{"id":118,"date":"2009-07-14T13:33:26","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T21:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whufu.com\/wp\/?p=118"},"modified":"2009-07-14T13:33:26","modified_gmt":"2009-07-14T21:33:26","slug":"almost-eight-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whufu.com\/wptest\/?p=118","title":{"rendered":"almost eight weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<em>I had so much fun yakking about my health, but <strong>with luck<\/strong> there won&#8217;t be much more of that to yak about in the future, so this is your notice that I will be more and more yakking about just random stuff in my life<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been home almost six weeks, and I have been thoroughly unproductive.\u00a0 My excuse, and it&#8217;s a good one, is that I am recovering.\u00a0 That&#8217;s a good reason for not moving much furniture, but really, I should be getting a little more done on the computer for all the time I spend on it.<\/p>\n<h3>health report<\/h3>\n<p>I have a few more days until the end of the magic <strong>eight week <\/strong>recovery period.\u00a0\u00a0 It is hard to imagine that I will feel perfectly 100% great by then, but I feel a lot better.\u00a0\u00a0 The idea I guess, is to be my pre-op self with the added bonus of pumping the right about of well-oxygenated blood to the various parts that need it.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Dec 09 UPDATE)<\/em> Also, since I was pretty hard on her in blog #1, I should report that <strong>Dr Kedia<\/strong> is still my Reno doctor and we are doing fine, except for money-related issues.\u00a0 She wants me to get a follow-up EKG(? the sonogram-ish one), but they cost $900 a pop for a health-system dropout like me.\u00a0 Even though it clearly is something I should get and any reasonable person should want, I haven&#8217;t quite been able to fork over the $900 for it.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, between the camper van and all this health stuff, I am really feeling quite poor and cramped and true or not, I feel like I can&#8217;t afford anything, which is suck-ish, but better than being dead or even actually, really poor, which I&#8217;m not&#8230;<\/p>\n<h3>house stuff<\/h3>\n<p>Being at my happy little condo in the middle of the summer reminds me of how much I LOVE being in the thick of the scene.\u00a0 Nonetheless, I am still edging towards selling it and getting a little house with a yard (or maybe just renting?).<\/p>\n<p>In theory, <strong>Step 1<\/strong> in selling the house is to <strong>list it<\/strong> and go through the usual realtor rituals (ugh).<\/p>\n<p>But in reality, the hardest steps are those just to get to Step 1.<\/p>\n<p>To list the house it must be <strong>ready to show<\/strong>, and the number one rule (they say &#8230;) for making your house ready to show is to <strong>de-clutter<\/strong>, oh and make it look really clean (which presumes de-cluttering)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Now &#8220;really clean&#8221; is just a matter of applying money &#8212; hire a cleaning professional to get that soap scum off the glass shower doors that has defeated me for 4 years, clean the oven, do all those tiresome things involving heavy-duty cleaning fluids I don&#8217;t quite have the heart to deploy myself.<\/li>\n<li>However, nobody but me can de-clutter, unless we go to the nuclear option &#8211; heavy-duty garbage bags and just haul everything away.\u00a0\u00a0 Sorry, can&#8217;t do that.\u00a0 That offends my essentially sentimental, pack rat personality so it&#8217;s just not an option.<\/li>\n<li>So even though it appears that nothing is happening on the moving front, I have made an <strong>emotional commitment<\/strong> to starting the selling process by de-cluttering &#8211; a dusty and difficult process for me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stupidly enough, the first thing I did was clear off some bookselves, loading boxes of books, then discovering that my not-quite-healed ribcage wouldn&#8217;t allow me to lift them &#8211; <strong>duh!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; reset.\u00a0 I re-started with the closets &#8211; entryway closet first.\u00a0 From my superficial understanding of <strong>Feng Shui<\/strong>, the <em>entryway<\/em> is a key part of the house; it determines whether you welcome or repel the kind of energies you want, and I have a sneaking feeling that I have been repelling them.<\/p>\n<p>I am sorry to report that the entryway closet is a filthy f&#8212;ing mess, with all this stupid stuff I even forgot I had moldering(*) in the corners &#8211; a preview of coming distractions&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(*) every climate extracts its own toll.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reno&#8217;s dryness gives me bloody noses and annoying little skin conditions that magically go away whenever I am somewhere else for a coupla weeks (e.g. Turkey!), but there aren&#8217;t many bugs and there&#8217;s not much mold.<\/li>\n<li>Mill Valley had the opposite, too much moisture.\u00a0 There, your skin feels great, the air almost visibly sparkles, but those closet-things would have been literally moldering &#8211; that is\u00a0 shoes buried under the other shoes would have had active fungus growing on them.<\/li>\n<li>Remember that when you think of moving to Seattle :).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve got my pile of trash, my pile of questionable stuff to leave at the door of some charitable group and run away, and the all-to-large pile of stuff to put &#8230; somewhere &#8230;\u00a0\u00a0 I think de-cluttering is going to be hard for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(I had so much fun yakking about my health, but with luck there won&#8217;t be much more of that to yak about in the future, so this is your notice that I will be more and more yakking about just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/whufu.com\/wptest\/?p=118\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,61],"tags":[59],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whufu.com\/wptest\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whufu.com\/wptest\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whufu.com\/wptest\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whufu.com\/wptest\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whufu.com\/wptest\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whufu.com\/wptest\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whufu.com\/wptest\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whufu.com\/wptest\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whufu.com\/wptest\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}