Titles still elude me...
Jun. 7th, 2022 09:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatWhich makes it tough on archiving, but oh well. (I'm almost done with 2006. I'm basically snatching my book reviews and throwing them into Good Reads, and snatching movie reviews, fanfic, meta, television essays, and book review/essays and throwing them into Archive of Our Own. Right now, an old fanfic that didn't get much attention in lj or dw, is getting attention in Ao3, which is interesting. You should post your fanfic over there.)
I'm behind on my journal correspondence. I'm not ignoring you - I've read your responses at work - I just don't know how to respond to them yet?
Brain fog. Partly.
More on Ice Cream
All this ice cream talk got me thinking about buying more - but "ice cream" in of itself tends to make me gassy and plays havoc over time with the digestive track. (I may be slightly lactose intolerant now.) So I bought yogurt ice cream (Noso - honey vanilla frozen yogurt with probiotics), and Oatley Coffee Ice Cream (which is made with Oat milk.) So far, I've not noticed much difference. Should have stuck with the Breyers - it's cheaper.
Oh well - that may or may not have been due to what I ate for dinner - which was Cappelio's almond flour spinach cheese ravillio with tomato and basil sauce.
When I was a kid, the Good Humor or Mister Softee used to travel around our neighborhood. Back East or in West Chester, PA (we always referred to it as Back East when we living in Kansas), it would stop in front of our house. We lived at the tail end of a long series of streets, with woods behind and across the street. Houses were on either side - there was a row of houses on that bottom street and the very bottom of the hill. About six in total.
So the Good Humor truck would pull up next to our driveway, just before the street sign that bordered it, which I climbed as a kid ( when I was three feet tall, not six foot). With that sing-song tune that always hailed its arrival - warning parents everywhere to be prepared to either pull out their pocketbooks or deal with gloomy faces peering up at them asking why?
Hearing that tune now - still brings back memories of those by-gone days of youth. I remember getting the strawberry shortcake ice cream bar, although sometimes I'd get a sundae or a cone dipped in chocolate. It was a great treat on hot summer days, in between quick runs through the sprinklers.
If you were to ask what my favorite ice cream flavor was - I'd most likely surprise you. No one else shares it. I've yet to meet one person with the same favorite. It's so rare in fact that I rarely find it - and when I do, I automatically buy it no matter where I am at the time - to the utter confusion, frustration, and exasperation of whomever I'm with at the time. My parents have gotten used to it. My friends haven't. MD didn't get it at all. That's because her favorite was easy to find.
It's Peppermint. I can find it in speciality grocery stores or pricey ones around Christmas time. Cheap varities do not exist. Hagen Diaz, Ben & Jerry, Breyers, Blue Bunny, Turnkey Hill, etc do not carry it. And I prefer the variety that has peppermint swirls in it, not pieces of the candy or just the minty taste. It should have swirls of pink peppermint in white ice fluffy ice cream.
I like weird flavors of ice cream.
Another favorite ice cream - which I can no longer find is "Coco Bliss's Coconut Milk Cappucino Ice Cream" - which is by far the best on the planet, but apparently gone from NYC. I can no longer find it anywhere. I settled on Oatly's Coffee - which is not the same.
Family
Mother figured out why niece wants to go to Milan - apparently, there's a hip hop concert she has gotten tickets to - and really wants to see. It's a hip hop performer who rarely tours. I think its Kendrick Lamar. (Her parents love live concerts and love hip hop. Her mother adores it and has the biography of the Beastie Boys. They introduced me to hip hop with the Fugees, and others. I have a lot of hip hop because of them - it's not my favorite music though, a lot of it is angry, and it gives me a headache.)
Also, mother's physical therapist is a huge theater buff - she's been to NYC this year and seen four musicals, and is traveling to Houston to see another one, and then to Atlanta to see several more. She sees 13 productions a year. (I consider myself a theater buff but she has me beat. I'm a bit more leery though of going to the theater right now, and from what I heard on the news, I'm not alone in that. They said fewer people were going to the theater this year - and a lot of empty seats for plays and other productions.)
She recommends "Six". So in between her attempts to kill my poor mother (sorry rehabilitate her), she discusses theater.
I'm most interested in that one. Wales may go with me for that one.
On the movie front, mother and I agreed that we both wouldn't mind seeing the Elvis movie. Although mother thinks from the trailers that they kind of went overboard with the "Wiggle of hips" - the real Elvis didn't "Wiggle" that much. I'm wondering if I can interest Wales in seeing it with me. Mother thinks I'll have better luck with Wales than cjl, but I don't know, cjl can surprise me in regards to movies.
We also agreed that Top Gun film doesn't intrigue us at all - because we're both over Tom Cruise. And well, my favorite characters in the first one aren't in the second - Kelly McGillis, Tom Skerrit, and Goose (Anthony Andrews or Edwards). Cruise's character kind of annoyed me.
***
Covid
Crazy workplace has decided COVID is pretty much over. OR as long as there aren't massive hospitalizations or deaths - there's nothing to worry about. Although it is spraying again. Every so often, everyone vacates our floor so they can spray our cubicles with disinfectant. Today, everyone left for thirty minutes - they congregated outside and chatted in small groups for thirty minutes. While Breaking Bad sat on the sidewalk in his mask alone and stared into space. I decided to go upstairs to the Deli and get something to drink, and a kind energy bar and nuts.
Then I came back, went outside, chatted awkwardly for five minutes, retreated back upstairs to my cubicle to do work. They'd finished my area - and really 30 minutes was a bit long. Jay was being silly.
They are discontinuing the testing twice a week for folks who didn't get vaccinated. (I think they got tired of monitoring it and found the testing to be expensive. It was through Mt. Sinai hospital and saliva PCR tests.)
That was discontinued today.
Last day to get boosters and vaccines is June 28 at the Brooklyn Site (the only one still doing it.)
Sci-Fi Coworker got it finally. He caught COVID right before he left, gave it to his family, and was mildly sick with it. His wife's case was a bit less mild. And his daughter's was severe. It was not a happy vacation.
About 70% of our work place got COVID in May, with varying results. Some worse than others. We keep exchanging stories about it. No one's was the same. Funky disease. 90% has had it, some got it in 2021, some in 2020, most got it this year. And we got it from our workplace. So much for keeping us safe.
***
Tired. Signing off.
I'm behind on my journal correspondence. I'm not ignoring you - I've read your responses at work - I just don't know how to respond to them yet?
Brain fog. Partly.
More on Ice Cream
All this ice cream talk got me thinking about buying more - but "ice cream" in of itself tends to make me gassy and plays havoc over time with the digestive track. (I may be slightly lactose intolerant now.) So I bought yogurt ice cream (Noso - honey vanilla frozen yogurt with probiotics), and Oatley Coffee Ice Cream (which is made with Oat milk.) So far, I've not noticed much difference. Should have stuck with the Breyers - it's cheaper.
Oh well - that may or may not have been due to what I ate for dinner - which was Cappelio's almond flour spinach cheese ravillio with tomato and basil sauce.
When I was a kid, the Good Humor or Mister Softee used to travel around our neighborhood. Back East or in West Chester, PA (we always referred to it as Back East when we living in Kansas), it would stop in front of our house. We lived at the tail end of a long series of streets, with woods behind and across the street. Houses were on either side - there was a row of houses on that bottom street and the very bottom of the hill. About six in total.
So the Good Humor truck would pull up next to our driveway, just before the street sign that bordered it, which I climbed as a kid ( when I was three feet tall, not six foot). With that sing-song tune that always hailed its arrival - warning parents everywhere to be prepared to either pull out their pocketbooks or deal with gloomy faces peering up at them asking why?
Hearing that tune now - still brings back memories of those by-gone days of youth. I remember getting the strawberry shortcake ice cream bar, although sometimes I'd get a sundae or a cone dipped in chocolate. It was a great treat on hot summer days, in between quick runs through the sprinklers.
If you were to ask what my favorite ice cream flavor was - I'd most likely surprise you. No one else shares it. I've yet to meet one person with the same favorite. It's so rare in fact that I rarely find it - and when I do, I automatically buy it no matter where I am at the time - to the utter confusion, frustration, and exasperation of whomever I'm with at the time. My parents have gotten used to it. My friends haven't. MD didn't get it at all. That's because her favorite was easy to find.
It's Peppermint. I can find it in speciality grocery stores or pricey ones around Christmas time. Cheap varities do not exist. Hagen Diaz, Ben & Jerry, Breyers, Blue Bunny, Turnkey Hill, etc do not carry it. And I prefer the variety that has peppermint swirls in it, not pieces of the candy or just the minty taste. It should have swirls of pink peppermint in white ice fluffy ice cream.
I like weird flavors of ice cream.
Another favorite ice cream - which I can no longer find is "Coco Bliss's Coconut Milk Cappucino Ice Cream" - which is by far the best on the planet, but apparently gone from NYC. I can no longer find it anywhere. I settled on Oatly's Coffee - which is not the same.
Family
Mother figured out why niece wants to go to Milan - apparently, there's a hip hop concert she has gotten tickets to - and really wants to see. It's a hip hop performer who rarely tours. I think its Kendrick Lamar. (Her parents love live concerts and love hip hop. Her mother adores it and has the biography of the Beastie Boys. They introduced me to hip hop with the Fugees, and others. I have a lot of hip hop because of them - it's not my favorite music though, a lot of it is angry, and it gives me a headache.)
Also, mother's physical therapist is a huge theater buff - she's been to NYC this year and seen four musicals, and is traveling to Houston to see another one, and then to Atlanta to see several more. She sees 13 productions a year. (I consider myself a theater buff but she has me beat. I'm a bit more leery though of going to the theater right now, and from what I heard on the news, I'm not alone in that. They said fewer people were going to the theater this year - and a lot of empty seats for plays and other productions.)
She recommends "Six". So in between her attempts to kill my poor mother (sorry rehabilitate her), she discusses theater.
I'm most interested in that one. Wales may go with me for that one.
On the movie front, mother and I agreed that we both wouldn't mind seeing the Elvis movie. Although mother thinks from the trailers that they kind of went overboard with the "Wiggle of hips" - the real Elvis didn't "Wiggle" that much. I'm wondering if I can interest Wales in seeing it with me. Mother thinks I'll have better luck with Wales than cjl, but I don't know, cjl can surprise me in regards to movies.
We also agreed that Top Gun film doesn't intrigue us at all - because we're both over Tom Cruise. And well, my favorite characters in the first one aren't in the second - Kelly McGillis, Tom Skerrit, and Goose (Anthony Andrews or Edwards). Cruise's character kind of annoyed me.
***
Covid
Crazy workplace has decided COVID is pretty much over. OR as long as there aren't massive hospitalizations or deaths - there's nothing to worry about. Although it is spraying again. Every so often, everyone vacates our floor so they can spray our cubicles with disinfectant. Today, everyone left for thirty minutes - they congregated outside and chatted in small groups for thirty minutes. While Breaking Bad sat on the sidewalk in his mask alone and stared into space. I decided to go upstairs to the Deli and get something to drink, and a kind energy bar and nuts.
Then I came back, went outside, chatted awkwardly for five minutes, retreated back upstairs to my cubicle to do work. They'd finished my area - and really 30 minutes was a bit long. Jay was being silly.
They are discontinuing the testing twice a week for folks who didn't get vaccinated. (I think they got tired of monitoring it and found the testing to be expensive. It was through Mt. Sinai hospital and saliva PCR tests.)
That was discontinued today.
Last day to get boosters and vaccines is June 28 at the Brooklyn Site (the only one still doing it.)
Sci-Fi Coworker got it finally. He caught COVID right before he left, gave it to his family, and was mildly sick with it. His wife's case was a bit less mild. And his daughter's was severe. It was not a happy vacation.
About 70% of our work place got COVID in May, with varying results. Some worse than others. We keep exchanging stories about it. No one's was the same. Funky disease. 90% has had it, some got it in 2021, some in 2020, most got it this year. And we got it from our workplace. So much for keeping us safe.
***
Tired. Signing off.
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Date: 2022-06-09 10:16 pm (UTC)