stormdog: a woman with light skin and long brown hair that cascades over one shoulder. On her other side, she is holding a large plush shark against herself. She has pink fingernails and pink cat eye glasses (Default)
A few other updates from yesterday:

I was driving in some of the worst conditions I can remember this morning. Everyone was driving like 20-30 kph and the anti-lock breaks were still activating at stops. That was awful. I can tell other people were uncomfortable too because I was leaving a ton of following distance, and no one else tried to change lanes into it!

I'm amazed I only saw one car off the road. People up here are probably used to this and have snow tires.

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I just got the latest Covid and flu shots. I expect, as usual, I will have no negative effects, but should that change I'll probably tell you all about it! Miriam got just the Covid booster because either one by itself causes flares of her chronic pain. Together, they can disable her for days.

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Scored at Value Village today:
*13 x 9 Pyrex glass dish for $10
*A nice set of 4 matching glasses for $3
*A giant glass mug for me because I drink so much water and want to have to refill my cup less often
*More forks
*Some gauzy curtains for the daybed
*A (mismatched) set of sheets for the daybed
*An Andreas Vollenweider album I haven't heard (Caverna Magica)
*A Calvin and Hobbes collection

The forks and glasses are part of getting prepped for a visit from Miriam's parents.
We are worried about their visit as a Covid exposure vector, both for them and for us. But they are isolating and masking consistently in the weeks before coming, and Miriam's dad, though he's one of the folks who would not be masking if not for his family asking him too, actually shaved his beard so he can get a better mask fit for the flight here. I think that was a lot for him and I appreciate it very much.

In a perfect world, we wouldn't have to compromise in these ways, but this world has never been perfect. Her parents are significantly older than mine, and after my dad's death, it's become deeply important to us to make sure we see them.

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Treadmill yuri yesterday and today has been Sakura Trick. It's ridiculous fluff, and I am loving it.

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I washed the curtains but did not put them in the delicates bag, and now they have big tears all through them. They were inexpensive, but I'm still sad.

I just really want a super girly canopy bed with pretty curtains! I'll have to look for more, and be more careful about washing them this time. You can't really see in this image, but the purple curtain on the end is badly torn now, so I didn't even put up the other one.

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Ella is taking a leash reactivity class whose first session was tonight. I'm hoping that as well as making it easier to walk her or take her places on the bike, it might be a step toward her barking less at people outside the condo too. If she can *get to* other dogs or people, she's great. When she can see or hear them but can't get to them, she loses her little mind.

But it just got cancelled due to bad weather, so I'm unexpectedly free this evening. More cleaning maybe?

Oh hai!

Feb. 24th, 2022 02:58 pm
stormdog: a woman with light skin and long brown hair that cascades over one shoulder. On her other side, she is holding a large plush shark against herself. She has pink fingernails and pink cat eye glasses (Default)
Hi! Sorry I was away for so long. I was having some pretty rough times, mental health-wise.

In fact, I was too depressed and anxious to figure out how to renew my medicine for dealing with depression and anxiety, so I didn't.

As it turns out though, that's been mostly a good thing, to my great surprise.

I'd thought for a long time that I needed to talk to a doctor about changing my doses or medication because what I was on wasn't doing the job. But even though I'm in Canada where medical care is much more affordable than the US, there are still costs and complication because I'm just a visitor so I don't have any coverage. I didn't have the spoons to navigate that.

Now that I've been off of those medications for a few weeks, my brain is different. My mental state is less stable, and I have more trouble managing frustration and anger at times. However, I'm also finding that I have been more productive more consistently than I have in literally years. It's a mixed bag, but it's been more positive than negative so far.

I still want to talk to a doctor about brain meds. However, the wait lists for psychiatrists in Saskatchewan are very very long (6 months to a year) and while the GP I saw some time ago as a walk-in is willing to help me experiment with meds (I think), the situation there is going to be me saying "I want to do X" and him probably just going along unless it seems like a really bad idea and what I'd really like is someone with psychiatry training to help me navigate these things. So for now, as long as the situation seems managable as is, I'm going to go along without brain meds.

I also, at the same time I stopped looking at LJ and Dreamwidth, stopped going on Facebook. At all. Folks, that has been a very very good decision. I think I'm done with Facebook.

But I would like to be here more. Because, honestly, I'm feeling pretty lonely and sad a lot of the time. Even if the weather was better (I hate the weather here *so* much), Covid would keep me from trying to make any local friends, and I've never really figured out how to maintain relationships well online so I have essentially no social time these days and haven't for months. It would have been nice if things had gotten better after moving somewhere where I speak the primary language, but no dice. Maybe when the weather is warmer I'll be able to try to do things outside with people other than my partner, who really and truly is an awesome partner-person, but it would be nice to see another human's face once in a while, you know?

Anyway, more here to follow. I want to write about things like my work on applying for Canadian permanent residency and the 40-something punk-rock-looking guy in my online class who went on a totally unexpected anti-McCarthy, anti-Cold-War-homophobia history rant that made me love him a lot.

Oh, and gender transition stuff too, probably? Like, I'm still doing that.
stormdog: a woman with light skin and long brown hair that cascades over one shoulder. On her other side, she is holding a large plush shark against herself. She has pink fingernails and pink cat eye glasses (Default)
I tried to open the balcony sliding door to assess snow before taking the dog out. The door wouldn't open. It's iced closed and there is significant ice on the inside of the lower corner by the wall. Looks like the windows in the other rooms have ice on the bottom interior too.
stormdog: a woman with light skin and long brown hair that cascades over one shoulder. On her other side, she is holding a large plush shark against herself. She has pink fingernails and pink cat eye glasses (Default)
There was a fire alarm at work so I got to experience this simply *lovely* weather again for a few minutes. Turns out it was a burst pipe that triggered some alarms.
stormdog: a woman with light skin and long brown hair that cascades over one shoulder. On her other side, she is holding a large plush shark against herself. She has pink fingernails and pink cat eye glasses (Default)
I wore a baselayer under my jeans, my long coat, cycling mittens, and a face mask. I was basically pretty comfortable on my walk to and from the train station. Other than the fifteen minutes or so spent walking and/or waiting for trains, it was a pretty nice commute. I love public transit.

Snow!

Oct. 18th, 2015 03:20 pm
stormdog: (Tawas dog)
Holy crap. I just looked out my window and it's snowing. No accumulation, but there's a lot of it in the air! I'm going go outside and stand in it for a minute!

And then think about ordering those studded tires for my bike.

Lefebvre

Oct. 9th, 2015 12:23 pm
stormdog: (Kira)
I just got dressed and packed stuff up to visit the libraries on campus for some research and book scanning. So of course, it started raining again. I'm going tomorrow instead. My plan is to read all of "The Urban Revolution" today, and hopefully some of the Poli-Sci stuff. Then I can use the weekend for writings for the week and maybe even start looking for stuff for my term papers!

"The Urban Revolution" is slow going. The entire thing is full of metaphors like the following:

"These verbal layers, wandering about their native soil, are unable to attach themselves to a "philosophical subject" or a "privileged object" or a "historical totalization." We can look at them the way we look at various cloud layers from an airplane. Here, high above the earth, floating lightly, is the cirrus of ancient philosophy, the nimbus of rationality, and the heavy cumulus of scientism. They are language, or metalanguages, halfway between the real and the fictive, between the realized and the possible. The float freely, escaping the incantations of sorcerer philosophers."

I don't know whether to blame Lefebvre or the translator.
stormdog: (Kira)
It's ridiculously cold out again, but hopefully for the last time. And to brighten my day, It looks like the sun will be a strong presence on my ride to school today. May this be the last frigid day of the year!
stormdog: (Kira)
And there's the cancellation of class announcement for UW-Parkside. I guess I have no classes on the first day of my new semester.

Weather

Jan. 8th, 2015 07:25 am
stormdog: (sleep)
It's -5 F this morning with 13mph winds. By the time I'm done at work, it should be much warmer (about 10 F), but with 20mph winds against my ride home, and lots of snow coming down. Some days I am kind of tempted to pass on my bike and just get in my car. This is one of those days.

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