Hooray, Cindy!

My annual physical isn't due until next month, and I'm hoping to have had at least one shot by then. I miss my salon: it's in a strip mall between a pot dispensary and a vegan muffin shop, with a sex toy store on the other side of the parking lot. The stylists are my age and have tattoos and madly colored hair and ride dirt bikes. It is one of the best places to people watch: you get something from the muffin shop - their coffee is amazing - grab one of the lawn chairs out on the pavement and see who strolls through.

I just really backed off on anything that wasn't 100% necessary for my continued existence. I did see several docs in person, but I didn't have a choice, and where I did, we did telehealth.

I did, too, right up until I got Covid. Well, until I recovered from it. (What I'm saying is that I also need to make a dentist appointment. A massage just sounds so much better than a teeth cleaning.) The only reason I got new glasses in December is that we had to use up the HSA or lose it, so I masked up and did it. Oh, and I had to have a physical in December or else my doctor wouldn't keep prescribing my BP meds. Kinda bullshit, but whatever.

Timelies all!

Yay for more vaccinations!

hmm - FB down and IG not loading.

I was going to get take out tonight, but I am doing the 6 week WholeLifeChallenge that starts Saturday and I still have non-compliant food in my fridge that is better used up than either wasted or tempting me once I start. So I am going to save $$ and eat stuff here instead.

Good walk with the dogs and the weather was beautiful. Blooming trees are all GORGEOUS right now. My backyard needs a mow, like WOAH. maybe I'll change clothes and do that in a bit.

Blooming trees are all GORGEOUS right now.

Same here. Cherry Blossom Trees exuberant. Jasmine abundant.

I did, too, right up until I got Covid. Well, until I recovered from it.

Yeah - aside from, you know, not wanting you to have Covid, I was also, "But... but... she did everything right! What does this mean for MEEEEEE??!?!" Ahem. Not proud of it. Just saying.

My heart swells a little bit more with every single person who reports getting jabbed.

askye, vibes and prayers and ~ma to Jay and his son and GF and all your family.

I don't really have much of anything to report, except that I'm reading again after a weirdly long zero-attention-span hiatus, and have plowed through some Octavia Butler and NK Jemisin and am currently juggling another Butler and two nonfiction books by Ijeoma Oluo plus a graphic-novel biography of Calamity Jane.

Also, I got through the anniversary of my dad's death with only one keening total collapse. At one point, decades ago, our relationship was so frayed that I would have anxiety attacks over the thought that when he died the whole family would be on display and I'd be unable to engage in even purely theatrical, performative grief, that I'd just be shrugging and indifferent and everyone would be able to tell and be disgusted. So, I guess, yay for all the crying? Well-done, self?

Anyhow, I'd rather focus on all the EFFING AWESOME VACCINATIONS EVERYONE ELSE HAS GOTTEN. Except for the stubborn fools in Matt's and msbelle's orbits, who are super damn lucky that Matt and msbelle and most other people are doing their best to help herd immunity instead of thwarting it.

and I'd be unable to engage in even purely theatrical, performative grief, that I'd just be shrugging and indifferent and everyone would be able to tell and be disgusted.

I can vouch that there was keening in the grief stricken Celtic fashion.

{{hugs}} JZ.

I know it's weird, but I'm pretty grateful I lost my parents at a time when I could be there for them and we could celebrate their lives properly. (And that I didn't try to manage a demented parent through Covid protocols.)

I'm six weeks into being the boss, and ... it's hard, y'all. My inbox is insane, I'm still trying to do my old job, HR has shat the bed and we're months away from hiring my replacement, and one of the other supervisors is apparently trying to cut me off at the knees. (He told me yesterday that he thinks it can't possibly be as complicated and expensive to do the work my team does, and he could do it better and cheaper.)

However! Tomorrow my niece and her fiance (both also vaccinated) are coming over for dinner and I will have fresh bread and a big salad, and S will have ribs from Horn BBQ, which is the new hot spot in Oakland -- S had to wait in line 2 hours! I am excite!

So glad for everyone who is getting vaccinated, and hopeful we will soon see the end of this strange isolated time.

Oh, and I had to have a physical in December or else my doctor wouldn't keep prescribing my BP meds. Kinda bullshit, but whatever.

Because why would you want to remotely continue the medications that have been working so far during a WORLDWIDE PANDEMIC that just so happens to have high blood pressure as one of the major risk factors for serious complications, right?