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Today! I! Have!

-Taken care of the piles of clothes &c around my room, hanging up/putting away whatever was still clean and putting everything else with dirty laundry
-Stripped the bed, put on a fresh sheet, and fresh pillowcases
-Got baskets of laundry ready to be thrown in the washer when it gets late enough to use it
-Broke firefox and lost all my open tabs
-Spent a long time trying to convince firefox to give me my tabs back
-Gave up and implemented an awful workaround
-Caught up on wordle, murdle, and iilau-iuleu
-Shaved
-Took a shower

In a bit here I'm going to get a garbage bag and go around the room with it but for now I'm just going to sit for a minute

I also should yard

Damn. Productive as hell day. Go you!

Naturally after all that, today is largely a rest day, but I did just get the dishwasher emptied and later I'll clean the counters. Right now I want to play some House of Many Doors, if I can remember what I was doing in it.

So the Roku Channel has a recording of Heathers: The Musical available to stream, which is very cool and Lee and I watched it last night!

It's good! Not great, not terrible, I don't think there's anything about it I hated. JD's actor looks like he's 40 and going to try to convince me to invest in his new app, Veronica's actor can't pull off the defensive sarcasm that's so important to the character, the gym teacher/JD's dad/Kurt's dad is a dead fucking ringer for one of my cousins, to the extent that I was a little bit convinced that I'd see his name in the credits. Like, looks exactly like him.

JD and Veronica don't have very much chemistry, which is a problem. And there have been some changes to the show in general, not just this production, that I'm not a fan of -- and I believe this show used some lines from the high school production script. But it's a good way to spend a couple hours, and I really hope they do this with some more shows. Very a fan of this being a thing

 
Today Lee and I went into the city for the Old Sacramento Underground Tour, which was very fun. We'd planned on taking the train but when we got to the station I got a notification that there were train delays. I didn't know if our train would be affected but we decided it would be safer to go back to the house and drive into town, and it's a good thing we did because we had a little bit of trouble finding the place. We were also two of the three or four only people on the tour wearing masks so that's, yeah. But it was interesting! The city was raised in the 1800s to try to protect it from flooding, particularly with the hydraulic mining that was happening in the foothills, and the tour takes you underneath a couple of the buildings that had been raised

We learned that they also do a ghost tour, and we're hoping to be able to do that next month

After the tour we headed back to one of the locations for a bit so Lee could take pictures, then went back again to the museum to poke around the gift shop, and then we walked over to the Costume Mansion but only spent a little time in it because it was Very crowded and we were getting tired. So we headed home from there. It's been raining off-and-on all day, which was (and is) nice but made things a little unpleasant when we were walking in it, since it was just enough to make things humid and kind of smell funny.

 
At some point I need to get the rug doctor out and do a quick pass on my mattress -- a cat peed on my bed yesterday -- and then when it's dry put bedding back onto it. Lee has been kind enough to throw my bedding in with his laundry, so that's getting done. Right now I'm going to do my wordles and then go out and see what's going on in the rest of the house.

Hit a definite limit today and spent part of the evening in the wheelchair just because of how physically tired my legs and joints are. Probably going to wait a night to actually put the sheet back on the bed and just sleep in blankets

Extremely tired today and very sore. It doesn't seem like we did enough yesterday to knock me out this hard, but I guess I've been a little more active than usual in general for the past week or so. I expect to be pretty useless for a while while I recover.

I did catch up on Perfect Longing tags! And I hope to be able to keep up on replies for a while, fingers crossed. Let's get these people to the party (or where-ever they end up instead).

I have fed and pilled the cat, so now I'm going to lay in bed and try not to make things worse, and might fall asleep for a while.

I think the weather has changed for real for a bit, too. My body and brain are feeling it like crazy today.

Not at 100% but feel much better this morning

Got a call from the PT man a few hours ago, he is still testing positive for COVID so his office is still closed, which means I'm just not getting my final appointment with him. A bummer! But we've already done the final assessment and I've been deemed functional and healthy and any further improvement I get will just be by continuing to do the exercises and stretches he's already given me, and also after last week I'm a bit stiff this week so we'd be having to take it easy anyway if I did have an appointment. So it's just not getting to say thank you and goodbye in person, which. A bummer.

I did write him what I hope is a thoughtful email apologising for being groggy on the phone and thanking him and wishing him well. Since he's not in his office and not working there's a chance he won't see it until next week, but I'm glad to have been able to say it.

He also broke his toe while he was travelling, so he's glad to not have to open the office yet. I do hope having to be closed for this long doesn't hurt his business too much, but I know his wife is a lawyer and has been supporting him while he gets started.

Anyway, my day has opened up and I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it. I'm a little glad to not have to do the travelling though I should still probably get outside a little. Go look at the garden and see how the rain has been treating it, maybe.

I'm also waiting on an email from the UUSS choir person letting me know how late that usually runs. If I'm feeling up to it, I'll head over to that and check it out but I also might give myself another week.

Right now I need to pill the cat, so I'm going to go do that.