cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/34772864
Whether it’s a project you’re working on, plans you have this weekend, an event you’re going to, etc. What’s something that’s got you excited?
I started to learn how to dance. You know, with other people. I’m really not the type. It’s embarrassing and terrifying. It also really helps me confront some of my fears. I’m pretty proud of that.
Let’s see what this leads to.
I have big plans for the spring and summer: multiple backpacking/camping trips in the mountains, a week-long family vacation, and (hopefully) getting back into mountain biking after a multi-year break. I can’t wait!
Nice! Those sound like really solid plans. Anything with mountains instantly ignites my happy chemicals.
Absolutely. Like Gillian Welch sang, I’ve been in the lowlands too long.
More sunlight as summer approaches, and enough heat that I can be outside without freezing to death. Can’t wait until I can get the back patio set up, and see hummingbirds coming by again. Plus it’ll be kayaking season, just in time for my sprained wrist to have hopefully healed.
I’m going on vacation Tuesday! We’re driving south until it’s aggressively springtime, and then we’ll see what’s next. Probably hiking, sleeping late, and waffle house. I’m a simple sort.
Sometimes simple pleasures are the best and just what we need.
Kicking addiction once and for all. No, I mean it, this will be the year I get my brain back.
Good luck on this difficult road to redemption!
I have some travels planned this year :)
Very recent, I’m still in the glowy happy haze of it. My partner and I just got married and we’ve got an old, fixer-upper property that we plan to make into our own haven of weirdness haha I’m excited to keep building this wild life together.
A friend is smoking a brisket this weekend 🤤
I am finally getting a surgery I have desperately needed for mental health and basic quality of life since the height of COVID. I didn’t see it as a life threatening need-to-be-done so I waited until after the height of COVID to begin pursuing it.
I was scheduled for this surgery in February 2023, and when they took my blood tests, they had to cancel the surgery, because that’s when the found out I had cancer. (Chronic Myeloid Leukemia)
My cancer treatment has been going very well, and now I am once again scheduled for this surgery with the blessing of my cancer doctor and the requirement of not taking my cancer medications for a week before the surgery and three weeks after the surgery. That is because my cancer medications increase bleeding and impact how long wounds take to heal. (Sprycel/Dasatinib, a tyrosine kinase inhibitor)
Here’s hoping it goes well, I absolutely hate surgery, but I really need this done. I’ve been literally waiting for this moment for years, it’s going to be a huge mental health boost.
And to be clear while I am indeed on the Blahaj Lemmy, this is surgery is not about gender identity or gender affirming care. It’s still important and impacting my mental health, however.
Gosh, the amount of strength life has required from you these past few years is incredible to imagine. I’m glad to hear your treatment is going well and I hope the surgery and recovery are smooth for you. It’s great you’re finally going to get it!
Thank you, I have honestly been through so much more than even that, and it has been so hard. I lost my place to live, the majority of my possessions, and I have just been broken, but I am trying to keep going. I think the hardest thing to lose was my bed. It took me until I was nearly 40 to afford my first bed, frame, mattress, and quality sheets, that was all my own and wasn’t a hand-me-down of some kind. I am back to sleeping on a shitty 15 year old mattress I got for free that hurts my back and I have no idea when I’ll be able to afford a bed again.
- Reading. Like I do with online content, I select very strictly the books I read, doing my best to keep hate/anger (as well as proud idiocy) at bay.
- Writing (& journaling)
- Long walks (edit: nicer weather makes it even more tempting ;)
- Quality time with my spouse
- A little music too.
Nothing fancy, but very efficient as far as I’m concerned.
What’s been one of your favorite books so far this year?
Quite early in the year to pick one favorite, but so far I would say:
- A la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time) by Marcel Proust. I’m reading it right now, and probably will take the rest of the year to finish it. I’ve failed for 30+ years reading it, like I just could not get into it and gave up countless times. Earlier this year, it somehow clicked and I’m in awe. It’s amazing.
- An essay and still in French (like Proust, there are many translations available): Du contrat social by Rousseau. Today more than ever, a fundamental text that is worth (re-)reading. What does it mean to live and to work together, in a society? Where does it come from? And how do we make it work and not end in a civil war? The text itself is a rather short read, but the moment one realizes each sentence has a lot of offer and to reflect upon it becomes a lot more massive. Real slow reading is highly encouraged for that text.
- In English (American): The World-Ending Fire, a collection of essays by Wendell Berry. I wish I had started reading him 40 years ago.
Thank you for sharing. You’re a citizen and scholar. I’ll save your message and add those to my queue.
I’m getting married on Towel Day. To a woman who is excited that I wanted to get married on Towel Day.
Bad Ass. are towels a part of the dress code?
May your wedding towels be full of nutrients!
Now I want a towel shaped cake
With mint frosting
Just uhhh, don’t forget to bring a towel.
I’m sure a hoopy frood like you always knows where your towel is though.
I’m excited that my company could break 2 million in revenue this year. 1.7 at the least.
Nice! You planning to celebrate?
Every two weeks — this next weekend being one such event —, I have sushi with my grandma and my brother. I love sushi, my grandma, and my brother. Feeling stellar.
Roughly four months after being run over and rendered bed bound my mom is taking the next step in her recovery. Literally. She’s been okayed to start walking. She recently went to her first physical therapy session and is working on getting that leg strength back. Still a ways from walking even with a walker but hey progress is progress.
My lemongrass plant that I tend to neglect is showing signs of life. Seriously I haven’t changed the pot or soil of it in at least two years now. Not to mention the amount of times I forget to give it water. It’s a miracle the poor thing has lasted this long really. But today I noticed some new growth so that’s cool.
I’m taking three days of annual leave between Easter and ANZAC day next month. I’ll be out of the office eleven days straight. Time to properly unwind.
