The Whole Wide World

Let me tell you what the good word is. After numerous failed attempts to get a birthday call in to Mumsie, I realized the phone jack was slightly askew from the port. After clicking it back into place, I successfully dialed me Mumsie and had a good ol’Birthday chat with her. I sure do miss her heaps and heaps!

And the not so good word. My back is brokened, again. I thought it was all better after a dose of steroids and anti-inflammatories from the doc. I was wrong. After bev pull on Tuesday it let me know it is once again, angry. It’s radiating around my hip again. Grrrr. I’ve just been to see the doc again and am on another round of steroids, bring on the hunger and anger. Watch out.

As for the rest of the week…Monday’s yoga was cancelled so I missed that. On Tuesday eve, I joined my friends over in the uppercase dorms for the tail end of Taylor Swift Tuesdays and Jeopardy! followed by the NY Times crossword puzzle afterwards. It was nice to do that as I’ve not been going to Jeopardy! as regularly as I used to. There was trivia on Wednesday, but as the time to go drew closer and closer I decided to give it a miss and have a quiet night in. That theme bled over into my day off yesterday, a quiet day of as least people’y as possible. I needed some me time and I took it…and it was so good. I wrote a lot, watched some Ted Lasso, had that Birthday chat with Mumsie, scrolled on the socials, and just lounged. So good.

I am on track for a productive day today. There are lots of loose ends to tie up in the store before the influx in population hits in mid-August. Speaking of which, we all received a notice from the winter site manager that our single room situation could change with the increase in population coming. There is an uppercase dorm building that will be opening up in August and we were told that the first 63 people to request moving to that building would get to keep a private room. Needless to say I jumped all over that. I’ll have my own room and share a bathroom with a suitemate. My friend Eleni came to my room for lunch yesterday and we decided to be suitemates, which made me super happy. Big move across town come August! It’ll be a good first step to packing and seeing how much junk I’ve acquired over the last year. I’ll be purging during the move so that packing in October comes much easier. That said, I’ve been mindful about acquiring items from skua so that I don’t have heaps of purging to do, so it shouldn’t be too bad at all.

Back to work for now though!