"Things are going well."
Mar. 24th, 2026 07:58 am
The good news is, the trees are beautiful, and would you believe: I never deal with hay fever? lol true! I used to tell people that I got Fal allergies, just to be unique, and maybe I made it true, I have no idea. But Spring is always great, and I actually love the Winter too, thanks to ice skating currently. So there are some good things at least.
Sunday at a bookstore
Mar. 15th, 2026 03:14 pmTrying to have a nice time out, but unfortunately my stomach is a little upset. This is not a regular problem for me at all, so I have no idea what is causing that.
Generally speaking, having a great weekend. Yesterday, I was at an arcade all day. This week, every single day has been walking 5-10 miles per day: I actually walked 10 miles in 1 day for the second day this year. On Jan 1st 2026, I anticipated MAYBE getting 3 days that were 10 miles by the end of the YEAR. Now, it is March and I have 2 already!! I may get at least 10 days with 10 miles? That would be 100 miles in 10 days: 18 yrs post heart surgery!!! My knowledge base is truly eclectic lol.
AoT: nearing the end.
Mar. 14th, 2026 09:11 amI am going to be a little sad when I finish everything.. currently, I have about 80 pieces done, so, really nearing the end here. She might have new content come out around December, that will be awesome if she does it... I guess she is just that much more advanced than me: funny story, I have not UPLOADED a SINGLE origami instructional video yet. I have taken one or two, but have not uploaded them. So behind the times lol. There may actually be people that don't believe that I do origami because I have no teaching videos, even though I apply to teach origami in the school system!!
Health is basically amazing right now. I am doing better than I have been for years now. My pain levels are just doooown, so cool. Currently, my back is upset because I am sitting down and not laying down. I decided to make the effort to sit down for a while this morning because I often spend several hours laying down every day. My modes are pretty much WALKING, trying to run a little bit, which never goes anywhere, lots of laying down, and I do make efforts to sit down, but I try not to torture myself out of it. Like if you think about it: mechanics lay down underneath vehicles, so I don't need my upward position to describe myself as doing something...
When I got my first full time job, I was already post heart surgery.. that's 40 hrs a week, but my company was nice, it was still close though, and I had no idea at all if it was going to be possible for me to sit down for almsot 40 hours a week.. I was scared and anxious... I said: "I will try this out, but I don't know what will happen." And it went fine!! Great even!! I had something to look forward to every day, because I would change position to sitting down for like 8 hours a day, and I was really doing that, and I felt OK doing it. It was unbelievable. Then after work, somehow, I still had energy, and would go out bicycling. I could not believe what post heart surgery life was. You get heart surgery, and you think your life is over, but it is not. I still enjoy laying down a lot. I don't force myself to hurt myself, but I do make efforts at doing different things.
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Mar. 8th, 2026 08:25 am
I am currently reading the book Zen Flesh Zen Bones: do you know it? I read at least some of this book in college... I may have read the entire thing? I don't know, I thought I only read exerts... but everything I have read is at least a little familiar feeling... I mean, there is stuff that I don't remember perfectly, but anyway.. it is nostalgic.
It is Sunday... not sure what I am doing today. Have been spending time in coffee shops.. the weather is so so, really not that great. Last weekend, I really put some effort into exercise, and now I am currently too tired to think too heavy in that direction. Feeling frustrated about the limited options that tend to come my way. Humans are so hateful of heart surgery recipients, and I am exhausted from being hated.
Precarious nature
Mar. 5th, 2026 05:26 pmWriters land
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Mar. 1st, 2026 12:26 pmToday was not toooooo bad!
Feb. 28th, 2026 07:21 pm
Origami... finished up AoT Enveloped.. and Andromeda is already done, so, only 10 days left of 2024, and I have done about 10 pieces of 2025 already, so I only have about 25 pieces left to make!!! Almost sad about it. But, I will find ways to move on. I can make some of these again if I want to... We'll see... what I would like to do is work on larger grids... so... we will see what happens with that.
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Feb. 28th, 2026 12:15 pmFunny note of the day: there is an arcade that I enjoy sometimes, but today, going for a walk absolutely sounds more fun than the arcade. Somehow, I actually became an outdoorsy kind of person: I DEFINITELY did not expect that when I was little lol.