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Long weekend: Pride, cleaning, bees...
Jun. 25th, 2024 06:55 pmI gave myself another four-day weekend, this time to attend Denver Pride on Saturday. It's the 50th anniversary of Denver Pride this year!
Saturday:
( Denver Pride )
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Sunday:
We started by visiting the park! It was already stupid hot, but we wanted the dogs to get to walk around outside for at least a little while.
I took pictures of bees, but right now my photo-embedder thing is timing out, so I will have to share those later.
( Mostly, we had to clean. )
Monday:
We'd braced for having to do nothing Monday and Tuesday, since we didn't know when it would be our turn for the apartment inspection, and we weren't allowed to leave the dogs in the apartment unattended/unconfined. Since it's so hot, we can't take them anywhere either, so we were going to have to stay home until it was our turn.
Well, they came to our apartment first thing on Monday morning at 8:30, ha. Score! It took them all of maybe 90 seconds, so it definitely didn't require as much cleaning as we did, but it'll still be worthwhile for us to have a better environment. The guy was nice, and he said that it was preventive, not in response to any issues. (I hope that is the truth. Having a friend here going through a bedbug war right now, it sounds AWFUL.)
Buuuuuut... despite no longer having to wait around we also didn't have any plans for the day, since we'd assumed we'd be stuck home.
Alex went down to the county services office to try and sort out an issue with some of his benefits, which wound up being a very frustrating appointment. (They want a letter from his psych provider, which they did not include anywhere in their redetermination list. And his provider just moved to NY.)
After that, he was annoyed and just wanted to take a nap.
I finally got around to making more boards to put my enamel pins on! I've been trying to do that for months and months, and just never manage to get around to it! I'm really happy with them, but again, I apparently can't embed photos at the moment, so that'll be a later share.
Today:
We filled out our ballots and dropped them off. We took the dogs to the park to give them a good brushing, because oof, so much shedding!
Ran some needed errands, including over to the vet to put in a new request for refills on Cy's meds, since the voicemail on the px line we left weeks ago never got returned. Also hit the grocery store.
I wish we'd done a bit more with the long weekend. It's likely to be the longest stretch I'll have off for a while, and I feel like I wasted it a bit, minus going to Pride. But at the same time, it meant that all the cleaning and responsible errand-running didn't take up ALL my time off for a given week, which feels better too.
Plus I really am happy about getting the pin boards done, as well as quite a lot of reading. (I am finally halfway through The Name of the Wind. Why is it so looooong?)
Saturday:
( Denver Pride )
-
Sunday:
We started by visiting the park! It was already stupid hot, but we wanted the dogs to get to walk around outside for at least a little while.
I took pictures of bees, but right now my photo-embedder thing is timing out, so I will have to share those later.
( Mostly, we had to clean. )
Monday:
We'd braced for having to do nothing Monday and Tuesday, since we didn't know when it would be our turn for the apartment inspection, and we weren't allowed to leave the dogs in the apartment unattended/unconfined. Since it's so hot, we can't take them anywhere either, so we were going to have to stay home until it was our turn.
Well, they came to our apartment first thing on Monday morning at 8:30, ha. Score! It took them all of maybe 90 seconds, so it definitely didn't require as much cleaning as we did, but it'll still be worthwhile for us to have a better environment. The guy was nice, and he said that it was preventive, not in response to any issues. (I hope that is the truth. Having a friend here going through a bedbug war right now, it sounds AWFUL.)
Buuuuuut... despite no longer having to wait around we also didn't have any plans for the day, since we'd assumed we'd be stuck home.
Alex went down to the county services office to try and sort out an issue with some of his benefits, which wound up being a very frustrating appointment. (They want a letter from his psych provider, which they did not include anywhere in their redetermination list. And his provider just moved to NY.)
After that, he was annoyed and just wanted to take a nap.
I finally got around to making more boards to put my enamel pins on! I've been trying to do that for months and months, and just never manage to get around to it! I'm really happy with them, but again, I apparently can't embed photos at the moment, so that'll be a later share.
Today:
We filled out our ballots and dropped them off. We took the dogs to the park to give them a good brushing, because oof, so much shedding!
Ran some needed errands, including over to the vet to put in a new request for refills on Cy's meds, since the voicemail on the px line we left weeks ago never got returned. Also hit the grocery store.
I wish we'd done a bit more with the long weekend. It's likely to be the longest stretch I'll have off for a while, and I feel like I wasted it a bit, minus going to Pride. But at the same time, it meant that all the cleaning and responsible errand-running didn't take up ALL my time off for a given week, which feels better too.
Plus I really am happy about getting the pin boards done, as well as quite a lot of reading. (I am finally halfway through The Name of the Wind. Why is it so looooong?)
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