Well, as far as I know, I don't have to work tomorrow. Did mostly French the past few days, and played the game (Stardew Valley) in French, as well. Have been trying out some of the new things there, meadowlands ranch etc. Hoping for a more quiet and restful week before school starts.
I was enjoying using the new soap I had bought at the farmer's market and a cleanser sample I picked up at the store. I haven't finished the bag, but am still working on the dishcloths. I'd like to put the bags and new windspinners up on some sort of clothesline thing at the market, but I haven't figured it out yet. Last night I dreamt I worked at a store again, but it was a cross between the craft store and the hardware store again -- they both had red aprons -- but the merchandise was definitely much more the craft store this time, the layout of the store was a cross though, between the Michael's Store in Fargo (before it got moved to West Fargo) and the Lowes store. It is quite weird how much my brain retains in details and then builds out while I sleep - it's 'real' -feeling all through the aisles, the signs, the products in the shelves, all the way down to the price tags, but the UPC numbers and the paperwork and the computer systems always seem off enough that it breaks the 'mirror'. I woke myself up trying to log into the computer on time with the proper password that is always so annoying.
I was scared a bit by a large cow that jumped up out of a ditch in the twilight of dawn - I thought it was a garbage can but then it got up on the road and looked at me - but I got around it and hoped it got back in it's fence okay. It's not the first time I've seen a cow there - but it definitely was one of the larger ones.
I was also faintly dizzy yesterday morning- like a water compass in the back of my head wasn't pointing correctly, or taking a very very long time to point correctly compared to what it should - walking back and forth across the office while I sorted mail I could feel the 'tilt a bit sideways, and then you stay upright' response kicking in. I stopped on my way out to the route and bought an extra drink and some peanut butter cookies and took it easier than I normally would for a time, and by about 10 am I was feeling much more manageable. I had already eaten a breakfast and drank coffee before I left in the morning - sometimes you just don't know what the issue is, possibly barometric pressure this time overall, but I thought having the extra things with me was a better idea than not. POTS is not fun - and still sometimes, as I have mentioned recently, it lets me know it isn't gone. But I'm glad I have a better idea what is going on than I did when I was younger.
We had a chicken in the yard that needed some assistance, one of our four Sapphire Gem hens, and Esme came in from feeding and watering them to tell me she saw the hen having trouble walking. So we went out and were lucky enough to be able to catch her up easily - she really was having some trouble for us to catch her without a fight. We gave her a warm bath on her rear and made her a separate cage in the garage and are trying to do what we read she needs for a clogged vent. It still might not work, but it's better than not trying anything. She already took some antibiotic water from the hanging water bottle, which is a good sign. Will try to check on her again through the night and if the treatment works, it says it could be up to a week of keeping her separate and clean before she is ready to go back with the others. We've been needing to make up some sort of isolation system for a good long time but never had a full need to do so until right now. It is still something we do need to do more permanently so we can pull one or two out.
après des, après des ça: after this, after that - something I usually say in place of 'oh boy' or 'here we go'... we're gonna get this done, and think again whatever was annoying or worrying me after this gets done
Made the jasmine brown rice and used some in fried rice for dinner tonight (before we heard about the chicken from Esme). I made the rice the same way as my regular natural long grain brown rice - washed twice, then put with a bit of salt, a bit of olive oil and a bit of rice wine vinegar in the water, and 2.5 cups water to the 1 cup of washed rice. After it had been boiling, I turned it down to low I let it go thirty minutes, then turned off the heat, and let it sit for nearly another twenty cooling down, and put it up in a glass container in the fridge until I was ready to use a little bit in this fried rice. I'll try frying some up with the garam masala another night - just used peppers and onions and porkchop seasoning and soy sauce in this for Esme and I tonight. The week looks pretty clear - except for possibly the farmer's markets, working on the budget and I've got something planned to do on Tuesday.
French : I am in Section 5 : Unit 14 on Duolingo on my main account, and Section 3 : Unit 6, on my phone. The phone has speaking exercises and a few other things that the PC account does not have, plus I use it to fill time often when I'm doing other things, like sitting with the chicken while the washing machine spins to make sure she didn't take offense to that (she didn't). In Spanish, I am at Section 4 : Unit 19 and Section 3 : Unit 10. I was thinking a little earlier that I wondered what the French lessons would be like once I reached section 5 - because I was looking at someone talking about something on their phone that I had never seen yet - and realized I was in section 5 already, just not on the phone.
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