Recuperation commenced
2021-Jan-25, Monday 09:23![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Thank you so much for all your good wishes, everyone! I'm home now and under ![[instagram.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/profile_icons/instagram.png)
sashagee's care and she's preventing me from overdoing it. I normally walk ten thousand steps a day and it's been very hard to be sedentary, but I tried to walk for just ten minutes a couple times a day and while I accomplished it once, the second time I tried it I stopped within a couple minutes. I've been sitting down and playing video games all day, which I'd normally consider to be kind of a waste if that's all I did during the day, but it's not being lazy, it's recuperating. That's it.
I'm still trying to stand up and move around a lot, but my steps have taken an extremely sharp dip. I'm really itching to get up and moving again but in the meantime, games it is.
To make myself feel a bit better, I've started replaying Suikoden again, which I last played in October of 2019. I'm playing in Japanese so it's good practice, but that means I'm extra confused about what I have to do or where I am. I literally remembered nothing of the plot until I tried to recruit one of the refugees of the elven village and Kirkis went on about how bad the Empire was and I was like, oh, that's right, I'm in the rebellion fighting the empire! The empire used a superweapon called the Hellfire Mirror (焦魔鏡 shōmakyō, localized as "Burning Mirror") to annihilate the village of the elves and decimate their population! Now I have to track down some alchemist named Lucian because he can dispel the barrier around Milich Oppenheimer's fortress. I really need to look up a Let's Play of this game so I can remember what I've done and who everyone is.
Yesterday my parents came over for dinner and to see me. Before my appendix troubles,sashagee were planning to go to Morton Arboretum to see the trolls before they vanish at the end of the month--at least theoretically, since it's been delayed twice before--but that's obviously not happening now. I had invited them to come walk with us and they invited us over for dinner afterwards or in case it was too icy for my mother to make the hike, and with my being an invalid, they came over and my father did some home repair projects while I sat on the couch and sashagee stopped every attempt I made to help in even a small way. 
It was really frustrating, but now we have her mirror hung on the wall and another set of coathooks down in the genkan by the door. In exchange, sashagee made them pasta with meat sauce--farfalle, since I got to freely choose the pasta--and gave them a picture frame with two photos of the baby in it, with a third slot for after the baby is born. They couldn't stay long because they had to get home to feed my sister's dogs, but it was really nice to see them.
There was a real moment of serendipity too--my mother mentioned that a few months ago she was looking through old boxes of clothes from long ago, which included baby clothes, and thinking, "There's never going to be any grandchildren, I should get rid of these." But she didn't, and now the baby is going to get some of the clothes thatwanderluster_kp wore when she was an infant! As a family, we're really big on passing things down.
I went back to work today, since I just have a sitting-at-a-computer job, andsashagee did too! She started her new job for the state government and she's out there in training right now while I'm working in the office. I'm excited she's getting a chance to work from home, since while she's feeling much better she's not back to 💯 quite yet. It's a contract position at the moment but hopefully when her term is up she'll get placed elsewhere. That would be wonderful. 🧿
sashagee's care and she's preventing me from overdoing it. I normally walk ten thousand steps a day and it's been very hard to be sedentary, but I tried to walk for just ten minutes a couple times a day and while I accomplished it once, the second time I tried it I stopped within a couple minutes. I've been sitting down and playing video games all day, which I'd normally consider to be kind of a waste if that's all I did during the day, but it's not being lazy, it's recuperating. That's it.I'm still trying to stand up and move around a lot, but my steps have taken an extremely sharp dip. I'm really itching to get up and moving again but in the meantime, games it is.
To make myself feel a bit better, I've started replaying Suikoden again, which I last played in October of 2019. I'm playing in Japanese so it's good practice, but that means I'm extra confused about what I have to do or where I am. I literally remembered nothing of the plot until I tried to recruit one of the refugees of the elven village and Kirkis went on about how bad the Empire was and I was like, oh, that's right, I'm in the rebellion fighting the empire! The empire used a superweapon called the Hellfire Mirror (焦魔鏡 shōmakyō, localized as "Burning Mirror") to annihilate the village of the elves and decimate their population! Now I have to track down some alchemist named Lucian because he can dispel the barrier around Milich Oppenheimer's fortress. I really need to look up a Let's Play of this game so I can remember what I've done and who everyone is.
Yesterday my parents came over for dinner and to see me. Before my appendix troubles,
sashagee were planning to go to Morton Arboretum to see the trolls before they vanish at the end of the month--at least theoretically, since it's been delayed twice before--but that's obviously not happening now. I had invited them to come walk with us and they invited us over for dinner afterwards or in case it was too icy for my mother to make the hike, and with my being an invalid, they came over and my father did some home repair projects while I sat on the couch and sashagee stopped every attempt I made to help in even a small way. It was really frustrating, but now we have her mirror hung on the wall and another set of coathooks down in the genkan by the door. In exchange, sashagee made them pasta with meat sauce--farfalle, since I got to freely choose the pasta--and gave them a picture frame with two photos of the baby in it, with a third slot for after the baby is born. They couldn't stay long because they had to get home to feed my sister's dogs, but it was really nice to see them. There was a real moment of serendipity too--my mother mentioned that a few months ago she was looking through old boxes of clothes from long ago, which included baby clothes, and thinking, "There's never going to be any grandchildren, I should get rid of these." But she didn't, and now the baby is going to get some of the clothes that
wanderluster_kp wore when she was an infant! As a family, we're really big on passing things down.I went back to work today, since I just have a sitting-at-a-computer job, and
sashagee did too! She started her new job for the state government and she's out there in training right now while I'm working in the office. I'm excited she's getting a chance to work from home, since while she's feeling much better she's not back to 💯 quite yet. It's a contract position at the moment but hopefully when her term is up she'll get placed elsewhere. That would be wonderful. 🧿
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Date: 2021-Jan-25, Monday 19:50 (UTC)Congrats again to you and sashagee on the baby!
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Date: 2021-Jan-27, Wednesday 14:51 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-Jan-25, Monday 19:50 (UTC)Congrats again to you and sashagee on the baby!
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Date: 2021-Jan-26, Tuesday 06:04 (UTC)Congrats on the new job for sashagee!
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Date: 2021-Jan-27, Wednesday 15:12 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-Jan-26, Tuesday 15:48 (UTC)That's really sweet you got some extra baby clothes - your mom must be excited to be a grandmother!
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Date: 2021-Jan-27, Wednesday 15:16 (UTC)My parents aren't outwardly super excited...but I can tell they're excited on the inside! Given those clothes is a mark of how excited they are.
(Also, I can't believe she still had them. It's been 35 years!)