Atelier Log
So, I haven’t posted here in a while. I guess not much is going on, because I can’t iterate enough how uneventful my life is lol. I mean, I don’t really leave the house except for doctor appointments… Which I guess is pretty sad, and ideally I want to change that, but I’m not super focused on it at the moment.
The biggest thing that’s happened recently was that one of our guinea pigs, Muffin, got sick with what everyone believes to have been an upper respiratory infection. Now, this was terrifying. We’ve lost several pigs over the years, and one of them was even to a URI. And I don’t have human children, so my companion animals are the only babies I have, and I love them accordingly. So I was very, very scared — piggies are delicate little animals so I was basically convinced that we were gonna lose her.
But Muffin is a fighter! We got her put on Baytril, and since she refused to eat I had to syringe feed her Critical Care. She despised it, because of course she did. So she would wiggle and whine while I was trying to feed her, and the whole thing was just very stressful for everyone involved. After 2 weeks, she finished her course of Baytril and we had a follow-up with the vet, and she got a clean bill of health! And her appetite’s back! I’m happy beyond words that she toughed out the illness and that I was able to nurse her back to health.
She still has to gain back the weight she lost, but she’s out of the worst of it at least.
Other than that, like I said, not much is going on. I’m currently reading The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo, and I hope to eventually put the Konmari Method to practice. It’s very daunting though, especially for someone as low-energy as I am. I hope that, if nothing else, I can at least learn something from this and try to make adjustments of the method that work for me.
The truth is, I used to be a pretty bad hoarder. At one point there was so much stuff in my bedroom that you couldn’t see the floor and you had to jump over things to navigate, all surfaces had huge piles on them, and there were roaches and maggots. I’m happy to say I’m well past that particular point, but I think I still have some hoarding tendencies and that translates to just having a lot of stuff that clutters. While I’m not particularly unhappy with it, it probably should change.
I wonder if I should also keep a physical diary again, to help organize my more daily thoughts and whatnot.