The clotheshanger metric says I'm quite mad

[kaberett]

(By which I mean: I own more button-up shirts than I do clothes hangers. I tend to wear button-up shirts to work if I have anything resembling a healthy amount of grip, so when I am making it to work regularly in clothes that aren't the ones I slept in, this isn't an issue - enough shirts are in the wash that I've always got a couple of spare hangers in the wardrobe. Currently I have two shirts sat in the bottom of the hanging-section of wardrobe, because insufficient hangers. I think I am probably going to ask my GP to a bloods workup checking - among other things - vitD levels, because I'm already at max dose of antidepressant and on a daily vitB supplement, and ruling out other easy fixes seems like a plan, sigh.)

In addition to crossing the housework items off my list (not therein discussed: emptied green bin, moved lots of things through to recycling, etc) and somehow managing to get all my chemistry done in an approximate 9-5 (... 8.30am to 5.15, okay), I have finished up responding to poem prompts:

• The Threshold As Home (prompt: Heimat)
  
• Granat/Garnet (prompt: your favourite gemstone)
  
• (the world will end in fire) (prompt: Monsters that are also landscape features)
  
• Love as praxis (prompt: wheels within wheels, geared to annoy you; content note for abuse & domestic violence)

Comments

[kaberett]

(Additionally: finished the novel that was on the go - Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide - and played a whooooole bunch more of Completionist Computer Game Of The Month; haven't really made a start on the next book - for book club! - but I'm pretending.)

[alexseanchai]

...button-up shirts are meant to be clotheshangered?

[kaberett]

Heh, it helps if you've ironed them (... I don't) and it's the most soothing way to store them for my brain (srsly I obsessively neatly roll my underwear; I wish I didn't "have" to but if I don't it itches at me, so I've made my peace with spending the time on it even though it makes putting laundry away harder, because it makes everything else easier).

[alexseanchai]

Ah okay.

[davidgillon]

So I guess my solution of two shirts to one hanger (seriously, all my shirts are stored this way) wouldn't actually help, as well as depriving you of a useful sanity metric (tho grip-physical or grip-mental? I know what I wear is somewhat dependant on physical spoons/pain levels).

Hope the bloods/GP discussion/whatever offers something useful.

[kaberett]

Pretty much, that and they're Very Definitely Organised By Colour, heh :-)

Generally if I'm in too much pain to get dressed I'm in too much pain to get dressed full stop; if I'm getting dressed and leaving the house button-up is good enough for brain that body can take the hit (this is pretty much how I always work).

[sorrillia]

Good luck with sanity and such.

Also, am sort of impressed by your ability to wear button-up shirts regularly. I have a certain fondness for them, but they virtually always lead to me overheating.