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Mar. 26th, 2016 06:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckI ended up taking an Ativan this afternoon when I realized that part of my exhaustion and achiness and headache was accumulating anxiety. I’m still pretty darned tired, but the headache is gone, and I think my ankle’s not hurting quite as much. I’m still craving sugar like crazy, and I would still like a cup of coffee (I was desperate enough to see if powdered milk would work as a creamer, but I couldn’t get it to dissolve).
My father called to check and see how Cordelia is doing. I warned him that I’ll be calling in a week or two to ask for family medical history. He thinks it’s not a problem that I haven’t called Grandma in so long because she tires out fast and doesn’t enjoy phone calls. She can’t hear very well now. She also can’t see at all, so if I write her a letter, it will have to be with the assumption that my aunt, uncle, or cousin will read it to her. I think I might do that, assuming that I can come up with things to say that aren’t all about the stresses of the last year.
My mother and step-father still haven’t. I tried calling them again last night and got their answering machine again. I’m not sure if that means they were out again or if they’re traveling and didn’t tell me they would be. It just seems weird that they’d be traveling less than a month after getting two puppies. If they have gotten my messages and not called me… Well, that’s normal for them. It doesn’t mean I’m not disappointed. I wish I weren’t, but somehow I can’t detach enough to just say, "Yeah, that’s the way they are."
One of our friends bought Cordelia some stuff off of her Amazon wishlist. She’s currently working away on a coloring book of abstract designs while rewatching season 3 of Avatar: the Last Airbender (we’re at Boiling Rock). So far, I haven’t persuaded Cordelia that a thank you email from her would mean more than one from me.
I pulled a bunch of fairly light and humorous movies out of our DVD collection, things Cordelia has never seen. So far, she’s not willing to try any of them. I’m not sure if she has the context for Monty Python and the Holy Grail or Galaxy Quest, but one of them might be worth trying. I think some Jackie Chan stuff or Romancing the Stone or Meatballs or Adventures in Babysitting are surer bets. I also noted that the first two Christopher Reeve Superman movies are in at the nearest branch of the library. I think she’d enjoy those. She’s dubious because she thinks all DC movies are grim and hugely violent and not even remotely funny, just generally no fun.
My father called to check and see how Cordelia is doing. I warned him that I’ll be calling in a week or two to ask for family medical history. He thinks it’s not a problem that I haven’t called Grandma in so long because she tires out fast and doesn’t enjoy phone calls. She can’t hear very well now. She also can’t see at all, so if I write her a letter, it will have to be with the assumption that my aunt, uncle, or cousin will read it to her. I think I might do that, assuming that I can come up with things to say that aren’t all about the stresses of the last year.
My mother and step-father still haven’t. I tried calling them again last night and got their answering machine again. I’m not sure if that means they were out again or if they’re traveling and didn’t tell me they would be. It just seems weird that they’d be traveling less than a month after getting two puppies. If they have gotten my messages and not called me… Well, that’s normal for them. It doesn’t mean I’m not disappointed. I wish I weren’t, but somehow I can’t detach enough to just say, "Yeah, that’s the way they are."
One of our friends bought Cordelia some stuff off of her Amazon wishlist. She’s currently working away on a coloring book of abstract designs while rewatching season 3 of Avatar: the Last Airbender (we’re at Boiling Rock). So far, I haven’t persuaded Cordelia that a thank you email from her would mean more than one from me.
I pulled a bunch of fairly light and humorous movies out of our DVD collection, things Cordelia has never seen. So far, she’s not willing to try any of them. I’m not sure if she has the context for Monty Python and the Holy Grail or Galaxy Quest, but one of them might be worth trying. I think some Jackie Chan stuff or Romancing the Stone or Meatballs or Adventures in Babysitting are surer bets. I also noted that the first two Christopher Reeve Superman movies are in at the nearest branch of the library. I think she’d enjoy those. She’s dubious because she thinks all DC movies are grim and hugely violent and not even remotely funny, just generally no fun.
