Thoughts on the Journey

I spent a lot of March and April not getting as much stuff done as I'd planned on. Now in May, I feel like finally I'm actually getting things done. Part of that is I have a deadline as I'm going to have a long family visit around the time of my birthday. That means waking my car up after it wasn't in use, sorting out various home things and the big one that I did earlier was getting my haircut. I know that I did get stuff done before since taxes were sorted and I put up a new chapter of my rebelcaptain kid fic, but it didn't feel like as much. Some of that's the weather changing but I think a lot of it is in my head too. A huge relief is that I finally have a permanent crown on a tooth that first had a root canal back in 2019 and has been in a weird limbo of needing overly complicated stuff is set.

Library jobs are seeming to slowly appear and I feel like there's more out there but I'm kind of taking my time. Contact tracing taught me a lot about what I can do as well as thinking more about all the complicated factors around work. That's something I'm still thinking about and might write more on.

I had my second shot on May 6th and didn't have much reaction, a headache, some fatigue but it also coincided with my shark week starting. So far it seems like it hasn't made anything worse just the normal amount of annoying.

Today I've enjoyed reading a really good book, A Tip for the Hangman about Kit Marlowe, which actually has inspired a new scene for my rebelcaptain kid fic. I highly recommend the book if you want spies, romance, and all the complications told in a really well done historical fiction read. I haven't been watching that much new stuff lately though I have a list of things I want to like Shadow and Bone, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, but my energy for new media is something that's slowly coming back. I'm wary about The Bad Batch since I didn't find them that interesting in the last season of Clone Wars, they seem like they belong in a different story, but I know I'll watch it at some point. Instead I’ve been watching a lot of youtube; costubers and two video game channels that a friend introduced me to that work for me, good for dipping in and out of. Outsidexbox and Outside xtra. They also do D&D and streaming playing games together, that especially suits me since I miss that hanging out energy. Also it oddly reminds me of when I was in high school, and being friends with mainly guys more into video games. So I'd watch them and every once in a while, take a turn in Smash brothers or Goldeneye.

Tomorrow I get to see my lovely relatives who I haven't seen since last Fall, and I'm doing happy birthday planning too. Another benefit of seeing family is that in June, one of my nieces is graduating high school and I can actually be there for the party, as well as see my brother around his birthday at the end of May. I'm also really looking forward to having time to read, cook, walk and be with family, there's something about being there that takes a weight off of me.

I've made my way to my family holiday bubble after a full day of driving and everyone testing negative. Now I'm in the last stretch of writing my Yuletide so I can post it tonight. Then I'll get into helping to carry the Christmas tree down, decorations and cooking. I really needed to be down here, to take a break and be with family. Also the drive turned out beautiful with a wonderfully colored sky and ribbons of birds doing their twisting and turning ribbons. The traffic was lighter than usual too and I had my music.

I'll be slightly about as I'm enjoying taking the time to read The Return of the Thief, which is really good and relax. Another nice that happened before I came down was getting paid for working election day. I feel like there's hope as the year ends, along with stress. Today we went shopping as I couldn't see the one way aisle places and people weren't paying attention to where they were. Everyone was masked but it ended up highly stressful.