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Beware the Ides of March
Mar. 15th, 2025 07:57 pmIf only we'd gone for some historical reenactment...
Next week is going to be a busy one, at least in some regards.
I'm going over to hang out with Taylor tomorrow night through Tuesday morning. We'd been planning that already, back when mom was going to be down in NM. Still doing it, but also glad I'll get to see mom after the injured rib thing.
(Mom says it still really sucks, and hurts a whole lot, but seems slightly better every day. She was told by both urgent cares that she needs to stay active and make sure to take deep breaths. Since deep breaths feel like being stabbed, she said she understands why people start only breathing shallowly, so she's trying to force deep breathing exercises as a form of home PT.)
Then Alex is going to Kansas, Thursday through Saturday. This is for BreyerMidwest, a model show and event. For the last several years it's been BreyerWest, held in Colorado, but this year they moved it to Kansas, which is now apparently the permanent home. (I have lots of mostly annoyed feelings about this; it was supposed to be a sort of alternative event for people who couldn't make a trip out to Kentucky for the annual BreyerFest, but now it's basically in the middle of the country, removing the original purpose of making something more easily accessible to the western chunk of the country.) Since I just took a long weekend off in February, I can't take another this month. So Alex is going solo.
This means I am alone with the dogs and no car while working, which is not ideal.
I've been planning to stay over at mom and Taylor's for those few days, getting rides to and from work when possible (and taking Uber or Lyft if needed), and since Taylor works from home, the dogs don't have to be alone and confined all day. (While Cy would be okay, Bella would have to be kenneled, and nine hours while I'm at work is just so long.)
This was something I have been *really* worried about, because of the new cat. Cy loves cats, and Bella mostly seems just *interested* in cats, but I am so afraid of her trying to chase, and having something bad happen. She has more of an obvious prey drive than Cy does, even if she's never acted aggressively toward cats she has seen. While Taylor would be home, they are working, and can't have all their focus on the animals. We do not yet know how Jaspurr feels about dogs; Mocha made it clear that she wanted nothing to do with the dogs, so we kept them separated for the one day that mom was dogsitting, but that's less feasible for three whole days.
Now that mom will also be there (and not in NM) I am slightly less worried, because I don't think there will be as much unsupervised time... but also, my mom has badly bruised ribs! So dealing with a super energetic dog is probably low on the list of desirable activities. :/
So... looking forward to hanging out with Taylor quite a bit, but not looking forward to the anxiety about animal interactions that I'm not present to supervise. I know that all the other times I've been anxious about the dogs - when we left Cy with mom, then when we left him with her overnight, then when it was both dogs, then when it was both dogs while Mocha was also there - it has been fine, despite my worry. That doesn't make the worry go away.
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Still not 100% over the crud I got last week, but still doing better than everyone else who got it. Wednesday was rough, and so was today a bit, but overall it's mostly just minor annoyance at this point.
I still feel really behind after having lost a bunch of days to being too sick to do much more than sleep, though. I need to get my friend's book chapter back to her. I've fallen behind on DW. I haven't even touched my own writing for weeks now. (Still doing okay at reading, but not much else. Four books done for the month so far!) I know that this upcoming week, what with not being home for more than a single night, I won't be getting much done. I'll hopefully manage to get my friend's chapter completed, and then maybe next week I'll feel okay about easing back to writing again.
Of course, it doesn't help that I *still* just want to sleep once I get home. :/ Every time I give in to that, I just get farther behind, but every time I *don't*, I'm afraid I'm extending my time spent sick! I hate it.
Next week is going to be a busy one, at least in some regards.
I'm going over to hang out with Taylor tomorrow night through Tuesday morning. We'd been planning that already, back when mom was going to be down in NM. Still doing it, but also glad I'll get to see mom after the injured rib thing.
(Mom says it still really sucks, and hurts a whole lot, but seems slightly better every day. She was told by both urgent cares that she needs to stay active and make sure to take deep breaths. Since deep breaths feel like being stabbed, she said she understands why people start only breathing shallowly, so she's trying to force deep breathing exercises as a form of home PT.)
Then Alex is going to Kansas, Thursday through Saturday. This is for BreyerMidwest, a model show and event. For the last several years it's been BreyerWest, held in Colorado, but this year they moved it to Kansas, which is now apparently the permanent home. (I have lots of mostly annoyed feelings about this; it was supposed to be a sort of alternative event for people who couldn't make a trip out to Kentucky for the annual BreyerFest, but now it's basically in the middle of the country, removing the original purpose of making something more easily accessible to the western chunk of the country.) Since I just took a long weekend off in February, I can't take another this month. So Alex is going solo.
This means I am alone with the dogs and no car while working, which is not ideal.
I've been planning to stay over at mom and Taylor's for those few days, getting rides to and from work when possible (and taking Uber or Lyft if needed), and since Taylor works from home, the dogs don't have to be alone and confined all day. (While Cy would be okay, Bella would have to be kenneled, and nine hours while I'm at work is just so long.)
This was something I have been *really* worried about, because of the new cat. Cy loves cats, and Bella mostly seems just *interested* in cats, but I am so afraid of her trying to chase, and having something bad happen. She has more of an obvious prey drive than Cy does, even if she's never acted aggressively toward cats she has seen. While Taylor would be home, they are working, and can't have all their focus on the animals. We do not yet know how Jaspurr feels about dogs; Mocha made it clear that she wanted nothing to do with the dogs, so we kept them separated for the one day that mom was dogsitting, but that's less feasible for three whole days.
Now that mom will also be there (and not in NM) I am slightly less worried, because I don't think there will be as much unsupervised time... but also, my mom has badly bruised ribs! So dealing with a super energetic dog is probably low on the list of desirable activities. :/
So... looking forward to hanging out with Taylor quite a bit, but not looking forward to the anxiety about animal interactions that I'm not present to supervise. I know that all the other times I've been anxious about the dogs - when we left Cy with mom, then when we left him with her overnight, then when it was both dogs, then when it was both dogs while Mocha was also there - it has been fine, despite my worry. That doesn't make the worry go away.
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Still not 100% over the crud I got last week, but still doing better than everyone else who got it. Wednesday was rough, and so was today a bit, but overall it's mostly just minor annoyance at this point.
I still feel really behind after having lost a bunch of days to being too sick to do much more than sleep, though. I need to get my friend's book chapter back to her. I've fallen behind on DW. I haven't even touched my own writing for weeks now. (Still doing okay at reading, but not much else. Four books done for the month so far!) I know that this upcoming week, what with not being home for more than a single night, I won't be getting much done. I'll hopefully manage to get my friend's chapter completed, and then maybe next week I'll feel okay about easing back to writing again.
Of course, it doesn't help that I *still* just want to sleep once I get home. :/ Every time I give in to that, I just get farther behind, but every time I *don't*, I'm afraid I'm extending my time spent sick! I hate it.
