Hard Things

[ysabetwordsmith]

Life is full of things which are hard or tedious or otherwise unpleasant that need doing anyhow. They help make the world go 'round, they improve skills, and they boost your sense of self-respect. But doing them still kinda sucks. It's all the more difficult to do those things when nobody appreciates it. Happily, blogging allows us to share our accomplishments and pat each other on the back.

What are some of the hard things you've done recently? What are some hard things you haven't gotten to yet, but need to do? Is there anything your online friends could do to make your hard things a little easier?

Comments

[siliconshaman]

Taking Loki to the vets..although not for the obvious reasons. Sure, standing outside the vets in the wind and the cold wasn't fun [thanks to covid restrictions] but because the last few times I've been there with one of our cats it's not been good news, and I've come back only to dig a grave for them...

I get sick to the stomach now with stress, and feel like breaking into tears. PTSD I guess.

Thankfully, the prognosis is better this time around, but I don't think my subconscious has got the memo yet. Still twitchy about it.

[mama_kestrel]

Hugs if desired.

[siliconshaman]

Thanks, I do... I feel like I've been massaged with rubber hammers today.

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

Housekeeping and phone calls.

[snippy]

Not recently, but this time last year: I tapered off the last bit of a prescription that I had been taking. This was to treat something that, while I still have it, it will not improve and the medication was no longer helping, but it was addictive, so with my doc's approval I started tapering off it a few years back and now that I'm completely done it's such a relief.

[librarygeek]

Finishing up my degree, poking as needed at the university to make sure I graduate with the dual Area of Study in Psychology and Liberal Studies for my chaplain certification and my ordination program wants.

THIS step will be done by the 31st. I'm tired, but I should graduate March 12th officially.

I'm in a Rabbinic studies conference session right now. Yes, even tired, Aleph Jewish Renewal is the spiritual home for me. 📜🙏✡️😇🤣💙

Go you!

[ysabetwordsmith]

That is so exciting. :D

[we_are_spc]

There is this thing, it's called a budget.

...

It's really hard to stick to right now when there are so many house upgrades I want. Including wood closet shelves that will have to come later, but were part of the charm of why I'd bought the hous in the first place. He doesn't want metal shelves...and he's having to deal with them because Ccheaper...and I can feel his sadness for it.

(He/zhi; I don't know which the house wants because it switches.)

Not to mention we had to spend $628 on a new fridge because ours decided to randomly die...and tht wasn't necessarily in the budget either, so now it's like...*find way to make up money we couldn't necessarily spend, but neded to.) *sighs*

And I had to say no to an urgent request from a friend (Who is in Nigeria and needs email accounts set up for amazon+google for reasons)...before a friend of his gets here tomorrow because the old ones are locked until we can change passwords and google's recovery process takes 2 days.

I've had so much going on today that I couldn't get there, and it's already three there, and I just can't.

I, just, can't.

(Also, repair work; can't brain everything of my own, let alone their shit.)

-T~

[erulisse]

I have to make a tough call at work in the morning. There's no clearly right or wrong answer. Either way I decide, something could very easily go pear-shaped. I knew this type of thing would be part of the job when I took it but I didn't expect it to happen quite so quickly.

[pronker]

This is physically hard; I'm pruning the olive tree out front. It's grown to 20 feet tall and 20 feet wide and drops olives onto the sidewalk. Every time I prune with the pole saw, I remember Gramps' advice: "Control your drop!" so I'm super careful not to saw all the way through the limb, only partway and then little by little the 4 inch thick limb droops where I can control it. @ o @

In more pleasant news, I heard another owl-goose conversation the other week at 3 a.m.: hoo hooo hoo hooooo hoo HONK and this time it went perhaps 3 minutes and had 5 hoots, 1 honk compared to the first time's 3 hoots, 1 honk. What on earth could that mean?? :D

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> This is physically hard; I'm pruning the olive tree out front. <<

Yeah, we have lots of yardwork here.

>>In more pleasant news, I heard another owl-goose conversation <<

Fascinating!

[labelleizzy]

Owl-goose conversation sounds delightful!

And good work on the tree pruning!

[pronker]

Thanks! Olive is a hard wood and I'm leery of limbs crashing on my head. So far, so good! Owl-goose continues to intrigue me because the goose sounds in no way distressed, no fluttering or thrashing, just two night time pals chatting.

[labelleizzy]

I dogged Kaiser to change the psychiatrist assigned to me, and to get a second opinion about ADHD. I'm downright ANGRY about the quarter-assed testing they offered me, given my therapist and I literally went through the dsm-v like a checklist and she said I qualified before we even GOT to the "inattentive" section.

But I've got a video appointment for this next Tuesday to meet the new doc and I am hopeful.

Standing up for myself with medical professionals is hard but it's more doable the older I get.

[pronker]

Best of luck to you with Kaiser. I had them a very long time ago and yes, perseverance is key. :/