witchchild

I have been quiet for so long that there was just an attempted seizure of my account by a bot. I thwart thee, bot!

Still alive, somewhere between surviving and thriving, and not very active online. Looking more than typing and even the looking has decreased.

Soooooo, it's been a while once again. I've managed to get myself over the desire to incessantly scroll through the faster social media. And I want to blog again, as well as some other projects which may or may not happen. Here's a snapshot of recent time, which I know some of you already know.

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Overall a lot has been happening, but even in the midst of a pandemic I am personally doing okay. My health is improving, the cats are well and love me being around this much, and I'm keeping in touch with enough people that I don't feel all that isolated.

I've decided for the month of July to do a daily post and a once a day check in. While fb has its uses and I have been enjoying Twitter more for the last several months, long writing is back in the corner saying "um hi?" Plus my workload has grown so I need real breaks and differences because that is what I am wanting.

My boss retired at the end of May. This means I am taking on more of a supervisory role on a daily basis. It's been a change and after a month of doing it daily, the imposter syndrome is fading. We also lost another of our librarians in early May to a job at another university. Somehow this has led to me being asked to do specialized cataloging. (Yes siduri I know what I said over the weekend...) While I don't want to do the task all day, there is something satisfying about project work. Pick it up, do it, and done for good. Speaking of, I wrapped another project today. I went through the oversize books and pulled things to be sent to our off-site facility. From what I have seen, it looks like the majority of my selections were spot-on as they have not come back to the shelf. Now that this is done the big shifting project can get underway soon.

On the health front, things are going better. I've been on a good dose of synthroid for a year, started metformin because the A1C went just over the edge, and have now possibly gotten an answer about my ankle swelling. Last thing up is to bug people into finding me a specialist to prescribe ADHD meds.

Posting this now before I get too distracted and forget about it. More sometime this week.

hellooooo

I'm still lacking on reading here but it just needs to become a habit again.

What is it about January 1 that makes it so easy even to start making a change? I woke up today feeling revitalized. Break this year was also nice, as I didn't travel anywhere so I could just be at home and have several days of rest. This year it was indeed a recharge. Now I need to figure out how to approach this year.

Events of note for 2018:
*Got on the right dose of thyroid medication so I can function again
*Made wonderful new friends
*Left behind a 20+ year friendship because too much work with too much bullshit in exchange isn't worth it.
*Made a few more steps toward making this house truly *mine*.
*Gained a housemate.

And most of all, I may be starting to get sight of what my life is going to look like now with better health on multiple fronts.

Next up, tweaking the reading lists, which means I would be glad to have recommendations of people to follow.

Yeah I fell off the wagon hard. And I just paid for another year of service here so I should get to work then.

In good news, I have a vet appointment scheduled for my boy on Friday and already requested sedatives to pick up. In another round of medical testing for me because some other issues which have been tracked are not showing up as ideal. Nothing to worry about yet, just need to check things. Have a referral for a psych practice to get drugs again for my AD(H)D. I am hoping the last one is the missing piece which will get me functioning better.

Life with housemate is still enjoyable. Watching her go through adjunct bs isn't so fun. For example, at one of her schools she is due to lose virtual access tomorrow. She's giving one final today and another tomorrow, and grades are due *next* Tuesday the 18th. Great setup, school! She also has some ideas on how to make the downstairs space better, which go beyond my few of getting rid of some big items and then moving forward. Next year, in addition to hopefully getting the rest of the house stuff paid off, is probably going to be replacing multiple items of furniture.

Now that I have paid access again I am going to find a new layout and do some reading.

So much for daily content, but already I have posted more in this month than I have in a year.

Working days this week, well until Wednesday, then off until Sunday. For the first time in a long while I had no problem waking up this morning. AND no problem getting to bed at a reasonable house last night. Probably helped that around 5pm yesterday I got hit with a wave of tired. My boss is also out all week, as she would not have worked today or tomorrow anyway, and has floating holidays to use up before the end of May. The weekend was mostly about rest (yay!), the new Fantastic Beasts (as I said to siduri at the end of the film, "I'm confused"), and too much time on Spyro Reignited.

and as I have to leave soon I will try to post more later.

Today was better in terms of it not being rainy, so I didn't want to sleep away the day. Watching various political results come through has been both spirit raising and infuriating. Lots more work to do, especially as the party in power tries all they can to consolidate more. Just have to keep on working and living and do what we can to keep it from fucking up our lives.

Held my nose for doing my civic duty. Before the next big election I need to remove myself from the D side and get myself set up as a card-carrying socialist. Other than that, nothing. A second day of rain translated into me doing my best sloth impressions.

Because while I slept well again, and got a lot of stuff done around the house before work... then left to come to work this afternoon and felt the rain and air pressure and wanted nothing more than to take a nap instead of driving. I've spent this whole day focused first and foremost on staying awake and focused. But no question that I will sleep wonderfully tonight.