. It still feels weird to be home all day with all this unstructured time. I am still adjusting.
Today, for instance, was doubly weird. It was the first time my mother didn't call to wish me happy birthday. I've been kind of mopey and sad ad teary-eyed since yesterday. My dad wished me happy birthday yesterday, but was planning on driving down to Jersey today to pay his property taxes. My sister and I don't speak anymore (my choice). A few friends called me, but that was about it. It was kind of a business-as-usual day.
The day's biggest accomplishments were driving down to probate court to return more forms to them (they returned another form) and going for a long (75-minute) walk on the very back roads of my town, past the horse farm, down gravel roads, past Cherry Hill Farm, through the woods and on and on. I love the old country road names, names like Ox Hill and Beaver Dam Road and Mt. Nebo Road. It was very nice to take a LONG walk, something that challenged me physically more than my usual 30-, 40- or 50-minute walks.
I am not religious, but I consider the woods my church, and the tall trees that form a canopy overhead, my steeple. At times, walking along a country road, it is a religious experience when I hear nothing but the sounds of summer: the breeze, the birds, the crickets. If anything will pull me out of my slump, it will be spending time outside in nature. I have to push myself to venture further to other spots I used to visit. It is easy to forget what you've given up.
Otherwise, I spent most of the day at the computer, mostly working on the Coroflot site to build my portfolio pages. I think this is largely a waste of time. A commenter here did very kindly send me a link where you can easily convert PDFs to jpgs, but the many steps involved in scanning items, creating PDfs, converting to jpgs and then uploading the jpgs to the coroflot site is crazy time-consuming. The jpgs do look much better than the photos I attempted to take of printed writing samples outside. I may wind up redoing those. Eventually, if I ever get to finish uploading what I feel are an adequate representation of my different writing styles, I will put my Coroflot address on my resume. Although many places let you send attached documents with your resume anyway.
Hopefully Best Buy will have dad's AC in tomorrow so we can go pick it up. I did also finally succeed So in getting the new DVD player I bought working with my TV so we can watch a special movie I purchased, a spy movie dad said he remembers watching decades ago that featured the German-American Bund camp he went to as a child. I wanted us to view it together as part of my family tree research. So now we can do that; I hadn't realized that I had to completely unplug the 3 Roku plugs before the DVD player would work.
Adjustment in progress
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If you felt comfortable you could email me the docs and j can easily scan them intonodfs for you and email them back. Takes seconds.
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