Just the sounds of my fans going above my head and nearby. We finally have some relief to the heat (it's been in the 90s with little to no rain for weeks), with rain in the forecast tomorrow, but I'm hot-natured, so even though it's in the 70s now both inside and out, I keep the fans on in my room whenever I'm there. But the quiet is nice. Sometimes it's good to only hear your own thoughts.
Today I did many things but I did not go to the YMCA and do exercises in the pool like I meant to. I haven't given up, I just had a lot to do today. But I did have some time to myself and some relaxation time, as well as game notes and laundry and errands.
I went to the pharmacy today to get my roommate some medicine and see if they had my Lantus, as I started on my last pen of the pack. Turns out they'd sent a request to my doctor's office for a refill and it had been denied. The reason? They said they had never prescribed it.
Now, I have been on Lantus for a couple of years, Basaglar before that for a short time when it was on my insurance's formulary, and years of Lantus prior to that, including quite some time of it from this office, continuously up till this past month. So obviously there has been a mistake. I'll have to call them on Monday. I'm hoping I have enough to last me through Monday so we can get it taken care of, a pen only lasts a few days--I get 10 per refill, and they last about 3 days each.
On Habitica, the task/productivity 'game' I play, there was a reading challenge I took up to read a book called The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury. Now I like Ray Bradbury, and it's actually a children's book, so I thought it would be good to read some fast-moving fiction. It's been such a struggle to read fiction (even non-fiction has its challenges), for several reasons. For one thing, I think being on the Internet has made my attention span that of a gnat. I've also apparently been a little off in how I use my bifocals, and it's hard for me to find a nice comfy place to read--I can't read in bed easily, and the comfy chairs are in the study (where my friend is often watching streaming stuff) or in his room. Reading in bed requires lots of pillows, a folding lap desk, and a study pillow with a neck bolster. I can read at the kitchen and study tables, when it is quiet, but the chairs are wooden and really need cushions after a while. Still, I managed to read the whole book in a very short time, maybe an hour or an hour and a half (it's 145 pages long). I enjoyed it--I knew all the various cultural ties to the practices of Halloween, but that was fine. And I'd figured out what happened to one of the characters. I guess the only real thing I had a bit of an issue with it--not a lot, just a bit, were that there were no girls at all in the characters, and little to no character description or development, really. But it is a product of 1972, and while Bradbury's writing deviates poetically from standard writing styles, he shares a common thread you find particularly in male writers of the time, and especially in science fiction writers, somewhat tilted towards action and away from characterization. (Women, by contrast, tend to over-describe and have a lot of emoting going without driving the action forward at all)--a good writer balances both. Still, his description of the settings and experiences are very good, and this story actually needs somewhat blank characters, as they represent certain timeframes of history in their costumes and with the exception of the one character from whose perspective the story is told, there's no real personality among the children, and I guess there really doesn't need to be. Anyway, I did enjoy the story, and it was a little chilling there at the end, so suitably Halloweenesque.
Later, we ate dinner from Subway with a friend, who had a couple of Pierce Brosnan 007 movies on, and then we returned home and I took up finishing the laundry. I've done my clothes and I'm working on my friend's bedding right now. I'm going to do mine tomorrow.
Tomorrow I think I'll try to get up early. I was supposed to do a couple of shelves, pulling off the books and dusting them. I didn't, but I can today. I did do the game notes, which were more timely. If I could get that and my normal Sunday pre-game chores are done really early, I might still be able to go to the Y and do some exercises in the pool and work out in general for maybe an hour, total. Then Monday I can go back for the low-impact pool class that I took this past week. I did really well with everything (and have been in much less pain and been able to move and bend better as a result) except this thing where you put the foam dumbbells under your knees and then balance above them. I need something to hold on and even so couldn't do it. The instructor suggested getting a lighter pair of dumbbells (I had the heavy ones) next time. People were really nice and non-judgmental, though, and I enjoyed it. The instructor was very good. We ended with a mindfulness exercise. So it starts out easy, gets the heart pumping, puts you through all sorts of movement, but it isn't extremely intense--just right for my level of conditioning.
I also need to run by the library while they're open and pick up a book on hold on the zero-waste home--I've been on the list for a while. It must have been there when I picked up The Halloween Tree earlier, but I didn't realise it was in, so I didn't look. I also checked out CDs by Sam Smith and Rush.
Okay, I'm going to get ready for bed. The laundry's still in the dryer, but at least I'll have my teeth brushed, etc. Hope you're having a good weekend.
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