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I've never stopped reading Dreamwidth, though I've been posting like every nine months or so. Today I'm posting again! I have nothing special to say!
My one and only grandgoblin turned five a week and a half ago. She had a unicorn party with a few girls from preschool and a couple from the other grandparents' neighborhood. She lost her first teeth a couple of months ago and the first one was incredibly painful for a whole day and I think she swallowed it. It worries me because the space is so small that even a small grownup tooth would have no room in the area left by both teeth. But both her dad and his mother went through tooth replacement early and their front teeth do not seem to be completely out of wack.
A year ago I got a large amount of unexpected money from retirement funds I didn't expect and especially from an inheritance I didn't expect. I've been trying to spend it, but it's pretty difficult right now. I did give some money to vetted relief efforts in various places. I also got a new fence and front yard, and two new computers and a new phone (a chromebook for travel, a desktop, and my old phone somehow got wet and now I already have a big crack in the glass and I don't know if that can be replaced), I have been trying to get my bathroom demoed and fixed because of terrible conditions including black mold and tiles coming up, but my guy keeps putting me off(to be fair, I put him off a couple times too). I did unfortunately buy all the fixtures and vanity and now I have to protect them from weather damage because where would I put them inside? I have also been trying to fix up the kitchen, notably redo my wiring for an induction stove, but I keep getting turned down by electricians and carpenters. My house is a smallish job and fiddly and what I want is not what everybody wants and people just can't afford to work like that now. I try to make them know I will pay what they need but it's been not enough of an incentive. It's an utterly predictable problem, and I am not blaming workers who are holding out for jobs that suit their needs, I'm just hoping somebody turns up who will upgrade my electrical panel.
The state is subsidizing heat pumps for heating and water heating, and I think I might be able to scare up enough money for at least one or the other. I'd like to go NO GAS if I can.
I think I'm making headway in curing the cognitive mess from chemotherapy and not-covid-but-bad-virus five years ago, in that I can occasionally read an actual book, and I feel like I might recover the ability and the motivation to write. It's too late for me to have an actual career in anything, so I'm thinking I need different motivation.
Also: my yard is full of flowers and I have year-round Anna's hummingbirds. I'm trying to develop a habitat that will support the return of the salamanders that used to be so abundant here, but so far I can't tell. I am leery of turning over stones and suchlike for fear of disturbing whoever lives there.
My one and only grandgoblin turned five a week and a half ago. She had a unicorn party with a few girls from preschool and a couple from the other grandparents' neighborhood. She lost her first teeth a couple of months ago and the first one was incredibly painful for a whole day and I think she swallowed it. It worries me because the space is so small that even a small grownup tooth would have no room in the area left by both teeth. But both her dad and his mother went through tooth replacement early and their front teeth do not seem to be completely out of wack.
A year ago I got a large amount of unexpected money from retirement funds I didn't expect and especially from an inheritance I didn't expect. I've been trying to spend it, but it's pretty difficult right now. I did give some money to vetted relief efforts in various places. I also got a new fence and front yard, and two new computers and a new phone (a chromebook for travel, a desktop, and my old phone somehow got wet and now I already have a big crack in the glass and I don't know if that can be replaced), I have been trying to get my bathroom demoed and fixed because of terrible conditions including black mold and tiles coming up, but my guy keeps putting me off(to be fair, I put him off a couple times too). I did unfortunately buy all the fixtures and vanity and now I have to protect them from weather damage because where would I put them inside? I have also been trying to fix up the kitchen, notably redo my wiring for an induction stove, but I keep getting turned down by electricians and carpenters. My house is a smallish job and fiddly and what I want is not what everybody wants and people just can't afford to work like that now. I try to make them know I will pay what they need but it's been not enough of an incentive. It's an utterly predictable problem, and I am not blaming workers who are holding out for jobs that suit their needs, I'm just hoping somebody turns up who will upgrade my electrical panel.
The state is subsidizing heat pumps for heating and water heating, and I think I might be able to scare up enough money for at least one or the other. I'd like to go NO GAS if I can.
I think I'm making headway in curing the cognitive mess from chemotherapy and not-covid-but-bad-virus five years ago, in that I can occasionally read an actual book, and I feel like I might recover the ability and the motivation to write. It's too late for me to have an actual career in anything, so I'm thinking I need different motivation.
Also: my yard is full of flowers and I have year-round Anna's hummingbirds. I'm trying to develop a habitat that will support the return of the salamanders that used to be so abundant here, but so far I can't tell. I am leery of turning over stones and suchlike for fear of disturbing whoever lives there.
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