Okay, meditation helps while I’m meditating. But as soon as I stop, the pain and breathing distress returns. And I can’t go around with my eyes shut, crossed-legged, focusing on my breathing all day! Stupid wing stubs.
In continued irritation news, the lock on Hobkin’s enclosure broke yesterday. It’s the fourth one that’s done so. While I think Rover Gate makes a great product in general, their clasps suck. With repeated use, the plastic gets fatigued and snaps in half. Right now, we’re “locking” his little door shut by a twist tie. It won’t hold for long if he works at it, but we’re hoping that he doesn’t realize the lock is broken and equates “closed door” with “locked door.” At least until our order of a new set of Rover Gate clasps arrives. I keep telling myself that I need to brainstorm a better locking mechanism and pick up something the next time we’re at Home Depot, but instead, we end up buying more RG clasps. It’s planned obsolescence, I sez! Pffft.
Also received an email from my mother. Her and my step-dad (that’s feeling more natural as time passes . . . huh), are going to be in the states in a couple months and will be swinging by Atlanta for a weekend. I actually think it’ll be fun seeing them again.
Writing Stuff:
– Had five more crits of “Masques of Love” come in this morning, bringing my total to twenty, the perfect number to run stats on. Read and mulled over these last ones, made my final tweaks and sentence-level adjustments, and it’s out.
– Received a reply to my query from Borderlands 6: “We got it. Thanks!” Huh. Well, it’s exactly the information I asked for. Guess I can’t complain. Does that mean I made the short list? Hope hope hope.
Had five more crits of “Masques of Love” come in this morning, bringing my total to twenty…
Your story’s still up there, y’know. For some reason, aburt has not yet brought up the next batch. Weird…
I’m sorry you’re still in so much pain. 🙁 I wish I knew how to help.
Expect another e-mail from me tonight about the weekend!
“Your story’s still up there, y’know.“
Huh. That’s weird. Andrew didn’t announce a 2-weeker, did he? I hope nothing happened to him. It’s not like him to forget to post the new batch . . .
“Expect another e-mail from me tonight about the weekend!“
I’ll keep an eye out for it!
Try a reusable cable tie? I think you can get them where you can press some tab or something to undo them.
Do you know where I might find such a thing–hardware store or pet store?
Ouch!
Sorry to hear you are in pain. Hope that it eases off. Inspiring to see all the work you accomplish while suffering. And this isn’t even your day job yet.
Re: Ouch!
Thanks!
“Inspiring to see all the work you accomplish while suffering.“
Trying to keep my mind off the pain! It’s not working, though.
“And this isn’t even your day job yet.“
Yet being the salient word there. Ah, pipe dreams . . .
Okay, meditation helps while I’m meditating. But as soon as I stop, the pain and breathing distress returns. And I can’t go around with my eyes shut, crossed-legged, focusing on my breathing all day! Stupid wing stubs.
‘kay. Take this or leave it as you want, but I thought I should say something.
I use meditation (of a sort) for stress relief, too. The problem is that meditation starts out as a rather individual process, and becomes more so, so it’s hard to give definite advice on it. But with “practice” and refinement, in my humble opinion, it shouldn’t require sitting around all day to get rid of stress-related pain.
I think of it as being related to willpower, which I realize might seem kind of at cross-purposes, but it’s kind of like “control” over your body. If your body can make you feel pain when something isn’t really wrong, there’s no reason, if you’re in-tune enough with yourself, that you shouldn’t be able to give your body a heads-up and ask it to stop bugging you. Because…it’s you, after all.
What’s your process when you meditate? Off the top of my head, I’m thinking of ideas for you to do with bodily cues and aromatherapy and that kind of stuff, but hearing your ideas first will help narrow it down.
My meditation technique is largely yoga-based: a main focus on breath-work and visualization in various asana poses–usually cross-legged (siddhasana) or lying down (savasana). Aromatherapy probably isn’t a good idea as a lot of perfumes give me a headache . . .