Apocalyptic Homesteading (Day 635)

Hello Everyone!

Inner good and outer ugh, A creamy ear treatment, Forgetting to mind the body, Almost a day off & Whoa the inflation!

This morning I awoke feeling much less 'all over the place' with my thinking and yet again I am feeling incredibly calm and that yup everything will work out in life regardless of all my recent fretting! It is an odd sensation because the dreams that I was having were quite involving, I felt both cold and hot due to being a bit tangled in the blankets and there is something going on with one of my ears that has left it a bit irritated and to top it off I awoke much later than I like to!

In other words there were not much in the way of 'comfortable sensations' or 'cozy feelings' (in my body) and if anything the opposite was true... yet I feel frigging awesome inside and my mind is like a calm pool of moonlit water, abounding with reflections and teaming with life. That probably is more complicated than it needs to be but I hope you get what I mean there!

I dunno what is going on with my ear but thankfully it is something on the exterior portion of it and not down in the ear canal or anything. I had noticed it a few days back and basically it is like a hard little 'buildup' that seems to have formed just where I can not quite get to it to dislodge it.

At first I thought that maybe it was mites or something but now I think it is just some debris (or a tiny scab created by fiddling with my ear) that I failed to wash out before it could irritate the skin there. At this point though I have done everything from flushing it with hot water and doing multiple flushes with hydrogen peroxide.

In the middle of the night (or in the wee hours of the morning) it was so irritated when I awoke (having to pee) that I squirted some clotrimazole cream into it while I was still halfway frigging asleep. Surprisingly the cream brought some instant relief and I was able to drift right back off to sleep and slept undisturbed the rest of the evening.

I know the cream thing sounds a bit wacky but I did not squeeze it into my inner ear or anything and mainly just folded the lobe of my ear over the 'hole' and worked it into the exterior area that had the buildup. It is basically the same thing that I do for the dogs to treat their ear infections for yeast or molds. I guess my sleeping mind was like: It works for them it will work for you!

Being my own 'doctor' is nothing new to me or anything and while I have never had this particular problem (and still have no idea what it really is) I think that I might be on the right track given how much of a difference the cream has made. I think that once all the cream dissolves I might pour a little white vinegar in there just for good measure in case it is a mold or yeast infection.

The body is a weird frigging thing and although I tend to stay in pretty good health (and shape) little things like that can become quite problematic if gone untreated and yeah I am in no way good at 'staying ahead of the curve' with stuff in relation to it. What I mean there is that I noticed the 'ear thing' like a week or so ago and did not do anything for it (besides making a mental note) until it was really starting to annoy me!

It is assuredly one of those things that I need to get better at but hey we humans are after all 'less than perfect' and although it is not really an excuse... I have been super preoccupied with paying attention to my mental and emotional health so go figure!

No complaints there or anything but I think that when I get into those kinds of scenarios (where I am having to focus so much on what is going on internally) that I need to remind myself to take a step back and pay attention to my body as well! It is assuredly 'easier said than done' but the older I get the more significant doing so becomes.

Alright, it is now well into the afternoon and I just ate some lunch (for the second day in a row) after going for a brief hike so perhaps that might become a new routine for me. I really should be eating a much richer diet but for now rice and fish will have to do! At least it is easy to digest and 'washing it down' with some pickle juice makes me feel like it is a 'square' meal!

Honestly, my overall diet has been rather poor for quite some time now and mainly that has been caused by the crazy inflation that I guess began somewhere back around my arrival at this site. Shifting my buying practices around was undoubtedly the best approach that I could take to cope with the high prices but ugh I am starting to really feel its affects all these many months later.

My steadfast 'reasoning' (yeah I am hesitant to call it that) has been 'at least I have food' but in hindsight I maybe should have began buying fish oil capsules and multi-vitamins to make up for some of the dietary discrepancies. Live and learn I guess... but ugh I really dislike taking multi-vitamins or any kind of supplements unless I am in a hyper-extreme 'survival' situation.

Anyway, I have more or less decided to take the day off and just relax a bit in an effort to alleviate the tension that I have been feeling. Yesterday, while I was sorting through more stuff from the shop tent I finally caught what was making me so frustrated with the packing down process. It basically amounts to dealing with the stuff that has gotten ruined, having to take stock of my losses and realizing I have some serious sentimental attachments to most of my gear!

Okay, it is a bit later in the day now and whoa do I have a difficult time taking some 'time off' once I start getting back into my yearly work mode! Although I did not do anything all that major... every time I go outdoors I find myself gravitating towards one task or another and find myself already doing it before I can stop myself and be like: Hey buddy you are supposed to be enjoying the day!

I guess 'enjoying doing stuff' makes it challenging to draw the line there but whoa did I really need to wash more socks, rake up the fire pit from where the chickens had been scratching in it and start getting some of my 'finished' laundry put away? Perhaps that wee bit of excitement that I am feeling over making some changes in life (like moving to a new region) is starting to really take hold and I best buckle up for what lay ahead!

Whoa! I just got back from an unplanned 'mini' supply run and wow I gotta say that I have not really missed anything by not going shopping! Maybe once this inflation starts evaporating things will be better but ugh paying eighty-two dollars and some change (in USD) for three small bags of very minimal groceries from a 'dollar store' is frigging insanity!

My brain still kind of hurts from all the sticker shock as well but that may be because I really thought that the prices might have begun to drop by now given that the last time that I went shopping was (I think) a few months ago. Perhaps once all the stuff on the market (and sitting in the warehouses) gets bought up some of the prices will drop but ugh I could not wait... I mean... I could wait... but... I wanted some frigging root beer and ice cream!

Sometimes those little treats make all the difference and just 'having them' will assuredly help my morale! I do not want to get into explaining that little mind trick that I play on myself yet again... so suffice it to say that I can finally drink the one tiny can of root beer that I have been saving so that I was not completely out of the stuff! The same could also be said about the single scoop of ice cream that I kept eating little slivers of for similar reasons.

Anyway, I best get to wrapping this entry up before the sun can set and I find myself scrambling around trying to get all the critters fed beforehand! I hope that everyone is doing well and has a nice day/night!

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I love these sunsets through the pines!

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