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shadowkat1. My legs, arms, and back aches - so have two ice packs - one on lower back and one on upper, took two tynenol, took two melatonin, took magnesium citrate, and praying for the best. Also lots of water.
Probably work. Also possibly digestive. Hard to know.
2. Poet's Day: Do you write poetry? Do you even like poetry? Do you have a favourite poet or poem?
I wrote poetry - in my teens and early twenties. Even read it in public in front of lots of people in college - at a coffee house. I was popular - believe it or not. (To this day - can't quite decide if my reading was popular or the poetry? )
I stopped finally. People can be weirdly nasty about poetry. (Folks - 98% of poetry is in the eye of the beholder - there isn't any objective criteria unless you are an accountant and into counting rhyme schemes to see if it meets the metric rules of iambi pentameter.)
So I leapt out for my own sanity. Prose writing is more rewarding and there's more point to it. Can't do much with poetry.
Do I like poetry? It depends on the poem. (I have an uncle who is a poet and writes a lot about himself and his childhood, and time in Vietname via poetry). I always had a fondness for Sylvia Plath, Edna St. Vincent Millay, also Dorothy Parker. I like Percy Blythe Shelly, but not Byron. TS Eliot often annoyed me. Robert Frost is haunting. Story poems like songs sometimes work really well better than most, and sometimes not at all. Nabokov's Pale Fire is an interesting satire on poetry and academia.
While Emily Dickenson did little for me, and I don't remember hers at all.
And yes, as an English Lit Major in undergrad - I studied poetry intensly.
3 – World Plant Milk Day: Almond milk, oat milk, soy milk... Do you use plant-based milk rather than dairy milk? If yes, do you use it instead of dairy in everything (tea/coffee, baking, cereal, etc.) or only in specific instances? Have you tried various types of plant milk? Do you have a favourite?
Yes. I'm sensitive to diary and have to be careful. It can cause me gas and constipation. But I do cave a lot - it's cheaper, and no sweetners. Honestly it's often a choice between unsweetened almond/coconut blended creamer and half-n-half milk (there's less sugar in the later). I now choose between my blood sugar and my digestive system. Be happy if you aren't plagued with these issues - inflammatory issues are annoying.
Do I use them instead of diary in everything? Yes or I have. But it does depend. Oatmilk - really doesn't work well in oatmeal (you'd think it would? But alas no), or in tea (no clue about coffee) - so it's problematic and I gave up. Also too sweet. Almond milk - not all makes are created equal. DIY - fairly easy, if time consuming and probably the best. If you are lazy like myself and don't like doing that (my brother and sisinlaw finally gave up and went back to dairy like I did) - you can do Califa Unsweetened Almond. Silk's Almond - Unsweetened is also good. Califa and Silk are the best brands for coconut and almond and soy milk.
I don't do soy - hormonal issues. And it makes me edgy. Cashew - I don't like. And I'm not crazy about rice - too sweet.
4 – Ride the Wind Day: Have you ever been sky-diving? What about hang-gliding? If not, would you ever try either (both) of those activities? What about something tamer, such as kite-flying or sailing?
No way in hell will I do sky-diving. I know too much about it. Way back when I ran with a bunch of folks who went sky-diving every weekend. I wasn't close enough with them, nor had the money, or the wherewithal to go. But they'd tell me about it. One of them was an expert - and loved it. Cute guy, in great shape, in his mid-thirties - this was about twenty years ago?
Anyhow, one day, they tell me that he's in the hospital. The last jump did not go at all well. Now he's been doing it for years - he knows how. But he pulled the string a little to late and landed wrong - and as a result is paralyzed and will have to use a catheter for the rest of his life.
I'm not sky-diving.
And if that wasn't enough to convince me? I did zip-lining in Costa Rica - and it was basically going across a wide valley between two mountains, I looked down at the tiny cows - and I thought, okay the appeal of this is completely lost on me. It's surreal. If I fall, what did I accomplish by doing this? Zip. Also not that appealing. Won't be doing it ever again.
I've flown kites - not my thing. Gone sailing - even sailed a sail boat, and did it during a thunderstorm in the Mediterrean in Turkey. It was fun.
Not something I plan on doing again though. But who knows? Sailing I'll do.
5– International Strange Music Day: What is the oddest music you've ever listened to?
Hmmm...I don't know? Maybe Number 9 by the Beatles, and that experimental crap that Yoko Ono and John Lennon did where all she does is scream? That gave me a headache.
I did like the music by the Sons of Kemet. I've also listened to Philip Glass, and a lot of electronica music.
I know I've listened to something stranger than that - but I'm drawing a blank.
Probably work. Also possibly digestive. Hard to know.
2. Poet's Day: Do you write poetry? Do you even like poetry? Do you have a favourite poet or poem?
I wrote poetry - in my teens and early twenties. Even read it in public in front of lots of people in college - at a coffee house. I was popular - believe it or not. (To this day - can't quite decide if my reading was popular or the poetry? )
I stopped finally. People can be weirdly nasty about poetry. (Folks - 98% of poetry is in the eye of the beholder - there isn't any objective criteria unless you are an accountant and into counting rhyme schemes to see if it meets the metric rules of iambi pentameter.)
So I leapt out for my own sanity. Prose writing is more rewarding and there's more point to it. Can't do much with poetry.
Do I like poetry? It depends on the poem. (I have an uncle who is a poet and writes a lot about himself and his childhood, and time in Vietname via poetry). I always had a fondness for Sylvia Plath, Edna St. Vincent Millay, also Dorothy Parker. I like Percy Blythe Shelly, but not Byron. TS Eliot often annoyed me. Robert Frost is haunting. Story poems like songs sometimes work really well better than most, and sometimes not at all. Nabokov's Pale Fire is an interesting satire on poetry and academia.
While Emily Dickenson did little for me, and I don't remember hers at all.
And yes, as an English Lit Major in undergrad - I studied poetry intensly.
3 – World Plant Milk Day: Almond milk, oat milk, soy milk... Do you use plant-based milk rather than dairy milk? If yes, do you use it instead of dairy in everything (tea/coffee, baking, cereal, etc.) or only in specific instances? Have you tried various types of plant milk? Do you have a favourite?
Yes. I'm sensitive to diary and have to be careful. It can cause me gas and constipation. But I do cave a lot - it's cheaper, and no sweetners. Honestly it's often a choice between unsweetened almond/coconut blended creamer and half-n-half milk (there's less sugar in the later). I now choose between my blood sugar and my digestive system. Be happy if you aren't plagued with these issues - inflammatory issues are annoying.
Do I use them instead of diary in everything? Yes or I have. But it does depend. Oatmilk - really doesn't work well in oatmeal (you'd think it would? But alas no), or in tea (no clue about coffee) - so it's problematic and I gave up. Also too sweet. Almond milk - not all makes are created equal. DIY - fairly easy, if time consuming and probably the best. If you are lazy like myself and don't like doing that (my brother and sisinlaw finally gave up and went back to dairy like I did) - you can do Califa Unsweetened Almond. Silk's Almond - Unsweetened is also good. Califa and Silk are the best brands for coconut and almond and soy milk.
I don't do soy - hormonal issues. And it makes me edgy. Cashew - I don't like. And I'm not crazy about rice - too sweet.
4 – Ride the Wind Day: Have you ever been sky-diving? What about hang-gliding? If not, would you ever try either (both) of those activities? What about something tamer, such as kite-flying or sailing?
No way in hell will I do sky-diving. I know too much about it. Way back when I ran with a bunch of folks who went sky-diving every weekend. I wasn't close enough with them, nor had the money, or the wherewithal to go. But they'd tell me about it. One of them was an expert - and loved it. Cute guy, in great shape, in his mid-thirties - this was about twenty years ago?
Anyhow, one day, they tell me that he's in the hospital. The last jump did not go at all well. Now he's been doing it for years - he knows how. But he pulled the string a little to late and landed wrong - and as a result is paralyzed and will have to use a catheter for the rest of his life.
I'm not sky-diving.
And if that wasn't enough to convince me? I did zip-lining in Costa Rica - and it was basically going across a wide valley between two mountains, I looked down at the tiny cows - and I thought, okay the appeal of this is completely lost on me. It's surreal. If I fall, what did I accomplish by doing this? Zip. Also not that appealing. Won't be doing it ever again.
I've flown kites - not my thing. Gone sailing - even sailed a sail boat, and did it during a thunderstorm in the Mediterrean in Turkey. It was fun.
Not something I plan on doing again though. But who knows? Sailing I'll do.
5– International Strange Music Day: What is the oddest music you've ever listened to?
Hmmm...I don't know? Maybe Number 9 by the Beatles, and that experimental crap that Yoko Ono and John Lennon did where all she does is scream? That gave me a headache.
I did like the music by the Sons of Kemet. I've also listened to Philip Glass, and a lot of electronica music.
I know I've listened to something stranger than that - but I'm drawing a blank.
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Date: 2023-08-25 05:40 pm (UTC)I've been sky diving once but it was a tandem dive with someone who worked for that place. It was both on my bucket list and in Hawaii so obviously, the location mattered too. I can't imagine doing it alone. Zip lining seems fun but yeah, I can see why you would have that reaction. One thing I will never do is bungee jumping.
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Date: 2023-08-25 10:10 pm (UTC)Did you enjoy the sky diving?
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Date: 2023-08-25 10:44 pm (UTC)I did! I was only really nervous when I was signing all the waivers (my friend that I did it with told me 'oh don't read it' but I can't do that) and about to jump. But it was an interesting experience and the views were really pretty. I'm not one of those people who will do it repeatedly though. More likely one and done. :D
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Date: 2023-08-26 02:15 am (UTC)Zip-lining was enough for me. I get a weird vertigo or spatial thing when up real high. It has to do with the fact that I honestly can't tell how far apart objects are in space. It's gotten worse as I've gotten older - due to eyesight issues. I honestly think I was more fearless about it as a small child - before I got glasses.
So, for me? The ground is racing up to meet me - which is disorienting and I always have a sense of falling. It's why I tend to avoid heights for the most part.
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Date: 2023-08-26 02:17 am (UTC)