cmk418 | Hello out there (Reply)

Thought I'd dip my toe back into the updating waters- it seems like all the cool kids are doing it and sometimes it's nice to catch up on everything. I'd like to get to a point where I'm at least posting something that's not a fic on a weekly basis, so let's consider this post 1 of season 16, I guess.

What's been happening? Not a whole lot. Work's fine although I'm down to 2 repair guys now and one of them is makes the term "drama queen" sound like an understatement- every week it's something. Management is rarely in so I generally have the office to myself which is nice.

Church is back to meeting regularly and I may actually get to go to a choir practice next week- first since our Christmas concert- we were off in January to flatten the curve as Omicron was spiking here in Missouri and a hockey game and two weather-related cancellations killed the beginning of this month. But it sounds like we might get hit with bad weather again this week so I'm not sure it's going to happen.

Family is ok. Both parents are having some general movement issues, but other than that are fine. We had most everyone over for dinner tonight. My brother is out of town, but everyone else who is here made it. Mom did the cooking and I got to spend some time hanging out with my youngest nephew (we were watching him while the rest of his family went out). We were going to go to a bookstore in our neighborhood that specializes in graphic novels, but found out when we got there that they had closed for the day. He was a little disappointed, but just rolled with it. It was nice just to get out and enjoy the sunshine for a bit and then we came back here and played some games before Mom kicked us out of the dining room.

Writing has gone well so far. I'm managing to get words in every day and have done all the challenges at femslashficlets on DW since the beginning of the year and have been keeping up pretty well with my

hardtime100 challenges (both in setting up and completing). I've gone back to journaling every morning too.

Healthwise, so far so good as far as I'm concerned. Got the big procedure coming up for passing the 50-year threshold (I'm a little past due on getting to it, but between changing jobs and then Covid, it just hadn't happened.) I went to an allergist over the fall and found out I was allergic to being outside except for this time of year (March-November are pretty well out due to pollen, ragweed, and mold.) He was able to get me on some meds to help me to control it, so we'll see how that goes.

I had intended to begin some of my painting projects this weekend, but I was zapped after my Saturday morning workout and spent three hours dozing on the couch to "Love It or List It".

I've seen a few of the Oscar nominated films and the one that I liked best was the one that the Academy snubbed. If you're a fan of musical theatre, I highly recommend "Tick, Tick, Boom". (I haven't seen "West Side Story" yet, but- spoiler alert- Spielberg didn't change the ending and I don't feel like ugly crying my way out of the theater.

That's it for now. I hope to be back next week to tell you all about my thrilling adventures at the DMV. Hope you all are well.