Oh, really? Why, yes. Yes indeed.

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I have been slowly returning to life.  Oh, nothing fancy, and it started with a few dishes one day, cat litter the next, along with the help from the neighbor.  I think he and his son's help... broke something open.  Or at least helped quite a bit.  It can be so difficult to see chores, tasks, jobs, wants, and such and be able to do nothing but sit.  So it is always a wonderful thing to be able to begin tearing in even at what is still, and probably will remain, a snail's pace.  But at a snail's pace at least some things will be done.

Yesterday I called Emergency Essentials.  I believed they had shorted me two cans of seed I had ordered.  They promised to resend those.  The woman on the line questioned my thoughts, so I promised I would recheck the supplies.  She put the order in and suggested that if I find them, just call and cancel.  I did recheck, too.  I try to be a man of my word.  No seed, so I needed do nothing more.  Then I asked about the year supply of grain and legumes...  That was backordered it seems.  It had just arrived and would be being sent out yesterday or today.  No problem there, I assured her, just so long as the order had indeed been placed (at that very nice price), and that it was all in the pipeline.  I was quite good with waiting a few days, weeks, or month.  So, my grains are on their way!

After that I placed an order for cable television.  Tomorrow, it seems.  And I was able to tag the third tier for the price of the second tier, without a contract.  I just want to make sure my mother has enough to watch, the local channels would not have made her very happy.  Only a few major cable channels would also have been a bit dry.  While I really would like to have the Catholic channel, I just don't like television.  Well, there is the cooking channel too.  But, like, I have been doing any of that.  Hmm...  Anyway, that will probably be quit at the end of her stay.  Probably.  There was another call yesterday, but I can't remember what that was. 

Today, I woke up hard.  I felt like someone had done a blackjack number on my skull.  One dose of aspirin, and another to come, and I seem to be doing a bit better.  I fed the girls and degaussed their litter pan first thing.  Then goofed a goodly bit.  But getting the coffee pot clean, and coffee grinder refreshed, has been on my mind.  So, I broke the grinder down and soaked it in vinegar.  I then set the coffee pot to run through several doses of vinegar, now I need to begin running through several pots of fresh-each-time water.  The coffee grinder together and should be fresh.

Next, more goofing.  A goodly lot.  Goofing equals console games (Skyrim).  After that, I re-soaked the dishes, putting the vinegar-water from the coffee pot in with that load.  It just smells bad even after a wash or two and several fresh soaks.  That might just be the drain?  Anyway...  I was lamenting the big pans I have to wash in the little sink.  Then I remembered something!  I bought that big tub in order to wash the big stuff, without completely gunking-up the bathtub.  So, I emptied the bin out, put some soap in the bottom, and took it into the tub and began filling it and loading it with the bigger things.  The roaster, the 20 quart pot, several 3-5 quart pans... you get the picture... the things that standard sinks just don't fit correctly.  So, washing the dishes should be completed in a day or two.

Yes, things are moving forward.  Life is coming back to my bones, muscle, skin, brain...  It isn't fear.  It is more... excitement?  Looking forward to having some company?  Having a goal?  I dunno.  It's not just one thing.  This sort of thing works once in a while, and allows me to do much more for a short time (potentially), but it doesn't last and in real terms it is lackluster.  You can only say it is wonderful if you know me well enough to see it.

I need to thaw some meat.  With dishes going forward, I should have a pot to cook in and a bowl to put leftovers.  Nothing fancy, perhaps mac and tuna cheese, but the actual kind, not that insta-crap.  Or... something else.  Meat!  I need meat too!  I suspect I should thaw several bits of meat.  Anyway... it is moving along, slowly albeit.

Good day.