Hard Things
Jun. 15th, 2022 04:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysabetwordsmithLife is full of things which are hard or tedious or otherwise unpleasant that need doing anyhow. They help make the world go 'round, they improve skills, and they boost your sense of self-respect. But doing them still kinda sucks. It's all the more difficult to do those things when nobody appreciates it. Happily, blogging allows us to share our accomplishments and pat each other on the back.
What are some of the hard things you've done recently? What are some hard things you haven't gotten to yet, but need to do? Is there anything your online friends could do to make your hard things a little easier?
What are some of the hard things you've done recently? What are some hard things you haven't gotten to yet, but need to do? Is there anything your online friends could do to make your hard things a little easier?
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Date: 2022-06-15 11:41 pm (UTC)Spent all day, from 9am to around 4:30pm cutting metal, drilling, welding and so on...I even forgot to break for lunch. But my beloved now has a heavy duty shopping trolly with BIG tires and a 15mm stainless steel axle (the old one had bent and worn out) and proper bearing blocks so it gliiides rather than creaks along reluctantly on wobbly wheels that make curbs a struggle because they were too small.
I tell you what though, getting a shower after that felt gooood! It was hot grimy work and in sunny weather my workshops is basically like a green house even with all the doors and windows open.
BTW does anyone have a good simple recipe for a basic vegan omelette? My daughter was struggling to make one and failed utterly. She's ok with normal flour, but can't eat eggs or milk. (food intolerances.)
omelette or quiche?
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Date: 2022-06-16 12:36 am (UTC)I survived the grocery shopping, but I burned through most of my spoons, and am now struggling to write.
All of next week should be fired with cause, then fired into the sun. Getting through it is going to take an enormous amount of effort and focus. The former, maybe... the latter is clearly not working right now.
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Date: 2022-06-16 01:35 am (UTC)It's really hard to not retail therapy still (Despite the fact we took some of it out on buying groceries) despite my news meaning I won't work for a bit.
(Please don't ask here: I'm still raw enough to want to cry at any minute)
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Sometimes I wish
-Trausio~
Transition
Date: 2022-06-16 02:19 am (UTC)Since then, I have been sitting with my memories of my parents: the good things they passed on to us; the things less suitable to us that they wanted us to pick up "for your [their] own good" in service of coercing me to be the person they wanted me to be instead of the person I wanted to be (and there was enough overlap that it took a long time for the difference to become clear enough for me to break free of that hold); so many things they introduced me to so I could develop my own love for them; and my participating in a number of those activities that I came to love, in memory of her since Saturday.
I am now busy reconciling all those memories into a recollection of who she was, and who she was to me. At the same time, I am coming into a form of independence that I had not felt strongly while she was still alive: I am no longer Answerable To Mom. I can come into my own self in a way I didn't feel I was able to while she could see, and express her opinion on, the choices I made. And though I would have been, and was, loved the same whatever my choices, I still censored myself too often for the sake of our relationship. Freeing myself from this feeling is very much a work in progress, but it is now one I feel like I can move more rapidly and surely on.
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Date: 2022-06-16 11:57 am (UTC)Got most of what I needed/wanted. I'll make a trip or too with just a reusable bag or two to fill in the rest.
Today I hope I'll both have the spoons (and lack of "don'wanna") to hit the food box place
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Date: 2022-06-16 02:32 pm (UTC)It has lots of tools to help people do things on their own so hopefully it should be better & easier for people to use. But the transition to any new system is rocky.
Trying to keep myself going & prepare for those two weeks. I need to get some quick freezer food & hopefully doing some cooking in advance too. I also have to clean house this week since my partner has an in home check up next Wed.
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Date: 2022-06-17 01:45 am (UTC)I'm trying to work out how to move -- myself and two cats, and a small amount of furniture -- from the house on Whidbey Island that I shared with Colleen, down to the ADU at N's place in Seattle. Should have started a year ago. The yard is suffering from at least two years worth of neglect. The whole process is littered with loose ends and emotional landmines.
Realizing how much I relied on Colleen to help deal with stuff like this.
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