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Pollinator garden part 2 - I forgot to mention that the cocktail pics were our post- tree felling celebration yesterday. But hereās the diagram Ken made and a picture from a month or two ago in the back when the coneflowers had just started blooming. Once we got the native plants established out back weāve kind of neglected it so itās pretty weedy but thatās the general vibe of plants weāre going for out front (but with more diligent upkeep).
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And on the hottest weekend of the year, what if we turned our front yard into a pollinator garden?
This has been on our list for a couple years since the grass in the front doesnāt stand a chance against the constant full sun that piece of yard gets. Ken mapped out a plan and ordered baby plants and then they arrived just in time to make us do this yard work in 101 degree heat.
Step one was removing a small tree Ken put in a little over ten years ago. We dug around it with a shovel and pickaxe until we could knock it over. Hauled it around to the side of the house to deal with it another day.
Today was step two, planting! When he planned out the garden, Ken drew up a little diagram with scale circles based on the projected size of each plant, so we measured and laid things out according to his plan and then got to work planting. That was easy peasy (because he put in the big ones that required shoveling holes and I just did the little guys where a trowel was sufficient). Then newspaper and mulch to kill off the grass and weeds. This would have been fine if we properly estimated the required amount of newspaper and mulch the first time, or even the second. By the third trip we got it right, though.
We have a patch in the back with a lot of these same plants and theyāre gorgeous when they bloom so Iām excited for these to grow in!
Birthday weekend!
I turned 32 yesterday and fulfilled a teenage dream of going to the melting pot. When one opened up in my hometown I wanted to go sooo badly (cheese! chocolate!) but it was pricey so we never did. Now Iām a grownup and really love when I can do things for myself that I couldnāt do when I was younger. The cheese fondue was fine. Mojito was amazing. Chocolate fondue delicious. Salad was good, and we skipped entrees because we had enough food.
That was saturday, and yesterday on my actual birthday I felt pretty sick all day. Did the melting pot betray me??? I went to a knitting group at a coffee shop and Ken brought his kindle to hang out. Afterwards I read and napped on the couch, then got my butt in gear and did a peloton ride. Itās my fourth birthday since getting the peloton but my first time actually doing a ride on my birthday, and I got to use the birthday hashtag on the leaderboard!
Ken always makes me a cake for my birthday and this year we went all chocolate. Pants helped.
All in all a very nice weekend, except I put off all my chores so now I have to do them after work today.
me eating leftovers for lunch while wfh: ši love this taco bowl š„° it's soooo tasty š¤¤š®āØ me 30 mins later when someone pings the office group chat that there's bagels in the kitchen: š¤ā¹ļøš
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Sometimes when I talk about the boys people are like āoh theyāre brothers? Theyāre from the same litter?ā Girl theyāre cats. If they live in the house together theyāre brothers.
Anyway these guys kept me up all night friday and saturday so both weekend days were plagued by exhaustion and I did very little besides chores. WAIT no I just remembered I also spent over two hours making cinnamon roll dough only to realize later that my yeast was old and dead so it had to be tossed. I blocked that part of the weekend out. This coming weekend is my birthday so no cinnamon rolls then (theyāre a very long, labor intensive recipe and I have other things I want to be doing besides sweating in the kitchen on my birthday - Ken will be making me a cake so I wonāt be short on treats) but we have a long weekend for the 4th so Iāll try again then!!
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You can just order a lava cake at Chiliās for dinner. You donāt even have to order real food first. Female empowerment.
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I got my stitches out!
Hereās me running out the door with a half-eaten bowl of oatmeal to finish at stop lights, and then a bonus pic of Pants trying to get my lunch yesterday so the singular pic wouldnāt be huge.
The PA looked at the stitches and said āoh perfect! These look great!ā And then the doctor agreed, and the PA took them out. It didnāt feel great but it didnāt hurt like I was afraid it would. I asked the doc āhow long until I can do vigorous exercises?ā He said, āYouāre good, you can do whatever you want now.ā And I said, āswimming?ā to which he waved his arm and repeated, āyouāre good! You can act like this never even happened.ā Then he rushed out of the room while preaching sunscreen and hats.
That isā¦ not in line with anything else Iāve read? But also, heās the doctor who actually looked at my specific incision site. Iām going to make myself start with a 30-minute peloton ride and not a longer one, and pick one thatās not super intense. When I feel confident Iām not going to split this back open Iāll advance. As for the pool, I donāt look at this incision and think, āyeah that looks ready for me to dunk it in a body of waterā so Iāll probably skip this weekend, or go but not put my head underwater since I donāt have to be super paranoid about splashing.
That is the best this could have gone!!
Now Iāve got meetings from noon to six with no break, and theyāre all meetings that when I think about them my throat constricts and I feel like vomiting. Work is making me sick lately with how stressed I am and how much I hate this project and I am just crossing my fingers itās not too much longer. Thereās going to be a move from CUI to classified for a lot of aspects of the program this summer, and I do not have a clearance, so Iām praying all the areas Iāve been supporting move up in classification to something I canāt support anymore and someone else has to take it over. Of course, theyāre trying to keep as much as possible at CUI level to avoid staffing problems. A girl can dream, though. And simultaneously start working through the parachute book on figuring out what job I would like to do instead of this one.
my stitches is ITCHIN and i am BITCHIN about it
(not as itchy as when I got my tattoo, but it being on my face makes it really annoying)
Also i just googled how long after stitches removal before I can go to the pool and work out and I am gonna cry. I had it in my head that he'd remove my stitches tomorrow and be like "okay go do anything you want" but it looks like it might be another week or even longer before I can peloton or bike again, and 2 more weeks before pool??? I know it's dumb but I am seriously close to tears over this. It's just so much more time than I imagined off from the activities I love, and the pool isn't open for long so losing the whole month of June is basically a third of the summer gone.
I'm getting a stand mixer "for my birthday" and I am so excited! For years I've wanted one but our kitchen is small and counter space is extremely limited so we haven't prioritized it. I finally groused enough that Ken suggested a spot for it and it arrives Wednesday! He'll use it to make my birthday cake in a couple weeks but I'm going to be excited and want to use it sooner so I think I'll first re-make some lime cookies I made to take to my brother's. Those are quick and easy so I can do them Wednesday evening right when we get it. Then this weekend I think I'll make cinnamon rolls so I can use the paddle for creaming the filling and the dough hook for the dough!
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I was like āIām not making any progress!ā and scrolling back through my camera roll to look at the previous pic didnāt make me feel any better until I literally put them side by side. Iām not flying through the project by any means, but it is actually getting longer and not somehow staying the same despite my knitting row after row, which is what it felt like.
Update: I showered and changed the dressing and of course it did not rip my face off and open the wound and irreparably damage my entire body. I basically still only washed half my face because I didn't want to accidentally bonk the wound, but I did it!
It's a much longer row of stitches than I pictured - close to an inch and a half. And oriented almost vertically instead of at the 45 degree angle I had imagined. Funny how little the sensations translate to reality. I was numbed and couldn't feel sharp, but could feel poking and prodding and pulling. Turns out I could not discern where on my face that poking and prodding and pulling was occurring.
I did have to touch it to put vaseline on it and then the new bandage. It was okay! Gross but didn't hurt much. It hurts more with the bandage on, which makes me think that the pain when I move isn't really the wound being tugged open but the bandage touching the stitches. I did pretty well but next time will be even more careful to put the pad on kind of loose to avoid much contact with the stitches.
I pictured whatever bandage I put on after taking off the initial dressing to be smaller and less conspicuous. Then I read what I'm supposed to use - a non stick pad - and got some of those and some tape to hold it on. The pad is 2"x3" (and as long as the incision is, that seems appropriate) and white, and with the tape holding it on it is absolutely no less conspicuous than what I left the doctor in. I don't go back until next Thursday, so I get to have a big ol' white pad taped to my face for a week. Hot!
Itās been 48 hours so I can remove the bandage and shower and put a new bandage on and Iām scaaaared. What if I somehow rip it open taking the bandage off, or what if showering somehow makes it so it will never heal and Iāll never be able to do any activities ever again?? (writing it out does make me realize how much my anxiety is just, like, completely vague āsomehow EVERYthing will be ruinedā)
I had the Mohs surgery (I think thatās what itās called?) to remove the basal cell spot this morning. Downsides: despite it being painless because of the local anesthesia, the pulling sensations were super weird and uncomfortable. Also, they remove the spot and put bandages on, then you wait a few hours for the lab to process it and confirm they got it all, and then they bring you back again to do the stitches. So it took all morning and then some. Pros: they provided pizza for lunch since we were all there through lunchtime.
I was the only person who appeared under the age of 65 there (on tuesdays all they do is surgeries so it was me and everyone else who was having skin cancer spots removed). Most appeared 75 or older, and nearly half had canes or walkers. Iām ahead of the curve on getting skin cancer it seems. The doctor asked if I used tanning beds growing up. Nope, and always wore sunscreen as a kid too. I could (and will) be better about just everyday use though.
This spot is really annoying. I donāt have much loose skin in the area so the minor stretch of skin for the stitches feels really tight and makes me hesitant to move my head/neck through much of my range of motion. Itās not painful (yet - I took Tylenol as the numbing started to wear off but weāll see how it progresses) but overall very uncomfortable both locally and in my neck/shoulders because of how the tightness makes me hold my head.
Atlanta (burbs) 2026
Last fall my brother and his wife lost one of their cats to cancer. I realized then that I had never met that cat, and since they got that cat in January of 2020 it meant I had not visited them in six years. In that time they also bought a house which I had not seen. Insert alllllll the guilt.
So Ken and I finally made it down to visit them for a long weekend! We got to meet their current cats (Boone, black cat, is one of their original two, and Bode, fluff ball, they got after Boone was acting lonely when their other cat died last year) and I got to show Ken a little of Atlanta. We drove down Thursday and then hung out, went to watch them play in their pickleball league, then all got dinner together. Friday they worked so I took Ken into Atlanta and showed him a few really cute neighborhoods. We went to the vortex for burgers. When I started school it was 18+ so I went and had a great burger. Then shortly thereafter they upped the age to 21+ so I couldn't go back for three years. I also took him to Ponce City Market, which didn't open until the end of my time in Atlanta so I hadn't been yet.
My brother and SIL are in Marietta so Saturday we went to the Roswell farmers market (so good!) and then a little crafts show, and then in the evening we went to Alpharetta for a beer fest and dinner.
By the time we got home yesterday I was past my limit for tiredness and stress and I am really feeling it today but I'm really glad we made the trip. Their house is so cute and it's extra good to spend positive time with my brother since we grew up being mean to each other and didn't get along until adulthood. The opportunity to continue strengthening that adult relationship is so nice.
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Well, you know what they say; Rome was built in a day, and if you're going any slower than that, you're basically fucked with no hope at all
Got long enough circular needles for a try-on! Now that it has arm holes.
Pros of the new needles: very pointy, grab the stitches so nicely.
Cons of the new needles: very pointy, hurting my fingers because I knit by forming a stitch and then poking the needle down to slide the stitches off. (Iāve heard this is the wrong way to knit but my hands hate all other methods so I will be buying a thimble instead of learning to knit differently.)
After I formed the arm holes over the weekend, I realized I was supposed to have put in a button hole several inches back. I very bravely dropped two stitches and laddered down 20 rows and made a button hole and laddered back up.
