Is It Going To Be Like This Forever?

I'm slowly adjusting to the outdoors looking like midnight by the time work is done. I used to get out of work at 3:30pm so it was always light on the way home. And now that I have an actual house and yard to take care of I'm feeling the darkness.

I missed a week, but in my heart I know I'm doing so much better than before. Last weekend I had the most traumatizing experience. I felt a pinch on my back and I ran to the washroom to find a tick on my back. I didn't know it was a tick as I swatted wildly at it, screaming uncontrollably. It almost fell down the drain but it was still alive and it's little gross legs stuck to the drain and kept it within reach. I have never seen or known what an engorged tick is, but that means it has been feasting on your blood and is the size of a pinky nail. In a few more days it would have ballooned up and I don't even want to think about it. I showered with that a****** attached to my back. I slept. I walked around. I am forever changed. I called my dr and she prescribed a schedule of antibiotics. Two weeks, two pills a day and I'm guaranteed to not get Lyme disease. Although the bite site is not halo-ing and I don't have any other apparent symptoms I feel better knowing I will be 100% Lyme free. I also have been avoiding my doctor. Taking a covid reprieve from the constant battery of blood tests and follow ups, and in the process have been avoiding a necessary appt. I choose to consider this bite the impetus to otherwise take care of myself.

I shovelled my driveway for the first time yesterday afternoon. Certainly not the first driveway I've ever shovelled, but absolutely the most reasonably sized one. I felt like a real home owner. And not the imposter I've been trying to overcome. I also got in a last round of lawn maintenance on Saturday, which by the way was GORGEOUS out. I had about another hour to do but the darkness cut my time short. And I chose the right day to finally put my last two patio chairs into the shed.

It's November, so it's the time of year I start buying myself presents. I don't know how it happens every year like clockwork. I was at Costco in Peterborough and I grabbed a set of wifi headphones. I went online and ordered a carry case for some knitting needles I came across in my spare room. I'm actually quite excited to have everything together in one place. I ordered a really expensive shawl knitting kit from a local yarn shop.

Tomorrow the guy that installed my security system is coming by with a new indoor sensor. The morning I woke up and forgot to turn it off and didn't set it off until I opened the back door, I knew something was wrong. And it has taken me literally months to get him to replace it. When it isn't a supply issue, vendors in town are just insanely busy.

I picked up a bundle of dishes at Nirvana on the way home from the pharmacy. They are my all-time fave. I do miss the food from Mississauga from time to time. I stopped by M&Ds and dropped off some yums for them as well.

That's about all she wrote. And by she I mean me. That's all me wrote.