mlerules

Time's really getting away from me these days. Howzit mid-May already? All this (CV) seems to have gone on forever, yet it was just mid-March a blink of an eye ago. Time flies, except when it seems frozen. Basically, I only really know that time's passed because I must re-fill my weekly pill-box on Sundays, and at some point I start running out of undies so laundry needs doing.

Hard to believe it's been two (2) months since I late ate in a restaurant. (Had a Cibo dinner date on 03/16/20, the last day PDX/OR restaurants were allowed to be open for regular table-service.) Now, though, with things re-opening to some extent, matters feel really scary. Yeah, I'm incredibly privileged and lucky, so I can continue avoiding the world for far longer than most. I'll keep ordering food To Go from a few local fave spots in an effort to keep them going - and to supplement my increased cooking. But there's no frakkin' way I'll go shopping for anything other than groceries (every 3 weeks or so rather than every couple of days) for...months, most likely. I drive to hardware stores at least once/week, but let the BF do the shopping there (like he lets me handle the groceries).

Anyway, dunno where I was going with this. I'm coping, some days less well than others, but basically doing okay. I dunno when I last spent this much time in a row sleeping at home, without traveling further than Forest Park for weekly hikes (with additional multiple times/week walkies at Mt Tabor). Nearly a decade, mostly likely, after my last big break-up, when I fell down a rabbit hole of self-doubt and recrimination and barely left the house for chunks o time.

Hope you're doing okay. *virtual hugs to those who want 'em*

Today, on the way back w/jaylake from the Cancer Ward for the final weekend session of this round of his chemo, I decided to engage in a practice that I've not done in quite a while. As part of celebrating the end of his chemo course (12 of 12) and acknowledging the end of my recent r-ship (we3 has run its course), I'm resetting my default and creating a New Normal.

To this end, I've reset the clock in my car aka the Mobile Hive so it reads and reflects the correct time. Yes, folks, if'n you've driven w/me (in my vehicle) over the course of the past several years, you may've noticed that my clock was set ahead of the actual time (so as to help make sure that I don't run late). Now though, the time is right to set the time right, and so 'tis.

(Now to remember that this is so and not think I've got an extra 20 minutes. Hence this post, which'll help me keep it in mind...or at least that's my hope ;-)