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The whole crew came over around noon, to drop Sal off for her last few days and to hang out. Henry worked, Jayla made important calls, and we all wrangled the children. Exhausting. Heheh. Freyja can boldly take a few steps! And Lulu is wonderful. She tried on the undies I made for her — I thought they’d be too big but they are nearly too small! I’ll go up a size or two and make a batch when the weather is cooler and the guest room is my sewing room again.

Also planning to make a comfy summer outfit for Jayla’s little brother Mikey, who’s about to turn three. She says he likes animals so I’ll try to find a fun animal print cotton jersey at JoAnn’s. That’s the one thing — cotton jersey — that the Good fabric store doesn’t have much of, oddly.

Hot hot hot today. But the nights and mornings are GLORIOUS even when it’s 95° in the daytime.

Gorgeous summer day. Feeling like myself again! I did three things today. I sewed a pair of undies for Lulu (and will make more after she tries them on), and I baked a yeasted lemon cake, and I played some WoW!

So nice to feek ok again. Hope it lasts a few days.

We’ve been watching the Chernobyl miniseries — first time for Dave, fourth time for me. So damn good.

Had enough energy this morning to go with Dave to Lowe’s and choose a new bathroom sink, which was fun. We always have such a good time together. Now we need to wait till Henry comes to visit so we can ask his help in getting the box out of the van.

I crashed at about 1pm and spent the rest of the day lying down. Maybe tomorrow I can do something creative!

Today was better. Drove mom over to Henry’s for the weekend and hung out for a while. When I got home I just rested for the remainder of the day.

Just beyond exhausted. Missing one dose of mirtazapine really killed me. Bleak gray mood too. Did nothing all day.

Mom is here, yay! We had a lovely time this evening sitting around and discussing all of our ailments. We’re so old!

So freaking tired today. Pharmacy let me run out of Mirtazapine so I missed a dose last night which means I didn’t sleep and am having withdrawals. Thank goodness it arrived today so tomorrow should be better.

So freaking tired today. Tidied up a bit in the morning cause Mom is coming for a visit tomorrow, and read my new book for a while. “Footnotes” by Peter Fiennes. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44591254

Played a little WoW, then just lay down with my eyes closed and listened to the Taskmaster podcast for the rest of the day.

This morning i did some housework and tended my garden. All my veggies are still alive and bigger every day! And then I reinstalled WoW and my favorite add-ons and had a nice session of adventuring in Azeroth. And then I started reading the book that Henry surprised me with yesterday! Of course I’m in bed now and can’t remember the title or author (I’ll post that info tomorrow), but it’s excellent and just my kind of thing. Henry heard Rick Steves praising it on the radio and bought me a copy! Dear, sweet, thoughtful Henry. *heart eyes*

Dave checked the stove when he got home last night and it lit with only a little effort. D’oh. He says it probably needed to be primed. But that doesn’t explain why the igniter didn’t click for me! Oh well, I was able to cook spaghetti today, just with basic jarred marinara but it was nice to have pasta again.

Everyone came over so Henry coukd help Dave build stuff and unload stuff and set stuff up in the mighty workshop. I read to Lulu for ages, and the baby enjoyed the spaghetti!

All day — ALL DAY — I was lookimg firward to pasta for dinner, just nice basic spaghetti with sauce out of a jar. (we haven’t had gas to cook with in 17 days). So tonight I fill up my pot, get out my ingredients, and … the stove won’t light.

Great gnashing of teeth!

It doesn’t even click, so I think when the Gas Man shoved it back into place he unplugged it. And certainly no gas is coming through. Our stove doesn’t ignite properly so we need to use a match every time, and if there were any gas around the burner my match would have ignited it.

Dave’s out, at some far-away hardware and/or woodworking store, so it’s microwaved food for dinner again. Cross your fingers that I can have pasta soon.

I don’t remember if I mentioned my medication changes. Endocrinologist is adding T3 to my meds, and cardiologist is letting me cut the amiodarone by half. And he’s switching me to a different diuretic that might not mess with my stomach so badly. Typing these words feels very familiar so I expect this isn’t new information here on kayray.org. Anyway, I’m hoping these changes will alleviate some of my horrible symptoms and I’ll be able to put on some weight. (I’m 98 lbs again)

The Gas Man finished fixing everything, the Gas Company inspected and turned our mains back on, and we have hot water again! After 16 days! Yay!!!