The internet always needs unruly houseplants

 five plus hours of sleep.


Somehow I slept wrong in all the lumps in my bed and things feel off-kilter that shouldn't.


Going back to bed would have been good. But Twitter and the cat's need to sit on me and my sister's phone needs sucked me in.


I want a giant round of applause for getting all the plants watered
Houseplant Zone
I forgot to tell sister that DNA test came back. She and I share one piece of DNA lotto that could only be identified a couple years ago. Now we get to decide how much of the rest of the fam on mom's side to encourage to get tested. And reading a long list of other negative results with a screen reader is a drag.


My mom has torn tendon in hip area nd tears in hamstrings on right leg. Owwww. And nothing to do except take it easy at her age. Plus she got a rash. She thinks from opiates now discontinued and substituted with muscle relaxers anyway. I think could be several possibilities but so far it seems to be going away with hydrocortisone cream. I wish it were easier just to go give her a hug. Email says her community is opening up more but visits are still outside and making a break for it and a joint excursion on the easy bus to Fred Meyer don't seem realistic right now. 


Watering the unruly houseplants was the chore of the morning along with scheduling a couple appointments because I was near the phone when things came in. Laundry may happen later.


Also showered and washed compression socks and masks. The pair of socks I put on has a hole in a definitely non-catastrophic location, but the hole will be a good excuse eventually to buy more socks in a different pattern. I so appreciate socks not only for the compression but also because when covering up lotion on skin seem really to help about leg itching. Itchy skin apparently being associated with the DNA lotto I also note itchy back and no one to put lotion on and no one for mom either...


And in other will work for pathetic remuneration in the name of advancing science news, I expect I WILL sign up for longitudinal study of AT in the workplace.


Mother in law tongue and spider plants need new homes. Plenty of both.

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