you take the dark and carve me out a home

The servers I'm most active in are DEAD. And no one's really acknowledged me, other than reacting to the 2 posts I made Sunday night. Which is fine. Whatever. I feel like I've been shadowbanned or whatever we used to call in on Twit. It's just so WEIRD.

Anyway, took today off from work to take Mom to her MRI and echo and everything seems fine. Thank goodness. Took her to breakfast in between and stopped by our fave used bookstore where I picked up an Ann Rule book about the Green River Killer, Under the Dome by Stephen King, Bird Box (the book the Netflix movie is based on), and Dan Brown's Inferno (Mom's collecting his novels).

She was having trouble staying awake, partly because of lack of sleep,a full stomach from brunch, and the drug she takes to make it easier to do an MRI (the first time she got claustrophobic) but everything went okay.

Update: The important server is just people who are having a tough time and hermiting, which I understand. Had a touch base with them today and they're fine, we're fine, they just are trying to exist. I feel better now lol.

Struggling with updating the archive this week. I'm getting it done, but it's been a bit more difficult because when I was tracking the tour in Europe and the UK last Nov/Dec, I was doing the bare minimum. Now that I'm trying to post them a year later, I have to track everything down where I saved it and it's been a pain in the butt. Sigh. But I haven't lost much, some stories, but most of those were shares of the posts I have so it's all good. It's just I have to more at the moment. It'll get better. With Thanksgiving coming up, it's been busy. Like this weekend, we're putting up some decorations and also planning to check out this arts and crafts show. And next week is Thanksgiving. So it's just a busy time, especially since I don't have as much hours after work due to my chores and being tired and so on. Anyway, it'll get better.

Something I learned about this week is that one of my friends who I met in Portland, Zan, got herself a book agent and has her debut novel coming out next fall! I am so excited for her and her author's photo is gorgeous and I am just so proud of her. 

I still need to clean off my desk. And vacuum the floor in my room.

Current other life projects in flight:

• Catalog for family library (books, movies, music)
• Organizing photos on Google and downloading
• Fixing duplicate entries on Dreamwidth (from importing years ago)
• Always always working on the band archive

Trying to Read: John Scalzi - Redshirts (Over halfway finally!!!!)
Current Fanfic: Lessons in Humanity by exclamation (Sterek) (This is on pause right now lol sigh)
In the Background: Tokyo ASMR Massage: ASMR Barber Head Massage, Shampoo & Shaving
Last song listened to: Sleep Token - Ascensionism

The last few days have been busy. Not that I haven't had time to post, it's just that I didn't have much to say at the moment. Today, I just wanted to share that I have Sleep Token's "Provider" in my head, as in:

"And your fingers foxtrot on my skin
I'm going under this time
I can give you what you want"

Also, I may be back on Tumblr. So, hey, that's the longest I've ever been on a social media break and I'm limiting my time until 9/1 so it's still officially a break. I've just kind of broken some of my own rules and they are mine to break and there's no consequences or repercussions so it's fine.

Anyway, it's my second to last day of vacation and the parentals will be home tomorrow evening from their vacation. I'll give you a rundown of the last few days for posterity's sake and since the subject line of this post covers that lol.

( Speed run of the last few days )

Day Eleven started out okay and ended okay. My arm is bothering me, getting little tingles like there's a nerve pinched. Just goes hand in hand with my freaking carpal tunnel I've been trying to get a handle on. It's slow going though. So I have to force myself to sit straight as opposed to hunched over, which is vastly more comfortable. I mean, sitting upright isn't uncomfortable, it's just. . . my modus operandi is slouching lol. I need to get in to see a massage therapist and maybe a chiropractor if needed. I really wish Dr. Mondragon of YT fame lived closer, aka not in Florida. Regardless, when I next see my nurse practitioner, I'll have to have her make some recommendations.

I know I need to get moving more but it's just. . . hot and I have so little time anyways that it annoys me that I have to make any commitment to spending an hour or two doing exercise once or twice or three times a week. I wanted to do swimming but I can't freaking find the goggles or the nose plug I bought and I know I didn't throw them away or give them away. I wouldn't! But I stashed them someplace "safe" and now I can't, for the life of me, find them. Knowing me, they are in some place under something else and I just haven't gotten it yet.

( Apparently it's part ranting post tonight lol )