kaberett | some good things make a post (Reply)

today's grocery delivery brought both the bergamot and the Seville oranges I'd ordered (after they got dropped from Sunday's unrelated delivery that A had put together), which means that as soon as I get my act together re jars there will be M A R M A L A D E which is splendid because I am very much down to the dregs of my previous batches
I spent some of this evening flailing around on the study floor in a deeply undignified fashion, thereby confirming that I do have muscle memory for getting into a shoulder stand even if I now understand (in a way my tween self, who did shoulder stands as a stim, categorically did not) why they're Difficult (which also means I've got a better sense for how close-or-otherwise I am to doing them as part of a Pilates practice from a different starting point)
lurking in the booze cupboard A unearthed a bottle of 10yo tawny port, which we deduce must have been liberated from the mouldering ancestral pile, which I have been Enjoying thimblefuls of with cheese and biscuits (and now also grapes, courtesy of Sunday's grocery delivery)
for reasons that include bullet journalling (on which more later), I have been getting a lot more physio done over the past few weeks and I consequently am... well, hurting more noticeably as things shift and loosen and I drop some of the tension I've been carrying
we got new pillows (by which I mean I narrowed down to a plausible candidate, and then A eventually got around to ordering), and they are great and I have not woken up with my neck yelling at me once since they got here and I am endlessly relieved
we had the last of last year's squash for dinner, in quesadilla, or at least I cooked it all up and we had about half of it today and will be having the other half tomorrow
I have not yet got as far as actually using my new interchangeable knitting needles (Karbonz! which I have been coveting since I discovered circa 2014 that carbon-fibre knitting needles make my hands hurt much less than anything else I've ever tried, and also yes this is an enthusiastic re-recommendation for the supplier I linked to) but I have spent a bunch of time opening and closing the case and gently cooing over them and stroking them and Identifying All The Pieces ~~and at some point I should work out what I want to knit next~~). amusingly, I bought these because the thing I actually needed (to clear out some guilt-knitting and send it on to its intended home) was about £4.50 below the free shipping cut-off... and then they shipped things separately anyway and the item I have actual immediate plans for is, er, Not Here Yet.
I have coaxed my brain through several work-related Things today. I would as ever like to have done more, but I did eventually realise the thing I was freezing up over was Replying To An E-mail and I did manage to read its attachments and reply and I did then spend some more time sketching out what I even want this discussion section to look like, longhand, and I don't think I'm there yet but I have made progress, at least. Next step: just write Something, Anything, in the expectation that we'll workshop it to hell and back and it will end up unrecognisable but it's easier to edit words that exist than words that don't. ... which got away from me a little, but the point is: brain was scared. coaxed it anyway.
I am really very enjoying spending time in the ridiculous dragons game and looking at my ridiculous dragons a lot. I have decided that one of them is a warrior-botanist, because part of the way you go out and collect Interesting Plants is by Fighting Things in a Variety of Places, so. (She now has a daughter who might be going to become a mage. I have not quite decided yet.) I did not expect to end up telling small stories about them but I am and it's great and maybe even they'll Expand.
A is doing so much cleaning and tidying while I'm a Gromp Lomp on the sofa, and I am so grateful for it. it is so nice to have things Clean.