This little fellow popped up on my sewing desk night before last. It's a tiny little arachnid called a pseudoscorpion (sometimes called book scorpion because they feed on book lice, which are not common here because the humidity is so low). It really was small, 2 mm or so. That is a very zoomed in photo that Dave managed to get on his phone. He got a photo and then relocated our new friend outside.
I'm not sleeping at night--and sometimes at all feels like--these days. It's a hormonal thing. I expect it will even out again eventually. But I'm tired.
What's been going on? Let's see. Not much actually.
It's still so freaking hot. Every day recently brings an extreme heat advisory. It's supposed to be 105F today and tomorrow and 100F+ the rest of the week. It's a dry heat, so not as bad as it would be with higher humidity--though people and other animals get in trouble in dry heat because they end up not realizing how much water loss is occurring through sweating and they get dehydrated. Heat plus dehydration is deadly. It's not unheard of for tourists to die here because they discount the effects of the heat, even when it's not as hot as its been recently. Me? I'm staying indoors and making sure that there's water and food outside for the birds and other small animals (who will also come to drink and bathe in the pond).
I'm still best friends with my incentive spirometer and it's continuing to help my lungs improve. I still sleep with the oxygen and use it when I'm rushing around, but for other, more sedentary activities (there's an oxymoron for you, "sedentary activity"), I don't need it. My next step is to start exercising while on supplemental oxygen with the aim of further improving my lung capacity and function.
But speaking of sedentary activity, I've been watching a lot of Netflix still. Still making my way through From Me to You, the Japanese high school drama. I also binged the first season (?) of Survival of the Thickest, Michelle Buteau's new series. I liked it a lot. It was my type of humor. (One of my favorite scenes has her best friend preparing for a date with a woman he likes by asking a cheese monger what kind of cheese expresses "I like you, not I love you but I might grow to love you, but I definitely like you." The expressionless cheese monger says, "Cheddar." And he replies sadly, "Even I know that's not right.")
I'm still following my diet, though it's slow going. We made Japanese-style curry with tofu for dinner last night and had it with white rice. Luckily, Japanese curry is not my favorite food--our version was good, but still--so I'm not tempted to overeat it. The last Japanese curry I made was only okay, but this one was better. I don't have commercial curry roux--it's available, but it's so highly processed and full of additives that I prefer to do without--so I make my own roux and add curry powder and other spices to it.
I'm dealing with some anxiety today so all I want to do is eat. It's made worse by having gotten so little sleep last night. And its also that time of the month. So all I want to do is make a dip of butter, chocolate, and pure sugar and eat it with potato chips and Doritos. Real stoner food.
Instead, I'm overeating "healthy" foods and drinking a lot of sugar free lemonade. And watching food reviews from one of my new favorite youtube channels "Amanda & Felix Eats." They from and still live in Hawaii and review what they call "local ono grinds." They use the Hawaiian slang "ono" for tasty or delicious and "grinds" for food or to eat. It cracks me up when one of them says, "let's grind," and they tuck into their food. Every once in awhile, Felix's younger sister Yvonne pops up in their video and I get a kick out of her appearances.
Anyway, so that's it.
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