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average: 2.8333
Posted Oct 31, 2011
So I wake up this morning, marginally better, and mom can't move because of a muscle spasm. we're always a seesaw with our health problems. I put her back to bed with a heating pad and a muscle relaxant, and she's fine now.
Overall health: 6 - I actually went out and ran errants, but was exhausted when I returned home.
Headache: -2?
Emotional: a 7 because I was together enough to take care of mom.
Sport: 0
Sleep: 5+1=6
Accomplishments: 3x2 (going to the bank, shopping, taking mom's ring to be repaired)+1 (finding my computer game 
) =7
total: 17
average: 2.8333
sooo... better?
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Posted Oct 30, 2011
Had to add sleep/insomnia since it affects everything 
Overall Health: 4 - I WANT to do something, but am simply to tired.
Headache: -3 (mostly because lack of sleep)
Emotional: 5. I think yesterday's slump was because of the painkiller too.
Sport: 0 too groggy even for a bit of dancing in place
sleep: 4 - 3 hours last night, after which I woke up with knee ache and another 1 in the afternoon before the phone rang. 
accomplishments: 2 (unpacked a box of books and sorted the decoration in the boards) + 2 (worked out the renovation costs and what we still have to pay. Thankfully, we're still within budget.)
adding up to: 14
Average: 2.33333
Huh, I'm up, even with the insomnia.
(wanders off wondering...)
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trying to start blogging.
Posted Oct 29, 2011
I put up my rating system, so for today it would be:
Overall health: 3 (even internet is tiring but I'm doing it and other stuff too)
Headache: -5 (not much of a headache, but the remnants of the latest sinus infection is still bothering me)
emotional: another 3 because I'd rather be in bed, but no actual depression.
sport: big fat 0
accomplishments: 1 (unpacked/suppervised the unpacking of several crates), 1 (called up the gang to meet up next friday), 6 (went for my injection, took mom to her doctor, paid the electric bills)
which makes an average of 
1.8
well, I am trying to get it up!
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How am supposed to to blog everyday?
Posted Oct 29, 2011
I signed up for the NaJoPoMo - and then stopped blogging for 3 days. plus I have to go to the Island next week to, among other things, hook up the phone connection, which means 2 or 3 days without internet .
Alright.
Wednesday: went to the ceremony, didn't win anything, wasn't even in the runner ups. no problem. but my protege, who'd written a wonderful superstition folklore tale didn't win either, and THAT hurt. she really deserves a prize. or a publishing contract.
thursday, shopping in the BIG shop with everything. soo many beautiful things, and no place to put them 
Friday. a friend started studying weekends (thursday and friday for us) in the ex-village now-city of Damovand, and offered to take us along to visit friends while he's at class. problem: the clock mom set the alarm on was malfunctioning, and went off at 1 a.m., 3 a.m. and 5 a.m.. but it was nice to visit and see the old places I used to play at, even if only through a rainy window.
Today. Went for my second set of in-joint injections. in the middle of the traffic, I realized that the meds were still at home. mom had to send them after us with another taxi. Then back and pick up mom for the eye doctor. afterwards i couldn't walk aanymore. now the painkiller has kicked in, and i'm groggy.
and NOW i have to figure out my health rating system for the blogs
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Slightly more cheerful: cat, work and budding talents
Posted Oct 25, 2011
Was going to wait until tomorrow for this, but it’s only 6:30 pm here, already dark, and the only other thing to do would be going to the third floor and get hysterics at the mess there…
So, I DID get a cat. Mom had put up some conditions like short hair, over 1 year old and calm, but it ended up to be love at first bite – literally. We were guided by the watered down version of humane society here to a family who wanted give away their cat, and were attacked by the 6 months old kitty on our first step through the door. It was obvious they had NO idea how to treat a cat, much less such an active one, so we just packed her and took her with us. For the next 6 months I had to wear work gloves and a thick jeans jacket just to play with her, but she’s worth it.
Miss Kitty is more white than black, mixed breed (a thin and barely noticeable coat of long hair mixed into the short), at over 5 years old still very active and playful, and a source of terror for her vet. (don’t ask about bath-time. Really, don’t) She’s definitely not a lap-cat, but jealous of me talking to others or on the phone, and expresses it by climbing on my chest and purring. Mom’s her favorite playmate, the warning “don’t scratch the rugs/furniture” has developed into a start sign for a very athletic hide and seek game. Dad adored her and demanded that I buy delicacies he could feed her. She used to nap with him in the afternoon and continued to claim his bed for herself until we moved.
She is very observant of our health, we realized she keeps following me closely when I’m sick and is still very careful with my left wrist. When mom broke her knee last winter, she would jump on the bed but not on the leg, and would lick and groom the hurt foot.
Miss Kitty is not moving to Kish with me. I’d bothered mom to get a new cat, maybe a lazy tom, for herself after we’re gone, she countered that in Tehran Miss Kitty had at least the housekeeper and her husband to look after her when I went away, especially since both of them adore her. So I’m going to get a new cat once I’m settled there.
My professional mentor, who had dragged me kicking and screaming into not just translating books but to write articles on SF&F, passed away only a few weeks after dad. This double blow gave me a mental block in work. What got me back on my feet were 2 surprise awards: one jointly for 2 articles I had written some time before, and another for a book translation I’d HATED doing (which only goes to show.) The BIG translation I was doing has still not been published (mostly because of the twerp who offered to do the editing dropped of the earth with my book and several others for 2 years.) an incompletely translated series of classical children’s books are still doing the rounds at the publishers, but at least I’d fun translating them. Another 2 separate juvenile novels were accepted and finally published this year. The jury is out on any awards. 
I finally started writing again. Most of my stories are inspired by dreams, so some pretty weird stuff emerged. One moral fairytale very short story was published in the kids part of a prominent newspaper. Four interconnected stories were whittled down by the publisher as being too complex for children, then they said that the stories are too short to be published separately. They’re now in the (very slow) editing phase, and with the current problems here, might not get a permit soon. But I honestly enjoyed writing them, and the publisher said something about the Iranian Harry Potter or Narnia. 
Well, time will tell.
I’ve also sent stories for non-official SF&F competitions. One story about a post-apocalyptic Tehran got second place, and tomorrow the results of another one are announced. But there is lot of talented competition.
For the past few years I have chaired meetings for the largest SF&F internet club in Iran. These guys are simply GREAT. They’re much younger than I am, in some cases I could be their mother. But they are SOOOO talented, so involved, writing articles, translating books, writing stories, and all in addition to college and jobbing, and I’m so very proud of them. So I’m going to cheer when they win instead of me. But I hope to get enough short stories together to compile a book next year.
So, these were HIGHlights of the last few years.
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