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Day #249 of Corona Virus/Lockdown
Nov. 22nd, 2020 05:36 pmThere's a chart on FB asking where you currently are in the mental health arena during this thing...and I can't find the post. So never mind.
Mother (calling during Zoom church - which I was dozing off in the middle of anyhow): Is your doctor's appointment Wed or Tuesday?
Me: Wed. And at 10 Am, why?
Mother: Your father wants to send you flowers, so we're doing it via pro-flowers.
Me: That's awfully sweet of you, why? Feeling sorry for me?
Mother: No, your father is concerned about you - this is out of love and concern. From your father.
(I start to cry - seriously my father is charming me lately. Also, hormones.)
Me: Awww...That's so sweet. I'll be here all day Tuesday. When are they coming?
Mother: Tuesday, good bye.
Later...
Me: I thought I'd call you again since you hung up on me earlier (after I left the Zoom church service and everything)
Mother: Yeah, well, let's hope the flowers get to you. I made three different orders, then cancelled two and got one. So hopefully one went through - took me forever to figure the thing out.
Me: I didn't have any troubles with it...
Mother: Well, you're used to it. (No, my mother is a luddite. The computer makes no sense to her. I ordered chocolate for her from Amazon this spring because she couldn't figure it out for a bit. And I got my brother to get her face masks - because she couldn't figure it out. The parent who was adept at the computer stuff is the one who got dementia.)
I was rather touched by this.( Read more... )
Haven't been sleeping well of late, so I'm sleepy during the day. As earlier stated, I kind of dozed off during the Zoom church service. It was about gratitude, and the hunger communion ritual.
( Read more... )
After, Wales called - and we had a pleasant chat, until it drifted towards work and Wales began to rant. ( Read more... )
Last night, spoke with niece - after I watched David Byrn's American Utopia directed/filmed by Spike Lee - this is the film of the stage production. Talking to Wales, I found out that Byrne has Ausperbergers' Syndrom - which kind of explains Byrne, and his songs. Not to mention the show. Knowing that kind of puts a whole new spin on things. Wales asked what I thought of it - just as niece asked. I said mixed. Wales is over Byrn and the Talking Heads.
Wales: I'm over David Byrne.
Me: Well, I've not exactly listened to him or the Talking Heads since the 1990s.
I told them both, separately, that it would probably work better in person. Byrn is a conceptual performance artist. And for the most part, the songs and performance was the same. I dozed off during it. Then kind of jerked away to notice there was this weird light show, and I thought, oh, it got interesting all of a sudden. So the first half is kind of boring, the second half is really cool. I went to sleep during the first half. I did dance during part of it.
Niece was underwhelmed. She'd watched a cute somewhat cheesy holiday romance on Netflix. (Dash and Lily, which she rec'd to me with reservations.) She's kind of bummed out, and I worry about her.( Read more... )
Gloomy day. My exercise was going grocery shopping - which is just under a mile round trip, includes lifting weights. I've been lifting five pound weights (at least I think they are five pound weights, they might be ten pound - it doesn't say.) And doing wall scrunches, planks, wall pushups, downward dog yoga moves, and stretches, when I'm not walking to the grocery store, around neighborhood or the cemetery.
It was too gloomy for the cemetery - and I thought it might rain.
Covid
The Governor came on around noon to discuss the uptick of cases in NY. ( Read more... )
Mother (calling during Zoom church - which I was dozing off in the middle of anyhow): Is your doctor's appointment Wed or Tuesday?
Me: Wed. And at 10 Am, why?
Mother: Your father wants to send you flowers, so we're doing it via pro-flowers.
Me: That's awfully sweet of you, why? Feeling sorry for me?
Mother: No, your father is concerned about you - this is out of love and concern. From your father.
(I start to cry - seriously my father is charming me lately. Also, hormones.)
Me: Awww...That's so sweet. I'll be here all day Tuesday. When are they coming?
Mother: Tuesday, good bye.
Later...
Me: I thought I'd call you again since you hung up on me earlier (after I left the Zoom church service and everything)
Mother: Yeah, well, let's hope the flowers get to you. I made three different orders, then cancelled two and got one. So hopefully one went through - took me forever to figure the thing out.
Me: I didn't have any troubles with it...
Mother: Well, you're used to it. (No, my mother is a luddite. The computer makes no sense to her. I ordered chocolate for her from Amazon this spring because she couldn't figure it out for a bit. And I got my brother to get her face masks - because she couldn't figure it out. The parent who was adept at the computer stuff is the one who got dementia.)
I was rather touched by this.( Read more... )
Haven't been sleeping well of late, so I'm sleepy during the day. As earlier stated, I kind of dozed off during the Zoom church service. It was about gratitude, and the hunger communion ritual.
( Read more... )
After, Wales called - and we had a pleasant chat, until it drifted towards work and Wales began to rant. ( Read more... )
Last night, spoke with niece - after I watched David Byrn's American Utopia directed/filmed by Spike Lee - this is the film of the stage production. Talking to Wales, I found out that Byrne has Ausperbergers' Syndrom - which kind of explains Byrne, and his songs. Not to mention the show. Knowing that kind of puts a whole new spin on things. Wales asked what I thought of it - just as niece asked. I said mixed. Wales is over Byrn and the Talking Heads.
Wales: I'm over David Byrne.
Me: Well, I've not exactly listened to him or the Talking Heads since the 1990s.
I told them both, separately, that it would probably work better in person. Byrn is a conceptual performance artist. And for the most part, the songs and performance was the same. I dozed off during it. Then kind of jerked away to notice there was this weird light show, and I thought, oh, it got interesting all of a sudden. So the first half is kind of boring, the second half is really cool. I went to sleep during the first half. I did dance during part of it.
Niece was underwhelmed. She'd watched a cute somewhat cheesy holiday romance on Netflix. (Dash and Lily, which she rec'd to me with reservations.) She's kind of bummed out, and I worry about her.( Read more... )
Gloomy day. My exercise was going grocery shopping - which is just under a mile round trip, includes lifting weights. I've been lifting five pound weights (at least I think they are five pound weights, they might be ten pound - it doesn't say.) And doing wall scrunches, planks, wall pushups, downward dog yoga moves, and stretches, when I'm not walking to the grocery store, around neighborhood or the cemetery.
It was too gloomy for the cemetery - and I thought it might rain.
Covid
The Governor came on around noon to discuss the uptick of cases in NY. ( Read more... )
