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weekly retro #24: fake teeth, real busy
my week started with getting up early to go to the dentist and get a crown removed and the cavity under it taken care of. it was long, painful and very expensive! next week i get the permanent crown put in.
read more »weekly retro #22: another week of *not* eating the flowers
one of my aerial yoga instructors likes to start the class by setting an intention for us, often it's abstract but helpful reminders like "forgiveness" or "strength". i went into last week with the intention "do not be a big baby about the heat".
read more »weekly retro #21: just a little something to take the edge off
a brutal heat wave hit the city last week and i spent most of my time indoors, sluggish from the heat but restless from the confinement of my apartment walls. my new walking shoes sat on my table in its box, waiting with me for the relief of below 90 F temperatures.
read more »weekly retro #20: what if a haircut smelled like fresh cut grass
this is my 20th weekly retro, and i've not missed a week. it's but one more streak along with my not having missed my meds. every morning i wake up at 8, take my thyroid hormone, feed pumagreg his "wet breakfast" and then go back to sleep. today, i'm starting a new streak of _not_ going back to sleep - to see if it gets me in bed earlier and rotting less in the morning.
read more »weekly retro #19: garbag'ino, garbag'outo
weeks can go in like a lion and out like a lamb, and not just in the month of may. if i could (and i will) describe the first half of last week in a photo, it would be this...
read more »weekly retro #18: june in bloom and gloom
i always blamed my preference for cold weather on my norwegian maternal side, everything just feels harder when it's hot. by the time i got to the lab to get my bloodwork done, i was drenched in sweat.
read more »weekly retro #17: blog birthdays, blood and buds
i'm coming to you and this retro with one vial less of blood and having been up since the crack of dawn to have said vial taken. this kicks off the bi-annual celebration of seeing if my thyroid has finally joined me on the quest to be hotter and smarter or not.
read more »weekly retro #16: one of those winding road kinda weeks
it's a new week, although the "holiday weekend" still if you're in the states. during my workaholic corporate era, these holidays were more like a working vacation where i still logged on to get stuff done, but didn't have to talk to or answer to anyone (ie. no zoom calls). well, here i am technically working by writing this and planning to do candle work after. it's a good thing i only left corporate, not therapy as well.
read more »weekly retro #15: spider feet have hydraulics
i just got back from a dentist appointment where i found out, unfortunately but not surprisingly, that i'm going to have to spend about 5 billion dollars to take care of a tooth infection. enough about this week, though, let's talk about _last week_.
read more »weekly retro #14: the 'late because i went to boston' retro
this week's retro is late because i was out of town for the weekend and am, today, finally able to Go On The Computerā¢ and Blogā¢ - you know, *the two things i was born to do*.
read more »weekly retro #13: crunchy flowers and interesting feline shapes
after a week and a half of weird joint paint, i was starting to accept that this was perhaps the moment every person who has sat for 4 hours in an endocrinologist's waiting room is told may happen (rheumatoid arthritis), but as of today i've been 5 days without any pain.
read more »repurpose your alcohol vessels as flower vessels instead
how do you add an extra pop of color to your work day?
read more »ayyy iām walking (more) here!!
iāve been on this journey over the past month or so to recreate routines so i can get back into them and adapt to this pandemic vs. wait for a ānormalā thatās not gonna happen.
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