Year 2 - Day 125...
Jul. 21st, 2021 10:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatI'm doing this almost compulsively now. It's almost 11 pm. I spent the last two-three hours trying to figure out how to pack a weekend's worth of clothing in a backpack. The problem is I'm menopausal - and I sweat. So in the past - I could get away with two shirts, pants, shorts, and three-four pairs of underwear, not so much now. Plus I may need a sweater - since it gets down to the 50s at night, and need to bring sandals and sneakers - because of potential hike.
Ugh.
Brother is useless. I can't ask him anything. And nervous about asking niece.
I leave Friday. I'll pick it up again tomorrow. I may need to consider taking the small suitcase, but I'd prefer to avoid it if possible.
Or taking the backpack and a bigger purse/satchel but that's hard to maneuver.
I'm only going to be gone Friday and Saturday, coming back around noon on Sunday. I'm wearing clothes up. So should just need two changes of clothes if that. But alas, menopausal. And stupid period started - after I was convinced I was done with them. This keeps happening. I go 85 days, I get used to not having it or any of the symptoms - then wham, when it is least wanted, it pops up again. Now, I have the irritability, the dull headaches, the sweating, and I fear soon the hot flashes/mood swings. Maybe not.
Problem is I'm taking trains, which means lots of walking in between, and standing with bags. And lugging said bags up and down steps quickly.
Anyhow, enough...mother doesn't know when they are scheduling the hip replacement. She told me her sister may be able to come and help her. Both her sister and cousin understood why I couldn't help - and well, my brother is my brother. Although he might do it, not clear, he has a lot on his plate at the moment - with his kid needing to get her wisdom teeth out, and heading off to London in September - he may not even in the country at the time.
And yes, there's the stupid on-going pandemic, because the FDA won't get off its prissy behind and approve the vaccines already. (I don't know why - it approved the sketchy Alzheimer's drug. The media has been blasting the FDA on this for months now, as has the various state and federal governments. Pfizer will get approved first, then Moderna - and once that happens, they can mandate vaccinations for everyone.]
Nervous about Amtrak - it's 90% full (everyone is traveling at the moment).
Hoping I can get a seat alone, but doubtful. Oh well, will wear the mask, should be fine. I'm vaccinated, as are all my family members. It does however have a pre-covid screening so should be fine. Bro says a negative test is not required. (Any more than it is for the other railroads.
Here's a photo...and reminder, I won't be posting Friday and Saturday, I don't know about Thursday yet. Depends on how I do with the packing issue.
Ugh.
Brother is useless. I can't ask him anything. And nervous about asking niece.
I leave Friday. I'll pick it up again tomorrow. I may need to consider taking the small suitcase, but I'd prefer to avoid it if possible.
Or taking the backpack and a bigger purse/satchel but that's hard to maneuver.
I'm only going to be gone Friday and Saturday, coming back around noon on Sunday. I'm wearing clothes up. So should just need two changes of clothes if that. But alas, menopausal. And stupid period started - after I was convinced I was done with them. This keeps happening. I go 85 days, I get used to not having it or any of the symptoms - then wham, when it is least wanted, it pops up again. Now, I have the irritability, the dull headaches, the sweating, and I fear soon the hot flashes/mood swings. Maybe not.
Problem is I'm taking trains, which means lots of walking in between, and standing with bags. And lugging said bags up and down steps quickly.
Anyhow, enough...mother doesn't know when they are scheduling the hip replacement. She told me her sister may be able to come and help her. Both her sister and cousin understood why I couldn't help - and well, my brother is my brother. Although he might do it, not clear, he has a lot on his plate at the moment - with his kid needing to get her wisdom teeth out, and heading off to London in September - he may not even in the country at the time.
And yes, there's the stupid on-going pandemic, because the FDA won't get off its prissy behind and approve the vaccines already. (I don't know why - it approved the sketchy Alzheimer's drug. The media has been blasting the FDA on this for months now, as has the various state and federal governments. Pfizer will get approved first, then Moderna - and once that happens, they can mandate vaccinations for everyone.]
Nervous about Amtrak - it's 90% full (everyone is traveling at the moment).
Hoping I can get a seat alone, but doubtful. Oh well, will wear the mask, should be fine. I'm vaccinated, as are all my family members. It does however have a pre-covid screening so should be fine. Bro says a negative test is not required. (Any more than it is for the other railroads.
Here's a photo...and reminder, I won't be posting Friday and Saturday, I don't know about Thursday yet. Depends on how I do with the packing issue.