Write Every Day - Day 7
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The Weather Channel keeps telling me that there’s fog out. Thanks, I can see it.
I have an impulse to go back to sleep for a half-hour, but I got a ton of sleep last night. I won’t get the will and trust docs modified this morning though. I’ll do that tonight. Both Bella and Oliver are in here, and the combo of them is not restful. Sigh. Oliver bit my foot, which earned him a trip out of the bedroom. I did sleep.
I have a meeting at 11 and one at 1, so no nap at lunchtime or no errands.
I tripped and fell, and my Apple Watch was concerned. I'm fine. It's good to have the emergency button on my watch though.
I need to clear some space in my living room to park the air conditioner for upstairs. It's been spending time on my porch.
Target Optical is open 9 - 6 tomorrow and Country Arbors Nursery is open 9 - 5. They are opposite directions from each other. If I could get to bed early, that would be good.
Lunchtime. Bella is watching Squirrel TV.
It’s chilly downstairs, but I don’t want to put on a hoodie only to take it off again when I go upstairs to work.
Bella stuck her nose in my carrot cake.
A guy wants to come by to buy the pet ramp that I bought for Bella, but she didn't need it. So I popped in my tooth and got some stuff out of the basement stairs. No response from him yet. He's coming by at 4 (done).
We're having a Munchie Bone emergency. I need to submit a Walmart order that includes them. And order a box of them from Amazon (done).
Urgh, my head is pounding.
There is a part Poodle and part Irish Setter dog that caught my eye. However, she's a senior dog, and I wonder if she could keep up with Bella, who is 1. She's a real cutie and is supposed to be sweet too.
It occurred to me the other day that I could get back into piano by playing what I want. I should look for some "easy piano" books (done).
Fed us all. Bella was annoyingly digging in the front yard. She likes to do that when the ground is wet.
Now I'm working on the will and trust documents. Okay, I sent drafts of the documents to the executor and trust people. I should head towards bed.
For some reason, the poem isn't showing up now, so here it is.
Adrift
Who knows when the rope began to fray?
With one strong tug, a strand just snapped,
Increasing the strain on its sibling strands,
Until they all failed, and he drifted off.
The shockwaves pulse from wire to wire,
Farther and farther from where he went adrift,
Until we all gather, arms entwined,
To make a whole of the fragments left.
The ocean wonders why we suffer so,
What's done is done, and done before;
We believe we failed to hold him here.
We were not strong enough, but if more--
And him--he was captain as well as ship,
How could he head where we are not?
(Forgetting how often we find ourselves
Landing far from our chosen port.)
And we disperse to our separate ports,
To anchor, hammer, tie our lives down.
We light candles for the long night's watch.
But instead of him, the sun appears,
And we blow our candles out.
Copyright 1998 Adrienne Radzvickas
All Rights Reserved
I overslept. So much for getting my recycling out. So much for my shower too. Put my clothes in the dryer. Fed us all.
I’m working on plans for my funeral for my will. I'm looking for a poem that I wrote many years ago, but no luck so far. Found it on the Wayback Machine for an old Web site! Yay! I think that I'll just say in the will to follow the funeral plans in the "End of Life Ceremonies" folder in the NokBox. Then I can keep modifying it without updating the will. (Actually, planning it is kind of fun. Is that weird?)
The Champaign County Master Gardeners are sponsoring a garden walk. It's the day after I get back from my business trip, but it's from 9 to 4, so I wouldn't have to get up really early? (Though I'll have to pick up Bella and Oliver first.) It sounds nice. I could use some ideas for my garden. It's only $10, so if I decide that day that I just can't, I wouldn't lose a lot of money.
Lily thinks that my leg is a scratching post. Ow.
Scrambled to get myself together for my therapy session because I forgot about it. She thinks that I need to get back to singing as a way to deal with frustration. (I booked some lessons. I also signed up for a Scales and Intervals singing class for the fall.) She thinks that I've had too many things go wrong for too long. I also was worrying about my job because it's detail-oriented and I'm really not, and she suggested looking at other jobs within the university. I don't have to take another job if I don't think that it's a good fit.
I forgot to mention that I got all my bills on automatic payment (except for the sewer, which is manual only) a few days ago. One less thing to worry about.
My new glasses are in, so I need to pick them up on the weekend.
I think that I want a nap after dinner.
Bella is picking up dog debris from the floor and flinging it into the air. I only live here.
Ordered dog food and dog treats from Costco. I noticed that they had a tennis ball launcher for dogs, but my inner voice asked me if I was too lazy to throw a ball for my dog. So no, I didn’t get it.
Took a nap and slept until 5 AM. I think that the pup thought that I was dead because she’s making a fuss over me :)
Overslept a little. A branch of my tree cracked and is in the neighbor’s yard. I need to call a tree guy. I’ll get him to take down the tree at the same time. Bella grabbed one of my strawberry plants and trashed it. Sigh. Bella tried to get my donut. She’s full of it today.
It’s supposed to storm today.
I need to figure out a way to get my tooth in for my meeting with the bank.
At least the tasks that we’re doing today at work are quick and easy. It’s raining out, and neither Bella nor I was thrilled, so I convinced her to come in early.
I read somewhere that dogs wag to the right for something they like and left if they’re nervous. Bella looks at me and wags to the right. I guess that’s good. Speaking of dogs, the one that I was interested in got adopted. The shelter asked me if there were other dogs that they had that interested me. I saw one that’s a “maybe”. He’s shy and Bella’s shy, so maybe they’d be in sync.
I gingerly got my tooth in. It just has to hold on through my meeting with the bank. Which reminds me that I need to list questions for them (done).
More weird stuff going on at work (technical stuff, not people stuff).
Talked to the vet. Zara's kidneys are stable, and they think that she'd do okay under anesthesia. We made a dental appointment for the week after I get back from my business trip. (I don't want her to be alone, even with a pet sitter, after recent surgery.) So that's settled.
I talked to a rep from Midlands State Bank about the will and trust. They can be the executor of the will and successor trustee and also can manage my money if I become incapacitated. They are a national bank and have a lot of trust and investment assets, but are small enough "to provide good customer service". I'm going to send them the drafts that I have of my will and trust documents for them to look at. Success, I think! I liked them and what they had to say.
I really want to take a nap. After I feed the critters. And myself.
The rain is coming down in sheets. Bella noped out. I stayed on the porch with her a while in case she needed to dash out and poop. It was kind of nice being on the porch in the rain. Bella went out a little later and walked around in the rain.
Took a nap. Slept until 12:30 AM. I’m gathering the recycling and my back hurts. Got the recycling in the bin. I need to get up really early to roll the bin and take the boxes to the street, but I’ll probably go back to sleep for a while afterwards. Fed us all. My tooth popped back out.