birthdays come and birthdays go...
Dec. 26th, 2023 10:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thanateForty-five seemed like a rather larger number this morning before I started adding 15s in one of my silly phone games. I have been forcibly cleaning up and moving furniture around for a couple weeks now, and while today largely contained getting stuck in a book rather than the things I thought I was going to do, I did just take an hour to move around bookshelves in my corner of the bedroom. This year's reading included a friend's group re-read of all the discworld books (I still have The Shepherd's Crown to go) but given that I managed 50-ish books on top of a fairly usual amount of library & new release stuff, I'm hoping to set a goal of getting 50 things off the TBR shelves, especially since there are at least that many books there that I was quite excited about when I bought them & then they subsequently became invisible due to already being in the house.
Braining continues challenging, tho the Megatherium has now acquired ADHD meds which make it so she *can* resist bouncing off the walls or being desperately cranky all the time when she tries, and after some discussion I'm about to try raising my dosage slightly on the grounds that I seem to have adjusted to the current one. Grauwulf's brain continues to be periodically mean to him, but he is doing much better at medicating regularly & also being more self-aware about it, both of which help tremendously. (We've also returned to the fairly low-drama standard relationship model for the moment, which is probably easier for everyone involved.)
A friend elsenet recently was lamenting the problem of unexpectedly running out of time for your nebulous future art goals, which has me thinking about clay things and writing (or not writing) things and probably contributed to the decision to go ahead and try increasing the stupid stimulant med. Of course I have theories about actually using a planner and figuring out an arting schedule that actually creates enough structure that I work on things on purpose instead of haphazardly, but whether this will come to pass remains to be seen.
The world in general leaves many things to be desired, but we have two cats (who, after 10 months, seem to be negotiating their way towards perhaps even getting along) & no visible mice, and the neighbors for whom we pet-sit over Christmas forgot their giant very chocolate cake when they left, so I have accidental birthday cake. And the heat & plumbing both work, so we carry on.
Braining continues challenging, tho the Megatherium has now acquired ADHD meds which make it so she *can* resist bouncing off the walls or being desperately cranky all the time when she tries, and after some discussion I'm about to try raising my dosage slightly on the grounds that I seem to have adjusted to the current one. Grauwulf's brain continues to be periodically mean to him, but he is doing much better at medicating regularly & also being more self-aware about it, both of which help tremendously. (We've also returned to the fairly low-drama standard relationship model for the moment, which is probably easier for everyone involved.)
A friend elsenet recently was lamenting the problem of unexpectedly running out of time for your nebulous future art goals, which has me thinking about clay things and writing (or not writing) things and probably contributed to the decision to go ahead and try increasing the stupid stimulant med. Of course I have theories about actually using a planner and figuring out an arting schedule that actually creates enough structure that I work on things on purpose instead of haphazardly, but whether this will come to pass remains to be seen.
The world in general leaves many things to be desired, but we have two cats (who, after 10 months, seem to be negotiating their way towards perhaps even getting along) & no visible mice, and the neighbors for whom we pet-sit over Christmas forgot their giant very chocolate cake when they left, so I have accidental birthday cake. And the heat & plumbing both work, so we carry on.