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Dec. 2nd, 2023 08:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittydesadeIt's December. Why is it December. Where does the time even GO?
We still haven't bought a new car, although I think the boy is finally ready to start looking. We were supposed to start looking today but we both got vaccinated yesterday (covid for him and flu for me) and he got the covid vaccine reaction where one feels like one's been hit by a convoy of trucks, so not much happened except for eating and sitting on the couch and occasionally napping. We'll see about tomorrow, or even Monday since he has Monday off.
I'm setting up next year's bullet journal and hoping this time to actually keep track of all the things I'm building trackers for, as opposed to last year when the trackers just sat unfilled in the beginning of the journal. Things like, oh, savings. Garden tasks. Reading lists. I did actually do some reading and gardening and saving money (I've gotten MUCH better about putting money in savings or investments as soon as I get paid) but I never wrote it down. I need to write it down, or make a better try at it anyway.
We had some drama with the electrics last weekend, but the electricians came out and said we did not have an electrical fire brewing in the outlet, and we haven't noticed the fishy smell (I did not know electrical fires smelled like fish) since the one night, so... I have no idea. And then the downstairs thermostat wouldn't kick on the boiler for the heat, though whatever it was didn't seem to affect the upstairs thermostat so we still had heat and now... oddly, it seems to be working. So. A whole lot of drama and I have no idea what to make of all of this. Except that electrical fires are now going to bother me and keep bothering me for a while. I remembered at some point over the week that I'd actually been in an electrical fire at one point, although everyone was evacuated safely and no one got hurt just scared. I'm pretty sure that contributes some to the edginess about the electrics. But, realistically, everything's been fine for years and every time the electricians look at it they go "eh, don't see anything awful" besides whatever it is they've come to fix. Burned outlet. Power box yanked off the wall because a tree took down a power pole. You know, the usual.
I have decided that this year for NaNoEdMo (National Novel Editing Month, which should come some time after National Novel Writing Month, but not necessarily the direct month after) I am in fact scrapping my entire Nano novel and doing it over again for Camp Nanowrimo, this time properly and with an outline. I tried completely pantsing it this year and I don't know if it was the novel I was trying to write or my style or a combination of both but it did NOT work. I ended up with about 2.5 pieces of two different companion novels. Don't like it. Not going to keep it. I do like the world and the characters though, I'm going to keep them. Just, also to start it again with an outline and some sketches and notes and things. In April.
My labs came back, which I didn't expect them to do until Monday. My fasting glucose is fine and I don't have diabetes, which for some reason was also tested this time (maybe it didn't get done at my yearly physical? Or maybe I just didn't notice because usually when I give blood for my thyroid it's in the early morning when I haven't eaten breakfast anyway and this one time it was after lunch) but the bad news is my thyroid is... less active again. What the fuck. It was overactive only eight weeks ago! So annoying. So inexplicable. I'm going to go through my collection of half-full bottles of thyroid pills now to see what the hell my last dosage was and then look up if there's a dose in between or if we're just going to do this dance regularly for months. Ugh.
Not much else of interest going on. Which is fine. I like it when things are only mildly interesting.
We still haven't bought a new car, although I think the boy is finally ready to start looking. We were supposed to start looking today but we both got vaccinated yesterday (covid for him and flu for me) and he got the covid vaccine reaction where one feels like one's been hit by a convoy of trucks, so not much happened except for eating and sitting on the couch and occasionally napping. We'll see about tomorrow, or even Monday since he has Monday off.
I'm setting up next year's bullet journal and hoping this time to actually keep track of all the things I'm building trackers for, as opposed to last year when the trackers just sat unfilled in the beginning of the journal. Things like, oh, savings. Garden tasks. Reading lists. I did actually do some reading and gardening and saving money (I've gotten MUCH better about putting money in savings or investments as soon as I get paid) but I never wrote it down. I need to write it down, or make a better try at it anyway.
We had some drama with the electrics last weekend, but the electricians came out and said we did not have an electrical fire brewing in the outlet, and we haven't noticed the fishy smell (I did not know electrical fires smelled like fish) since the one night, so... I have no idea. And then the downstairs thermostat wouldn't kick on the boiler for the heat, though whatever it was didn't seem to affect the upstairs thermostat so we still had heat and now... oddly, it seems to be working. So. A whole lot of drama and I have no idea what to make of all of this. Except that electrical fires are now going to bother me and keep bothering me for a while. I remembered at some point over the week that I'd actually been in an electrical fire at one point, although everyone was evacuated safely and no one got hurt just scared. I'm pretty sure that contributes some to the edginess about the electrics. But, realistically, everything's been fine for years and every time the electricians look at it they go "eh, don't see anything awful" besides whatever it is they've come to fix. Burned outlet. Power box yanked off the wall because a tree took down a power pole. You know, the usual.
I have decided that this year for NaNoEdMo (National Novel Editing Month, which should come some time after National Novel Writing Month, but not necessarily the direct month after) I am in fact scrapping my entire Nano novel and doing it over again for Camp Nanowrimo, this time properly and with an outline. I tried completely pantsing it this year and I don't know if it was the novel I was trying to write or my style or a combination of both but it did NOT work. I ended up with about 2.5 pieces of two different companion novels. Don't like it. Not going to keep it. I do like the world and the characters though, I'm going to keep them. Just, also to start it again with an outline and some sketches and notes and things. In April.
My labs came back, which I didn't expect them to do until Monday. My fasting glucose is fine and I don't have diabetes, which for some reason was also tested this time (maybe it didn't get done at my yearly physical? Or maybe I just didn't notice because usually when I give blood for my thyroid it's in the early morning when I haven't eaten breakfast anyway and this one time it was after lunch) but the bad news is my thyroid is... less active again. What the fuck. It was overactive only eight weeks ago! So annoying. So inexplicable. I'm going to go through my collection of half-full bottles of thyroid pills now to see what the hell my last dosage was and then look up if there's a dose in between or if we're just going to do this dance regularly for months. Ugh.
Not much else of interest going on. Which is fine. I like it when things are only mildly interesting.