Last night, when I went to lie down in bed, I felt briefly dizzy, but dismissed it as a by-product of my mild eye infection, that I'm ignoring until it's a week old. As it's likely viral and no doctor has anything they can do about it or any urgency about dealing with it unless it's more than a week old. I've now had enough of them to know that that is what happens if I bring it into a doctor.
So I ignored it.
I usually get up twice a night just to use the bathroom, wash my hands, and have a drink of water. I felt oddly dizzy during all that, and when I tried to lie down, the whole bed started feeling like it was spinning. Vertigo. Not fun. Not at all conducive to sleeping. Luckily, or unluckily, my sister has been plagued with vertigo of some sort or another for a good decade, so John and I knew that there was some maneuver to deal with crystals dislodging in the ear, and he looked it up.
It's the Epley Maneuver. It's patently well-documented. And John read off the steps while I did them. And it cured it like magic. It feels like some kind of incantation while doing it, and then all the dizziness just stops.
And I fell peacefully asleep, and John turned off my alarm for the morning and went off to church himself. I didn't get up until after nine, and I made myself some Kodiak protein pancakes, with the extra milk and egg and a half a banana that John had left me, and while the first one was cooking my phone rang. It was our neighbor. She'd accidentally locked herself out of her car, and was asking if I could please go to her house, get the extra key from her babysitter, and rescue her?
Of course, I said, turned off the stove, and ran to her house. I got the key, and drove over to where she was, found her, handed over the key, waved off any apologies and just said I was glad she thought of me. It was good to be able to help out, and oddly enough I felt pretty lucky that my night had been ruined by the dizziness so I could help her out. If it hadn't, I would probably have been at church.
It was a gorgeously sunny day, and I ate my breakfast (with a drizzle of pure unrefined cane syrup), played a little, and then went for a walk. Our neighborhood borders a miles long walking path, and instead of just walking around the neighborhood today, I went out to the path and down a good stretch of it, and enjoyed the day. Lunch was a frozen burrito. John buys them by the dozen from Costco, so I just have one when I can't think of anything else. The fridge is pretty empty right now, since we were just on our trip, and I wasn't in the mood for red beans and rice for the fourth time in a row.
I played a little more Hades, and found that someone had friended me on Steam because of my obsession with Hades. That was kind of funny.
A bit after four, John and I went to get Jet from his house. He's living there with five friends: three on the upper floor, three in the basement, and they're a good household together. But he's on Spring Break for the week, so we get him for the week.
We took him to GB Fish and Chips and we shared a combo and a half cod dinner; and I also bought some of their sausage rolls to take away because I love real British style sausage rolls. And then hit up the High Point Creamery. I got the blueberry lemon (which was very blueberry) and the spumoni, which was a lovely blend of pistachio, cherry, and chocolate instead of the distinct portions of each. Very tasty nonetheless and we sat out on the bench outside the shop and watched a lot of kids and parents go in. Lots more people now that the mask restrictions are off and the positivity rates are down. Everything seems to be coming back to life again.
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