Between dog and wulf

[cosmolinguist]

What a busy day!

I got up for trans gym this morning, which should be normal for a Saturday but I missed it last week thanks to trainfail, and I didn't make it to the gym at all this week and my mental health suffered accordingly. So it was really nice to be back even if everything felt difficult!

Sadly D wasn't feeling well enough to do gym, but he was feeling well enough to give me a lift to and from and do some shopping for treats from the grocery store in between, which was welcome. It also meant we got a tinfoil-wrapped packet of our friend I's homemade pancakes, still warm when he handed them to D, which was really lovely.

Then this afternoon we had a doggy date! Thanks to Borrow My Doggy, a neighbor found us, said she thought she recognized us from the photos I put on the website, and indeed she was right. She and her husband are retired and dealing with various health issues that mean they need help walking their sweet adorable poodle/Irish setter cross, Teddy. He immediately loved V and I (again D was not feeling up to joining us, he needed a nap), demanded pets from us both and fell asleep pressed up against V while we talked with his humans. We all got along and it seems like we can help each other which is lovely.

Soon after V and I got home, angelofthenorth's friend came over, who soon said "I feel like I've found my people, even though I've never met you two before!" V was delighted at this of course, and I know it's something they and D have always aspired to.

We had a great conversation until D and I had to leave to go see Beowulf at Park in the Past. It was really fun to get to enjoy Beowulf in something approaching its original setting: In a dirt floored, wood-beamed, wool-thatched hut, listening to a bard recite it from memory and in between "acts" some talented musicians play a variety of folk music. We drank mead and D got to eat a wild boar burger. We snuggled up to stay warm and to enjoy each other's company. It was a great evening. Great day.

Comments

[otter]

SO many good things all in one day! Hooray!

[radiantfracture]

Your talk of trans gym made me want to post "I wish we had trans gym" and then I realized I didn't know if we did or we didn't. I just go and do trans gym by myself, or rather trans-30-minutes-on-the-ellipitcal.

And still I don't really know if we do, but I did find a place that sounds interesting and has a queer program of some sort and gender-neutral washrooms, so, you know, thanks for posting about your life and thereby revealing what might be possible.

Beowulf at Park in the Past.

Hi that sounds fantastic.

[cosmolinguist]

hanks for posting about your life and thereby revealing what might be possible.

Aw, I am glad. Yeah, trans gym is done by a charity here, apparently it grew out of a desire in the community for self-defense classes that branched out into other forms of semi-organized exercise: there's the weightlfting I do, boxing, yoga as well, and ad hoc things like swimming or even ballet. It's done so much good for my relationship with my body to learn to do things and get a little better at some of them (while, honestly, still being pitiful at other ones), and also meet people -- I just invited the group chat of them to V's and my joint birthday party in a couple weeks; a lot of these people D and I talk about so much that it's good for V to have the chance to meet them too. :)

[silveradept]

That sounds like a very affirming day for everyone you came across and for yourselves. Those are really good days.

[barakta]

You achieved so many things in a single day, I am impressed.

[cosmolinguist]

And then did very very little, and that mostly badly, the next day, heh. But that's not surprising, and it was fine.

What lovely news

[jesse_the_k]

...and now that I've spent several years on the cosmo train, I looked forward to the "universe is always this amazing" tag.