so tired of everything
Apr. 18th, 2020 03:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skye_writerI mean, on paper I've had a pretty good week? I've made a lot of progress on the big blanket for my niece. I've exercised for 15 minutes every day, which certainly isn't nothing. I watched a movie for the first time in like a month.
(Movie in question: Spider-man: Into the Spider-verse. Which is STILL so good and honestly Disney WISHES they could make an animated movie half as inventive--and I say that as a dyed-in-the-wool Disney fan! Spider-verse is a visually arresting combination of the best parts of CGI and hand-drawn animation and I cannot wait until the sequel comes out.)
I am just. Very tired. All of a sudden. (Well. Not that sudden. It's that Time of Month again, so of course I'm tired.)
I have officially Started Gardening for 2020. My dad went to Lowe's this morning and got everything for my patio planters. We've got two varieties of tomatoes (Big Boy and Early Girl) and then I've started zucchini from seed in the hope of stopping the squash bug scourge this year. I have also planted radishes with the zucchini because apparently they can help prevent squash bugs. Other factors: I'm hoping that not having a vine squash like pumpkins growing near the zucchini will help. My dad made stilts for my planters last year, so there's no danger of the zucchini leaves touching the ground. I am going to be vigilant as FUCK about this, because dammit I want zucchini all summer long.
My dad also got watermelon and pumpkin seeds to plant down by the creek at the back of our property, and I guess I'll be in charge of those as well, I don't know. They're going to be open to squash bugs, though, so... maybe we'll plant the rest of the radish seeds down there as well? I don't know. I did go for a walk this afternoon and the ground back there is basically not grassy at all--there's just some clover over dirt, so it shouldn't be hard to get seeds started there.
I'm continuing with the Sanvello app on my phone. I've done a few meditations and they've seemed to help, which is better than nothing. The little health tracker has also been pretty handy for making sure I do various things every day, like (oh hey) exercising. Also drinking more water and taking my meds (not that I was having trouble with meds before, but). So that's been nice, I guess. I'm sure my therapist will be proud that I took initiative and starting working to get better for once.
My younger niece's fourth birthday was yesterday! She isn't having a party this year because of COVID-19, but her dad came over to my sister's and they had a little family party on Thursday (since my sister works weekends at the hospital). She got some LEGOs from him, too, a big Frozen set that has seven hundred pieces. My sister brought it over here, so I guess I'm gonna help Younger Niece build it when they come over here later this afternoon. (Tbh, I'm surprised the age label on this set is just 6+; usually LEGO marks their bigger sets for an older age group. And don't worry about my niece--she's never shown any inclination towards sticking things in her mouth and she loves playing with LEGOs, not trying to eat them. ;) ) I also have my gift to give her--I bought a kids' Spirograph set off Amazon a couple weeks back. I also made a card for her using my watercolors, so hopefully she'll like that as well.
I think that's about it for right now. I am gonna make a separate post about 7 Days, 7 Stories (![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
getyourwordsout's challenge happening next week) here soon, but that's all the personal life stuff I can think of at the moment.
(Movie in question: Spider-man: Into the Spider-verse. Which is STILL so good and honestly Disney WISHES they could make an animated movie half as inventive--and I say that as a dyed-in-the-wool Disney fan! Spider-verse is a visually arresting combination of the best parts of CGI and hand-drawn animation and I cannot wait until the sequel comes out.)
I am just. Very tired. All of a sudden. (Well. Not that sudden. It's that Time of Month again, so of course I'm tired.)
I have officially Started Gardening for 2020. My dad went to Lowe's this morning and got everything for my patio planters. We've got two varieties of tomatoes (Big Boy and Early Girl) and then I've started zucchini from seed in the hope of stopping the squash bug scourge this year. I have also planted radishes with the zucchini because apparently they can help prevent squash bugs. Other factors: I'm hoping that not having a vine squash like pumpkins growing near the zucchini will help. My dad made stilts for my planters last year, so there's no danger of the zucchini leaves touching the ground. I am going to be vigilant as FUCK about this, because dammit I want zucchini all summer long.
My dad also got watermelon and pumpkin seeds to plant down by the creek at the back of our property, and I guess I'll be in charge of those as well, I don't know. They're going to be open to squash bugs, though, so... maybe we'll plant the rest of the radish seeds down there as well? I don't know. I did go for a walk this afternoon and the ground back there is basically not grassy at all--there's just some clover over dirt, so it shouldn't be hard to get seeds started there.
I'm continuing with the Sanvello app on my phone. I've done a few meditations and they've seemed to help, which is better than nothing. The little health tracker has also been pretty handy for making sure I do various things every day, like (oh hey) exercising. Also drinking more water and taking my meds (not that I was having trouble with meds before, but). So that's been nice, I guess. I'm sure my therapist will be proud that I took initiative and starting working to get better for once.
My younger niece's fourth birthday was yesterday! She isn't having a party this year because of COVID-19, but her dad came over to my sister's and they had a little family party on Thursday (since my sister works weekends at the hospital). She got some LEGOs from him, too, a big Frozen set that has seven hundred pieces. My sister brought it over here, so I guess I'm gonna help Younger Niece build it when they come over here later this afternoon. (Tbh, I'm surprised the age label on this set is just 6+; usually LEGO marks their bigger sets for an older age group. And don't worry about my niece--she's never shown any inclination towards sticking things in her mouth and she loves playing with LEGOs, not trying to eat them. ;) ) I also have my gift to give her--I bought a kids' Spirograph set off Amazon a couple weeks back. I also made a card for her using my watercolors, so hopefully she'll like that as well.
I think that's about it for right now. I am gonna make a separate post about 7 Days, 7 Stories (
getyourwordsout's challenge happening next week) here soon, but that's all the personal life stuff I can think of at the moment.
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