Scrappy! Hello!
Happiest of Plei Days, Plei.
I love my job (I’m a paraprofessional in a life and work skills program for young adults with Autism, for those who may not know
I did not. That is awesome. Do you happen to have any contacts, suggestions, etc. for a program like that for the Metro DC area? Or where a reputable place to research that might be? For a friend with a son who is about 22 and struggling; she's looking at options right now.
Timelies all!
Happy Birthday Plei!
Got my hair cut in a salon for the first time since the pandemic started. Usual cut-took off a few inches and evened things up. (The hairdresser blew it out straight, so we'll see how long it is when I let it air dry as I usually do.)
Jen, I don’t, sorry. I know the local Michigan programs, but nothing national. It’s an underserved community for sure.
So freaking true. Well, Michigan peeps are lucky to have you in the trenches, I know that.
Happy Birthday Plei!
In honor of the occasion, enjoy this Chris Evans puppy interview: [link]
25K steps today.
Split into two parts with a nap in between.
25K steps today.
Way to bounce back from Covid!
Impressive, Tom! Just, please be careful. I get all anxious about long covid biting my friends in the ass, and I want everyone's ass thoroughly unbitten by long covid (other entities I suppose are okay as long as there's active consent, but long covid better back off).
Happiest of Plei Days! Until next year's Plei Day, and the one after that, and so on. But happiest as of right now!
I'm so weary. So, so weary, and so grateful that tomorrow is a holiday. But right now I'm sitting in our drinky parlor drinking a drink and successfully internetting with the assistance of a mesh system that I managed to get up and running just a couple of hours ago, and it's starting to feel no longer completely unreal.
I have trimmed down my book collection considerably.
At this point I admit that I'm super resistant to any further trimming--I got rid of ~500 books when I moved in with Hec and put another ~200 into storage at my dad's place, culled further and put another couple hundred into storage when Matilda was born, have continued culling every couple of years since then, was too broke to buy any books at all for a good five years, and lost at least half of the stored books when my dad's place burned down. I *know* I still have an abnormally large number of books, but it just emotionally feels like too many have disappeared under duress or via trauma, and I may be able to rationally evaluate and cull them sometime in the future, but that time is not now. And, honestly, we now have a big-ass attic and, as trauma responses go, "unwilling to further cull the book collection" is relatively benign, so I'm granting myself an Act of Grace for the time being on this one.
Impressive, Tom! Just, please be careful. I get all anxious about long covid biting my friends in the ass, and I want everyone's ass thoroughly unbitten by long covid
I'm overly cautious and just want to mention that it's never a bad idea after having Covid, no matter how mild the symptoms, to get a checkup to make sure your heart and lungs are behaving properly. (Mostly, I just want all my people to be well, so I'll just make suggestions in lieu of physically dragging people to the doctor.)
Good morning? Do y’all have the day off? I do not but my client does. Hard to buckle down and do some work here, though I know I need to.