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Month: September 2023

pockets of color

pockets of color

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after august has heavily made its way and september spends nearly all its time in summer, there is a moment before autumn starts where i’ve missed spring and summer so much that i don’t want to welcome the season and october. the light disappears; the trees will lose their leaves to remain barren for months; the wind stings in the nose and breath appears like a dream. it’s the subsequent season that keeps me from a freefall into fall.

but then on my drive to work in the morning, just this past couple weeks, when i am still sleepy and thinking about nothing, rotely driving in the barely there morning light, green started to drain in force from the leaves. there is a stand of trees in a small dip in a backroad—i hesitate to call it valley—with one of the best displays i have seen. yellows, oranges, reds, ethereal orangey yellows that blur the eyes and create a watercolor painting. strong greens still stand out, giving the contrast my eyes need so badly, the thought that this will be gradual.

it will be over too soon, of course. the season is short in our state, and shorter the farther north you go. the leaves will fall or shrivel and fall or turn brown and shrivel and fall, and the stark darkness of branches will stand out from a grey sky that’s so common in november, or else cloaked in darkness to hibernate.

until that point, during which i am irritated by axial tilt, i will enjoy the pockets of delight on my drives, noticing the transitions and hoard the moment.

is this worth it

is this worth it

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i’ve written before about how instagram reads my mind and delivers the right ads to me at all times. well, one of the things it kept shoving at me was a hip hook, a tool that releases your iliacus and psoas muscles, aka your hip flexors and the little guys that are hanging out behind your hip bones.

so i went to go check it out and OMG it’s nearly $200 for THIS??

really. -_-

but the more i read about the aletha hip hook, and the more that i looked at it in my feed, i thought, what can it hurt to try it out? it has a 60-day guarantee. if it sucks, i’ll just return it.

so i got it, and my runs have never been more lovely. i look forward to running more than ever before because since i started using this thing? my legs have been just wonderful. i haven’t had one of those runs where i know it’s going to be bad within 10 seconds of starting. last week i ran 5 miles three times! if not for the loss of my daytime light, i’d probably run 10 miles a day.

i use it right before going out on a run, and whatever it does, it has made all the difference. you can feel the flexors just start to loosen up.

and since i work for a government institution, i was able to get a 20% discount! so that was helpful. i still can’t believe that they charge what they charge for this, given it’s a piece of plastic and slab of metal, but i have looked for cheaper alternatives to no avail.

anyway, thanks instagram. highly recommend.

and tomorrow i get a litter robot for the cat poo. we’ll see how that goes!

long weekend list

long weekend list

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what’s delightful? a long weekend is delightful. looking forward to the three days of no one renting your time for their purposes and doing your own stuff as needed. some long weekends i just lie around like a bum. THIS long weekend, however, i have gotten a lot done, so far. and getting things checked off my checklist is, well, delightful.

  1. i fixed my toilet. it had been making a whining noise for a while and i determined that it was the internal mechanism that needed to be replaced. so i did that.
  2. nate and i finally went grocery shopping.
  3. finished a book in 1.5 days.
  4. sat outside in the hot weather, soaking it up before autumn comes to announce winter.
  5. made a document for my dad.
  6. installed a pull out drawer in my cupboard with pots in it.
  7. installed a ring doorbell (against my wishes – doing it for the insurance discount).
  8. got some new art for the entry hallway since now you can see in there!
  9. cleaned up the apples rotting in yard in preparation for mowing the lawn, except it’s too hot to mow.
  10. picked a bunch of tomatoes! i may not have cucumbers, but i’ll have tomatoes. gotta figure out what to do with them.
  11. went to TJMaxx and got enough cheap soap to last us 6 years (and two sets of halloween press-on nails).
  12. then stopped by the bizarre bazaar on saturday! that was fun to check out, though i didn’t buy much (just more soap).

the only thing i didn’t get to on my list was a possible haircut, and that wasn’t a priority so i’ll get that done another day.

then i go to work for three days and i’m taking friday off because nate has a long weekend next weekend! that’s all i’ve got, blog land. i want to do something RE: the downfall of social media soon, but i need to think about. could be just me – i am almost ready to pull the plug on it all.