Too Much Day...
Oct. 21st, 2010 10:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jeshyr[This is actually "yesterday" by the time I finished and posted it - it's around 24 hours later now.]
Had a drama-filled day today. Set off to Rebel Sport to buy a kickboard for my hydrotherapy exercises - it's down in Prahran but didn't look far on the map, honest! My cunning plan was to buy the kickboard then go swimming on the way home.
Firstly I got distracted by discovering that Windana (drug/alcohol rehab place close to here) has a bunch of great community services like massage therapy for $35/hr concession and anybody is allowed to access them, not just clients ... and their massage therapist happened to be free right when I dropped in! So that delayed me by about an hour and a half all up plus gave me a post-massage hangover which I should have expected (but had not thought about).
Then I got delayed by the Chapel St shops in a big way - I forgot that travelling down strips with shops (interesting shops I have not been past before, to boot) is so very much slower than travelling on familiar open footpath with no obstructions... and then I got there was further delayed by the enticing shoe section at Rebel Sports (nothing fit, in the end).
... and then I had to buy some lunch so I could take my tablets because I'd been out so long, which didn't take too long but was extra time and energy. Anyway, by the time I got back and went past the pool I'd been out for 4 hours and couldn't possibly have managed hydro so I just went home. (Somewhat lucky that I was too tired for the pool - I realised this evening I'd forgotten to take my towel!!!)
So got home and collapsed into bed at 4pm and failed to nap much until 6pm when Trina came. Felt awful and exhausted as I had the post-massage hangover effect extra strongly because this massage therapist isn't familiar with me, added to the "sat up for too long" crappy exhaustion from being out for twice as long as I'd expected.
So then there was a shriek from my carer who came in looking panicky and said that Anekin had brought a BIRD inside! Eep! Adrenaline surge! Carer was being uselessly vague and panicky (she's somewhat scared of Anekin) so I bolted out of bed and grabbed the cat, bird in mouth, by the scruff of the neck and took him to the door and yelled and shook him until he dropped the bird. Shut him firmly inside. Got carer to check all other doors were shut so he'd stay inside before the shakes hit me.
After some very ginger prodding, I realised he'd picked up a long-dead bird and had very obviously NOT recently killed or injured it. Thank heavens - I was really not relishing the idea of not letting him outside off-leash but I wouldn't let him hurt birds, let alone bring them inside to play! So Anekin's absolved of any bird killing, and only guilty of disgusting choice of playthings (or gifts for me? Double eww!) ... Exhausted and post-massage Ricky was now also tachycardic and coming down off a very major spike of adrenaline. Really really REALLY not what I needed to be doing tonght...
Am now going *flop* in a major way!
Love you all,
r
Had a drama-filled day today. Set off to Rebel Sport to buy a kickboard for my hydrotherapy exercises - it's down in Prahran but didn't look far on the map, honest! My cunning plan was to buy the kickboard then go swimming on the way home.
Firstly I got distracted by discovering that Windana (drug/alcohol rehab place close to here) has a bunch of great community services like massage therapy for $35/hr concession and anybody is allowed to access them, not just clients ... and their massage therapist happened to be free right when I dropped in! So that delayed me by about an hour and a half all up plus gave me a post-massage hangover which I should have expected (but had not thought about).
Then I got delayed by the Chapel St shops in a big way - I forgot that travelling down strips with shops (interesting shops I have not been past before, to boot) is so very much slower than travelling on familiar open footpath with no obstructions... and then I got there was further delayed by the enticing shoe section at Rebel Sports (nothing fit, in the end).
... and then I had to buy some lunch so I could take my tablets because I'd been out so long, which didn't take too long but was extra time and energy. Anyway, by the time I got back and went past the pool I'd been out for 4 hours and couldn't possibly have managed hydro so I just went home. (Somewhat lucky that I was too tired for the pool - I realised this evening I'd forgotten to take my towel!!!)
So got home and collapsed into bed at 4pm and failed to nap much until 6pm when Trina came. Felt awful and exhausted as I had the post-massage hangover effect extra strongly because this massage therapist isn't familiar with me, added to the "sat up for too long" crappy exhaustion from being out for twice as long as I'd expected.
So then there was a shriek from my carer who came in looking panicky and said that Anekin had brought a BIRD inside! Eep! Adrenaline surge! Carer was being uselessly vague and panicky (she's somewhat scared of Anekin) so I bolted out of bed and grabbed the cat, bird in mouth, by the scruff of the neck and took him to the door and yelled and shook him until he dropped the bird. Shut him firmly inside. Got carer to check all other doors were shut so he'd stay inside before the shakes hit me.
After some very ginger prodding, I realised he'd picked up a long-dead bird and had very obviously NOT recently killed or injured it. Thank heavens - I was really not relishing the idea of not letting him outside off-leash but I wouldn't let him hurt birds, let alone bring them inside to play! So Anekin's absolved of any bird killing, and only guilty of disgusting choice of playthings (or gifts for me? Double eww!) ... Exhausted and post-massage Ricky was now also tachycardic and coming down off a very major spike of adrenaline. Really really REALLY not what I needed to be doing tonght...
Am now going *flop* in a major way!
Love you all,
r
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Date: 2010-10-21 08:34 pm (UTC)you are beginning to 'feel' all the sights and sounds so long not in your sight/hearing - and like a kid (no offense meant) you are saviouring all those outside your once small normal range of life.
what is the saying "this too will pass" but on the other hand there are always a great many other experiences waiting for anyone prepared to be open to them
plans and 'to do' lists often do not pan out when you are in this 'new' mode of life. I know I have lots of badges and so to will you - just go with the flow and enjoy them - being mindful that sometimes 'payback' puts you out of action for a short period.
as to cat/bird episode - the bird was probably not going to make it much longer in this world. and a 'cat' or some other 'predator' did it a favour. Possibly if it was killed by a cat sometime ago that cat didn't have a master/mistress to take to the prize home to - you shouldn't completely admonish Anekin as he was bringing that special prize to you... mistress.
You should at least honour Anekin for being a skilful hunter (ok it was dead this time)and remind yourself that the bird (when it was alive) was either at the end of it's personal life or it was having a 'bad hair day' and got caught out....maybe it had been overdoing it like you did :0
Take care...another new adventure awaits you real soon :-) luv C in NZ
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