Birthday Month 2023 August 18: Bureaucratic and Other Progress

There is only one durian custard cake left. Hmpf. Should have gotten more. Might need to do something about that.

I'm late posting this because I took a little time for reading, and fell into the story and forgot about time. Since it's beta reading, that's a very good sign that the writer's doing things that work. This is a story by Celia Lake. Have any of you read any of her things? I love them very much.

The first thing I did today was unsnarled a minor bureaucratic situation, which involved talking to people by phone twice, with a brief break in between in order to set up an account with FedEx, which I was told to do by the situation-unsnarlers. These things may sound like small things, but for a person with ADHD, fibromyalgia brainfog, anxiety, and also PTSD, stuff like this can loom over one enough to totally freeze a person. So getting through that fairly easily, first thing, is a huge wiktory.

Also I got a few new things photographed and into the Etsy shop, and other things have been marked down. (Still so much slower getting things into the shop that I hoped, but something is better than nothing.)

Now if my silly body would let up with the mildly ominous pain, I could go merrily on with the regular pain. the stuff I am used to. Oy, bodies.

Today's perfume is Nocturne Alchemy's Ra's Amber Sandalwood, which is good in a fairly straightforward "does what it says on the tin" way.

Have you fallen into a story lately and lost track of outside things? Are there authors whose work you are tremendously fond of these days?

Birthday Month 2023 August 19: Saturday already?

My sleep was actually shifting into something not unlike "average sleep times" when last night I had a nightmare that completely derailed it. After nightmares, I don't usually need to stay up and calm down, probably because I've had lots of practice, but this one was unusually bad, so I read for a few hours afterwards to get the taste out of my mind, as Mike used to say. And I forgot to take the round of meds I should have taken then, meaning that now there's a bit of adjustment to be made. Complicated meds tetris. Sigh.

Today's perfume is Amber & Incence from Haus of Gloi. The bottle says "two nag champa blends, dragons blood (sic; apparently they do not believe in the Oxford comma) and Somalian frankincense" and it's pretty darn nice. I was discombobulated enough on waking a half hour ago that it filled my head with whimsical thoughts of the Somalian frankincense maybe feeling at home here because there are so many Somali-Americans in the neighborhood. It's a lovely perfume and much more delicate than one might imagine.

Today's ambitions include: get farther on the thing I am beta reading, put more pieces up im the Etsy shop, finish one bit of paperwork which involves going through the receipts I found in the grand paperwork quest I completed the other day (yay me!), get to the workbench, and whatever else on the to do list I can reach.

The air outside is better than expected, i.e. still in the yellow zone and not in the orange. Not good enough to open workshop windows when it cools down, though, unless it improves a lot,

It may be a discombobulated day, but enough sleep (finally) has left a feeling of deep calm, whichI am duly savoring. Add some workbenching to that, and it might get a person feeling pretty darn good, even in the midst of all the other things.

Do you have nightmares? What helps you, when they happen?
What are you in the midst of?
And when have you felt deep calm lately?