Solutions

This would have been my morning to sleep in. I woke to loud purring at 0512, D got up, because he was being walked on, and then I got up as well. Somehow, I couldn't go back to sleep. So, breakfast and tea and no more sleep this morning. Despite the hard, hard week (I'll have about seven hours overtime since last Friday) my back pain is quite tolerable. The acupuncture and massage pillow*, after the therapy, seem to have finally made a real difference. Not to say I'm not sore, but it's not debilitating, does not take up every thought, does not constrain every movement. I have long stretches without pain at all.

After dinner, as made by D, last night, we went out to soak in the hot pool. The most lovely part of this apartment building, finally open this week after several months shut for lack of a working heater. Steaming in the cool dark, talking together, floating, we let the week go. The cow-orker who so irritates me, the bad air, the lack or excess of job, the delays on getting tax data, all rinsed away. The solution to pollution is dilution.

Moira & C will be in town soon, coming to see Dave and K's new babby.

Late update, it's for the baby blessing. Other friends of the new 'rents in town as well. Took me until now to realize that people baptize/name/bless babbies. I'm so far away from churches and infants, I completely failed to even have this enter my mind. Feh.




*Got at a steep discount on Christmas Eve.