time yesterday trying to track down AO3 handles for various people I wrote fics for in the past, before I started posting on AO3. I suspect there are going to be a lot that I simply can’t connect with any certainty to an AO3 name. I’m also kind of not inclined to try to track down the people who never commented because I kind of assume they didn’t like the fic. If I’ve written a fic for you and you have an AO3 handle and the giftfic isn’t linked to your account (and you want it to be or wouldn’t mind it being), drop me a comment or PM.

I got one of the bins of crap in the living room mostly sorted. I filled the inside recycling bin between half and two thirds of the way. It was heavy enough that I wasn’t comfortable trying to carry it out. When I stopped, I was exhausted and thought I was going to end up going to bed at 5 p.m., but eating dinner really helped.

Scott and Cordelia went downtown to the library to see a bit of a Taiwanese puppet show by a group that’s apparently quite a big deal. They didn’t end up staying long because it was very, very loud. Scott also hadn’t thought to take his glasses and so couldn’t really see the puppets. Cordelia’s Chinese teacher was really eager to have her students see the show. I’m kind of sorry that I couldn’t see any of it, but I really felt exhausted. I’m not sure when I last felt that wiped out.

After Scott and Cordelia came home, Scott and I walked to the bottom of the hill and then back up. He thinks I should do that every day. I probably should, too. It’s just very hard to get myself out of the house. I need to come up with ways to reward myself. I just can’t think of anything because it can’t cost money and it can’t involve food. And it can’t be something I’d do anyway like listening to music or having the TV on for distraction. I don’t think Habitica or a sticker chart is going to work for me, either.

I set my alarm to get up with Cordelia at 6:30 this morning. Then, of course, I closed my eyes again for just a moment and woke up at 7:00. Fortunately, Cordelia had gotten herself up and was doing fine. I don’t know if she’s going to want me to keep getting up with her or if she’s going to feel confident enough to do it on her own again. I ended up actually getting up at 7:30.

I’ve got a short to do list today, but I’m not sure how much of it I’ll actually get to. None of it is anything that ought to take very long. It’s just hard to start. I’m also starting to feel like maybe I should lie down again.

( To do list for my own reference )

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It’s very warm in here. The air conditioner is actually running which means it must be at least 80F. I’m very tempted to move into the basement even though it would mean either sitting on the floor or doing a lot of work to set up a place to sit. It would also mean giving up on watching DVDs for today. Most of them are due Sunday, and I’d prefer to return them rather than renew them. I’ve got one new library DVD that I’ll get out on Sunday, and I was thinking of trying some documentaries to see if I can find any that aren’t stressful.

Cake baking is not happening today. It’s too warm in here for me to run the oven for an hour.

I’ve started a list of things I want to do while Scott’s at home tomorrow. Having someone to lift boxes and drive the car during the day on a weekday is a big thing. Ideally, we’ll take books to the school and books to the downtown library for the Friends of the Library and go to the post office to ship two packages (one is ready; one still needs padding and addressing).

Finally, I want to go to the bus company’s office on S. Industrial to buy some half price bus tokens. We’ve got about twenty left at this point which would get me and Cordelia through a year pretty easily if all we use them for is trips to the dentist and the orthopedist. I don’t pay anything to ride the bus, so she’s the one who would use the tokens. I’m just hoping that she’ll start riding the bus for other things. The hitch is that the bus company only sells the half price tokens in multiples of 100, so getting them is expensive, and, well, I’m not sure we’ll use 100 before she graduates high school and has to pay full price. I suppose it would depend on where she ends up going for high school. With certain schools, we’d use a lot more than 100 tokens. (Sixteen years ago, when I was still working, a bus pass was only better than tokens if one was riding more than ten times a week. At ten times a week, a bus pass cost the same per ride as the tokens. I have no idea if that’s still true.)

Free to a good home

Anyone interested in a set of the Baum Oz books? I’m pretty sure I’ve got all of them. They’re mass market paperbacks. Most of them are the Del Rey edition, but the copy of The Land of Oz isn’t. It’s got a green cover and so doesn’t match the rest. Taken.

I’ve also got a handful of Great Brain books. I don’t think I can donate them to the school library because they’ve been weeding those out of the collection for the last four or five years (that’s how I ended up with so many duplicates. I forgot what I already had).

Also, anybody local want a paraffin bath? I haven’t touched it since before Cordelia was born, so I can’t be certain that it still works, but it worked then, and I only used it about three times. It’s the right size for a foot or a hand up to the wrist. I’m pretty sure we have some clean paraffin to go with it, but until I open the bin where it’s stored, I can’t be certain, and that bin is shoved to the farthest point under the stairs. If someone’s actually interested, I’ll brave the cobwebs to pull it out.

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( Health stuff: test results, doctor freak outs, and weight/exercise issues )