Days Not Long Enough
This must be a sign that I'm doing better: I just don't seem to have quite enough time to do everything I'd like to be doing. This has felt a bit stronger this week. I know I am still sleeping a bit longer than normal, but I feel that is simply what by body needs. However, I am sure that medications have something to do with it as well.
I've been getting fewer movies from the library than in the past and barely manage to watch them during the week. Of course I am reading quite a bit more and I'm somewhat inclined to want to do even more. I wonder if I might even enjoy reading 'regular' print books. [I switched to reading large print novels some time ago. I do read other things - newspaper, magazines, non-fiction - now and then, but generally no more than 10 minutes or so at a stretch.] We'll have to see.
I did get out in the back this week and even spent a couple hours working back there. I cleaned off the patio, pulled up some dead plants, and the like. It looks a bit less dead back there now. The front is doing fairly well - most plants are still growing though the impatients and begonia are gone. I did cut down some of the petunias from over the asphalt to use as a mulch where a neighbor murdered and threw away my tomato plants a month ago. One thing I had wanted was to leave the leaves as a natural mulch with the intention that they would break down and further add to the clay soil. But of course she knew better what I should do with my plants than I did. (I guess I'm still somewhat angry about that mess!)
Not much else is going on. Of course I've taken it easy since my relatives visited over the Thanksgiving break. Both Robin and I missed them once they left even though the apartment was a bit crowded with three adults and an overgrown dog. It's hard to say how much the visit meant to me, not only because it's been a long time since I've seen any of my relatives (five years though I though it was longer), but simply because I enjoyed their company so much.
It's hard not to think about how much I'm sure we'd enjoy being closer (they live outside Chicago), but to go there would be question on the basic decisions of my life - to live and continue living in Oregon. That I do not regret (though the weather of the last two weeks has forced me to question it a bit). I just like to think that we had so much fun that we would spend a lot more time together if we could.
Highlights of their visit included spending Thanksgiving Day with my adopted family here in Oregon (lots of fun and way too much food - much more than two normal Thanksgivings!) with a trip through the rainy Willamette Valley, a visit to Uwajimaya, dinner at Syun Izakaya here in Hillsboro (very, very good though the tako sashimi was a bit off), and a trip to Powell's City of Books; a trip on the Columbia Gorge Scenic Highway (many waterfalls, including famed Multnomah Falls, but too many people, yes, even for a cold, rainy, winter's day) with a quick sidestep to Vancouver USA; and finally a hearty Hillsboro breakfast (I had leftovers for two days!) at Hale's before heading off the airport. And did I mention hours spent talking, laughing, looking at old photos, eating, and just enjoying each other's company? I was really good fun.
I've been getting fewer movies from the library than in the past and barely manage to watch them during the week. Of course I am reading quite a bit more and I'm somewhat inclined to want to do even more. I wonder if I might even enjoy reading 'regular' print books. [I switched to reading large print novels some time ago. I do read other things - newspaper, magazines, non-fiction - now and then, but generally no more than 10 minutes or so at a stretch.] We'll have to see.
I did get out in the back this week and even spent a couple hours working back there. I cleaned off the patio, pulled up some dead plants, and the like. It looks a bit less dead back there now. The front is doing fairly well - most plants are still growing though the impatients and begonia are gone. I did cut down some of the petunias from over the asphalt to use as a mulch where a neighbor murdered and threw away my tomato plants a month ago. One thing I had wanted was to leave the leaves as a natural mulch with the intention that they would break down and further add to the clay soil. But of course she knew better what I should do with my plants than I did. (I guess I'm still somewhat angry about that mess!)
Not much else is going on. Of course I've taken it easy since my relatives visited over the Thanksgiving break. Both Robin and I missed them once they left even though the apartment was a bit crowded with three adults and an overgrown dog. It's hard to say how much the visit meant to me, not only because it's been a long time since I've seen any of my relatives (five years though I though it was longer), but simply because I enjoyed their company so much.
It's hard not to think about how much I'm sure we'd enjoy being closer (they live outside Chicago), but to go there would be question on the basic decisions of my life - to live and continue living in Oregon. That I do not regret (though the weather of the last two weeks has forced me to question it a bit). I just like to think that we had so much fun that we would spend a lot more time together if we could.
Highlights of their visit included spending Thanksgiving Day with my adopted family here in Oregon (lots of fun and way too much food - much more than two normal Thanksgivings!) with a trip through the rainy Willamette Valley, a visit to Uwajimaya, dinner at Syun Izakaya here in Hillsboro (very, very good though the tako sashimi was a bit off), and a trip to Powell's City of Books; a trip on the Columbia Gorge Scenic Highway (many waterfalls, including famed Multnomah Falls, but too many people, yes, even for a cold, rainy, winter's day) with a quick sidestep to Vancouver USA; and finally a hearty Hillsboro breakfast (I had leftovers for two days!) at Hale's before heading off the airport. And did I mention hours spent talking, laughing, looking at old photos, eating, and just enjoying each other's company? I was really good fun.
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