This week at Frog Haven
Mar. 23rd, 2025 07:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
callistotoni - Jeff has definitely turned a corner. We won't know until next week what the cancer situation is, but he is gradually able to be more active. Yesterday we where able to get (finally) to the Habitat for Humanity store and pick up some bookshelves and drawers for the office. And then we ate at the local Mexican food place - WooHoo! Of course, Jeff crashed hard when we got home and has been super tired today, but he was able to make his own dinner and we got the bookshelf into the office (the drawers will need to stay in the van until we can get some help).
- More Jeff stuff, but silly: I got a message this week from Karina, with a PDF of an SCA/An Tir Cosmopolitan-spoof newsletter from 1987. There's a line drawing centerfold in the style of Bert Renolds, if you catch my meaning. Karina had been told it was Steingrim. That sounded entirely possible, so over the next 24 hours I had a very confusing back and forth with a muzzy-brained Jeff about whether it was him or not. When I finally showed him the line drawing (which I thought was plausibly him, face and hair looked off) he said that it was Torgul, not him. This makes sense, because Jeff tells me that back in the day they looked very alike and could be mistaken for brothers. Also, Jeff tells me that a friend of his (initials B.B) did that drawing from her imagination. I do think it remarkable--I would remark on it--that this whole thing seems so unsurprising, given how we were back in the 80s.
- Me and my blood pressure: TLDR: After 3 trips to the doctors, by BP was fine. Yay?
Details (see also my previous post): On Tuesday I had a check up and was told that my BP was still too high considering my meds. So on Wednesday I took 2x as much of one of my BP meds, as instructed. This made me feel weird enough that I went back to the dr. office, but was feeling better when I left. I went back to my old med regime. I went back for a re-check on Friday and, surprise, by BP was normal, both times they took it. So I'm continuing with what I'm doing and will come back in a month. No idea why after all this time my BP started to show up as normal. We'll see if this continues. We have a BP monitor at home, but now I'm wondering about its accuracy.
- I really missed going to WK Crown this weekend. Missed Greg's Pelican, and some other well deserved peerages. And there was so much A&S and other fun stuff planned. So much FOMO angst.
- We need to get some help taking a ton of stuff to the dump. I asked on FB before, but dropped it because of all the rain. No rain in the forecast for the foreseeable future, though. We have to get this done asap, particularly before the temps rise. Plus now we need help getting the drawers out of the van and into the office - it's too heavy IMO for Jeff and I given his condition.
- 2 new to us streaming shows that we're enjoying: Ludwig on Amazon Britbox. Only 2 episodes so far. Premise it that there's these 3 men who are identical twins. One is a DCI who goes missing. The other is a recluse puzzle creator and solver, who has to impersonate his brother and winds up solving crimes. British (sorta cringy) humor and fun to solve murders.
The other is another British show, Murder They Hope. This is a absurdist comedy murder mystery show with 2 very not too bright private detectives/ex-tour guides. Not going to lie, it's pretty cringe humor, but it's also hilarious if its your cup of tea.
- More Jeff stuff, but silly: I got a message this week from Karina, with a PDF of an SCA/An Tir Cosmopolitan-spoof newsletter from 1987. There's a line drawing centerfold in the style of Bert Renolds, if you catch my meaning. Karina had been told it was Steingrim. That sounded entirely possible, so over the next 24 hours I had a very confusing back and forth with a muzzy-brained Jeff about whether it was him or not. When I finally showed him the line drawing (which I thought was plausibly him, face and hair looked off) he said that it was Torgul, not him. This makes sense, because Jeff tells me that back in the day they looked very alike and could be mistaken for brothers. Also, Jeff tells me that a friend of his (initials B.B) did that drawing from her imagination. I do think it remarkable--I would remark on it--that this whole thing seems so unsurprising, given how we were back in the 80s.
- Me and my blood pressure: TLDR: After 3 trips to the doctors, by BP was fine. Yay?
Details (see also my previous post): On Tuesday I had a check up and was told that my BP was still too high considering my meds. So on Wednesday I took 2x as much of one of my BP meds, as instructed. This made me feel weird enough that I went back to the dr. office, but was feeling better when I left. I went back to my old med regime. I went back for a re-check on Friday and, surprise, by BP was normal, both times they took it. So I'm continuing with what I'm doing and will come back in a month. No idea why after all this time my BP started to show up as normal. We'll see if this continues. We have a BP monitor at home, but now I'm wondering about its accuracy.
- I really missed going to WK Crown this weekend. Missed Greg's Pelican, and some other well deserved peerages. And there was so much A&S and other fun stuff planned. So much FOMO angst.
- We need to get some help taking a ton of stuff to the dump. I asked on FB before, but dropped it because of all the rain. No rain in the forecast for the foreseeable future, though. We have to get this done asap, particularly before the temps rise. Plus now we need help getting the drawers out of the van and into the office - it's too heavy IMO for Jeff and I given his condition.
- 2 new to us streaming shows that we're enjoying: Ludwig on Amazon Britbox. Only 2 episodes so far. Premise it that there's these 3 men who are identical twins. One is a DCI who goes missing. The other is a recluse puzzle creator and solver, who has to impersonate his brother and winds up solving crimes. British (sorta cringy) humor and fun to solve murders.
The other is another British show, Murder They Hope. This is a absurdist comedy murder mystery show with 2 very not too bright private detectives/ex-tour guides. Not going to lie, it's pretty cringe humor, but it's also hilarious if its your cup of tea.
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Date: 2025-03-25 01:38 am (UTC)