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The reason I'm blogging every day, if blogging is the right word for it, is to have a kind of chronicle of the day to day experience of living through a pandemic in a major city, alone.
Everyone's experience is different of course. This is just my journey, which I'm attempting to chronicle.
In some respects 2021 has been harder for me to navigate emotionally speaking and physically than 2020, and in others easier. The challenges have changed. And in some respects the pandemic or COVID has added a layer to all of it.
The damn phone scammers are driving me nuts. I can only block up to 32 numbers, had to delete a few to add more.
( Read more... )
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Talked to mother a couple times today. ( Read more... )
Oh, and mother told me she'd spoken with yet another extended family member, Susan, whose daughter and family work in a munitions factory.
Mother: Your cousin Katie is developing an environmentally sustainable bullet.
(I burst out laughing)
Me: That's kind of an oxymoron.
Mother: I found it to be kind of weird too. I mean inventing a bullet that is environmentally sustainable but is meant to kill people.
Me: Well, hey look it at this way it's a biodegradable bullet - it will kill you, but it won't hurt the environment.
Gotta love humanity.
( Read more... )
**
It's hot here today - or hot from my perspective. In the upper 80s and humid. I went on a quick walk to pick up fruit and vegetables, plain non-fat yogurt, and sigh - more imported chocolate. Came home, made a smoothie.
For dinner? Grilled some chicken on the small George Forman style counter top grill, placed it in almond flour tortillas, and made cheese, chicken, spinach quesadillas, with homemade quacomole, salsa, and chips.
Now if I can just stop having the chocolate bars.
But my green shorts fit better this month than last - so progress?
***
Via Facebook Live (which was in turn via Zoom) viewed my Church's 23rd Annual Juneteenth Service - they've been doing it for 23 years. I didn't like this service at all - for one thing they had massive technical difficulties. And I didn't quite buy the idea that serving time in a prison was equitable to being a slave. Usually it's a lovely service - this years annoyed me.
To provide an example? ( Read more... )
Covid
* After my mother's story about the extended family member (as in distant cousin) who died of COVID post vaccination, I've been a little nervous. OTOH - mother heard the story from a third party, who got it from the man's daughter, and well said third party tends to exaggerate medical issues.
* The Delta Variant is becoming a problem. See? This is the reason everyone needs to get vaccinated, the longer this thing can bop around, the worst it gets. It thrives by jumping around from person to person, mutating each time it does it.
( Read more... )
* According to mother- Florida is acting as if the pandemic isn't an issue and pressuring the cruise lines to take un-vaccinated passengers. The stupid cruise lines caved and are separating them. Florida makes me twitch.
* The pandemic has resulted in a weird twist on the job situation in the US.
( Read more... )
In Better News..
There's a lot of television shows, and movies coming up because of the pandemic backlog.
* New Star Wars Movies and TV Shows
( Read more... )
* Upcoming Marvel Movies and Television Shows
There's a lot.
[actually I should have done that in a separate post...but I was getting bummed out and thought I'd cheer us all up.]
**
All in all not a bad weekend. Haven't done all that much. Trying to fend off mice with mint - not sure its working, and stop the scam calls. The phone finally stopped ringing, I also unplugged it after talking to my mother to ensure she wasn't trying to call me. She can call my cell.
Warmer than I'd wish. And I still haven't made it to the Botanical Gardens.
Tomorrow I may walk somewhere else. Who knows? I've tried to stay off the computer as much as I can, and read through some comics - or graphic novels. The New Mutants is actually more of a graphic novel - and the art is amazing, as are the stories. I've not been able to focus enough to read a book - best I can do is audio books at the moment. That inability to make it through an actual book - reading, not listening to it, has eluded me since this pandemic started. I don't know why. I can't help but think that part of it is that so much of my reading was wrapped around my commute?
In a side note, someone on the General Hospital FB Fanboard actually compared the General Hospital Mafia to the British Royal Family and Pariliment. LOL! (I'm easily amused these days, you kind of have to be?)
Below is a photo of three Muslim Pakistani Women waiting to cross the street in my neighborhood.
Everyone's experience is different of course. This is just my journey, which I'm attempting to chronicle.
In some respects 2021 has been harder for me to navigate emotionally speaking and physically than 2020, and in others easier. The challenges have changed. And in some respects the pandemic or COVID has added a layer to all of it.
The damn phone scammers are driving me nuts. I can only block up to 32 numbers, had to delete a few to add more.
( Read more... )
***
Talked to mother a couple times today. ( Read more... )
Oh, and mother told me she'd spoken with yet another extended family member, Susan, whose daughter and family work in a munitions factory.
Mother: Your cousin Katie is developing an environmentally sustainable bullet.
(I burst out laughing)
Me: That's kind of an oxymoron.
Mother: I found it to be kind of weird too. I mean inventing a bullet that is environmentally sustainable but is meant to kill people.
Me: Well, hey look it at this way it's a biodegradable bullet - it will kill you, but it won't hurt the environment.
Gotta love humanity.
( Read more... )
**
It's hot here today - or hot from my perspective. In the upper 80s and humid. I went on a quick walk to pick up fruit and vegetables, plain non-fat yogurt, and sigh - more imported chocolate. Came home, made a smoothie.
For dinner? Grilled some chicken on the small George Forman style counter top grill, placed it in almond flour tortillas, and made cheese, chicken, spinach quesadillas, with homemade quacomole, salsa, and chips.
Now if I can just stop having the chocolate bars.
But my green shorts fit better this month than last - so progress?
***
Via Facebook Live (which was in turn via Zoom) viewed my Church's 23rd Annual Juneteenth Service - they've been doing it for 23 years. I didn't like this service at all - for one thing they had massive technical difficulties. And I didn't quite buy the idea that serving time in a prison was equitable to being a slave. Usually it's a lovely service - this years annoyed me.
To provide an example? ( Read more... )
Covid
* After my mother's story about the extended family member (as in distant cousin) who died of COVID post vaccination, I've been a little nervous. OTOH - mother heard the story from a third party, who got it from the man's daughter, and well said third party tends to exaggerate medical issues.
* The Delta Variant is becoming a problem. See? This is the reason everyone needs to get vaccinated, the longer this thing can bop around, the worst it gets. It thrives by jumping around from person to person, mutating each time it does it.
( Read more... )
* According to mother- Florida is acting as if the pandemic isn't an issue and pressuring the cruise lines to take un-vaccinated passengers. The stupid cruise lines caved and are separating them. Florida makes me twitch.
* The pandemic has resulted in a weird twist on the job situation in the US.
( Read more... )
In Better News..
There's a lot of television shows, and movies coming up because of the pandemic backlog.
* New Star Wars Movies and TV Shows
( Read more... )
* Upcoming Marvel Movies and Television Shows
There's a lot.
[actually I should have done that in a separate post...but I was getting bummed out and thought I'd cheer us all up.]
**
All in all not a bad weekend. Haven't done all that much. Trying to fend off mice with mint - not sure its working, and stop the scam calls. The phone finally stopped ringing, I also unplugged it after talking to my mother to ensure she wasn't trying to call me. She can call my cell.
Warmer than I'd wish. And I still haven't made it to the Botanical Gardens.
Tomorrow I may walk somewhere else. Who knows? I've tried to stay off the computer as much as I can, and read through some comics - or graphic novels. The New Mutants is actually more of a graphic novel - and the art is amazing, as are the stories. I've not been able to focus enough to read a book - best I can do is audio books at the moment. That inability to make it through an actual book - reading, not listening to it, has eluded me since this pandemic started. I don't know why. I can't help but think that part of it is that so much of my reading was wrapped around my commute?
In a side note, someone on the General Hospital FB Fanboard actually compared the General Hospital Mafia to the British Royal Family and Pariliment. LOL! (I'm easily amused these days, you kind of have to be?)
Below is a photo of three Muslim Pakistani Women waiting to cross the street in my neighborhood.