![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
This that and the other thingamig
Mar. 16th, 2023 06:33 pm1. Came home the last two days to a pervasive stink, that came and went. I couldn't figure out where it was coming from. It wasn't in the bedroom, or the bathroom, nor in the kitchen. Yet it smelled a little like garbage or rotting food. Sickly sweet, with a kind of sourness to it.
I sprayed freshner. I tried to light candles - but my bic lighters aren't working. Smelled around the windows - to see if it was from outside. Smelled the hallway. The next door neighbors. Outside. This morning, I thought maybe it was coming from outside. There was an odd sweet smell outside this morning...so maybe?
I hoped it would go away when by the time I got home. And while there was nothing outside, when I entered my apartment - I was hit with it again. That sickly faint spoiled food order, or as if someone had forgotten to take out the kitty litter.
So, I sniffed about again - and finally found it.
( what was making the ordor )
2. Eh, struggling with IBS again, which is resulting in sleep deprivation.
I may try to veer away from broccoli tonight.
Tomorrow they are doing a pizza party at work for St. Patrick's Day. (They can't find Gluten-Free pizza in Jamaica, which is fine. I shouldn't eat it anyhow, the carb count is horrible - my blood sugar jumps to 270 when I eat pizza. ) I'll go to Chipolte and get a chicken burrito bowl instead, with grilled chicken, salsa, romaine lettuce. Or, I'll just bring in my lunch.
Other than that the blood sugar seems to be okay, averaging around 6.8 AIC.
The sensor is starting to itch a little bit, wasn't before. And I occasionally lose it. There's 8 days left on it. If it's still bugging me tomorrow, I'll do something about it.
3. As much as I don't like Daylight Savings Time - on the bright side?
* It's lighter later, and it's admittedly nice to have more sunshine.
* I get to watch the sunrise over the Viaduct on the way to work each morning. I get up at the same time, but now I'm watching the sunrise again, when before the sun was already up and blasting.
I appreciate a good sunrise. I actually prefer sunrises to sunsets.
And the view from the viaduct is amazing.
4. Been making progress through the Artist's Way. Week three is all about Criticism or handling it. And it talks about being shamed, or how a well-meaning but nitpicky friend, teacher, etc - can shut down an artist and block them completely.
We don't make art with its eventual criticism foremost in mind, but criticism that asks a question like "How could you?" can make an artist feel like a shamed child. A well-meaning friend who constructively criticizes a beginning writer may very well end that writer.
This almost happened to me several years ago. ( Read more... )
5. DW posted a notice about California's Age Appropriation Design Code. (WTF? I know, right? Some nitwitty lawyer must of come up with that title.)
( what the bill is and what it involves )
Anywho - DW sees it as censorship and is protesting.
I sprayed freshner. I tried to light candles - but my bic lighters aren't working. Smelled around the windows - to see if it was from outside. Smelled the hallway. The next door neighbors. Outside. This morning, I thought maybe it was coming from outside. There was an odd sweet smell outside this morning...so maybe?
I hoped it would go away when by the time I got home. And while there was nothing outside, when I entered my apartment - I was hit with it again. That sickly faint spoiled food order, or as if someone had forgotten to take out the kitty litter.
So, I sniffed about again - and finally found it.
( what was making the ordor )
2. Eh, struggling with IBS again, which is resulting in sleep deprivation.
I may try to veer away from broccoli tonight.
Tomorrow they are doing a pizza party at work for St. Patrick's Day. (They can't find Gluten-Free pizza in Jamaica, which is fine. I shouldn't eat it anyhow, the carb count is horrible - my blood sugar jumps to 270 when I eat pizza. ) I'll go to Chipolte and get a chicken burrito bowl instead, with grilled chicken, salsa, romaine lettuce. Or, I'll just bring in my lunch.
Other than that the blood sugar seems to be okay, averaging around 6.8 AIC.
The sensor is starting to itch a little bit, wasn't before. And I occasionally lose it. There's 8 days left on it. If it's still bugging me tomorrow, I'll do something about it.
3. As much as I don't like Daylight Savings Time - on the bright side?
* It's lighter later, and it's admittedly nice to have more sunshine.
* I get to watch the sunrise over the Viaduct on the way to work each morning. I get up at the same time, but now I'm watching the sunrise again, when before the sun was already up and blasting.
I appreciate a good sunrise. I actually prefer sunrises to sunsets.
And the view from the viaduct is amazing.
4. Been making progress through the Artist's Way. Week three is all about Criticism or handling it. And it talks about being shamed, or how a well-meaning but nitpicky friend, teacher, etc - can shut down an artist and block them completely.
We don't make art with its eventual criticism foremost in mind, but criticism that asks a question like "How could you?" can make an artist feel like a shamed child. A well-meaning friend who constructively criticizes a beginning writer may very well end that writer.
This almost happened to me several years ago. ( Read more... )
5. DW posted a notice about California's Age Appropriation Design Code. (WTF? I know, right? Some nitwitty lawyer must of come up with that title.)
( what the bill is and what it involves )
Anywho - DW sees it as censorship and is protesting.