Good Mornthing!

[blissmorgan]

It is a not-so-terrible state of affairs when I find myself having to choose between reading a snail-mail letter from afar while drinking my coffee, or catching up on the comments on my posts. Given the portability of the letter, I opted for the latter.

I'll do the former while on break at work, which is a long day today, and will be capped by taking a drive with SALM to play Ingress (remember Ingress? We only recently got into it.) and to hit the hot tub at the Y for a soak. Except I just remembered that it is Thursday - I think they close it for cleaning on Thursday.

Dangit, I was looking forward to that soak. Perhaps I shall go tomorrow!

Things in the offing:

• Must update kitchen whiteboard calendar
• Must add items to my BuJo Calendar (Spawn-to-Dad trips, D&D nights)
• Must find a mechanic because I have given up on Bosslady giving me the number for hers
• .....and then schedule my car for repairs
• Must call the healthcare department and order a replacement card
• ....and try to find a dentist
• ....and schedule an appointment to get my mouth dealt with before this cavity becomes an infection 

All for later. Now? To work!

::blows kisses and runs::

Comments

[johncomic]

Wishing successful health in manageable fashion to you and your car!

[blissmorgan]

Gracias!

[wa_bob]

Oh wow! Too bad you can't use a mechanic on teeth, or a dentist on a car.

Hopefully something relaxing is in the offing by tonight so you can refresh for those chores. Regardless, be well!

[blissmorgan]

The majority of these chores are not at all tonight's Doings. They are doings that need doing, though, and posting them publicly will hopefully help me get a sense of accountability, because I sure as shooting haven't bothered doing it for my own sake. :-/

[salobu]

Sounds like a most excellent way to both start and end the day, I'd say. I feel like Ingress would be too complicated for me, but I might just suck it up and try it anyway because it seems like something I'd really like. I've been debating about it for a while, mostly because I've been pretty stationary the last few months, but worst case scenario, I don't like it (or am terrible at it) and move on to something else.

I hope the hot tub is open, our Y doesn't have one, which makes me sad, but I'm okay with just swimming for stress relief.

In fun news, I 3D printed an airplane today!

[blissmorgan]

I find Ingress a lot of fun, but it is more comprehensible to me now than it was when I tried it a few years ago thanks to having played a bunch of Pokemon Go, which is built on the bones of the Ingress game structure.

The hot tub is definitely closed, but we are going to make the drive anyway just for the fun of the game and spending a little time alone together. Getting that on the daily, even if it's just a little time and even if we don't get around to Grownup Discussion, has become a really important part of maintaining our healthy connection.

An airplane? How cool! How big is it? Does it have parts that move, or is it stationary and suitable for painting as a model, or or or??

[salobu]

Grown up time is definitely important, even if the conversation isn't serious. I love my kids, but talking to them almost exclusively for too long was making me a little batty in the early stages of broken leg.

Planes! Yesterday was a cute little Cessna 337, I got the file off the internet and it's not particularly detailed, but it's definitely an airplane. No moving parts, just the basic plane shape. I'm working on tweaking the print settings because we're probably going to end up printing a bunch of them for one of our partners, and those will be fancier with decals and maybe some paint if we can find somebody arty that wants the job. I printed some more today, and our pilot friend was quite fascinated. I posted a picture on Instagram (I'm salulabu, my account is public), but I don't know how to do images here yet. At the rate I'm going, I'll probably be able to take over the world with the fleet of baby airplanes on my desk :)

[blissmorgan]

Posting images here generally requires them to be hosted elsenet; I've heard that you can somehow store images up to a certain relatively limited data size amount here for posting, but I haven't gone figuring that out yet. Instead, I stick 'em on Tumblr and hotlink with the img src="urlofpicture" html tag.

[slipjig3]

Hoping your diem has been thoroughly carpe'd!

[blissmorgan]

I didn't carpe the diem at all in terms of getting through my list up there... but I did offer Eldest a buck to update the whiteboard calendar. He got as far as erasing it all and writing numbers in for the first week before he TL;DR'd out, but that at least meant I had it clean and ready for me to write in the rest of the numbers and some info about who is away when on coming weekends.

Bolstered by this, I have also sat down and written the away info and my D&D schedule for the next month into my BuJo, and finished updating the year calendar in the BuJo with school half days, holidays, and vacations. I need to remember to talk about school vacation stuff with the Spawnfather tonight.

[shredded_paper]

Teeth can be the worst, I hope you can get it sorted quickly! We generally have a two- or three-week wait on dental appointments, will you have much of a wait once you get a card?

[blissmorgan]

Honestly, I have no clue. The last time I saw a dentist on the regular was when I was still living out in NYS, and I left there at the end of 2010. I have seen a dentist precisely once since I came back from MA, so not only do I have to get my card but I have to find a dentist who will accept it, and then go through the rigamarole of new patient setup and scheduling.

There is a chorus of atonal screaming in the back of my head right now just thinking about it which is why, I suppose, I have put it off for so long. I'm really good at executive function on other people's behalf. I need to figure out how to put myself into Mom Friend Mode for me.

[joseph_teller]

Argh. Dentists.... I have had a large number of problems with them over the years. And still need to get some work done (I'm in the balancing act of I need three things, all major surgeries likely, and all likely to max out my insurance spending for the year... hip replacement, and I still have cataract surgery to deal with in the future).

Best wishes on finding a good dentist, if you do hold on to them, as they are few and far between when compared to bad ones.