🔥this is fine🔥

It is what it is. she/they

[that1girlarreis]

I am so much more sick today than yesterday or Sunday. Like no clue why. It feels like the same virus but it’s like…. In my chest and I can’t breathe well and I’m really hazy / fadey feeling. No energy and can hardly focus. Just totally wiped level exhausted. I skipped PT again this morning because we get face to face a lot and she’s pregnant. I went to work which I was iffy about but I’m not coughing or sneezing so I went for it. I’m really edgy about taking any time off that’s not surgery related because I still feel so bad that I’m leaving them in a bind right after I start.

I have tomorrow off, and the list of things I need to do is about ten miles long, but I might just try to rest. I have to get better. I tend to stay sick for a long time but usually it’s a lingering cough or sinus symptoms. This is weird. It’s just like tight chest congested head floaty feeling and I’ve almost completely lost my voice.

[journeymanfool]

IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN

[that1girlarreis]

Fuck, I just found out about Dolly Parton. I’m absolutely devastated. As someone who grew up under her legacy in East Tennessee, I can’t stress enough what a force for good she was in the world. Only got to meet her twice but she was just incredibly sweet and had a presence that made you feel lighter just being in it.

I know my mom is upset too wherever she is. I really wish I had a way to contact her. My heart is breaking for many reasons right now.

[rusholme]

[woman who has never been gentle with herself voice] I just need to be more disciplined

[johnnysilverhandssuitcasenuke]

[that1girlarreis]

Tomorrow:

Wake up at 5:30, pack lunch for Harrison and Elliot, pack snacks for Harrison and Elliot, pack water and their school bags, pack my work bag, figure out work clothes.

Go to PT (7-8:15).

Quick shower after I get home from PT.

Go to work / take Elliot to school 9-1:30.

Quick grocery store run for a couple things that can’t wait.

Come home and unpack Elliot’s school stuff and my work stuff.

Try to eat a quick “lunch” (2:30ish)

Whatever housework I can manage from 2:30-3:10

Pick Harrison up from drama club at 3:20.

Help him unpack that stuff, change into his tennis stuff, pack snacks etc for Elliot to have at tennis.

Tennis 3:45-5.

Come home and unpack tennis stuff, make Harrison take a quick shower.

Make dinner, do dishes, etc.

7:30 kids bedtime starts

8:30 finish up with kids, try to knock out at least one more house chore thing, and collapse into bed.

Somewhere in the day I need to find a suitable picture of myself and write up a teacher bio to send to the social media person at the preschool, set up a group chat with some of the other prek kids parents about a playground play date like we did last year, and start figuring out when I’m supposed to recertify my income for my student loans because I never did file taxes last year since my income was $0 but I need to do that before I recertify so I don’t end up having $4200 a month payments.

I can do this.

[that1girlarreis]

Behold my “fuck I need to make dinner” creation. I grabbed two cans of whatever was slightly expired from the pantry - congrats, you’ve won cannellini beans and sliced carrots. Sautéed onion and garlic with oil and butter, added cream cheese, poultry seasoning, chili flakes and the liquid from the beans plus a little extra water until it made a sauce. Wilted in some spinach that was looking very sus. Added the beans, carrots, and the rest of the shredded rotisserie chicken and simmered for like fifteen minutes.

Fuck? This is amazing? I called it Saucey Beans and we will be making it a regular thing.

Other things I got accomplished today despite being sick and whiny: three loads of laundry including a ton of towels and swim stuff (towels and swim stuff put away, the rest just washed and dried awaiting folding), emptied the dishwasher, did a load of handwashing, reloaded and started the dishwasher, washed out the sink, supervised homework / unpacking school bags etc, played with the kids, meal planned for the rest of the week, made a shopping list and errand schedule for Wednesday aka the only day I can get shit done now, prepped for work tomorrow, emailed Harrison’s teacher, started the room rep group chat for third grade, read some of my book, got with Trent’s mom about upcoming babysitting needs, family hang out times etc, and started a “moderate difficulty” sudoku and promptly remembered why I stick with the easy ones (hey is this why I’ll never be sudoku white girl?) and cleaned up a bunch of board games that were everywhere from yesterday.

Please clap 😭

[truedomdaddy]

[ramshacklefey]

[that1girlarreis]

I need* to make dinner tonight and I have so many brilliant ideas that I am lacking one (1) crucial ingredient for each one, and the idea of going to the grocery store makes me want to set myself on fire because I’m still sick as fuck, so instead I will just sit here and stare at the wall until the dryer is done so I can start folding the five loads of laundry I did today.

*we have chicken that NEEDS to get used so this isn’t really a order takeout of have ramen night sadly

[tigersharks]

[glewmie]

[cungadero]

i hate viruses so fucking much. literally getting attacked by a fucking shape. a concept. consumes no energy. responds to no stimuli. its only existence is to fuck with you. like fuck offf

[thrice-the-nobling]

prev's tags are too good not to save

[that1girlarreis]

Further Tales From the Everyone Has ADHD Household: we bought a Ninja Cremi at a yard sale in May and we just made the mix last night to use it for the first time (it has to freeze for 24 hours so we will actually use the machine tonight).

[that1girlarreis]

Tales From the Everyone Has ADHD Household: this piece of paper has been sitting here for weeks. We all just walk right by it every day. How long will it stay there? It’s a mystery.

[thememedaddy]

[thulium]

God dammit call me out why don’t you.

[teathattast]

[mud4sludge-deactivated20230205]

what should i get at ihop

[mud4sludge-deactivated20230205]

alright.

[thememedaddy]