I got up at the 6 am alarm, because I had some pears that were getting close to overripe. If I wanted to process them instead of throwing them away, I needed to do it today. After the eye drops, of course. I’m annoyed by the eye drop regimen, but I know it’s for my own good. It seems like the eye is already seeing a bit clearer, but that could just be placebo effect.
There were four small pears left when I’d filled my five trays. I cut two up for eating today and I’m saving the last two for tomorrow. It took me most of the morning, so I had to eat a rather hurried breakfast before work. I decided to break the rules and have an espresso this morning, because I actually woke up feeling sicker than yesterday.
Still not feeling ill enough to call out from work, but just feeling run down and fatigued and congested. I dreamed that I was sick and I woke up feeling sick. I hope to dream of feeling well tonight and wake up feeling well. But I’m not planning on a hike tomorrow. It’s just not going to happen. I’m going to try to get some chores done around the house instead, and make my way to the Indian Valley craft fair at some point. A trash run. Cleaning. Caulk work in my bathtub. Laundry! I have things to do aplenty.
Another reason to not call out sick today was that I was reviving our old trivia tradition. Trivia at work was something that we started during the pandemic to foster connection, but somewhere along the way we stopped. I am the hostess with the mostess, and I create the trivia so everyone else can participate. I like playing trivia, but it also makes me anxious. I get a bit too competitive, so I usually don’t participate at work when there’s trivia games.
I had several morning meetings, then the trivia hosting in the afternoon followed by the regular query training. I used part of that time for some troubleshooting so my business analyst can learn how to do that particular troubleshooting. And I recorded it, so, someday, someone is going to watch that training and be like, what? Because we’ve both got spooky backgrounds.
During lunch, I did my exercises and walked to the mailbox. I had a bit of mail. After work, I relaxed until the evening eye drop, and then I worked on the story that I ended up submitting for the Pulphouse Kickstarter reward for October. I don’t know that it’s a very good story, but it’s my shot. And I like that story. I’m hoping to write and submit the November story before the 30th, but we’ll see.
During lunch, I filled my popsicle molds with cider. I’m looking forward to some cider-sicles tomorrow. They might be ready now, but I think it would make more sense to leave them overnight. To be sure I’m not going to pull out something half frozen.
There were two onions in my fridge that had started to sprout. I had a lot of onions in there, so I’m glad I only ended up losing two to time. Maybe I’ll buy a pot and plant them indoors. It would be nice to have more inside plants. I had to take them out to make room for all my fruit. I still have grapes in the box that need to be sorted out into “moldy” and “usable” and then I need to process those, either into more raisins or more fruit leather. I think I’d prefer to eat the fruit leather, but prepping for raisins is a lot easier.
I think I’m going to take a bath before bed. With a nonalcoholic Corona. Maybe the steam will help me feel better. And I’m going to let myself sleep in tomorrow. If the weather cooperates, maybe I’ll go for a hike Sunday afternoon. Not an ascent, but just a couple hours out there will be good.
