bleh

[dragonlady7]

I'm very low on follow-through lately, or even start-through. I used up all my Get Shit Done for the week in getting my car serviced, I think. I've been utterly useless apart from that, can't even do laundry or make dinner or plan meals or take charge of anything. Very out-of-sorts, and I dislike it.

Writing is progressing slowly; have derailed the Solarpunk Cyborgs to attempt to knock out a quick GO fic and have got that one to like 8500 words without a resolution. I don't think I can do pacing, at all, guys, I'm a lost cause.

I've read a bunch of GO fanfic, which has been pleasant but has not contributed much to my overall wellbeing and sense of accomplishment. Have managed to fend off the "everyone is a better writer than me" woes for a bit but I do have the unshakeable feeling everyone's said all I meant to say already and I needn't bother, which really isn't helping much-- that's not the point of writing, now is it?

Staring at Twitter isn't helping my sense of wellbeing but it does help pass the time at work. Which is important, so. And sometimes I do see amusing things. Ursula Vernon's twitter is goddamn amazing. In response to a disillusioned and sarcastic Tweet about how the Democratic party takes so very long a time to do anything, she came up with the theory that the Entwives went off and formed Entifa to stop Saruman and the Ents just forgot about it because they were so busy hearing themselves talk. If she designs and sells an Entifa shirt I will buy the shit out of it, and I'm pretty merch-resistant, but. For real, y'all.
(i can't find the Tweet, it's not in her TL, so she must have replied to it.)

I have my 40th birthday off from work, it turns out; half the week, but it means I have to be back by Wednesday and then I'll miss the next slaughter day on the farm. I think I can be forgiven. But now what do I do with that day off?? I could go somewhere on the weekend, but-- my older sister will be at the farm, and she scheduled her last visit during my Adirondack vacation months after I'd scheduled the vacation, and so this visit is my only chance to see her and her kids until possibly Christmas and maybe not even then, but if I just-- stay at the farm straight through, of course that's a work day, and I'll spend it working, so... Anyway, I gotta make up my mind. It's not like there's anywhere I really wanted to go? But I don't want to do nothing. I didn't celebrate my birthday at all last year, I was on a plane to go to Turkey at the time but that wasn't a birthday trip and we wound up not commemorating it in any fashion at all. And like, i'm old, but I still like cake, so.

I have a wedding to go to this weekend, to which I'm looking forward, but I'm also sort of dreading because I know my vanity will insist I wear my lovely strappy gold 3" heels that I bought for last summer's wedding I attended, and they'll look fantastic and I'll cripple myself permanently within minutes of trying to walk anywhere in them. So like. *shrug* I don't have a great deal of common sense, but also I can't really bear to wear sneakers or orthopedic flip-flops to a "cocktail attire" wedding reception. I don't have a ton of vanity but I have that much.

Comments

[corvidology]

High, thinnish wedges are in fashion and they might be a bit easier on your feet.

[dragonlady7]

It would probably be smart of me to stop by a DSW and see if there's anything marginally fashionable I can fit my arch support shoe inserts into. Otherwise nothing is going to be better than anything else, I've got like-- plantar fascitis or something, happening, and the only thing that keeps the pain down if I have to stand or walk for more than a few minutes is orthopedic arch support.

It's just that I own and love these strappy heels and they are normally fine for me to wear, except that my right foot is attempting to secede.

[corvidology]

It would be worth taking a look as this year seems to be trending towards more enclosed dress shoes.

I notice because I have Plantar fasciitis in my left foot and just a touch of Morton's Neuroma in my right foot. As Morton's runs in my family *ahem* I'm trying to keep it that way so it won't take over all my joints which results in surgery.

Do you do the Plantar fasciitis stretches on a regular basis? They really help.

[dragonlady7]

I don't have a proper diagnosis, I only know my foot hurts sometimes and when I Googled it, it lined up most with the things I read about PF. So i don't know any stretches; I got recs on what shoes to try from a RL acquaintance who had a terrible bout of PF last year sometime. I've had problems with inadequate arch support damaging my knee tendons in the past, though, so I already owned shoe inserts-- and that's part of how I narrowed it down, because I already had those inserts in my farm boots and noticed that my foot didn't hurt at all after a slaughter day I spent in those boots, despite my having been on my feet for nine hours unrelentingly.
So-- whatever's wrong, bare feet or flat flip-flops are now officially The Worst.
I haven't gone on from that at all, though.

[corvidology]

The stretches are ridiculously easy but they do help.

If you look it up on youtube there's film of lots of PTs performing the stretches. I'd describe them but it's probably easier to see them yourself.

Since I've been doing them regularly my foot will excuse me occasionally making a non-supportive shoe choice. :D

[paean]

Happy almost birthday! I liked 40.

If you're famous, sneakers covered in bling are totally okay with your formalwear, just ask RDJ. I usually wear a nice pair of sandals with mostly enclosed toes for dress up events, and I imagine you could fit orthodics into the ones I have pretty easily.