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the_rckI’m up due to reflux. I think this is just bad luck because I was fine for the first hour I was in bed, up until I turned onto my right side and for a bit after that. I just know from experience that, once that gets started, only sitting upright for a while will help. At this point, it’s been a little more than an hour, so I’m going to post this and go back to bed. If I still have trouble at that point, I’m not sure what I’ll do. Maybe I’ll try to write fic (I did 370 words yesterday. Better than a poke in the eye).
Yesterday, we got the usual horrible heat of Art Fair and the expected thunderstorm. When I say 'expected,' I don’t mean that I saw a weather prediction for it but that we always, always have one some time during Art Fair even if the rest of the summer is bone dry. And it has been pretty dry. The rain soaked in (or ran off) rapidly enough that, two hours later, it was as if it hadn’t rained at all.
I didn’t want our cleaning lady to leave during the storm, but she insisted, so I sent her with one of our umbrellas. She promised to bring it back, but they’re not horribly expensive, so it doesn’t much matter if she doesn’t. I had wanted her to stay until either the storm passed completely or Scott got home to give her a ride. She takes the bus, so getting home involves a lot of time out in the weather, whatever it may be.
I brought a big bag of assorted junk up from the basement this evening and sorted all of it. I now have a bin of Legos and Playmobil pieces that need to be washed (possibly bleached if my lungs can handle it). I’m worried about doing that because a lot of the Playmobil pieces are tiny. I’m afraid I’ll lose some in the process of washing. I know there’s more Lego and Playmobil things in the basement because I sorted a bunch of those into a pile in early March. Sadly, because I didn’t get back to it for so long, the cleaning lady took that stuff and dumped it in a box with other assorted junk. The box is too big for me to lift, and I’m not pleased by the idea of sorting all of that again, but I’ll get to it. That’s the only way we’ll get this stuff out of the house.
I think I’m going to take one of the empty bins that used to hold books and use it to store Cordelia’s papers. Right now, I’ve got more than half of a paper bag filled with report cards and letters and art work. We’re a lot less likely to accidentally throw out a bin (or to run out of space in it), and it’s much easier to label.
We went to Plum Market around 8:00 for half price bread and found a swarm of people picking over the marked down baked goods. Scott only found one loaf that would work for sandwiches. There were a couple of very dense loaves that, according to the ingredients listed, were some sort of combination of spelt and rye with a bunch of spices. I don’t recall sugar being listed as a major ingredient, so I’m not sure it was a sweet bread even if the spices were things like cardamom that I associate with sweet things.
While we were out, someone from the other Ingress faction came through and took out most of the local portals. Scott and I went and took them back, but the person was still around and came back to take those portals again. Since we were still at the nature center, we were able to reclaim those portals a second time and get the church portal again, too, on our way home.
I have an appointment to see a nutritionist at the end of August. I’m trying to figure out what to tell her. I’ve got definite reasons for eating the way that I do and bodily systems that stop working right when I make the wrong sorts of changes or that occasionally demand fairly specific things. I probably ought to start food logging. I’m just not sure I want to do it this weekend because I’m expecting to eat junk food a bit in an effort to finish the Narnia fic before the 29th. With luck, it will send my brain working a bit faster than usual.
Our internet is fairly good in the morning and early afternoon. Around 4 p.m., it starts getting really terrible with pages taking ten minutes to load and email accounts failing to connect most of the time. 10 p.m. or so, things start to improve again. Scott and I are both wondering if it really is the phone line. I wonder… Is there a way AT&T could throttle our DSL since it uses their wires? If they can, switching to a different DSL provider isn’t likely to help.
Scott will be working on Saturday. He’s not pleased by that because it means putting off when he sees the new Star Trek movie. I don’t sympathize quite as much as I probably should because I won’t see it until it comes out on DVD. One day doesn’t seem like much.
We priced out admission to various museums in Chicago and ended up buying a family membership in the local Hands On Museum. They’ve got reciprocity with both the Field Museum and the Museum of Science and Industry (and also with the planetarium, but Cordelia’s now saying she’s not interested in that). I couldn’t figure out the pricing at the Field Museum. There were several tiers of ticket types with no explanation I could find as to what the different types allow or what the reciprocity agreement will get us there, but the odds are good that, even if it’s just Scott and Cordelia going into the museums, the family membership will do no worse than breaking even. If all three of us go, it will definitely save us money. There’s a special exhibit at the Field Museum that sounds interesting and that costs extra.
Shedd Aquarium has free wheelchairs, first come, first served. The Field Museum rents wheelchairs, also first come, first served. I didn’t dig up a price on that. I haven’t looked at the Museum of Science and Industry about wheelchairs yet. Cordelia has said that what she really meant by 'shopping' was wanting to walk around and look at things and buy stuff if she saw something she wanted but without having anything definite in mind. I don’t see any way at all that I can manage that part of things.
Yesterday, we got the usual horrible heat of Art Fair and the expected thunderstorm. When I say 'expected,' I don’t mean that I saw a weather prediction for it but that we always, always have one some time during Art Fair even if the rest of the summer is bone dry. And it has been pretty dry. The rain soaked in (or ran off) rapidly enough that, two hours later, it was as if it hadn’t rained at all.
I didn’t want our cleaning lady to leave during the storm, but she insisted, so I sent her with one of our umbrellas. She promised to bring it back, but they’re not horribly expensive, so it doesn’t much matter if she doesn’t. I had wanted her to stay until either the storm passed completely or Scott got home to give her a ride. She takes the bus, so getting home involves a lot of time out in the weather, whatever it may be.
I brought a big bag of assorted junk up from the basement this evening and sorted all of it. I now have a bin of Legos and Playmobil pieces that need to be washed (possibly bleached if my lungs can handle it). I’m worried about doing that because a lot of the Playmobil pieces are tiny. I’m afraid I’ll lose some in the process of washing. I know there’s more Lego and Playmobil things in the basement because I sorted a bunch of those into a pile in early March. Sadly, because I didn’t get back to it for so long, the cleaning lady took that stuff and dumped it in a box with other assorted junk. The box is too big for me to lift, and I’m not pleased by the idea of sorting all of that again, but I’ll get to it. That’s the only way we’ll get this stuff out of the house.
I think I’m going to take one of the empty bins that used to hold books and use it to store Cordelia’s papers. Right now, I’ve got more than half of a paper bag filled with report cards and letters and art work. We’re a lot less likely to accidentally throw out a bin (or to run out of space in it), and it’s much easier to label.
We went to Plum Market around 8:00 for half price bread and found a swarm of people picking over the marked down baked goods. Scott only found one loaf that would work for sandwiches. There were a couple of very dense loaves that, according to the ingredients listed, were some sort of combination of spelt and rye with a bunch of spices. I don’t recall sugar being listed as a major ingredient, so I’m not sure it was a sweet bread even if the spices were things like cardamom that I associate with sweet things.
While we were out, someone from the other Ingress faction came through and took out most of the local portals. Scott and I went and took them back, but the person was still around and came back to take those portals again. Since we were still at the nature center, we were able to reclaim those portals a second time and get the church portal again, too, on our way home.
I have an appointment to see a nutritionist at the end of August. I’m trying to figure out what to tell her. I’ve got definite reasons for eating the way that I do and bodily systems that stop working right when I make the wrong sorts of changes or that occasionally demand fairly specific things. I probably ought to start food logging. I’m just not sure I want to do it this weekend because I’m expecting to eat junk food a bit in an effort to finish the Narnia fic before the 29th. With luck, it will send my brain working a bit faster than usual.
Our internet is fairly good in the morning and early afternoon. Around 4 p.m., it starts getting really terrible with pages taking ten minutes to load and email accounts failing to connect most of the time. 10 p.m. or so, things start to improve again. Scott and I are both wondering if it really is the phone line. I wonder… Is there a way AT&T could throttle our DSL since it uses their wires? If they can, switching to a different DSL provider isn’t likely to help.
Scott will be working on Saturday. He’s not pleased by that because it means putting off when he sees the new Star Trek movie. I don’t sympathize quite as much as I probably should because I won’t see it until it comes out on DVD. One day doesn’t seem like much.
We priced out admission to various museums in Chicago and ended up buying a family membership in the local Hands On Museum. They’ve got reciprocity with both the Field Museum and the Museum of Science and Industry (and also with the planetarium, but Cordelia’s now saying she’s not interested in that). I couldn’t figure out the pricing at the Field Museum. There were several tiers of ticket types with no explanation I could find as to what the different types allow or what the reciprocity agreement will get us there, but the odds are good that, even if it’s just Scott and Cordelia going into the museums, the family membership will do no worse than breaking even. If all three of us go, it will definitely save us money. There’s a special exhibit at the Field Museum that sounds interesting and that costs extra.
Shedd Aquarium has free wheelchairs, first come, first served. The Field Museum rents wheelchairs, also first come, first served. I didn’t dig up a price on that. I haven’t looked at the Museum of Science and Industry about wheelchairs yet. Cordelia has said that what she really meant by 'shopping' was wanting to walk around and look at things and buy stuff if she saw something she wanted but without having anything definite in mind. I don’t see any way at all that I can manage that part of things.
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Date: 2016-07-22 09:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-07-22 03:32 pm (UTC)It won't, however, work for the Playmobil bits that I'm afraid of losing because those are smaller than the mesh on the bag I've got. The sets often have bushes/trees with detachable flowers, and the flowers are about half the size of my smallest fingernail. Maybe... We've got a sieve with very, very small mesh. Maybe I can put thing in that and dip it. The metal ought to stand up to the bleach.
(I want to use bleach because we had mice down there for a while. These bits and pieces were all on the floor with the mouse poop and, I would assume, mouse pee. I'm not keen on sharing that with small children.)
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Date: 2016-07-23 04:17 am (UTC)(2) If you have any cheesecloth or thin rags, those could be used to make bags for washing the little pieces too, maybe?
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Date: 2016-07-24 02:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-07-22 02:39 pm (UTC)We enjoy the reciprocity agreements between botanical gardens, too.
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Date: 2016-07-22 03:01 pm (UTC)I think the reciprocity thing will be hugely helpful for our trip to Chicago. Maybe we'll even go to the Hands On Museum here in town again. Cordelia is both too old and too young for it in as much as she thinks it's beneath her dignity to play around with things and that she already knows everything about the exhibits.
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Date: 2016-07-23 01:34 am (UTC)I'm waiting with baited breath for reflux myself. Between albuterol and prednisone, it's eventually going to surface (and it kind of did days 1-2, so 30mg/highest dose I take now).
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Date: 2016-07-23 10:25 pm (UTC)