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Saturday, February 4th, 2023 05:16 pmFreezing cold yesterday and I ached in every joint. Nothing worked to make things better. So today, after the usual 9:15 trip to the bathroom, I rolled back into blanket and duvet and slept in pain-free warmth till nearly noon. And was still limber without the usual half hour of stretches when I finally got up. Also the house is perfectly warm with the thermostat at 18 in spite of the -22 temps and the wind gusts. My house, I tell you.
It snowed last night but at those temperatures it was all sweep away with a broom fluffy stuff. Tomorrow it will be well above freezing and Tuesday they're calling for rain. That polar vortex was a one day wonder and good it was, because I got simultaneous notices of a book at the library and a prescriptionat the pharmacy for the pain meds I'm nowhere near to running out of.
What I did manage to do was untangle the truly tangled first story in PMT 2. It's still a bit WTF- I was seriously wondering if Ima or someone had got the pages out of order. So the head landscaper of the teahouse (is what he is, basically) doesn’t want the young master to have anything to do with his daughter because somehow the young master is his son (because in the willow world it's the female head of the house who counts and takes lovers but doesn't marry, and is succeeded by a man only if she doesn’t have a daughter). But when daughter dies of TB, Dad cuts off her hand and sends it to the young master as a love token, which is jeeze. And I still don't know who the woman is that Yosaburo runs into at the start, the one who leaves blood on his sleeve. Argh.
It snowed last night but at those temperatures it was all sweep away with a broom fluffy stuff. Tomorrow it will be well above freezing and Tuesday they're calling for rain. That polar vortex was a one day wonder and good it was, because I got simultaneous notices of a book at the library and a prescriptionat the pharmacy for the pain meds I'm nowhere near to running out of.
What I did manage to do was untangle the truly tangled first story in PMT 2. It's still a bit WTF- I was seriously wondering if Ima or someone had got the pages out of order. So the head landscaper of the teahouse (is what he is, basically) doesn’t want the young master to have anything to do with his daughter because somehow the young master is his son (because in the willow world it's the female head of the house who counts and takes lovers but doesn't marry, and is succeeded by a man only if she doesn’t have a daughter). But when daughter dies of TB, Dad cuts off her hand and sends it to the young master as a love token, which is jeeze. And I still don't know who the woman is that Yosaburo runs into at the start, the one who leaves blood on his sleeve. Argh.
