Got through Maggie Cat’s cardio work-up. Doc said she’s a good candidate for her dental extraction surgery. Scheduled the consult for that and will likely proceed with it on the day of the consult. It’s going to be expensive and I’m concerned about it. Haven’t put together a budget, but I think I’m going to really need to cut back on nonessential purchases and likely get a part time job. I was thinking about trying to find an adjunct position at a local college. I downloaded my Social Security statement and you need something like 40 credits to be eligible for Social Security, and I have 39. So that’s another incentive to find something part time. A friend of mine used to call it having “champaign taste with a beer budget.” Cheers, indeed.
It wasn’t the robust piece I thought I wanted to write, but I was able to put together a short list of trans allied and trans led organizations and get it published with Columbus Free Press in time for the week’s Trans Day of Visibility. I’m glad I put something out there.
When I first started going to SMART Recovery meetings, I tried to take a lot of notes and scribbles. I’m moving away from that because I never go back to them to review. But yesterday I really liked what someone said: “Every part of yourself from the past that you reject will remain unhealed.” Another person said, “If we don’t own our choices [even the “bad” ones], we don’t own ourselves.”
Yesterday was Record Store Day. I went out to pick up the Tori Amos EP and, of course, overspent by a lot because the store I went to had all the releases I wanted, and they were so easy to just pick up and take to the counter that I just picked them up and took them to the counter. I listened to the Tori Amos one and ugly cried when I listened to Sister Janet. “Can you feel them touching hands before our eyes?” “With your perfect wing…a wing can cover all sorts of things.” “This again…well, I think I could try this once again.”
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Highlights
📺 Watching
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EVIL, Resident Alien; The Morning Show; Moral Orel
🍿 Viewing
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📚 Reading
🍽️ Eating
Doing better about bringing healthier options for lunch (which husband graciously packs each morning)
🎧 Listening
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📰 Scanning
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Freethought Today (Freedom From Religion Foundation)
🙏 Thanking
- An IT Director’s apology
- Vinyl records
- Filing a compliant about the Christian teen leadership organization using a public building for their meetings the whole week
🩺 Healing
SMART Recovery meeting (online); Psych meeting (increasing an anxiety med because America)
