Things I care about that other people probably think are a little bit "out there."
I tag all pictures of guinea pigs with piggy porn; most posts related to my faith (Christianity) with God-stuff; most posts about things that happen in my life with my life, parenting, and/or my husband; most posts about ADHD with ADHD and Actually ADHD; all posts to try and get people's attention with signal boost; and most posts about disabilities with disability, disability rights, and/or the specific disability (e.g., autism, ADHD, OCD). Blacklist away!
As a note, if I wrote a long post or there are long paragraphs or words you don't understand, and you want to read the post and understand what I'm on about, please feel free to ask. I try to keep things readable but it doesn't always work out quite right, and questions can sometimes help me reword things or explain them more clearly.
I woke up with "Day By Day" (DC Talk) running through my head. Listening to it has just kept it forefront, so there's that.
So far today, I have done my prayer time, worked on a crochet project, read a short story, worked on my sweet novel, and listened to some DC Talk. I'm going to let myself take a short break and do a bit more crocheting while I watch ONE video on YouTube, then I'll get dressed and do a triplet.
Here is the triplet:
Work on chapter 9 of my brother's book.
Move J's stuff out of the entry into the kitchen so there's room for the water heater to come in.
Cut some watercolour paper for this new set of ACEO's.
I'll reblog with an update when I'm finished. For reference, it is currently 9.53 a.m.
9 p.m. now. I did all the things and tried to use a hand pump so we could reprime the pump but we're apparently out of water so that was an unnecessary workout. Ugh. Tomorrow we will finish making room in the kitchen and get the water heater into the house, then J will get water.
I hate it here. Why is my life on "ultra hard expert mode"?
I woke up with "Day By Day" (DC Talk) running through my head. Listening to it has just kept it forefront, so there's that.
So far today, I have done my prayer time, worked on a crochet project, read a short story, worked on my sweet novel, and listened to some DC Talk. I'm going to let myself take a short break and do a bit more crocheting while I watch ONE video on YouTube, then I'll get dressed and do a triplet.
Here is the triplet:
Work on chapter 9 of my brother's book.
Move J's stuff out of the entry into the kitchen so there's room for the water heater to come in.
Cut some watercolour paper for this new set of ACEO's.
I'll reblog with an update when I'm finished. For reference, it is currently 9.53 a.m.
So much going on right now. I'm trying to lower my stress by just focusing on what I can do today to make things better. A lot of my recent God-stuff has been about needing to stop trying to control everything in life. That's hard for me, but if I can let go then I bet my anxiety will go down and my fingers and foot will be happier since I won't pick at them so much.
So far today (it's 1.12 p.m.) I have done my morning prayer time and had my coffee; read a short story by LM Montgomery; wrote part of a story I'm working on (novel, it's a novel, if you like LM Montgomery you might like it, it's on my Substack for free, one chapter every two weeks); did some crochet while doing the prayer and reading; got dressed; and had a peanut butter & jam tortilla for lunch.
I'm now going to launch into doing triplets. I'm going to organize them as work task, house task, creative task. So here is my first triplet today:
Start editing chapter nine of my brother's new book.
Empty one sink in preparation to do some dishes by hand.
Go through my photos to choose landscapes to use as references for a set of ACEO's.
Yes, we still have a dishwasher. But the hot water tank sprang a leak a few weeks ago, so we have no hot water. The pump is also being a pain in the butt, but we are managing.
Anyway, I am going to try and do a load of dishes by hand (one drainer full), but that requires a number of steps so I am doing them slowly so I actually end up getting it done this week. I have to empty both sinks of the dirty stuff that's in them and clean them up a bit so I'm not rinsing and washing in gross water. I then have to fill the big stock pot with water, probably in the bathtub, and set it on the stove to heat. Once it's hot, THEN I can pour the hot water into the sinks and add cold to get it to where I can actually do the dishes. While it's heating, I'll arrange some dishes so I can wash them easily once I have the hot water. This is a lot of steps and it feels like a huge job, so I need to break it down like this so it feels manageable.
As for the water heater, I also need to work on making enough room that the new one can be brought in and taken downstairs to be installed. We're putting in an electric one instead of gas, because J can do that himself as you have to get a plumber or something to do a gas one, which is silly but that's Saskatchewan I guess.
Anyway, the new water heater is currently in the back of the truck under a tarp (it's been rainy), and the truck is parked right outside the door. Since our car needs to be fixed (J was doing that, too, but he hasn't finished yet and the car is in Saskatoon at his friend's place) we cannot go *anywhere* until the thing is out of the truck.
Since we can't go anywhere, I can't get groceries or takeout, which sucks ass because we're out of clean dishes and I'm out of ingredients for things we don't need dishes for, like hot dogs and pizza and burritos. Right now we're washing things as we need them under cold running water, but that isn't actually great and I'm so very tired of it all.
Now, J hasn't finished stuff because he is still sick (chronic illness, I suspect ME/CFS as post-viral syndrome, it's been 11 years at this point and ask me how pleased I am with our medical system) and we have no answers, so he has to be careful about his energy levels. I think we should have just paid the garage to fix the car because WTF, but anyway, too late.
I had to have my gallbladder out last time I was up to look after my parents' dogs for them, and so now J is loath to let me do it ever again. I don't have anything else in there for them to take out except I guess my appendix, but that's that. That was back at the end of April.
Welcome back to my life with ADHD, a chronically ill husband who is undx'd ND, and an 11yo son who has undx'd ADHD.
Gee, I wonder why I'm stressed out and depressed in spite of taking sertraline for it.
Okay, back to accountability. I'm going to do that triplet and then I'll update with progress and my next triplet.
It's 5pm and I have completed my triplet. The sink is soaking in Dawn PowerWash right now but I'll scrub it good when I go to start figuring out supper.
My first set of ACEO's is 8 drawings of marbles in pencil crayon over a watercolour wash. I have found 11 photos for landscapes (I took all the pictures myself and it's mostly our land). There are some that kind of go together--two shots of the view from the kitchen window, one in winter and one in spring; and two shots of the same sunset, one nearer the beginning and one nearer the end. If I do two diptychs as bonus cards, there are only 7 landscapes so I need to find one more. Maybe I'll take another photo this week or something. These are going to be all watercolour, with maybe some Pitt's Artist Pens but probably not, assuming I can get the paint to do what I'm hoping it will do.
I feel like I accomplished something today, even if I didn't get a lot done. I'll do triplets again tomorrow.
If you want to see my finished ACEO's, let me know. I'm happy to share my artwork!
So much going on right now. I'm trying to lower my stress by just focusing on what I can do today to make things better. A lot of my recent God-stuff has been about needing to stop trying to control everything in life. That's hard for me, but if I can let go then I bet my anxiety will go down and my fingers and foot will be happier since I won't pick at them so much.
So far today (it's 1.12 p.m.) I have done my morning prayer time and had my coffee; read a short story by LM Montgomery; wrote part of a story I'm working on (novel, it's a novel, if you like LM Montgomery you might like it, it's on my Substack for free, one chapter every two weeks); did some crochet while doing the prayer and reading; got dressed; and had a peanut butter & jam tortilla for lunch.
I'm now going to launch into doing triplets. I'm going to organize them as work task, house task, creative task. So here is my first triplet today:
Start editing chapter nine of my brother's new book.
Empty one sink in preparation to do some dishes by hand.
Go through my photos to choose landscapes to use as references for a set of ACEO's.
Yes, we still have a dishwasher. But the hot water tank sprang a leak a few weeks ago, so we have no hot water. The pump is also being a pain in the butt, but we are managing.
Anyway, I am going to try and do a load of dishes by hand (one drainer full), but that requires a number of steps so I am doing them slowly so I actually end up getting it done this week. I have to empty both sinks of the dirty stuff that's in them and clean them up a bit so I'm not rinsing and washing in gross water. I then have to fill the big stock pot with water, probably in the bathtub, and set it on the stove to heat. Once it's hot, THEN I can pour the hot water into the sinks and add cold to get it to where I can actually do the dishes. While it's heating, I'll arrange some dishes so I can wash them easily once I have the hot water. This is a lot of steps and it feels like a huge job, so I need to break it down like this so it feels manageable.
As for the water heater, I also need to work on making enough room that the new one can be brought in and taken downstairs to be installed. We're putting in an electric one instead of gas, because J can do that himself as you have to get a plumber or something to do a gas one, which is silly but that's Saskatchewan I guess.
Anyway, the new water heater is currently in the back of the truck under a tarp (it's been rainy), and the truck is parked right outside the door. Since our car needs to be fixed (J was doing that, too, but he hasn't finished yet and the car is in Saskatoon at his friend's place) we cannot go *anywhere* until the thing is out of the truck.
Since we can't go anywhere, I can't get groceries or takeout, which sucks ass because we're out of clean dishes and I'm out of ingredients for things we don't need dishes for, like hot dogs and pizza and burritos. Right now we're washing things as we need them under cold running water, but that isn't actually great and I'm so very tired of it all.
Now, J hasn't finished stuff because he is still sick (chronic illness, I suspect ME/CFS as post-viral syndrome, it's been 11 years at this point and ask me how pleased I am with our medical system) and we have no answers, so he has to be careful about his energy levels. I think we should have just paid the garage to fix the car because WTF, but anyway, too late.
I had to have my gallbladder out last time I was up to look after my parents' dogs for them, and so now J is loath to let me do it ever again. I don't have anything else in there for them to take out except I guess my appendix, but that's that. That was back at the end of April.
Welcome back to my life with ADHD, a chronically ill husband who is undx'd ND, and an 11yo son who has undx'd ADHD.
Gee, I wonder why I'm stressed out and depressed in spite of taking sertraline for it.
Okay, back to accountability. I'm going to do that triplet and then I'll update with progress and my next triplet.
Okay, forgot about the Charlie cage but I'll do that a little later. Have not found the LEDs. Probably in his office so I'll have to figure out when I can look in there.
Now I'm going to just hazard a guess that the following blood glucose measurements don't make any sense in a healthy person:
5.1 mmol/L at around 9.00 a.m.
I ate six squares of chocolate at around 10.00 a.m.
7 mmol/L at noon
I ate a breakfast burrito for lunch, that's 2 scrambled eggs with shredded cheese in a whole wheat tortilla, at noon.
4.3 mmol/L at 1.25 p.m.
This is reactive hypoglycaemia, right? I know it won't be considered hypoglycaemia because it's over 4 mmol/L, but that's weird, right?
ANYWAY, let's look at the stuff for this afternoon.
Work on the next mini e-book for Actually ADHD
Work on banner images for my web site, Substack, YouTube, etc.
Work on the script for my next Actually ADHD YouTube video
Work on "It's Not Personal, it's Opera" (short story)
hi knitting tumblr. um i don't knit but my aunt recently passed and left behind a bunch of extremely high quality yarn. i know very little about yarn and even less about knitting, so i'd like to sell it, and i'm planning on trying ravelry and local facebook groups, but i wanted to see if there's anybody local who is interested.
i live in southern ontario, but the yarn is currently in central ontario. if there's enough interest i could do a yard sale instead of transporting the yarn home? let me know and we'll see
i'm attaching some pics to give an idea of what i've got. this is only a fraction of it. please let me know if you have any interest or know anyone who would be willing to purchase some! i'd also appreciate any more advice on sites, communities, etc. where i could offload some of it.
I cannot have more yarn right now but do look into donating it to seniors’ homes, especially the acrylic as that won’t get you much anyway. People there need stuff to do a lot of the time, and most elderly folk know how to knit and crochet. It can be really good for people with dementia in particular, as they tend not to forget how to do the craft but they can sit and make nothing for hours, then rip it all out and do it again the next day. I’m not sure what “central Ontario” might mean in this case, but I have relatives in Toronto and in Ottawa if that is of any use. One uncle is in a seniors’ facility, and an aunt worked in disability services, primarily with the Deaf population, and she might have ideas of where to take it if that’s a useful location. My brother is in Thunder Bay until the end of September (then he’s coming to Saskatchewan) and his wife knits, so if that’s a more helpful location she might be willing to help you sort it out and stuff.
I’d absolutely help you sort it and all but I’m rather far away. If Toronto, Ottawa, or Thunder Bay are helpful, let me know via Ask and I’ll get you in touch. Oh, I also have a good friend in the Sault! She used to be a Church Army Captain and I’m sure she would have ideas of places to donate some of it if that’s a helpful location.
I made a cover for my prayer book (BCP) this week after the spine came mostly detached. It’s mostly double crochet filet work with single crochet edging. I just happened to have a spool of burgundy crochet cotton the right shade. I also made a little bookmark.
Reminder that as much as you folks south of us (i.e., USians) don’t like having smoke from our wildfires in your faces, at least you aren’t mere hours away from the worst of it and your homes aren’t burning up and you aren’t having to evacuate.
Also, managed burns are important for the health of the forest.
Also, whenever California is burning, we send you firefighters who know what they’re doing because BC burns every summer. Just right now it’s northern Saskatchewan, northern Alberta, and northern Manitoba that are on fire, and it’s big and hard to get under control *because it’s fire*.
I’m about 3 hours away from the fires in Saskatchewan. The smoke gets bad some days. I’m allergic to green growing things and the smoke from the fires makes everything awful for me. I expect my ensmokening experience is far worse than that of most of the USians complaining about it, but at least I don’t have to evacuate like the people from the church my dad leads services at once a month in Candle Lake, or my kid’s classmate from La Ronge. (Kid is in online school.)
First, for those coming from traditions with infant baptism, if you aren’t planning to ever go to church or teach your child about Christianity, please don’t bother having them baptized. I know that often you do it because your families expect it but let’s make it a thing to just say no to promising to do stuff you don’t plan to ever do. That’s lying and wow it’s really bad to lie to God.
Second, for those coming from traditions that maintain that only adult baptism is valid, please to get thyself educated regarding infant baptism and how it is meant to work.
Said education follows below.
Infant baptism isn’t about a confessed faith from the child. It is about the parents promising to raise their child to know and love God so that one day they will claim that faith for themselves.
The expectation is that, once the child is old enough and has done enough learning about the history of the Church and about the faith and so on, they will claim Christ crucified and vow to follow Him of their own volition, and they will then confirm that choice through the rite of Confirmation, which involves the laying on of hands to indicate the dwelling of Holy Spirit—baptism in the Spirit as at Pentecost.
Y’all gotta stop besmirching stuff you know nothing about, there is nothing bad about infant baptism and Confirmation when they are undertaken sincerely. It may not be in the Bible in exactly the way it’s practised, but literally nothing about our services is.
(This post brought to you by me turning off the radio when the people talking started talking about baptism and immediately went to baptizing babies and went to the Bible to refute it. They couldn’t even pronounce the Hebrew words correctly, and I’m mad at them in general, so you get the rant.)
As Mel Baggs wrote, “If you have ever existed, then some place in time, you always exist.” We’ve collected some of our favorite memories and writings by Mel here: autisticadvocacy.org/melmemorial
Okay, so yesterday I did no writing but I did get the potatoes mulched and the hoses laid for my freshly-spaded bed. I need more mulch so I can't mulch that bed yet. Maybe I can get more tomorrow afternoon.
It is about 10.15 a.m. now, and I have completed my devotions and some Bible study. I am going to get some bread going and deal with the dishwasher, then sweep and do the litter box. Then I might go for a short walk, we'll see what time it is. I would also like to get the first step for the guinea pig room done.
When the dishwasher is finished, I'm going to boil some eggs so I can make egg salad.
I will reblog with updates and plan for the afternoon once that is all finished.
I'm not going to do triplets today, at least not this morning. I'm just going to tell you what my plan is and probably do triplets when I sit down to try and get some writing done this afternoon. So here's the plan:
I am nearly finished my coffee, and I have had breakfast and done my devotions. I also did a bit of knitting and read a short story.
When I'm finished my coffee, I'm going to get my socks and shoes on and go for a walk. Then I'm going to finish turning the soil in my first garden bed.
Next up, I'll put away the clean dishes from the dishwasher, get some bread started, load the dishwasher, and get it going. Then I'll scoop the litter box and sweep.
After that, I will work on cleaning up and reorganizing the guinea pig room until about 11.30, at which point I will stop and make lunch.
After lunch I will go out to lay soaker hoses on my garden bed, after which I will lay mulch over top of the entire bed. My stretch goal is to actually get the first of my seedlings into the ground, but if I don't get that done today I'll do it tomorrow morning.
After the garden stuff is done, I will come in and settle in at the computer to do some writing. I want to work on Releve some more, see how much of the next ADHD mini e-book I can get done, try and finish the next musician's mob story, and maybe even start writing my next ADHD video. I'll also see if I can find my colourwork hat so I can film a knitting video tomorrow.
At 5.30 p.m. I will start supper. I'm making hamburger soup tonight, and it'll be easy because the meat is already cooked so I just have to put everything in the big pot and turn on the burner, then stir regularly so it doesn't stick to the bottom.
After supper I will water the garden--husband planted potatoes this weekend, so they need watering every evening--and do some knitting while it's light enough to be able to see what I'm doing, and watch YouTube. Once it gets dark, I'll switch to playing Sims (working on building more houses) and of course I'll chat with my mom as usual. When she leaves, I will shut down my game and finish whatever video is playing, and then I will go to bed.
This is my plan for every day this week, probably with minor changes here and there as we go. I will keep you posted on how it all is going, but I am really hopeful that this will pan out and help me accomplish All the Things.
And with that, I have now downed the last of my coffee and I must put on my socks and shoes so I can go for a walk. I will reblog with an update at lunch time, since my goal is to stay off the computer until I'm eating.
Not lunch yet, didn't do my cleaning tasks either. I got a late start to the day so everything got pushed back. But I did a 10-minute walk with my kid (R is 10 years old now, undiagnosed ADHD and possibly ASD, and he talks literally all the time) and then I finished the spading. I did about a third of that bed in the picture, with the spading fork that's stuck in the ground at the end. The picture of my finger is showing off the scrapy wound I got on my right index finger from the fidget ring on my left index finger rubbing against it while doing the work. Hooray!
But it's 11.30 a.m. now and I need to make lunch shortly, so I will deal with bread, sweeping, and the litter box at the same time as I make lunch (I'm just going to do pb&j wraps with cucumber slices and baby carrots on the side). The extra cleaning stuff will have to wait until tomorrow. After I eat I'll see how I'm feeling, because I need to do the hoses and mulch, and I need to put mulch on the potato bed as well, so it's all good to go when I water this evening.
Anyway, I'm going to drink some iced juice and relax for a bit before I go make that lunch.
been stewing on an analytical approach to fiction which I call "is this book afraid of me?" and in order to answer this question you determine how hard the book is trying to make sure you don't come after the writer on twitter
Please keep making art. Please make it for yourself. Please don’t let everything become even more of the same flat general appeal nonsense that doesn’t seem to have anything to say
