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The definition of crazy...
Jun. 10th, 2024 11:30 pm...is when you keep doing the same thing but expect a different result. Journaling is apparently one of those things since it's been a year plus since I updated. Not actually that much has changed, really, but I keep poking at life in different ways, in the vain hope that something might shift.
And some good stuff has happened, like I got to spend a glorious couple of hours with Khaleesian back in January, where we spent a good 3-4 hours catching up while eating sushi and drinking coffee in Athens. It was great fun, and I love getting to see her. Her family has some property not terribly far from where I am now so that worked out well. Also, to get the scoop on her kids and their world travels, which is like better than any book I've ever read. (She tells stories just as well in person as she does in writing)
We did get the kidlet's room finished finally - which was a process and a half between the lead paint and the unfinished flooring. But it truly is cute and I would show you pictures, if she wasn't such an amazing slob. She just had her 11th birthday, and the world is not ready for this child. In mixed news, we are (and by we, I mean her mom and aunts) sending her to Florida this summer and then she's going to remain with her aunt for the school year. One of the downsides to living this far out, is that she really has no friends, not near home and not at school. The bulk of the kids that go to here school have known each other their entire lives or they have siblings. K has neither, and while she's super smart and actually fun to talk to and hang out with, she's not really great with kids her own age and never has been -- with the exception of her Florida cousins, of whom she has many. She's been in counselling the past year because of her loneliness and some depression and acting out, so we're going to try this and see how it goes.
I don't want to be anyone's debbie downer, so feel free to skip the next bit. Some of this is just me trying to get my brain around how things seem to cascade which just makes my depression worse, but also to maybe acknowledge that at this moment in time, some of it is situational, which normally it's just wonky brain chemistry (which is why my drugs work, when I can get them) ( Read more... )
Our current house project is converting the back porch into a catio and that I will try to get pictures of because it's kind of built-in perfect for it. We are trying to do it with the supplies we had left over from the previous renovations (We had a fair amount of paint and caulk and trim and a smaller amount of lumber left over) rather than spending any fresh money on it.
And there is so much that I love about this house and this area actually. Like the flock of swallows that have come back every year to entertain us with their arial expertise as they swoop and dive and cling to the fricking walls under the porch. Or the very racy (and hysterically funny) acrobatics the armadillo's get up to when a male is trying to impress a female. And baby COWS! like everywhere this spring. So many little cuties whenever you drive anywhere. Or that we have found 4 decent sushi restaurants in Athens and one small but oh so well stocked asian market, so my love for homemade pad thai and Indian curry's has not gone unmet for the most part.
And some good stuff has happened, like I got to spend a glorious couple of hours with Khaleesian back in January, where we spent a good 3-4 hours catching up while eating sushi and drinking coffee in Athens. It was great fun, and I love getting to see her. Her family has some property not terribly far from where I am now so that worked out well. Also, to get the scoop on her kids and their world travels, which is like better than any book I've ever read. (She tells stories just as well in person as she does in writing)
We did get the kidlet's room finished finally - which was a process and a half between the lead paint and the unfinished flooring. But it truly is cute and I would show you pictures, if she wasn't such an amazing slob. She just had her 11th birthday, and the world is not ready for this child. In mixed news, we are (and by we, I mean her mom and aunts) sending her to Florida this summer and then she's going to remain with her aunt for the school year. One of the downsides to living this far out, is that she really has no friends, not near home and not at school. The bulk of the kids that go to here school have known each other their entire lives or they have siblings. K has neither, and while she's super smart and actually fun to talk to and hang out with, she's not really great with kids her own age and never has been -- with the exception of her Florida cousins, of whom she has many. She's been in counselling the past year because of her loneliness and some depression and acting out, so we're going to try this and see how it goes.
I don't want to be anyone's debbie downer, so feel free to skip the next bit. Some of this is just me trying to get my brain around how things seem to cascade which just makes my depression worse, but also to maybe acknowledge that at this moment in time, some of it is situational, which normally it's just wonky brain chemistry (which is why my drugs work, when I can get them) ( Read more... )
Our current house project is converting the back porch into a catio and that I will try to get pictures of because it's kind of built-in perfect for it. We are trying to do it with the supplies we had left over from the previous renovations (We had a fair amount of paint and caulk and trim and a smaller amount of lumber left over) rather than spending any fresh money on it.
And there is so much that I love about this house and this area actually. Like the flock of swallows that have come back every year to entertain us with their arial expertise as they swoop and dive and cling to the fricking walls under the porch. Or the very racy (and hysterically funny) acrobatics the armadillo's get up to when a male is trying to impress a female. And baby COWS! like everywhere this spring. So many little cuties whenever you drive anywhere. Or that we have found 4 decent sushi restaurants in Athens and one small but oh so well stocked asian market, so my love for homemade pad thai and Indian curry's has not gone unmet for the most part.
