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Waking dreams this morning as I awoke (too early). Mostly running through today's likely scenarios--animal care, chiropractor, locate my rice cooker and Japanese spices so I can cook this coming week, dance class, yard work--a host of "to-do's" that for some reason percolated to the surface in the early morning hours.

Worked some last night on listing out the issues that I'm dealing with or need to be dealing with right now. Long list emerged, as expected. For someone who is doing not much of anything, I seem to have a long list of things to be done. Maybe this list bled itself into my dream state. Realities uber alles.

Feeling somewhat less draggy today. Partly because I decided to stop obsessing on my pathetic worries and focus more on the more positive aspects of who I am and what I'm doing (or starting to do). Sounds impressive, but it makes common sense. I've cooked in my own sauces long enough. Time to get out of the pot and onto the griddle.

Finished reading "Nettles," one of Munro's short stories. Was wondering how the title was going to manifest in the story. Nettles, as a plant, appears near the conclusion, but also rounds out the story's action--as in life puts us in all manner of nettles.

Over the past month, I managed to post more poems to my StarThrower blog -- http://star-thrower.blogspot.com

Like this journal, the thoughts there are unfocused, but the poems please me more now that I've written more of them. They are like soul-nibbles--tiny bites of the fleeting cookie-thoughts I seem to have occasionally.

Also it's given me a daily rhythm to work with--journal blog earlier in the day (or at least before I go to StarThrower) and poetry blog toward the end of things as a sort of synthesis of the day.

Today's dog walk was uneventful--just smelling and sniffing, marking and tracking. The dog seemed to be in a hurry--he kept pulling against the leash almost all the way. Usually, he slows down on the last 1/3 of the route, but not today. He must have had an interesting dream he wanted to get back to. He's now curled up asleep, making wuffing noises as he rests.
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Made it through the "to-do's" and managed to retrieve my rice cooker from storage. Made a delicious, nutricious plate of steamed rice, broiled salmon and steamed vegetables. Sprinkled Japanese seaweed seasonings (aji nori furukaki) and red plum vinegar over everything. Best meal I've had in ages that I actually prepared. Room without a kitchen has its drawbacks.

So will focus on eating well and clean during the week I'm still here at L's. Still doing my kefir and juice ritual each morning when I take my supplements.

Feeling much better today and will feel even better after hitting dance class tonight and yoga in the morrow. Then it's lots of dancing this coming weekend--and blogging, and writing poems, and dreaming my dreams.