Home alone
Jun. 17th, 2010 08:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altivoGary's in Chicago. In other words, a normal Thursday, more or less. There was once a time when I really enjoyed quiet time by myself. Actually, I still do, but not nearly the way I used to.
Not that I'm all that much alone when I'm surrounded by three horses, eight sheep, two dogs and two cats all of whom demand regular attention. Still, after so many years together, it does always feel somewhat "off" to me when we are separated.
Nonetheless, I got to make a vegetarian dinner with no complaints from anyone. I'm being irresponsible and reading a book instead of doing "responsible" things. I can go to bed early and be up early without hearing commentary on it, too.
Trip to dentist was uneventful. Traffic, as always, was obnoxious, but this time I was prepared for it and had allowed plenty of extra time. Teeth cleaned, examined, nothing problematic found, only a small lecture about cleaning around wisdom teeth (I still have all four.) Not even the customary talk about my blood pressure, since they didn't check it today. Next appointment, December 23. These visits always remind me of the obvious advances in dental prevention over the last century or so. Both my parents had dentures by the time they were 40. Here I am, half again as old, and I still have all my own teeth. Clearly we have come to understand a good deal more about keeping them intact and healthy.
There are many productive things I could be doing, but I'm going to finish that book and then probably sleep.
Not that I'm all that much alone when I'm surrounded by three horses, eight sheep, two dogs and two cats all of whom demand regular attention. Still, after so many years together, it does always feel somewhat "off" to me when we are separated.
Nonetheless, I got to make a vegetarian dinner with no complaints from anyone. I'm being irresponsible and reading a book instead of doing "responsible" things. I can go to bed early and be up early without hearing commentary on it, too.
Trip to dentist was uneventful. Traffic, as always, was obnoxious, but this time I was prepared for it and had allowed plenty of extra time. Teeth cleaned, examined, nothing problematic found, only a small lecture about cleaning around wisdom teeth (I still have all four.) Not even the customary talk about my blood pressure, since they didn't check it today. Next appointment, December 23. These visits always remind me of the obvious advances in dental prevention over the last century or so. Both my parents had dentures by the time they were 40. Here I am, half again as old, and I still have all my own teeth. Clearly we have come to understand a good deal more about keeping them intact and healthy.
There are many productive things I could be doing, but I'm going to finish that book and then probably sleep.
