Elise Matthesen

 Am recuperating after Monday's Thing. I think things are going well, in general. There's a lot of sleeping involved in recuperation right now, and apparently my body has decided to flip day for night, as of yesterday. This is not as convenient as it might be, but we work with what we have.

Silly body. Keep getting better, silly body. Have all the sleep you need. (And please return to the schedule that mostly works, yah?)

Thank. you all for your good wishes.

Two days vanished, there. Part of it is that my body insists on sleeping until 3 or 4 p.m., and part of it was that on the 13th, I got to the workbench and was too happy there to leave in time to post, and then I lost the notion of posting. Lost it in the fog. No, I don't have Long Covid; I have my own witch's brew of brain fog and related fun courtesy of fibromyalgia, ADHD, C-PTSD, and being a stroke survivor. Plus maybe the six decades of wear and tear on the organism has something to do with it too. In any case, I didn't write anything down here.

The time at the workbench on the 13th really was good. A piece that got inspired by a photograph of a flower got almost done, and I worked on selecting some opals for a Thing that Needs Doing.

Today, then, was a combo of silly body foolishness and continuing recuperation, plus repeatedly checking on whether a thing I need is going to work out. Plus more silly body foolishness. And now, which I am still counting as the 14th because I have not gone to bed yet, I am about to start an experiment.

For the rest of the month, I am going to sleep when I am sleepy and work when I am not sleepy. No more wrenching my sleep schedule around to try to get it to match some notion of ideal. I will have to set alarms for meetings and so forth. And I need to order that bedthumper alarm thing ASAP.
[fx: a cricket considers chirping. Time passes.]
OK, bedthumper alarm ordered. We shall see if it works on someone with my level of hearing. (I am moderately hearing impaired according to the audiology people who measured me. Haven't had it checked lately, but I mostly still can't hear the same stuff I usually can't hear.)

OK, where were we? So many things to do, and not enough good wake time and good sleep time, so we will see if this experiment is better or worse.

How's your sleep lately?

Birthday Month Day 10 is lost because back pain absconded with it.

Hmpf.

Silly body.

Perfume for the day was BPAL's Lyonesse, but either it was fugitive or I was distracted or both. There was a faint sillage of a rather nice amber, but I'm not sure if that was the Lyonesse or some other fragrance oil that got spilled on a scarf.

No workbench, because back ow ow ow. My Chirp wheel was employed, and it helped some, but my back made sleeping last night (the night of the 8th) impossible, and apparently I totally forgot to post. (Unless there's a partial post in one of these tabs somewhere.) Anyway, that's how yesterday, the 8th, went, as near as I can remember, so here is a post.

Apparently I did something to inconvenience my back yesterday. It was hurting when I woke up, and hurting more throughout the day.

It's slowing me down, but I do have hopes of carrying the clean sheets up from the dryer, and also getting to the workbench.

(Edited to add: My back doesn't get upset with me like this very often, which is probably why I don't remember to try the Chirp wheels on it. I used the medium one and then the smallest one, rolling over them and working on relaxing my back and letting it drape over the wheel in an arch. One or two times with each wheel, and the pain is remarkably lessened. It may start up again later, but the temporary relief is a big help, and I think it usually doesn't hurt as much even if it starts up again later. Those things are freakin' magic as far as I am concerned.)

(Edited later to add: it did start up again. I hope it eases off while I sleep.)

(Edited even later to add: well, it did not ease off, so I stood up to get a glass of water and it hurt a lot less when I was standing than it had when I was lying down, and sitting seemed better too, so I have been up for a while longer and all my eBay buyers have gotten their invoices now, which they will be happy about. It's tempting to go up to the workbench and just work for a while, but although it is the cool of the night, the AQI isn't really good enough for me to open the windows and circulate air and bring the temperature down. I will have Extreme Filtering up there soon, which should solve a lot of problems, but I have not yet remembered to order the filters. And now I'm actually feeling a little sleepy, so I'm going to aim for bed and sleep. Tomorrow will involve the packing of many boxes and the photographing of many new pieces for Etsy with markdowns on older work to match. Fingers crossed for cooperative body stuff.)


Is something slowing you down today, with or without ouch?

(Edited to add: And is there something that helps, even a little?)

Edited again to add: And are you up in the middle of your night too?)

Went back to the eye doc the day before yesterday for followup on the scary thing. All healed up. Yay!

Whew. I was more worried than I was letting on, and it's really good to get this good news.

( Don't worry, there won't be a quiz. )

So. Now you guys know.