In(ter)dependence Day
Thursday, July 4th, 2013 10:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chanaleh
One funny note: I gave blood yesterday, specifically the automated double red cell (Alyx) donation where they filter out the red cells as you go and return the plasma/etc. back to you. This was the first time I'd done it that way -- my iron has historically been borderline, and you have to have a hematocrit of 38 to give whole blood but 40 for Alyx. But my iron's (happily) been up the last several months, and I had time to come in earlier than usual, so I thought I'd give it a try.
But for some reason it really knocked me out -- whether because of the actual collection process, or because of whatever other things they add to restore your blood volume (saline, sodium citrate, etc), or even because I ate way too many cookies at the cantina both before and afterwards. Who knows, but I definitely felt weird/woozy even while the donation was happening, which I never have normally with whole-blood donation, and had to sit in the chair a little longer than usual once they were done. I finished up about 7:30pm, went and got a burrito on my way home, and then when I did get home, sat down and read for a while... until I zonked out "for a nap" about 9:15pm. I woke up briefly around 11pm, then again when![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
justom came home at 1am... and then not again until almost 8am.
For the record, that was the most I've slept in one night in... I can't even begin to guess. Which in itself was great, and badly needed; of late, I haven't been able to sleep past 6:30am for weeks on end. But I think I might go back to donating whole blood again after this, because that was just wacky.
Today,justom left for DC around 1pm (to make himself scarce be out of my way for moving day by visiting marcusmarcusrc), and so we spent some time in the late morning patching things up to a reasonable détente. And then it actually took me til midafternoon to start making any serious headway on packing, but now the office is almost entirely packed, except of course for the computer (which I'll wait until Saturday).
So, I gather there are fireworks happening... possibly right this very minute. I had thought earlier of possibly going outside tonight to look at them, but right now I find that I really just don't care all that much! I think the best thing I could do would be to eat, pack a few more things, shower, and go to bed by 11pm.
ETA: I totally neglected to mention the awesome strike force consisting ofchaos_wrangler and G, ladymondegreen, akawil, and pecunium, that descended on my house last Sunday afternoon and blitzed through packing ALL of my books and clothes in about 2.5 hours. This made a huge difference in terms of both logistics and morale, and I am incredibly grateful. ZZ will be on hand both Saturday (to help me bring over an advance carload) and Sunday (when the actual movers come), and I'm incredibly grateful for that too. <3
But for some reason it really knocked me out -- whether because of the actual collection process, or because of whatever other things they add to restore your blood volume (saline, sodium citrate, etc), or even because I ate way too many cookies at the cantina both before and afterwards. Who knows, but I definitely felt weird/woozy even while the donation was happening, which I never have normally with whole-blood donation, and had to sit in the chair a little longer than usual once they were done. I finished up about 7:30pm, went and got a burrito on my way home, and then when I did get home, sat down and read for a while... until I zonked out "for a nap" about 9:15pm. I woke up briefly around 11pm, then again when
justom came home at 1am... and then not again until almost 8am.For the record, that was the most I've slept in one night in... I can't even begin to guess. Which in itself was great, and badly needed; of late, I haven't been able to sleep past 6:30am for weeks on end. But I think I might go back to donating whole blood again after this, because that was just wacky.
Today,
justom left for DC around 1pm (to marcusmarcusrc), and so we spent some time in the late morning patching things up to a reasonable détente. And then it actually took me til midafternoon to start making any serious headway on packing, but now the office is almost entirely packed, except of course for the computer (which I'll wait until Saturday).So, I gather there are fireworks happening... possibly right this very minute. I had thought earlier of possibly going outside tonight to look at them, but right now I find that I really just don't care all that much! I think the best thing I could do would be to eat, pack a few more things, shower, and go to bed by 11pm.
ETA: I totally neglected to mention the awesome strike force consisting of
chaos_wrangler and G, ladymondegreen, akawil, and pecunium, that descended on my house last Sunday afternoon and blitzed through packing ALL of my books and clothes in about 2.5 hours. This made a huge difference in terms of both logistics and morale, and I am incredibly grateful. ZZ will be on hand both Saturday (to help me bring over an advance carload) and Sunday (when the actual movers come), and I'm incredibly grateful for that too. <3