(non)covid weekendtimes

(Spoiler alert for this entry: I have tested negative for covid.)

So, the original plan for this week was that Austin was going to come over on Wednesday (the 30th) and he and I were gonna spend Weds and Thurs together, and then on Friday (his birthday!) we were going to be joined by his other partner and their other partner and the four of us would play board games and hang out and it would be nice. We're all in the same bubble anyway, so why not take advantage of it occasionally?

On Tuesday mid-afternoon, I realized I had a vaguely sore throat. Little bit of sniffles in the morning, too. I started obsessively taking my temperature, just in case.

( The rest of the from then until now )

I hope your New Year has started well, and regardless of the start, I hope it continues well. I love you.

~Sor
MOOP!

1: They did have appts available for Thursday, but only during teaching hours. If I had had any more symptoms than "back of the throat is mildly upset" I would have been more likely to ditch work for it.

2: Which I will not be revealing on here, in case I have to use it again in the future.

3: With the unspoken "and in that time, the people affected probably weren't quarantining or wevs".

4: Yinz know how I don't really "do" receiving penetrative intercourse? See also pap smears and how much they suuuuuuuuuuck.

5: Mostly he's been coming over about every other weekend, arriving Friday "after work" and leaving Sunday "around dinnertime". This does give us a nice two week gap between seeing each other for just-in-case-someone-in-one-of-the-households-does-symptoms, and of course we've jiggered those timings around to accommodate Other Weird.

General brain updates Jan 2021

Here are some things that are currently going well, ADHD wise.

*Free Space Dinosaur (my discord server!) is a good place full of good people. We've started to hit the occasional point where others will contribute Daily Challenges, which is _excellent_ and I'm very in favour of it. ADHD brain management is easier with friends!

*I made a calendar for myself that I am tentatively hopeful for. It uses a dry-erase kids "responsibility chart" as its base, with a week's worth of boxen by seven rows. I've basically blocked out the day into five time periods, and then I have two rows at the bottom for events upcoming in the next two weeks (so far I haven't found anything that needs to be calendared more than two weeks in advance because haha what is time).

(the five time periods, for those interested, are "early" "school" "until 6pm" "until 10pm" and "late". The scheduled tasks for S-Th in the late box are respectively "go" "the" "fuck" "to" "sleep".)

*I did a LOT of room decorating over the break and I am very very happy about it! I am actually mostly managing to put together a room that actually has a place for everything (genuinely a shocking idea) and trying to be thoughtful about creating those places as I accumulate and unpack stuff. It's not perfect (it never is) but trying to commit to things having homes is certainly a good start for being able to live in here a long while.

Also I want to be very clear _my walls have art again_. I am so happy with that part of everything! And proud that I managed it MUCH faster than at the previous household (where I think I finally hung art in like April or May, after moving in at the beginning of August.)

*Work almost went really well today. Because I didn't really sleep last night (stayed up until nearly five for No Good Reason, woke at eight) I flagged _hard_ at the end of my work day. It is very much turning out that days where I have three classes leave me pretty drained out at the end of it. Hopefully tomorrow I will have more time when the students are working independently, so I can be more broad in my own work.

I'm still pushing at the structures though. Have to have hope and all that.

*I didn't Power Hour today (in part because I took a three hour nap) but I did manage to go on a walk. This is something I started doing in December, and the aim is to take a ten minute walk outside during daytime hours every day. I'm pretty rubbish at doing it during the weekends, but having convinced myself that this is a Family Funtimes (not at all mandatory, but I invite Ezri and/or Rey every day) really helps me actually do it.

I am very slightly bummed that there have been no immediate overwhelming ~good effects~ from getting fresh air and (sometimes) sunlight because shouldn't this be making my brain 100% work better? But it is nice to do and I play pokemon sometimes and chat with people sometimes and it's all very peaceful and fun. I think fun is enough reason to do it.

*I've talked with my therapist and cut meetings back to every other week for the foreseeable future, as part of my "I don't think I am effectively utilizing therapy" thing. I've now blocked the off-week time to be an official "work on your brain by yourself" time, which is...okay, like I've only had one off-week since coming up with the idea, and I think doing a deep dive at myself was unsettling but probably in ultimately good ways. I have a Grandoise Scheme, which is probably not a good idea during covidtimes when I also have a lot of barely-recognized trauma, but I'll talk to Jenn about it tomorrow and maybe we can fine tune how I can best be working on my brain.

Hope you are well and finding things that work for you! I love you and think you're grand!

~Sor
MOOP!