Day 775

If the attention to underlayment detail is a good gauge then the new flooring should be really nice. Having a day to futz around with my knitting was incredibly beneficial too.

The heat wave broke enough for me to try a new cookie recipe: lemon polenta. By request of a friend so I’ll send some to her. It’s a good enough recipe to keep but like any other lemon thing in the world ya gotta add lemon extract.

Debating the merits of a cookie recipe on a Friday night — never thought I’d actually be this person but I think I like her.

Day 774

Long day. My new knitting project came so I started it. Fiddly and annoying at the beginning; seems to be getting easier.

Stripped sticky-tiles off upper landing/hallway — that was more work than I expected. Should have allotted WAY more time for it. Then Youngest came home, read online about using an iron to soften the tile and got the rest up in a fraction of the time with far less effort. The very definition of “work smarter not harder.”

Tomorrow the floor people will come and I’m looking forward to having a day of basically doing nothing but sit in my chair keeping and ear out for the workers.

Day 773

A mixed day. I did stay in my PJs all day and I did some organizing of the house and I did a lot of knitting and crocheting...but there was still a fair bit of drama.

Also I kept thinking it was a weekend day - sometimes Saturday and sometimes Sunday but this middle-of-the-week day off thing had me kind of discombobulated.

Even so...US Fourth of July is pretty high up the Drinking Holidays list so there is always a certain pleasure in doing it sober.

Day 772

long tiresome drama filled day. But I didn’t drink so I win.

My plan is to sleep in and stay in my pajamas all day tomorrow.

Day 771

Sharing the car with a kid whose “part-time” job hovers right at 40 hours is already getting old and we are only a week in.

Maybe the pain is making me crankier than usual. It is much improved but not entirely gone yet.

More likely the emotional stress generated by the other house is making me both cranky and sad.

But now that Youngest is home I can just go to bed. After two years, one month and eleven days I can say with some certainty that going to bed early is always -always- a better choice than relaxing with a cocktail. Doesn’t seem that way for a while but yup, it’s true.

Day 770

For a take-it-easy kind of day I sure ended up doing a lot of sorting in the basement. Oh well.

The heat wave is pretty miserable since not very many windows in this house can take air conditioners and we don’t have central heating/cooling or ductless heating/cooling. Someday.

Got stuff done but kept everything low key - I’m getting better at that.

Day 769

Today was very productive - I  went slowly but I got stuff done. Mostly the stuff was getting the hallway around staircase painted.

Had a bad wave of pain after lunch but it went away after maybe 45 min and stayed gone. Took second Zantac before having a water ice (coconut - yum) and some crackers. So far so good. Will continue bland-bland diet another few days then start easing back to more protein  but figure I should stay on Zantac a full 10-14 days.

The pain was so bad and weird and piercing yesterday I had considered pancreatitis even though there was no good history for it.

And now to bed.”0