I am hanging in there with meditation and sleep. Logging fell off again last week.   Apparently I do not want to write things down when I am feeling stressed.   Work is going pretty well. I am starting to chip away at the backlog of tasks that I put on hold when we were short-handed. This week we have 3-5 people out for events and trainings and we still have enough people to cover our workload.   Saturday I went to aikido, followed by a dojo board meeting. The new board is not quite official yet, but we are nearly done with the paperwork to get there. That looks like the easy part. There are lots of policy and planning things we need to discuss once the logistics tasks are complete. I was a responsible adult and got the minutes written and posted the same day. I have learned that letting that task wait sets off the alarms in my brain. Aside from that, I bought cat food and a few groceries.   Sunday I was feeling more productive. I was working on the dishes when I got a call from Dumbledore. He was visiting his brother for the weekend, and got a notice from the landlord of the building where he has an office. They had a water main break. His office is on the ground floor. I went over to check it out and found the water was knee deep. I was able to move a couple boxes that were only partly soaked before the property manager told me to leave. The water was still coming in and was getting close to the electric box. 😬   Today we are going to move everything that is still dry to a storage unit. All the ground floor offices are going to have to be gutted and redone. Elf and I will help this afternoon. More friends will come to help after work. It looks to be a messy job.   Dumbledore is doing much better now that he can take action. He was a mess yesterday not knowing how bad it was and not being able to do anything. The landlord got the water drained and let people in this morning. Dumbledore has already arranged for storage space and rented a truck. He is going to Costco to get shelving units and plastic storage tubs. There are lots of metal shelving units in the office, but they will need to be cleaned before they can be used again. You might think that water from the water main would be clean, but it was brown soup by the time it flooded everything. I had to take a shower after wading in it - something made my skin itch.   I am glad to be moral support and grunt labor for this crisis. Moving boxes and throwing out soggy books and papers is easy. Making triage decisions on the iffy stuff is exhausting.

Got a lot in today.  was stuck in a random and surpiringly long traffic jam in the middle of nowhere that may have been a double decker bus and a cement lorry getting jammed against each other on a tiny road (yay, cornwall)   went into town with my cousin and poked round the shops. I dont usually go in on a monday, so was surprised by how many things dont open on a monday here.  but had the best book haul. Got a gorgeous hardback copy of empire of the vampire for £1 (which is like new and may even be a special edition or something as it had illustrations 😱)and an unread copy of what lies beyond the veil, which i have been wanting to read for ages. Also clan of the cave bear, which i have been hunting for second hand for ages.  Bonus find was a tiny guiro frog, which is adorable.      and then jammed some swimming in and ran into some of my swimming group, so got to say hi to everyone i haven't seen in ages (because of my arm and then my ankle.) which was lovely.    gratitude journaling is going well. Is a nice manageable thing to do before turning in. Going to have a go at the journaling once my cousin has gone back home and normal service resumes reasonably. Right now i dont feel like i have the headspace for it at the end of the day. 

Went to the counseling appointment.  It was very good. I am now completely spent. Time to log back into work.

Oh for fuck's sake. Orange has another bladder inflammation. Number five. I'm struggling to manage my own stress and depression at this. Firstly, when she's in pain and meows it just reaches straight into my heart and murders me. Secondly, I am despairing at the prospect of having to take her to the vet every couple of months, which is stressful for us both. Thirdly, how are we going to travel if she gets sick all the time? Mr Harriet wants to go away over winter but I don't feel good about leaving her. According to the internet it could be feline idiopathic cystitis, which is exacerbated by stress, and a cat can be stressed by anything, including change of carer or feeding times. What do? 

It is purfect for rainy days   Thanks. Need to remember to use a few different pencils. Keep forgetting i packed some soft B’s and using the H only

No, nope, that's not it. 😁     Yeah he's not skilled. Caring, but not skilled. I figured we could watch tv after dinner. He's never seen the mandolorian so that's the plan.      Oh goddess that's horrific.      Cheers. I keep trying. 🥹     Weed? As in Marijuana? I don't think I need to introduce that variable just now. Family history of psychosis. But colouring in sounds very soothing. I also love jigsaw puzzles but they get done in a couple of days and then it's over and my neck hurts and I have to buy another one.

86 year old Snarky will thank you for your service.    Love this!   I hope you find something amazing to do this week.  

Wow, that is a weekend and a half. Hope the week is less stressful for you. 

Week 2 Workouts and runs went well.  Stretching 4 out of 7... not the greatest Vanity stuff is intermittent. Retooling. It was a rough week. MrMezzo's dad has some health stuff happening and it's almost definitely cancer and possibly terminal (still waiting for all test results to come back).  It's hit MrMezzo pretty hard. I need to figure out how to talk about it with my kids (6 yo and 4 yo) and prepare for lots of travel back and forth in the coming months.    In light of all that, the vanity thing seems pretty frivolous. I'm not going to stop, but it's fallen down the priorities list. Instead of testing lots of different braids/hairstyles as originally planned, I'm going to focus on a couple an get really good at them. Same with skincare/makeup routine.  I want to get an everyday look together and make it my go-to. That way I feel put together instead of frazzled and messy. I'll pin all the fancy/complicated ones and come back to them later.   I will also being soft launching some new routines around cooking and cleaning this challenge. I've been mulling over what this looks like for a little while but I wasn't going to be serious about it until next challenge.    This week I'm implementing 15-minute zone cleaning (concept stolen from the flylady, who was recommended to me years ago on the forum ). The kids have a mini verison to do while I'm tackling bigger things. Today for example they will wipe the tables and chairs while I clean the stove and microwave. They are excited because MrMezzo is bribing them with a pack of Pokemon cards a week if they do their chores. 🤦‍♀️   New week, let's go.    

If I lived nearer you I would hunny p do some lil fitting in to whatever size you are for the wedding tbh - might be worth seeing if you know any cosplayers who are good with a needle and thread... I wouldn't intentionally maintain as I'd be likely to go the other way