Three good things

[cosmolinguist]

1) I had about 200 unread comments in my DW inbox that I cleared this afternoon, replying to some, leaving more alone but I promise I appreciate them all.

It has been a hard few weeks, accumulating all of these things you all are being so nice to me about.

2) I did three loads of laundry today, when usually I keep on top of it sufficiently that I never have more than a load to do at a time. I've needed all my smart clothes and all my gym clothes lately it feels like. They add up.

Feels good to be starting the week without such backlogs.

3) I managed to order groceries online yesterday, almost no delivery slots today but D obliged by driving us to collect it. I'm glad not to have a empty fridge looming in the back of my mind as Another Thing that Needs to Be Sorted Out.

A day of re-setting cyclical systems, so that they can descend in to chaos all over again.

Comments

[silveradept]

Hooray for getting clothes and food wrangled.

[barakta]

I always say "your journal your rules" which includes whether you have time/cope/desire to reply to comments. I am glad they are generally helpful and adding goodness to your life.

Hurrah for laundry clearing; Kim is extremely good at laundry fairying (she's the compsci and likes to control the laundry drying/washing system with her optimisation brain as our constraint is drying space). Hope it is easier to keep up without too much more backlogging this week.

Food is good for you, yay for click and collect, still avoids the sensory hell that is supermarkets. Honestly don't know how folk go in there more often than rare cos yeuch!

Wishing you a calmer and easier to survive week. I shall scowl at the universe to demand this of course!

[cosmolinguist]

"your journal your rules" which includes whether you have time/cope/desire to reply to comments.

Oh I agree. I don't think anyone particularly noticed or cared that I've been treating this as a broadcast-only medium lately, and I'm not worried about it if they did. It's not like I'm "oh, what a faux pas," it's just one of those barometers of how I'm doing, like "oh if I've let this slide to that degree that doesn't bode well."

Wishing you a calmer and easier to survive week. I shall scowl at the universe to demand this of course!

Thank you for your efforts - it's an alarmingly quiet work day so far! :)

[otter]

It added to my happiness today to find some comment responses from you :)

Thanks for reminding me that I need to do laundry soon.

[cosmolinguist]

I'm glad I could add to your happiness then, I'm so often made happy by your comments and I can be so poor in making them myself.

[diffrentcolours]

I think of times like this as plate spinning. Yes you have to go and do it again in a bit, but it keeps you going a while longer.

I'll blame AI

[jesse_the_k]

...but my first thought when I read "needed all my smart clothes" was "huh, have they come up with talking t-shirts now?"

I surely did appreciate the stack o' comments from you today!

[cosmolinguist]

Sorry, I am getting so bad at including both the British and USian uses of words lately.

For anyone who isn't clear, "smart" has the same meaning here as "dress(y)" in the U.S. So I've been at a lot of work events lately where I've had to be fancier than the hoodies I usually work in. :)