Sunday, March 5
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gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Last night I painted and I listened to an album by The 1975 called ILIKEITWHENYOUSLEEPFORYOUARESOBEAUTIFULYETSOUNAWAREOFIT. I kid you not, that's the title. I have heard many of the songs before, but the album has a different feel when you hear it all together. It is a gorgeous album, very ambient/pop and just a beautiful listen.
I did some cleaning to make me feel a little better about my surroundings.
I changed the cat litter, and did a fairly thorough cleaning of the area around it. I washed the floor, the walls beside the box, and vacuumed the rest of the little room.
Then I vacuumed the living room rugs, and the rug in front of the back door that gets full of hay from when I come in from doing chores.
I fixed some holes in a huge cloth bag that I use for storing recyclables (til we can take them into town, we are rural and have to do that ourselves) so that I could clear all kinds of recyclable items out of the house.
It feels nice to see that stuff cleaner.
I went to see River, and the Sunday rider was there. We talked a fair bit, and it was nice.
Every time I go to the barn, Earl the cat comes running out from wherever he was so that I can pet him. It's quite touching.
I worked a bit with River at the trailer. He has a lot of issues with loading, (as do I now), so it is stressful for both of us. I tried to keep it as below his threshold (and mine) as possible, and I got his front feet up several times with reasonable gentleness. I worry that neither one of us will ever be relaxed about doing this.
He was pretty "awake" for the rest of our work. He did okay overall.
I came home, and didn't do much. My Sweetie and I talked for a while about an issue that he is having at work, which kind of turned into him being upset with me for trying to be helpful. I had to tell him that I wasn't the problem, was I? I was only trying to engage with him about his job, and somehow I got his frustration aimed at me.
I guess neither one of us is having a great time right now. I spend far too much time thinking about Trainwreck, and whether it really is the right thing to do to shift things into "involuntary removal" from her shitty trailer.
Yet, what if no one does anything for fear of upsetting her? It is not unthinkable that she could just die out there, and it would take days for anyone to know.
I had a nap, but it ended up being more like a series of negative thoughts so not very restful.
Today I learned about "The Landlord Game", the precursor to "Monopoly" that was designed by Lizzie Magie. It originally was intended to be instructive, to show the difference between land developers who concentrated wealth until there is only one winner with all the wealth, and the second way to play the game called "prosperity" where a single tax applied to all holdings is distributed in such a way that all players benefit, whether or not they hold property.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzie_Magie
Last night I painted and I listened to an album by The 1975 called ILIKEITWHENYOUSLEEPFORYOUARESOBEAUTIFULYETSOUNAWAREOFIT. I kid you not, that's the title. I have heard many of the songs before, but the album has a different feel when you hear it all together. It is a gorgeous album, very ambient/pop and just a beautiful listen.
I did some cleaning to make me feel a little better about my surroundings.
I changed the cat litter, and did a fairly thorough cleaning of the area around it. I washed the floor, the walls beside the box, and vacuumed the rest of the little room.
Then I vacuumed the living room rugs, and the rug in front of the back door that gets full of hay from when I come in from doing chores.
I fixed some holes in a huge cloth bag that I use for storing recyclables (til we can take them into town, we are rural and have to do that ourselves) so that I could clear all kinds of recyclable items out of the house.
It feels nice to see that stuff cleaner.
I went to see River, and the Sunday rider was there. We talked a fair bit, and it was nice.
Every time I go to the barn, Earl the cat comes running out from wherever he was so that I can pet him. It's quite touching.
I worked a bit with River at the trailer. He has a lot of issues with loading, (as do I now), so it is stressful for both of us. I tried to keep it as below his threshold (and mine) as possible, and I got his front feet up several times with reasonable gentleness. I worry that neither one of us will ever be relaxed about doing this.
He was pretty "awake" for the rest of our work. He did okay overall.
I came home, and didn't do much. My Sweetie and I talked for a while about an issue that he is having at work, which kind of turned into him being upset with me for trying to be helpful. I had to tell him that I wasn't the problem, was I? I was only trying to engage with him about his job, and somehow I got his frustration aimed at me.
I guess neither one of us is having a great time right now. I spend far too much time thinking about Trainwreck, and whether it really is the right thing to do to shift things into "involuntary removal" from her shitty trailer.
Yet, what if no one does anything for fear of upsetting her? It is not unthinkable that she could just die out there, and it would take days for anyone to know.
I had a nap, but it ended up being more like a series of negative thoughts so not very restful.
Today I learned about "The Landlord Game", the precursor to "Monopoly" that was designed by Lizzie Magie. It originally was intended to be instructive, to show the difference between land developers who concentrated wealth until there is only one winner with all the wealth, and the second way to play the game called "prosperity" where a single tax applied to all holdings is distributed in such a way that all players benefit, whether or not they hold property.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzie_Magie
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Date: 2023-03-07 12:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-03-07 07:08 am (UTC)You can't exactly force someone to take care of themselves, but you CAN have their home evaluated whether it is safe or not for occupancy.
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Date: 2023-03-07 07:32 am (UTC)I once had a doctor who said that in his many decades of experience, he rarely saw patients change their behaviour unless they were on the verge of losing just about everything. And even then, it was rare.
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Date: 2023-03-07 09:35 am (UTC)I feel like she's spent most of her life an eyelash away from losing everything, and I think she's used to it.
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Date: 2023-03-07 08:16 pm (UTC)