mere_vanilla

Capital-L-Life has been happening lately:

Our dishwasher isn't washing dishes, so we have an appointment with a small appliance repair for Wednesday. Meanwhile, we have dishes to handwash...

I sent the first fully-edited podfic off to the author, who should be getting back to me tonight about their Thoughts.

( cut for angst and loneliness and all that )

I've been using the CPAP, finally! It's very nice not to have a headache all the time, and the general feeling of exhaustion/burnout in my stomach/chest is noticeably more manageable. I'm still sleepy during the day, but it's not the same kind of tired as I was before--the way I described it to husband last night was that I no longer feel like I'm "dragging my desiccated carcass around". I worry that my positive results are just a fluke, and the comfort will disappear as soon as I mention it in a more concrete way (shrug emoji). I... don't think I'm having dreams, though, so that's a bit weird for me! It's a trade-off I'm okay with, however. I'd rather be more functional during the day sans dreams, if I'm being absolutely honest.

Kiddo is continuing with developmental milestones, and husband and I basically just happily squee with each other over it and/or basically behave like Maes Hughes from Fullmetal Alchemist.

I'm also branching out into following more communities on dreamwidth. It's such a nice change of pace from tumblr, to be honest--and I still like tumblr, and interacting with individual folks over there, but... the fire hose aspect of it made feeling like I'm part of any kind of community virtually unfeasible. As horse_ebooks put it (before? the account was bought out): "everything happens so much".

I'm still working on proper time management, so that I can optimize the day, instead of waiting around for free time to just "happen" to me. We continue to unpack our stuff, slow and steady, and make plans for the future we want to have.

Long-time Friend and I got to get out on Saturday and do a lot of talking and catching up. They introduced me to a pleasant Chinese food place, and then we went out and about. I able to pick up some recreational adulting stuff for home that I'd been meaning to get, alongside of a trip to the bigger local used media store. This trip then produced the second Cardcaptor Sakura movie and Billy Joel's album Turnstiles, both pieces of media I kept meaning to order either online or from Barnes and Noble.

I also was able to get a lot of cleaning done on Sunday: I swept! I mopped! I vacuumed! I washed the cat food and water dishes! In the long run, it's not that impressive (there are still so many things to do!), but I've been meaning to mop for almost a month, and vacuuming is a necessary weekly activity.