Category: Mundane Shit

Thursday, July 6, 2023

I have never done anything like this before.

I mean, I’ve dyed my hair before, but never like… this. I’ve been thinking about it for a few years off and on but never felt like I was in the right place to rock this before. I definitely didn’t want to do it while I was in geriatric healthcare, because that’s enough of a difficult job without adding this to the interactions. And then I got the school job this last year and didn’t want this to be the initial impression with everyone in that new professional realm. But now… fuck it. This is fun.

This might be yet another sign that my lifelong chronic depression has healed (for the most part).

Saturday, July 1, 2023

HELLO SUMMER BREAK!!! (Well, kind of…)

I just finished my first (school) year working as an occupational therapist in a public school system. And now I get my summer break. Except I still have paperwork to do. Because I procrastinate. I might have ADHD. It’s on my summer to-do list to get evaluated for that. But I probably have ADHD so we’ll see if that actually happens.

It’s a running joke (but not funny) that if I want to be sure to never get something done I should write it down on a to do list. The more effective approach is for me to berate myself over days, weeks, months, years and then eventually I’ll hate myself enough that I finally do it. Super healthy.

We have two international trips planned for the summer – one two-weeker and another one-weeker – but aside from that my time is unstructured. I have some goals in mind to tackle, and maybe returning to blogging will be the thing that helps me finish the summer with my head held high.

In no particular order here are a few items on my mind as possible successes for this summer (no particular order):

  • Institute a daily exercise routine – start with stretching and then alternate with a cardio activity.
  • Institute a daily blogging routine.
  • Build the daily “long” dog walk from 30 to 60 minutes.
  • Spend time outside of the apartment with a friend 1x/week.
  • Get caught up on my medical appointments/checklist – blood draw, mammo, colon cancer screen (yay my MD says I can skip the colonoscopy for now!!!), dermatology, and ADHD assessment.

OK before I get overwhelmed and just go take a nap I’ll stop with that list. But my head is screaming with a list of all of the things that I *should* do and I’m already starting to hate myself for not listing that I’ll finish the bathroom painting that I started 4 years ago.