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So, I've been on annual leave for the past couple of weeks (today is the last day of my official leave; I'm also dropping down to 3 days a week at work, because the university semester starts on Monday, I have one day a week of uni, and my brain can handle four days a week "on" and no more). I've mostly been staying at home, not because of any lockdowns or anything like that (I'm in Western Australia, we're one of the few states which is letting people move around at present), but because frankly, I spent four months (from late February through June) doing four days a week at work plus one day a week at uni, and I'm frankly knackered.
However, I have slowly been shifting various things off my list of "things to do while I'm on leave". I started with a list of fourteen items, this is now down to nine, which may not seem much, but given this list has slowly been building for the past four months as I haven't had any "errand" space on my calendar, I'm pretty pleased I've managed to at least deal with some of them.
For one thing, I managed to book and attend a couple of necessary medical appointments. One was for a mammogram (I turned fifty this year, I get to have my tits squished by a machine every two years for the rest of my life, yay). The other was to follow up on a blood test I had done back in March (I got a letter from the Dr's office saying "your doctor wants to discuss your test results with you" at the end of June, and I was like... well, it can't be that important given it's taken 'em three months to get back to me about it), which I did this morning. Turns out I'm fine in every way (no diabetes, no kidney or liver problems, no issues with red or white blood cell counts or platelet counts, cholesterol is great, thyroid hormone levels are being replaced adequately by the thyroid supplement I'm taking, and I don't have PCOS) except that my iron levels are low. So I'm on iron supplements for the next four months (yay!) and we get to find out whether this works to make my system behave itself.
The other thing I've accomplished was taking a bunch of stuff to the nearest tailors for adjustments. I've had a pair of carpenter pants knocking around in my wardrobe for at least the past five or six years waiting to have their hems taken up, as well as needing a buttonhole re-sewn on one of my pairs of work pants, and the hem re-sewn on another pair. The thing which actually prompted me to do this was getting delivery of a new cardigan (shawl collar, long length, pockets) where the pockets were sewn up using a very fine stitch, and since I own neither a stitch ripper nor a magnifying glass (and my bifocals don't give me a powerful enough magnification to handle unpicking things by hand) I decided to pay someone to unpick them for me. So, whole heaps of long-delayed mending and adjustments done, and I now have two extra pairs of work pants that I didn't have before I went on leave. So that's good, anyway.
Aside from that I've mostly been noodling around the internet, reading Tumblr and occasionally glancing at Twitter, and mostly playing games on the PS4.
However, I have slowly been shifting various things off my list of "things to do while I'm on leave". I started with a list of fourteen items, this is now down to nine, which may not seem much, but given this list has slowly been building for the past four months as I haven't had any "errand" space on my calendar, I'm pretty pleased I've managed to at least deal with some of them.
For one thing, I managed to book and attend a couple of necessary medical appointments. One was for a mammogram (I turned fifty this year, I get to have my tits squished by a machine every two years for the rest of my life, yay). The other was to follow up on a blood test I had done back in March (I got a letter from the Dr's office saying "your doctor wants to discuss your test results with you" at the end of June, and I was like... well, it can't be that important given it's taken 'em three months to get back to me about it), which I did this morning. Turns out I'm fine in every way (no diabetes, no kidney or liver problems, no issues with red or white blood cell counts or platelet counts, cholesterol is great, thyroid hormone levels are being replaced adequately by the thyroid supplement I'm taking, and I don't have PCOS) except that my iron levels are low. So I'm on iron supplements for the next four months (yay!) and we get to find out whether this works to make my system behave itself.
The other thing I've accomplished was taking a bunch of stuff to the nearest tailors for adjustments. I've had a pair of carpenter pants knocking around in my wardrobe for at least the past five or six years waiting to have their hems taken up, as well as needing a buttonhole re-sewn on one of my pairs of work pants, and the hem re-sewn on another pair. The thing which actually prompted me to do this was getting delivery of a new cardigan (shawl collar, long length, pockets) where the pockets were sewn up using a very fine stitch, and since I own neither a stitch ripper nor a magnifying glass (and my bifocals don't give me a powerful enough magnification to handle unpicking things by hand) I decided to pay someone to unpick them for me. So, whole heaps of long-delayed mending and adjustments done, and I now have two extra pairs of work pants that I didn't have before I went on leave. So that's good, anyway.
Aside from that I've mostly been noodling around the internet, reading Tumblr and occasionally glancing at Twitter, and mostly playing games on the PS4.
