or, I haven't updated lately except with gym notes, though I meant to.
I've been doing a bit more cooking today (not as much as I would like, still, but cooking is a piece of day-to-day-life that I can pay strangers to take care of). Today, I got![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
cattitude to talk me through his frittata recipe. He also kindly offered to beat the eggs, so as to spare my shoulder. One apple and cheddar frittata, a nice lunch for the two of us. (Or maybe an oven omelet, since it's fluffy and not broiled; adrian_turtle makes a different style of frittata, which I also like.) It's been a while since I cooked something new to me; that's more work that throwing together matzoh meal pancakes or turning the leftover turkey into a rice pilaf for dinner. Those I can do in my sleep.
My joints continue to be creaky, even on days when I don't seem to have done much. That said, the shoulder is healing again, albeit slowly. The knees I am starting to suspect may never get back to normal/pain-free. Or at least not with what we're doing now. At some point I may investigate physical therapy instead of, or in addition to, the balance and strengthening work my trainer and I have been doing. It also doesn't help that any time I seem to be making progress, I push things. (I am not looking for any sort of medical advice here.)
I'm doing a lot of rereading lately, including ebooks (Project Gutenberg and the Baen Free Library). Or it feels like a lot, but my list of recently finished ebooks includes The Voyage of the Beagle and The Portrait of Dorian Gray, neither of which I'd read before.
On the other hand, Cattitude and I continue to cull the book collection and thus reclaim space. This is mostly things we've concluded we will never reread, but not all: we don't need a hardcover Complete Oscar Wilde, given Project Gutenberg. We are not looking for homes for anything this round, though. People might want some of the ones we're discarding this time, but I don't care about them enough to make the effort. I was pleasantly surprised that the copy of Liddell and Scott was claimed so quickly when I offered it. The claimant has made a generous donation to two charities I suggested; I explicitly didn't want to be paid for it directly. That would have felt wrong, somehow.
The OE of A Women's APA sent out invitations a couple of months ago, for all alumnae to send in "this is what I'm up to" notes to be included in mailing 200. I sent about a page, and recently got fourteen pages, including my own. [The "OE" is the person who organizes things, sends out mailings, and so on. I was OE of AWA for a few years. An apa is a bit like a group blog and a bit like a listserv, if that helps; there were a lot more of them before most of fandom could count on easy net access.] I've noted a couple of women's contact information, and may yet try to write to them. (My entry included the contact information here.) I'm trying, slowly, to get more of a social life back. This should probably be more focused on people in the New York area, which most of them aren't.)
I've been doing a bit more cooking today (not as much as I would like, still, but cooking is a piece of day-to-day-life that I can pay strangers to take care of). Today, I got
cattitude to talk me through his frittata recipe. He also kindly offered to beat the eggs, so as to spare my shoulder. One apple and cheddar frittata, a nice lunch for the two of us. (Or maybe an oven omelet, since it's fluffy and not broiled; adrian_turtle makes a different style of frittata, which I also like.) It's been a while since I cooked something new to me; that's more work that throwing together matzoh meal pancakes or turning the leftover turkey into a rice pilaf for dinner. Those I can do in my sleep.My joints continue to be creaky, even on days when I don't seem to have done much. That said, the shoulder is healing again, albeit slowly. The knees I am starting to suspect may never get back to normal/pain-free. Or at least not with what we're doing now. At some point I may investigate physical therapy instead of, or in addition to, the balance and strengthening work my trainer and I have been doing. It also doesn't help that any time I seem to be making progress, I push things. (I am not looking for any sort of medical advice here.)
I'm doing a lot of rereading lately, including ebooks (Project Gutenberg and the Baen Free Library). Or it feels like a lot, but my list of recently finished ebooks includes The Voyage of the Beagle and The Portrait of Dorian Gray, neither of which I'd read before.
On the other hand, Cattitude and I continue to cull the book collection and thus reclaim space. This is mostly things we've concluded we will never reread, but not all: we don't need a hardcover Complete Oscar Wilde, given Project Gutenberg. We are not looking for homes for anything this round, though. People might want some of the ones we're discarding this time, but I don't care about them enough to make the effort. I was pleasantly surprised that the copy of Liddell and Scott was claimed so quickly when I offered it. The claimant has made a generous donation to two charities I suggested; I explicitly didn't want to be paid for it directly. That would have felt wrong, somehow.
The OE of A Women's APA sent out invitations a couple of months ago, for all alumnae to send in "this is what I'm up to" notes to be included in mailing 200. I sent about a page, and recently got fourteen pages, including my own. [The "OE" is the person who organizes things, sends out mailings, and so on. I was OE of AWA for a few years. An apa is a bit like a group blog and a bit like a listserv, if that helps; there were a lot more of them before most of fandom could count on easy net access.] I've noted a couple of women's contact information, and may yet try to write to them. (My entry included the contact information here.) I'm trying, slowly, to get more of a social life back. This should probably be more focused on people in the New York area, which most of them aren't.)
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