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I don't think I have a lot to say today. My week took a real turn for the worse the day before yesterday, and I was so emotionally exhausted from it that I didn't even bother posting yesterday at all. All I could think was: what good would it do? I'd just be airing dirty laundry which, frankly, I'd just as soon simply forget. And if I just don't write about it, my brain will erase it soon enough because that's just how my brain works. It will be like it never happened. Suddenly I'm seeing the silver lining in memory loss.
It wasn't anything cacaclysmic, at least not on its own. It was just infuriating. I do wonder how many times this can happen before it breaks the camel's back, though. I'm much closer to fine today, but the overall mood this week has kind of soured. I was so excited about this trip, and I still am. But now it feels like something to take our minds off underlying issues rather than the simply joyous exercise I have been looking at it as for months.
Here's a stupid little detail about trip planning that makes me happy. So, I wash my hair once every three days. Sometimes certain things come along that might upset this cadence—such as 12-hour travel from one side of the world to the other. To be more specific, when we land in Amsterdam on Sunday it will be 4:15 in the afternoon their time, but 7:15 in the morning Pacific, which would normally be around the time I'm getting ready for the next day. I won't likely be showering again until the next morning, another 14 to 15 hours later. I'm going to have to skip a day showering. It would very much annoy my OCD sensibilities if that day was when I was scheduled to wash my hair.
But! I just washed my hair this morning. I next wash my hair on Saturday, so it's all good. I won't need to wash my hair again until Tuesday. It'll technically be half a day longer than usual before I wash my hair again but whatever; I'm just glad it won't be a day and a half.
It's the little things in life.
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I'm using photos from our anniversary trip to Yellowstone National Park for today's Daily Lunch Update (DLU), by the way. We took that trip in 2018. Eight years ago! And still, I took
so many DLU-worthy photos from that trip, I
still have 117 left unused. And how many have I already used for DLU posts over the years? 110. I haven't used even half of them. Too many other photogenic events have happened since. Generally I try to use more recent shots anyway, but sometimes I look up some kind of theme, varying from very narrow to very broad. Today I decided to do a bit of a throwback.
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Shobhit signed up for a trial membership of YouTube TV so he could watch World Cup matches, which are now all done, but until the trial ends he still has access to things like MSNow. He watched that last night, later went on a walk to get steps in. Much like the night before, I spent more of the evening minding my own business in the bedroom. I keep getting stuck in YouTube wormholes, particularly sicne the algorithm quickly realized I'm enjoying this gay comedian it served up to me named Joe Dombrowski who by sheer coincidence happens to be from Seattle. Now I'm really interested in seeing him live.
I also read some of my library copy of
Stand on Zanzibar, which I almost never do at home. I'm so close to the end, though: like 30 pages to go. It's timing perfectly so I'll finish before the trip, and then I can just check out the ebook of the 2023 Madonna biography to load to my phone for easy reading while traveling to Amsterdam.
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[posted 12:33pm]
