sheistheweather

Good Sister texted* and then called to tell me that she has in her hot little email inbox a copy of the signed court order that will allow her to sell Mom's house. The lawyer finally came through. And the United Sister Front has, at least in theory, taken a giant step towards its inhertance.

It was supposed to take a week or two, she said. It ended up taking seven months. I told GS that she could be done with everything this calendar year, and she said she was hoping to be done with it in the next couple of months. It's the peak of house-hunting season in the US right now, and she's hoping to unload the place before the entire economy goes down the drain.

Good Sister said I should celebrate tonight. I don't need much encouragement.

*She texted a golf victory video. That must be her husband's influence.

Current Mood: relieved
Current Location: the living room of the Devil Girl House

sistawendy

On Sunday, I slept late enough that my whole day got shifted a few hours late. That meant that by the time I felt like my second tea of the day, it was too late. Bad: afternoon zombie. Good: slept the sleep of the just.

Yesterday, I tried an experiment: just a cup of tea late in the morning instead of my usual pot. I slept better last night, even with the same number of tea bags per day — two — as when I don't sleep well. Nearly seven continuous hours!

Moral: it isn't the caffeine, it's the volume? Clearly further research is needed. But... but... I like making a pot of tea. Maybe that'll be my early morning thing.

Current Mood: curious
Current Location: the living room of the Devil Girl House
Current Music: Madonna, "Get Into the Groove"

sistawendy

Friday lunch: my son took me out for a burger. We talked about current events because we always do that.

Friday dinner: Funny Lady took me out for a very belated birthday dinner at Shiro's. Excellent company, and some of the best sushi in town.

Saturday morning: the Lambert House trans group facilitators got together at Lost Lake. (We ended up sitting in the Comet and ordering from Lost Lake's kitchen, which was a bit weird, but I'll take it. Moral: if you want a table in Lost Lake proper on a Saturday, be there by 9:30.) We talked about trans stuff. And facilitating. And Lambert House. It's a weirdly comfortable feeling to hang out with a group of people who Get You in ways that hardly anyone else does.

Saturday evening: Pony with Tacoma Girl. I hadn't been since before the pandemic, and she'd never been. It's very gay, with big photos of naked men (and one trans woman) on the walls, sculptures of genitalia hanging from the ceiling, and a sticker game that in places rivals the Blue Moon. Tacoma Girl is convinced that some of the graffiti is by art students. The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and Seattle Ms. Leather, who organizes the women's munch I've been to, showed up and sold us candy. The crowd is way more varied and thereby interesting than the one at, say, Union; I think it's fair to say that Pony is a queer dive bar. Tacoma Girl loved it, natch, and so do I.

The two of us failed to scare up eats that didn't involve a long wait, so I got home at a reasonable hour via busy mass transit.

Current Mood: relaxed
Current Location: the living room of the Devil Girl House

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mdlbear

For once, I seem to be mostly okay today, and on the whole I think it was a pretty good week, modulo worry about what's going on in the US. I noticed after the household seder last night that I wasn't shivering, which supports the theory that it's psychological rather than thermal. (Does not rule out something else, like iron deficiency.)

I got quite a lot done, including backing/ordering a Roamate Mobility Device (a combination rollator and powered! wheelchair), going to an initial appointment at the local hospital (mostly for bloodwork; I have another this week to discuss it, and another next month with the oncology team), helping N and N" clean up the living room (prep for Saturday's seder), filing my income tax extension, and singing at Eurofilk on Thursday (only one song, because I still suck at deciding what to sing),

And I completely forgot to include the fact that we have tulips blooming in the planters on our back deck in this week's Thankful Thursday post. I still sometimes have trouble wrapping my head around the fact that I live in Nederland now, but I have to admit that tulips next to a canal are very convincing.

In case it gets omitted from wherever you get your news, yesterday Protesters gather[ed] for 'day of action' against Trump administration, Anti-Trump protests build momentum in WA: ‘We’re just getting louder’ | The Seattle Times. There have been a couple of promising court victories, but we all know how much respect the current administration has for the courts. On this side of the pond, Thousands of trans rights protesters on Edinburgh streets following court ruling.

A few nice things in the links: there's a Capybara Cafe in Florida, and last month was the first on record when fossil fuels drop below 50% of US power mix,

( Notes & links, as usual )

Current Mood: worried but otherwise mostly okay
Current Location: Schildhaven in Den Haag
Current Music: household seder last night

mdlbear

Today I am grateful for...

Mastodon, The Social Network That Can't Sell Out. And the rest of the Fediverse as well, though I haven't tried any of the other things yet.
A large box-free space in the living room. Many of the banker's boxes have been pushed to the periphery, mostly between the couch and the back window; the rest, and the larger boxes, have gone into the storage room. Thanks, too, to N and N" who did most of the box-moving on Monday, and to my and N's ongoing efforts to triage the books.
Monday's appointment and bloodwork, and the upcoming appointments with my urological oncology team. NO thanks for emails getting dropped between DreamHost and $G (which I've been using as an aggregator).
Cuddly cats, including an increasingly cuddly Bronx. Or maybe I've just gotten enough better at understanding Cat.
Air filters with UV sanitizing, which let us have the occasional visitor without everyone having to don masks.

Current Mood: grateful
Current Location: Schildhaven in Den Haag

sistawendy

Good Sister, or rather her lawyer, finally has the court order that allows GS to sell Mom's house. I checked this here journal and it's been on the market for eight months. Might this be the year that Good Sister is Done With All This? I hope so. She has so very got it coming.

I wonder if homes in the inland parts of Florida, including the one I grew up in, are as uninsurable as on the coasts are these days. That may put a damper on my plans to swan around like an heiress.

I also wonder if the house's new owner will want to pry up all those bricks that my father laid in the sidewalk with so much swearing and bleeding ~~forty~~ fifty years ago. If they do, I hope it hurts them.

Speaking of swanning around, it's warm and sunny, a whopping 63°F (17C), so it's time to take The Coat to the cleaners.

Current Mood: hopeful
Current Location: the living room of the Devil Girl House
Current Music: The Bobs, "Spontaneous Human Combustion"

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mdlbear

I'm always hesitant to put down just "okay" as my mood -- I'm not sure I know what it's supposed to feel like. But it's not a bad morning. The rest of the week hasn't been so good. According to my doctor, who I had an appointment with on Monday to discuss the results of last week's bloodwork, I'm very anemic. Also I have a referral for cardiology now, to go with the previous oncology referral. Both of those appointments are tomorrow, so we'll see how that goes.

There are yellow tulips blooming in two of the planters on our back patio. Sometimes I have trouble wrapping my head around the fact that we're really Dutch residents now, but the tulips are very convincing.

In the links, Is It Time To Leave The US? is alarming. Good luck. To leave on a much lighter note, watch Three Kobolds in a Trenchcoat (Animated Music Video) - YouTube. And if you're my kind of geek, read 20 years of Git. Still weird, still wonderful by Scott Chacon, one of the authors of Pro Git and one of the founders of GitHub.

( Notes & links, as usual )

Current Mood: slightly less than okay?
Current Location: Schildhaven in Den Haag
Current Music: Three Kobolds in a Trenchcoat

ericcoleman

( It was quite a weekend. )

ericcoleman

And I kinda stuck to it as well.

( my FHoF speech )

sistawendy

My son is in LA as of yesterday. I slept fine. Huh. We'll see about tonight.

Latex dinner last night. Got to talk to Rubbermaid last night for the first time in a couple of months. She'll be spending the summer in Berlin. I'm a little bit jealous, but as I told her, I'm disappointed that I won't be able to throw myself at her. I mean I could and I just might, but sheesh.

It's enough to make me want to hit the apps again. The apps don't make it easy to tell them, look, I'm a lesbian in my ~~middle~~ late fifties with certain... tastes, looking for roughly the same not too far away. Surely it isn't that hard.

I ordered the next three books of The Expanse from Powell's. May Goddess have mercy on my soul.

Current Mood: indescribable
Current Location: the living room of the Devil Girl House

jenk

1) The home we've made.
2) BBC's The Repair Shop, full of cozy problem solving.
3) Longer days (yay axial tilt)
4) Library ebooks. Currently reading Ann Cleeves' Hidden Depths with Vera Stanhope
5) New afghan has been finished long enough it's moved to "nice warm blanket" and not just "new crochet project."

sistawendy

I was too wiped out for housework last night, and I ended up turning out my light around 2130. True to recent trend, I woke up at 0230. The good news is that I fell back asleep around 0330 and managed to get enough sleep last night.

But that's not really what I'm writing about. What I'm writing about is that sometime around 0245, I heard what sounded like a door slamming, more than once, in the apartment right below my bedroom where the Wendling lives. You see, he's got the 'tism: flinging your body around heedlessly in whole or in part is a hallmark of that. Has my son been keeping me awake?

Luckily, we're about to find out. Ex's cousin is gathering the extended family down in L.A. for Passover, just like her mother did in the aughts. If I start sleeping better starting tonight, that might just confirm my hypothesis.

Current Mood: curious
Current Location: the living room of the Devil Girl House
Current Music: Cake, "Short Skirt/Long Jacket"

mdlbear

Today I am grateful for...

The Return of the Dire Wolf. Well, sort of. ysabetwordsmith has more to say about that. But they're floofy!
Referrals (oncology and cardiology -- appointments next Monday.)
A housemate (G) who loves to cook. Having three different sites we can order groceries from.
Git. Read 20 years of Git. Still weird, still wonderful. by Scott Chacon, one of the authors of Pro Git, and one of the founders of GitHub.
Learning about galinstan, an alloy of gallium, indium, and tin, with a melting point of −19°C(−2°F). It's much less toxic than mercury, which it has replaced in bulb thermometers and sphygmomanometers.
Dried apricots and dark chocolate.
Cat cuddles in the morning.

Current Mood: grateful
Current Location: Schildhaven in Den Haag
Current Music: Grateful Dead - Dire Wolf

sistawendy

Do any of you remember Much Younger Woman? She's... a highly distinctive individual, boy howdy, and she also lives not too far away from the Blue Moon Tavern. The Blue Moon has its fabulous (and cheap) house music night, DJs in a Dive Bar. I finally succeeded in getting MYW to join me for that.

Much chat. Very groove. Wow. Choonz were drum & bass followed by old-school house. It was a hit with Much Younger Woman.

MYW has been keeping on, and thanked me for basically nagging her into being social; it wasn't the first time I'd tried to get us together there. She's dealing with some health issues in the larger sense, and taking an impressive number of medications. I told her way too much about my circumflatulation plans; I feel comfortable doing that with a member of the greater MOO kroo.

We enjoyed the (ahem) view of sweet young things on the dance floor, a couple of whom made a notable effort to look nice on a Tuesday night, but we were too busy catching up to do any dancing ourselves. It was a good time, and I hope to do it again before too long. Dare I hope that it can be a monthly or bimonthly thing?

Current Mood: satisfied
Current Location: the living room of the Devil Girl House

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