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Three things for Thursday
I like that alliteration.
1. Mice. Call me the Grim Reaper. I've going to have to euthanize 12 -at least, possibly as many as 15- cages of mice (three singletons, 12 pairs). All of them -except one cage- are past their breeding age, and we need pups. 😠And let me tell you. In the era of JD Vance making it clear that post-menopausal women have no societal use beyond taking care of grandkids, euthanizing a bunch of too-old-to-breed mice is kinda adding to the horror of this. I need to find a new job. One without mice or anything else than bacteria, plants, or nematodes. I need to keep this one for a while longer so. The upside is that I have a small bit of research project to do. But mice.
2. The glory and the no-so-glory, LOL. Start with the latter. I bought a pair of leggings from amazon. Size XL, which should have been on the edge of big according to numbers. Too small. I returned and ordered... a pair of XXL, which just fit, they'll work, though after wearing them for an hour, they're weird and I wish I hadn't taken off the tags. I've been consistently wearing Ls in bottoms for a while now, so the XXL both vexed me and made me laugh at myself. In other weight loss news... My weight in kg finally starts with a 6. This is a major major fucking milestone for me, and a number I never ever EVER thought I'd see again. These medications are fucking miraculous.
3. Christmas is turning into a CF. My aunt -who will be availing herself of MAID in March, so this is her last Christmas- was going to come but then decided no, she'd come down to Bend so she can see my mom over November 11th. My brother, who wants to see my aunt and my mom, decided that he didn't want to fly over the holidays either and is planning on coming down early December. Christmas falls on a Wed which means to go to Bend, I'd need to take at least 2 days, and with only having 10 days a year of vacay, using two on a pre-planned trip last April etc, I'm pretty tight on vacation if I want to be able to take off more than a few days next summer. All this is complicated by the fact that my sister has said that if we don't come down for Christmas, she's leaving my mom and taking off for a beach somewhere with her spouse. I just don't know what to do. I drew my line which is my mom spending Christmas alone, so I might just have to have her up here while my sister travels, which is of course complicated by getting her here etc. Ideally everyone would such it up and actually spend the holidays here with me. We could do a Christmas Eve dinner, have brunch and drive up to Canada to spend a few hours with my aunt. But nobody is budging. I don't know what to do. My siblings are usually more flexible than this. Also, corollary about the vacation to the beach blackmail thing. I spent the last year I had free taking care of my mom. I took no vacations for a year (my sister took three or four that year). I had wanted my mom to go to memory care right away because this was clearly not a good solution, but sister insisted that she could come live with her as soon as the remodel was done. Fast forward the remodel is done, my mom is in memory care, which was now and would have been then, the right decision for her, she's doing great. Sister is still taking vacations to far off places and I'm stuck, again having spent the year I had planned on spending doing a lot of travel unable to go anywhere. So grr. Usually I'm on the same page as my siblings but two are retired and two have a lot more vacay than I do.
1. Mice. Call me the Grim Reaper. I've going to have to euthanize 12 -at least, possibly as many as 15- cages of mice (three singletons, 12 pairs). All of them -except one cage- are past their breeding age, and we need pups. 😠And let me tell you. In the era of JD Vance making it clear that post-menopausal women have no societal use beyond taking care of grandkids, euthanizing a bunch of too-old-to-breed mice is kinda adding to the horror of this. I need to find a new job. One without mice or anything else than bacteria, plants, or nematodes. I need to keep this one for a while longer so. The upside is that I have a small bit of research project to do. But mice.
2. The glory and the no-so-glory, LOL. Start with the latter. I bought a pair of leggings from amazon. Size XL, which should have been on the edge of big according to numbers. Too small. I returned and ordered... a pair of XXL, which just fit, they'll work, though after wearing them for an hour, they're weird and I wish I hadn't taken off the tags. I've been consistently wearing Ls in bottoms for a while now, so the XXL both vexed me and made me laugh at myself. In other weight loss news... My weight in kg finally starts with a 6. This is a major major fucking milestone for me, and a number I never ever EVER thought I'd see again. These medications are fucking miraculous.
3. Christmas is turning into a CF. My aunt -who will be availing herself of MAID in March, so this is her last Christmas- was going to come but then decided no, she'd come down to Bend so she can see my mom over November 11th. My brother, who wants to see my aunt and my mom, decided that he didn't want to fly over the holidays either and is planning on coming down early December. Christmas falls on a Wed which means to go to Bend, I'd need to take at least 2 days, and with only having 10 days a year of vacay, using two on a pre-planned trip last April etc, I'm pretty tight on vacation if I want to be able to take off more than a few days next summer. All this is complicated by the fact that my sister has said that if we don't come down for Christmas, she's leaving my mom and taking off for a beach somewhere with her spouse. I just don't know what to do. I drew my line which is my mom spending Christmas alone, so I might just have to have her up here while my sister travels, which is of course complicated by getting her here etc. Ideally everyone would such it up and actually spend the holidays here with me. We could do a Christmas Eve dinner, have brunch and drive up to Canada to spend a few hours with my aunt. But nobody is budging. I don't know what to do. My siblings are usually more flexible than this. Also, corollary about the vacation to the beach blackmail thing. I spent the last year I had free taking care of my mom. I took no vacations for a year (my sister took three or four that year). I had wanted my mom to go to memory care right away because this was clearly not a good solution, but sister insisted that she could come live with her as soon as the remodel was done. Fast forward the remodel is done, my mom is in memory care, which was now and would have been then, the right decision for her, she's doing great. Sister is still taking vacations to far off places and I'm stuck, again having spent the year I had planned on spending doing a lot of travel unable to go anywhere. So grr. Usually I'm on the same page as my siblings but two are retired and two have a lot more vacay than I do.