Plans, I am Making Them
Apr. 30th, 2012 03:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
multipurposegoddessThing the first: my nephew is graduating from high school in about a month. That's just bonkers - I was just knitting his baby blanket! Crazy passage of time. Anyway, I need to figure out how I can get up there for that. I can bring Walter with, so I think I can leave the cats with a big gravity feeder and probably be okay for several days. My parents have said I could ride up with them but I would like more control over my transportation and schedule then that would afford me, both for the drive up and for while I'm in Portland, so I think it'll be me and Walter making the drive. There appear to be quite a few dog parks to stop at along the way, so frequent breaks should be doable, and if I decide to take a couple of days, there are dog-friendy hotels on the route. I haven't made that drive since Henry died, so it'll be emotional, but that's to be expected.
Thing the second: I have made an appointment to get my hair cut! My dad got me a gift certificate to a local salon last year for my birthday but I couldn't face going to a salon just then (I have all kind of weird baggage and social anxiety about getting my hair cut) so I stashed the g.c. somewhere safe and, of course, never saw it again. Well, the salon owner remembers my dad getting the g.c. (they are in Kiwanis together and he has a super distinctive name, people do tend to remember him) so she'll let me use it without physically having it. Super nice! I have an appointment for a week from Wednesday. I'm thinking short (because it's getting hot and I'm kind of just sick of having hair at all, it's all thick and heavy and prone to tangling up and forcing me to buy shampoo every time I turn around) and purple (because, what the hell, I don't have a job and I'm not looking for one quite yet so why not?). So, we'll see how that goes.
Thing the third: I need to make a doctor's appointment, just because I haven't had one in over a year. First I need to make sure I remember all the stuff I need to discuss history-wise. Probably need to do pap smears and mammograms and whatever else my age indicates. Check for hepatitis and HIV and whatever else the stupid needles put me at risk for. Go over the probable alpha thalassemia diagnosis and find out what that means for donating blood or marrow or whatever. ADHD and depression. Is that all? That might be all. Oh, the mystery pain that sent me to the ER, though it hasn't been back, but not knowing what that was still bugs me and if I knew how to avoid it for sure, that'd be a good thing. That's probably it. Not too many things. I'll have to make myself a little checklist to have on my phone for the appointment so I don't forget anything.
In current events, I continue to feel like I am just barely keeping my head above water and if I had just a little more energy I could actually make forward progress. So maybe that will happen eventually.
Thing the second: I have made an appointment to get my hair cut! My dad got me a gift certificate to a local salon last year for my birthday but I couldn't face going to a salon just then (I have all kind of weird baggage and social anxiety about getting my hair cut) so I stashed the g.c. somewhere safe and, of course, never saw it again. Well, the salon owner remembers my dad getting the g.c. (they are in Kiwanis together and he has a super distinctive name, people do tend to remember him) so she'll let me use it without physically having it. Super nice! I have an appointment for a week from Wednesday. I'm thinking short (because it's getting hot and I'm kind of just sick of having hair at all, it's all thick and heavy and prone to tangling up and forcing me to buy shampoo every time I turn around) and purple (because, what the hell, I don't have a job and I'm not looking for one quite yet so why not?). So, we'll see how that goes.
Thing the third: I need to make a doctor's appointment, just because I haven't had one in over a year. First I need to make sure I remember all the stuff I need to discuss history-wise. Probably need to do pap smears and mammograms and whatever else my age indicates. Check for hepatitis and HIV and whatever else the stupid needles put me at risk for. Go over the probable alpha thalassemia diagnosis and find out what that means for donating blood or marrow or whatever. ADHD and depression. Is that all? That might be all. Oh, the mystery pain that sent me to the ER, though it hasn't been back, but not knowing what that was still bugs me and if I knew how to avoid it for sure, that'd be a good thing. That's probably it. Not too many things. I'll have to make myself a little checklist to have on my phone for the appointment so I don't forget anything.
In current events, I continue to feel like I am just barely keeping my head above water and if I had just a little more energy I could actually make forward progress. So maybe that will happen eventually.