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Today I acquired a likely permanent movement disorder in my left foot after many years of medications, such an accomplishment!

Thanks! and yes, that was a close call!

My younger cat, Georgie, now 11 years old, almost monthly gets shut in one closet or another but so far that's the most that's happened to him. He can just appear out of nowhere like Scotty beamed him directly in to point B from point A.

Grumman, now 12 years old, has twice been almost sat on by me after he got under the bedspread, so I work at remembering to check for him before sitting on the bed or putting things on the bed.

Oh dear!
I'll wager that specific accomplishment was not only not at the top of your to do list, it wasn't even a candidate to be on your to do list.

It sure wasn't on my list.

Aaaugh energy management ....... smart ! Hope your creative writers meeting goes well .

Made 2 cups of imitation coffee substitute made them myself . After I woke up . Successfully .

showered. now am squeaky-clean and sweet-smelling and sorta readier to face the grocery-getting world.

Oh it has been a wonderful day!
And I used so much energy that if we were in social distance distance y'all likely couldn't hear my voice due to it weakening and fading out.
That "price of admission" sucks - but I know how I got that way today and I'm okay with paying the price.
(and it may sound selfish, but Dad got some of these same diseases 23 years before I did and they have messed up his ability to swallow where for me they mess with my voice)

Had a bit of a health scare just before writers group - a gal from another group who meets at the bake shop, and we've talked kites before, had a couple kite repair questions & it was one of those times where my brain can't much tell you right now, but a bunch of my kites are right outside in the back of my van, so let's go and I can show the answers.
--> while in the middle of doing that my back took a couple steps toward having those kind of entire-body shaking spasms I wrote about in the Haven recently.
Fortunately she saw it without me having to say anything and helped me do what could be done to help not make them worse.

After that, and I got some of the appropriate pills in me, writers group went grandly.
Was just 3 of us, me, Liz, Allen.
They really liked what I came up with for our 20 minute timed writing to provided prompts exercise.
And like it so much I didn't really know what to do with the compliments.

After writers group, Liz and I talked about going around the corner of our little antebellum midwest farm burg's 3 block downtown to a local consigment store and cafe for lunch.
She's 70, writes a history column carried in several of the small local and regional papers, and we are both on below the poverty level Social Security Disability and really really really anxious to get that delayed $1400 that's been in the news.

I had raided some cash my parents gave me "for just in case" last fall when they gave me their van since they can't drive any more & said to Liz that I'll buy lunch this time.

But ...

When we got in the store ...

There was Leo, whose wife Judy was a retired nurse and published poet who had been our group moderator and general instigator/ringleader until cancer took her in 2019. He's 91 now, and he said, "Well, hey, come over here and visit and I'll buy your lunch!"
He was there with the now an Alzheimer's patient husband of one of the 3 gals who own the store.

So we all visited for a bit. Then Leo and Greg left and Liz and I finished lunch & visited for a bit. Then she needed to go care for grandchildren.

So I went and took my cane and laptop bag and strolled around the block past where 2 of the 100+ year old stores had burned down last weekend. On the way back to my van I stopped in a little bitty antique shop around the corner from a repainted classic "Bull Durham" tobacco sign on the old brick wall, and visited with Glenna who she and her husband, and a somewhat moody grey tabby cat, run the shop. Glenna writes music and poetry and keeps intending to come to group but getting distracted by the needs of their business. Her husband is a musician but was out. their daughter ,I think it is, was there. Glenna and I talked about writing and poetry for maybe 30 minutes till a couple young gals who collect old postcards came in to do business.

Then I went out to the sidewalk, got in the van, and said, "well, let's go across the street, across the alley, and see if anyone is at model train club.

Ken and Harry were there. Harry is retired from being a retail manager and Ken is both retired and disabled. He was in construction. So we spent from maybe 2pm to 4pm talking trains, model trains, current events, politics, society, Christianity, food, and just plain had a grand time.

My voice is almost too week to be heard, I can feel the caffeine hit from 2 Dr Peppers running out, I'm now reclining in bed and starting to have the fibromyalgia pain, and the musculoskeletal pain from several things like the tissue between the bones in my feet decaying and going away, hit from all that activity.

And my 2 rescue tabbies are here being "my right hand men" curled up at my right side.

And my health is a mess, and I'm exhausted, and I'm hurting all over, but ya know what, even so, I am a happy camper with what this day has been and so very thankful that it has been that. It has really been an enriching and fulfilling day

Reading that made my day! Knowing how challenging these conditions are, you truly triumphed today! So good to hear! This sounds like a day to long remember! Your Epic Writing skills and the friendships you have there are something truly special. May there be many more such days, in spite of the inevitable price to pay.

Ya know, now that the word triumph is used, it was/is a kind of triumph, a thing to celebrate!
you have a good point there.

And speaking of challenging conditions, had a picture Dad sent of Mom the other day, 80 years old, stroke in March 2019, and just had to show it off to Allen and Liz at writers group and Ken and Harry at model train club; and they all commented on how great she looks after all she's been through.

Your Mum sure did look amazing in that photo! She clearly has amazing spirit!

I took my dog for a walk.

Yet, a better understanding of myself. The thought of running through a battlefield, wearing a Stahlhelm makes me feel strong.

Hooray for support pets .....!

FINALLY managed to get an appointment for my first dose of covid vaccine!

Played four folk songs in different keys on the chromatic harmonica. I've had the thing sitting in a drawer for ten years, but recently decided to learn to play it properly.