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My TSH numbers are where they should be. I was rather hoping they weren’t because that would explain how tired I’ve been feeling. My doctor has not addressed my request for a T3 test, and I’m really not sure what to do about that.

My blood sugar numbers are exactly where they were in May with the fasting blood sugar perfectly fine and the A1c a tenth of a percentage point past where it would be considered normal. My doctor said in May that she wanted to refer me to a nutritionist/dietician, but she didn’t mention that this time. I’m not sure how useful such a person would be given that keeping my blood sugar down would be a third and contradictory goal for me. The first is to manage my headaches, my occasional IBS (the gastroenterologist recommended Benefiber. I tried that for three weeks, and it made things… unpleasant. Since I stopped it, two weeks ago, things have improved immensely), my GERD, etc. The second is to deal with what I strongly suspect is some form of hypoglycemia, probably not in terms of my blood sugar but in terms of what sugar my muscles and brain are able to pull from my blood. There is very definitely something wrong there.

I have to fill out some Social Security forms today. I had hoped to do them online (mostly because I accidentally started the form in blue ink when they say only black), but I applied for access to do that about three weeks ago and have not gotten a response. I only have thirty days to return the form, so I can’t wait any longer. I think I may be past the deadline already, but they’ve been forgiving about that in the past.

Scott set his cell phone alarm wrong last night. It was supposed to go off a little before 6:00 to let him know when he needed to get out the door for work. Instead, it went off at 2:30 which is when he has to be out the door when he starts work at 3:00. It woke both of us. Just yesterday, he switched that ring tone to a bit from MST3K— "Deep hurting!" over and over again.

We did sweet potatoes in the pressure cooker last night. I think they need a little longer than the time we gave them because they were still just a tiny bit crunchy. Five pounds of regular potatoes takes ten minutes, but that wasn’t long enough for three sweet potatoes. These were edible, just not ideal.

I’ve written a bit over a thousand words in the last three days. Unfortunately, none of those have been on the project I actually need to finish, the one with the looming deadline. At least I know I can write again. I was worried that that was gone. Ah, well. They count toward my goal for Camp NaNoWriMo. I only set that at 10000 words, so I think I might manage it this time.

Of all the packages I’ve had from Amazon, there’s a certain irony in the fact that the one to go missing contains ten pairs of cotton panties. UPS and Amazon claim it was delivered on the 1st, but I was here all day and got no package. It’s not hiding off to the side of the porch or anything. I checked. It’s been a week and still no package.

Amazon makes the process for reporting non-arrival fairly cumbersome. I had to log in twice and check that, yes, this was the order in question about four times, and for some reason, their auto-generated message claimed that I ordered the dratted things in April instead of in June. I really don’t know. If I’d ordered them in April, them arriving on July 1 would be a heck of a long wait.

Scott is currently hopeful that he’ll have the whole weekend off. The plant will be running, but, as of yesterday, other people had volunteered to cover the necessary shifts. I’m keeping my fingers crossed.

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I’m making no progress on my to do list. Well, no, that’s not entirely true. I got that stupid Social Security form done. Hopefully my going over the blue ink in black will be adequate. I can’t get it in the mail today unless I make Scott go out immediately after he gets home (and even then, it may be too late) or I go downtown now. Since my weather app says that it 'feels like 95F' out there, I’m very, very reluctant to venture outside.

I’m considering whether or not I want to make the effort to alphabetize my anime and our English language TV DVDs. The boxed sets make that a lot harder, given the space available, than alphabetizing the movies was. Of course, the movies are in the one space that might fit boxed sets without a lot of fudging, but I’m not sure that either the TV or the anime would fit that shelf, and the movies do with just enough space left for us to add a few things.

I think there has to be a box of books in the basement that I’ve missed. There are at least five books that I know I own but that I haven’t been able to find. If there is an additional box of books, it’s either not labeled or is mislabeled. The ones I haven’t opened claim to contain Scott’s various collectible card games and board games and things like that. My mother labeled things, and I know she was pretty careful, but maybe I moved things around and just don’t remember? We boxed things up before Cordelia could walk, so me forgetting isn’t entirely unlikely. There are a lot of things I don’t remember in any detail. I’ve never been good at keeping memories that way.

I’m down to ten emails to answer. If yours is one of them, I apologize. These are all things I want to reply to with thought, and I keep failing to do it.

I still need to call my grandmother. Maybe I can do it tomorrow. The longer I put it off, the harder it gets. I wish I could write to her instead, but she’s pretty much blind.

I need to post on the rp scene I’m doing on DW. I feel really bad about that because I’ve been taking days to tag back, and it really ought not be that hard. I think that part of the problem is that we’re doing a bit of story that doesn’t play to my strengths. The characters aren’t actually talking to each other, and I tend to lose direction when that happens.

I want to undertake a project to look at the LPs that Scott and I have kept. We haven’t played any of them in the time we’ve been married, but we also haven’t gotten rid of them. We have a turntable that we purchased with the intention of digitizing those LPs but haven’t used because it takes time and focus. At this point, I’m not even sure what I’ve got. Some of it could certainly go. Now that vinyl is coming back a bit, maybe someone else would even want them.

Beyond that, there are the maintenance chores in terms of laundry and dishes and cooking. There are also a bunch of other bits of sorting and shelving and washing and getting rid of stuff that I need to work on. The second set of tasks actually can be finished. Eventually. If I just work at them, bit by bit.

I’ve also got a lot of library books I want to read and a lot of DVDs, library and otherwise, that I want to watch. I’m prioritizing the three books that can’t be renewed and the one book that I’ve renewed four times.

But really, writing the WIP Big Bang fic ought to come first. I think I can do that today and tomorrow. If I focus on it, maybe I can hit the right word count and find an ending. I’m thinking it will end up with a sequel or sequels in order to get to the ending I expect. Right now, I just want to finish this bit.

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At the last minute today, Scott’s supervisor informed him that he would have to stay an extra four hours. They gave him time to call me to let me know which is something they don’t always do because it requires him leaving the factory floor. Adding insult to injury, he’d just spent eight hours pulling carts from one side of the plant to the other (the loading dock is, naturally, as far as possible from the part of the plant where he works). Days when he pulls carts, he generally doesn’t get a lunch break or any other type of break because he’s not supposed to take one until he’s ahead of the lines he’s pulling for which never happens during a normal production day. I’m expecting him to come home and pretty much fall over.

I’m attempting to make rice in the pressure cooker. I think I set everything up correctly, and I found a table for water to rice ratios and cooking times for different types of rice in pressure cookers. I needed that because the manuals that came with our pressure cooker only talk about things like jasmine rice and basmati rice without any discussion of more common kinds.