HAPPY PRIDE 🏳️‍🌈

Happy Pride🏳️‍🌈

I decided to skip Pride celebrations this year and instead do practical things. I assembled my hammock and spent 40 minutes in it relaxing. My pop up tent arrived and I practiced putting it up and more importantly taking it down. I cleared out a drawer of clothes that are too big and put my hiking clothes in the newly empty drawer. I did some laundry and washed dishes. I walked the dog three times. But most importantly I invoiced some clients.  

I also planned my next, next adventure. I'm planning another (I say another because I already planned my trip in early fall) trip mid to late fall. I'm so excited.

Until tomorrow 

GAY HISTORY HIKE

I got up early so that I could be up and ready to go to my planned hike. The hike was being run by a ranger who is gay and talking about queerness in the National Park system. It was a very interesting hike rhat stopped multiple times during the hike to talk about different parts of gay history. At the end of a beautiful hike with wonderful views, was a labyrinth. I walked the labyrinth and contemplated my upcoming life changes. 

After the planned hike, I went on a short hike by myself. 

I miss each year the fabulous party my friends used to have. They moved to Hawaii and I visited them last year. 

Until tomorrow...

GAY ORIDE WEEKEND

It's gay Pride weekend and I was going to go to the Trans March but my feet were bothering me. The thought of matching all that way after walking the dog did not sound fun. Plus I have a hike planned for tomorrow. 

The Trans March is a march showing pride for being trans or a trans ally. I matched in it years ago with a friend. The match was much smaller then. 

I am probably not going to to any big celebrations this year. Nothing wrong with them or me. I just want to get things done at home. 

Until tomorrow...

NEUROPATHY OR FIBROMYALGIA

I have been having pains in my feet. When I spoke to the doctor she feels that it might be neuropathy. I don't know that much about neuropathy but I hear it is nerve damage caused by RA that affects the peripheral nervous system. It may be numbness or tingling of your extremities.  

I have had pain in my feet and now I have burning on my toes. The question is: is it neuropathy or fibromyalgia? Who knows if we will ever know? I'm not so sure it makes a difference as long as I get treated. Do you have neuropathy or fibromyalgia? Where is your pain? 

Until tomorrow...

NEXT VAN TRIP PLANNED

Today started out regular. I was happy to not have construction workers in my house for the first time in a while. The door they put in looks great. They just have to come back and finish some painting of the trim on the outside and a little bit of painting on the inside. 

This afternoon I got bored and started booking campgrounds for my next trip. It's amazing how far in advance people will book campgrounds. But I got a site in every Campground but one. That one is switching hands tomorrow so I have to go on tomorrow reserve a campsite. 

Then in the evening instead of meditating I started looking at another trip that I'm going to take late in the year. I'm trying to figure out how much that would cost. With the van rental, the campgrounds, the gas and propane. I want to see if I can do another trip before the end of the year. I heard a lot of places the week of Thanksgiving and the week after Thanksgiving are less expensive.

Until tomorrow...

RUDE

Today I blocked out my entire morning to be on a video call for my foster kid. I was told about this date weeks ago, I didn't schedule anything during this time. I contact him last night to verify but I got no answer. 

This morning I'm sitting there with the zoom but I have no information on where to zoom. Finally the kid calls me around 10:00 a.m. to tell me it was canceled and rescheduled but he doesn't know the date and time. And yes, he knew this days ago but didn't bother to tell me. I find that very rude. My time is valuable especially because I work for myself. 

Kids. What are you going to do with them? 

Until tomorrow...

BACK TO THE VET

Today I had to take Miss Vivien Butterfly back to the vet. She that's this weird mark right under her bottom lip that looked puffy. So I took her into the doctor could look at it and she thought it was like ingrown hair mark. She gave me some gel to put on it. It's weird though because I thought it was a cut or scrape or something. I would not have thought that it was like an ingrown hair. She said that it wasn't the ingrown hair necessarily but the bacterial infection that caused the mark. 

Until tomorrow...

ELECTRIC CAR 🚗

This was my first trip with my new electric car. I do have to admit I went into it with a little bit of trepidation. I hadn't quite figured out that much about charging the car, going to a charger, and how far the car can really go on a charge. I also was not sure about all of the technology in the car. 

I made it down to my godmother's with a little bit of stress and a couple of stops. Of course I had the dog so I had to stop every couple of hours to let the dog out to pee. I even had to pee myself and I didn't want the dog to walk in the not so clean bathroom, so I carried the dog in and held her on my lap while I peed. It was a bit of a Cirque du Soleil move. 

Add another rest area I found that they had free charging for your electric car so I plugged in for a little bit. I texted my brother to tell him and he informed me it would be an extremely slow charge. 

Luckily my brother had planned out my trip for me and found me a charging station part way to my destination. It had a quite fast charger that took only 20 minutes on the way down. Unfortunately on the way back home, the charging stations were full so I had to wait 20 minutes to get a charging station and 20 minutes to charge the car in the horrible 100° heat. We sat under a tree in the parking lot waiting. 

Overall, the electric car is a smooth ride, fun to drive, has a lot of bells and whistles and the charging makes it interesting. 

Until tomorrow...

H O T

It is hot.🔥🥵

It is 110 degrees today. I'm hot just sitting still. My godmother has the thermostat at 75 degrees. 75! I'm sweating. Then the dog wants to go for a walk but I can't let her because she could burn her feet. We went for a walk at 9 pm when the temperature dropped to 85. 

The funniest thing happened. My godmother has a house with a doggie door from the previous owners. The doggie door goes from the kitchen to the garage, then it goes from the garage to the shed area, then it goes from the shed area to the backyard. We decided to show Miss Vivien butterfly how to from the kitchen to the garage and out to the backyard. So we showed her the first door then the second door then the third door one time. 

My godmother's kids came over and suddenly I'm looking for the dog. Wouldn't you know it she figured out how to get out through all those little doors to get to the backyard! Unfortunately she couldn't figure out how to come back because no one had shown her so she was out in this horrible heat in the backyard. We all marveled on how smart she was. 

Until tomorrow...

SUMMER SOLSTICE ROAD TRIP

Got up this morning and went to go see my concierge doctor. It was a normal every couple of months check in and things are going really well. Knock on wood. 

After the doctor I dropped Sunny off at the bird store to be boarded, Miss Vivian Butterfly and I got in my new electric car and drove to see my godmother. This is the first time my godmother is seeing my car and my new dog. 

Well, you would think that my dog won the lottery. She just loved my godmother and my godmother loved her. 

The only part that I didn't love was how hot it was where we were. It was over a hundred degrees and I just melted. 

Until tomorrow...