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Posted this a couple days ago on Instagram. Meant to also post here.

A fantastic mellow four-day weekend for me — and yet hardly anything photographable, except these 3 bums in Delray Beach.

Pluses:

1. +Lotsa sleep
2. +a couple short bike rides
3. +lots of TV
4. +Baking a loaf of bread
5. +Playing a couple board games
6. +Dropping off books to Little Free Library and 3 bags of food to a food pantry
7. +Lunch with friends
8. +Saving money by returning things and cancelling things
9. +Spending gift certificates on the cat, clothes, skincare
10. +a face mask
11. +Luxuriating in a super tidy, minimalist home
12. +long chats with @empressacadia
13. +very very very tentatively planning future vacations
14. +Finding forgotten funds for nonprofit
15. +cheese

Minuses:

1. -Only one showing of the house
2. -Bad weather made me cancel dinner with J; then again, an ill husband made J cancel dinner with me — I guess two negatives make a positive that neither of us was left hanging.

Next:

1. *Work for 3 days ✔️
2. *lotsa rain (less than expected) ✔️
3. *Finishing Andor Season 2 ✔️
4. *chiropractor (cancelled)
5. *massage ✔️
6. *manicure ✔️
7. *eyebrow wax ✔️
8. *Dinner at Imoto on Palm Beach ✔️
9. *more homemade bread
10. *Flamingocon 29! ✔️

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Plus:

+ so much packing done, so much decluttering done

+painter chosen and deposit made

+storage unit chosen and paid — and had a fun adventure doing this task together

+NYC was fantastic — and I spent far less money than usual

+gave notice at work to reduce hours and work remotely, but also started talks with two other places

+candlelight concert with Sean

+ bonding with Peter over Survivor

+good lozenges

+meditation

+not overwhelming myself

MINUS

-Peter hurt his back

-roaches

-looming fascism

-Sean not willing to sign a lease before house sells

-weight

WHAT’S NEXT

*Get stuff out of house to storage

*painters

*photographers

*Flamingocon 28

*more walking

*cancel unnecessary subscriptions

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PLUS 

+I slept more the last two days and napped on Saturday

+Left laptop at the office, and didn't work all day Sunday. Whew, a break really does help mentally,

+I made appointment for a massage and a training at the gym. Using up this stuff that I am paying for.

+Packed 3 more boxes

+Bike ride with Sean

+11+ hours of OT

+sunrise on Saturday morning

+Time with friends

+roof started!

+Flex savings resolved -- we had never put any in there!

+Sean quit the gym -- saving money! I will quit in a month or so when I used up training

MINUS

-Far too much time sitting at computer

-Peter not doing great

-anxiety about packing, about moving, about friends, about my health

-ours and everyone's retirement accounts

NEXT

*Massage on Monday

*Gym on Weds

*More overtime

*more packing

*Transferring more Flamingocon stuff to Kevin

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PLUS

+Watching The Nice Guys with Sean and with The Historians at the Movies folks

+still enjoying birthday fudge

+Playing Ashokan Farewell with slightly more confidence each time

+Playing ThunderRoad Vendetta with Sean, Barbara and Jerry

+podcast about treating projects as experiments

+Finding out I never put $ in my flex save last year so I haven’t lost $ there.

+taking a day to completely chill

+moving Flamingocon out of our house

+Getting some boxes packed and stuff weeded out

+Talking with Ellie/Nora, looking and sharing old photos of her

+Peter going to therapy

MINUS

-Peter depressed

-the state of the world

-maybe losing money in Sean’s flex save

-not sleeping, meditating or walking enough

-feeling guilty about not going to Pride event

-too much time obsessing over rentals (but at least I’m not on social media as much)

-flat tire on the bike (but nice time at the park otherwise)

NEXT:

SLEEP

MEDITATE

WALK

MOISTURIZE

Plans for an echocardiogram (monitoring my health!), labyrinth (mental health!) with friends, bonsai trimming with a friend, and art museum

Make money

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Plus

1. +my birthday! What a week to start this journaling…
2. +Dinner with Sean
3. +lunch with Stacy & Barbara
4. +well wishes for friends
5. +pretty azaleas from the grocery
6. +watching House and finish reading Vonnegut with Peter
7. +phone call with Eleanor
8. +chocolates
9. +start packing
10. +Cookie Monster bowl from Totally Salad
11. +Tax Retreat zoom call
12. +OT pay
13. +praise from Darline and Vicki

Minus:

1. -work is kicking my butt but no more than to be expected.
2. -I’ve let some things be neglected like flex savings reimbursement and violin practice
3. -packing is scary, and induces feelings of guilt for things collected and indecision anxiety

Next:

1. More packing
2. Catching up bills and reimbursements
3. Filing personal tax returns
4. Get rid of Flamingocon stuff in garage
5. Peter driving test
6. Labyrinth
7. shopping for iPhone with Peter
8. more meditation
9. more journaling
10. pride parade
11. more overtime