Fri. May 30, 2025: Feeling Behind From Where I’d Like To Be

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May 30, 2025

Waxing Moon

Pluto Retrograde

Partly sunny and warm

Best laid plans go awry, and all that.

Meditation was terrific yesterday morning, and Charlotte was delighted.

The painters never showed up. I want to know what the heck is going on.

I got caught up in vacuuming after breakfast, which sounds like it should take a hot minute, but with four cats, litterboxes, and they are finally shedding their winter coats, the pollen, the dust from the painters, AND the fact that none of the vacuums are doing what I need them to do, it became much more complicated than it should be. I had to keep jerry-rigging them to work until they gave up. I got one of them doing floors properly, another one sort of doing rugs for some of the time, another doing corners, the fourth being useless. I need to invest some serious money in a really good vacuum for pets. The Eureka I bought when we moved here worked for 2 years? 3 years? Until the day after the warranty expired. When it worked, it was great. The Bissell, built to look the same as the Eureka, worked for 3 months, and Bissell wouldn’t honor the warranty. Once the warranty ran out, they just shrugged and said, too late. So no more Bissell for me. It sometimes sort of works on carpets. The Dirt Devil stick works on the wood floors, but not on carpet. The Hoover hand vac (which is from the 80’s or 90’s) is good in corners, but too hard to use in large areas.

Now, I vacuum weekly (often daily or twice daily during shedding season), and have been doing a patch job for months with these vacuums and with daily sweeping using the broom, but I needed to spend a couple of hours on it today.

Everything’s much better now, but it should have taken 90 minutes to do a decent job on the whole house and took. . .a lot longer. Especially since I wasn’t feeling great.

I heard from the theatre to which I sent a proposal a couple of days ago. They acknowledged it and said there would be a decision by the end of Jan. ’26, which means it’s not in conflict with anything I worried about.

And the rest of the day was just a loss. I steadily felt worse and worse, but not in any definable way to figure out what to do to feel better. I did some pondering on the ghostwriting and on the radio play, but no discernable progress. I did a bunch of admin. I let the cohort manager know that I wouldn’t be at the evening’s final celebration. She sent best wishes, and told me not to feel guilty about missing my friend’s show on Wednesday night. It had such a great turnout, the venue turned many people away. Which is not fun for the people turned away, but I’m pleased for my friend, having a full house.

Another friend made an arrangement for me to see her show in a couple of weeks. I’m excited. We’re also trying to sort out when she can come and stay. I wish I knew what was going on with the painters.

Started feeling a little better right before bedtime. Slept reasonably well, although I had a weird dream where the Boiler House Poets were together, and we were walking though a venue space as a short cut to get to somewhere. A wedding reception (for strangers) was setting up, and they had run into some issues, and all of us just pitched in and used various talents with music and art and fabric and table settings and words to help out. I mean, it’s very much in keeping with what everyone in the group does – someone needs help, everyone pitches in.

The support sleeves for my hands/wrists arrived yesterday, so I’m trying them today, and hoping that lessens at least some of the pain I’ve been having.

This morning, after breakfast, I have to run a quick errand to deal with the issue I’ve been trying to get resolved all week. Later in the morning, I will do the usual library-grocery store-post office circuit.

Then, I have to buckle down and make up for the work that didn’t get done yesterday. If I have to work through the weekend, I will, balancing the catch-up work with the work on the textile piece.

I can’t believe it will be June this weekend.

Have a good one, and we’ll catch up next week!