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Highlight of the week: our remaining cat is being a sweetheart — the night we had her brother put to sleep, she played with me for the longest I think she’s ever played with me before, then the next morning she snuggled under the covers with me which she doesn’t usually like Looking forward to: long weekend Stuff I did: • 1 hour consulting + 1 hour business admin • took Friday off for the holiday • settling into our new one-cat life — she does her own thing most of the day, so I’m acclimating to not having a buddy around all the time — we’re also trying out an automatic (wet food) feeder to see if that will work for weekends away • going through the stages of grief — denial and shock, guilt and regret, bargaining and anger — and sleeping like shit (I think I’m still on high alert mode) — I’ve been journaling to help process what happened • our other cat has been bringing me the shark toy like he used to — I had a mini breakdown the first time she did — don’t know if she also learned that I would reward her with attention for it, or it smells like him still, or she just likes it • rewatched Idiocracy — wanted to not think about the cat for a while • weeded for an hour and a half over two blocks — hoped some manual labor would distract me • went out for Sunday brunch — our town somehow only has one independent diner-y brunch spot, everything else is either a coffee shop or bougie AF — two plates and a coffee was $50 before tip, oof (I saved half my food and turned it into breakfast v.2 the next day, which helped with the cost in my mind) • financial forecasting — read [174]this article pointing out that our expenses are not likely to be the same for our entire lives, that there are different phases, if you will, of spending — had my husband create a mySocialSecurity account so we could check his expected payment — used [175]this tool to estimate both of our Primary Insurance Amounts and [176] this tool to evaluate when he should take Social Security and when I should (my highest paid years were at an org that opted out of Social Security, plus Social Security reduces your payout if you get a pension — yes my $800 /mo pension is a “windfall” — so I will get basically nothing 😜) • had a couple CDs come to term, and I made my IRA contribution, so invested those funds • my doctor couldn’t get me to do it, my cardiologist couldn’t get me to do it, my physical therapist couldn’t get me to do it… but [177]Annie helped me break the inertia and actually lift some weights this week! 🏋️‍♀️ Her reminder about [178]weight lifting strengthening bones clicked with my mom’s recent osteopenia diagnosis that I would like to avoid that if possible — thanks and happy birthday! 😉 • walked with my friend — scoped out a new greenway • baked up the remaining scones from a batch I made a couple weeks back Dinners: • scrounge — hummus and pita chips + Rainier cherries • [179]chickpeas and pasta + ciabatta bread • fake chicken burgers with pineapple + tater tots • veggie sausage sandwich + Coke • bowtie pasta with jarred marinara sauce (added sauteed onions and carrots) • burrito wraps using air fryer frozen fish (much smaller than expected) + tried one sip of some canned tepache and hated it • breakfast sandwiches + orange juice snack platter on a towel covered in screen printed papayas, the square plate divided by a wave of ritz crackers surrounded by cheese, nuts, olives and dried prunes fancy snack board Reading: • Read Decluttering at the Speed of Life by Dana K. White • Re-read The Long Game by Rachel Reid • Finished reading Stay for a Spell by Amy Coombe and Ew, It’s Beautiful by Joshua Barkman • Looked through A Pattern Language by Christopher W. Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, and Murray Silverstein — the ebook is basically unusable • Received Hyperobjects by Tim Morton Words I looked up: • [180]noodge • [181]lissome • [182]peroration Pretty stuff I saw: • nice [183]set of photos from a day trip Website changes: My [184]Neat Websites page was getting too long, so I: • migrated the tools info to [185]its own page — also brought over the graphic design tool links from [186]Graphic Design Resources (which also got some new links added) • ported the Seattle reference info to my [187]Local page Nature notes: • found some sort of burrow that I suspect might be a rat’s nest, literally three feet from the neighbor’s baited rodent trap 🤷‍♀️ • spotted two raccoons in the yard mid-day — they climbed partway up a tree then skittered away • brown creeper sighting! two raccoons with a backyard bird bath, one in the basin, the other standing upright beside it guessing these are the same two raccoons we saw during the day earlier in the week • Tags [188]personal [70c71f48c24aa2fcf7] By Tracy Durnell Writer and designer in the Seattle area. 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