My right knee was bugging me today, so I took a shorter walk and picked up a few things from the vegetable/fruit store - in the way of greens, eggs, green onions, and chocolate. I'm afraid to buy red onions right now due to a recent salmonelle scare regarding the Thomas International Brand. (In stores, they are loose and I've no clue where they came from.)
Also worried a little about the knee - because the Zoom lay-person lead Church Service featured a sermon about surviving fibromalgia. The problem with the internet and the information age - is I'm constantly being given symptoms of various things and then worrying if I have them. It was a moving sermon, and I felt for her deeply - except she seemed to be doing well. Living with her boyfriend, in a nice apartment, surrounded by friends, and the church community. The disease is chronically painful and did take away some of her hopes and dreams, but not the truly important stuff. The sermon was moving, particularly when she began bawling during (which woke me up)- I was kind of drifting to sleep during it - in that it was a reminder to be grateful for what I have. I'd say this is a characteristic of Zoom, but I had a tendency to drift to sleep during sermons at church. Lectures/sermons and me are unmixy things. They either move me, irritate me, or put me to sleep.
Knee is better now that I'm icing my back. Which means - yes, it is related to a pinched nerve - via a muscle. My aches and pains are more muscle related than skeletal related, which is a good thing. You can relax muscles, not a lot you can do with bones.
During brief walk outside to the grocery store - mainly because I begin to get antsy if I don't leave my apartment for extended periods of time - I took the above pic of the daisies outside my apartment building.
Also took pics of the poor trees that had been injured and in one case decimated by the storm - which took out over half of NY's power. There are people who still don't have power - the wealthy ones retreated to hotels, or family members. Some apparently felt save going to their neighbors. (Yes, there's a pandemic on - but there are times I wonder if folks have forgotten about it. J told me one of my co-workers went to a neighbor and was using their internet when hers went out.)
As bad as life gets - at least you aren't this tree.
A lot of folks, several from apartment complex, not wearing masks. Dammit.
Oh well, I guess they figure they are outside and not really seeing anyone. Always chatting on their phones. It's bothersome. But not a thing I can do about it.
Not a lot going on. Sports has gotten weird. My parents watched baseball game.
Mother: That's fake audience cheering. They've put in fake cheering. And a soundtrack.
Me: I'm guessing this is to motivate the players - so that they feel they aren't just playing in an empty field to no one.
Mother: Pretty much.
Sports in a bubble. We have Basketball and Hockey in August. (They are usually played in the winter months.) And they are being played in biodomes with limited contact among people outside of the people they are playing.
Gotta hand it to human ingenuity, right? Now, if we can just figure out restaurants, theaters, museums, and schools? Also musical concerts.
Mother is a bit depressed. My father keeps asking if they've anything planned. Nope. If they can go out to eat - they'd been going out to eat three to four times a week before this happened, and socializing with folks. Also they are tired of the food sent to them, and mother is upset that she is fat. (Probably all that homemade ice cream, carbs, and chocolate.)
My brother sent me a pick of niece hugging her cat.
Me: So cute. How do you resist not hugging them both?
Brother: It's hard.
Mother also likes to talk about the latest horror done by the Terrorist in the White House.
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That was from yesterday's walk. Felt fitting. It's a beautiful day. Sunny. In the low 80s. A nice beach or pool day. I'm not all that upset but not being near them at the moment. I'm thankful for having A/c, and that the temperatures have dipped a tad for those who don't. Also thankful for having power. Considering my apartment complex keeps turning it off periodically to fix crap. I'm hoping that's ending soon. They are doing it for a list of apartments next week to hook them up to their new meters.
Oh well, one day at time. No use looking ahead or behind, or planning anything for the foreseeable future - although I kind of got out of the habit of planning too far ahead after 9/11.
I don't remember if I posted this yesterday or not - if so? You'll get it again.
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