Y2/D332 - TGIF and all that jazz

Mother: And the latest saga of your niece..
Me: Okay
Mother: Her boyfriend's family has invited her to vacation with them in the Turks & Caicos Islands in May. Your brother says that his parents are awfully romantic about them and think they are soul mates. I decided to remind your brother that he did the same thing with his wife way back when he was 19, when he told me he wanted to marry her then.
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I discovered a new game on Instagram that I played on my phone - but I'm bound to get bored of it soon - since it requires payment and I don't pay for games. I'm not a gambler, no one in my immediate family is. Nor are we that into games. I wish sometimes that we were - since it's a great way to meet people. But alas, no.

The game is a Designer Game - you design rooms. But what you can do gets limited by how much money you have. And you compete with others who do the same. I'm not bad with design, interior and otherwise, I'm just cheap. I hate spending money on furniture, hate having it delivered and can't assemble it to save my life. Also, hello, pandemic.

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Thank God it's Friday. I need two days away from work nuttiness. This morning, I compared a contractual comparison/analysis. It was kind of like comparing a pineapple to a banana, to be honest. I pulled up various items from both, and compared them in an email. Also worked on a contractual addendum, among other things.

So, lots of legal writing and analysis. I'm tired. And craving something creative. I may work on revising one of my novels or finishing one of them this weekend.

Mother: I told your brother that I feel like I'm always complaining. He said, yes, I did. But he lived with me and was used to it.
Me: Nobody always does anything. It's not possible. Just because you are going through a complaining stage (because you are in pain and losing your husband to Alzheimer's and miss him) doesn't mean you do it all the time.

Toxic positivity is when you tell someone that they are always negative, or that they shouldn't feel negative emotions, or should be positive and think positive all the time. Shutting down how they feel. It's important to give folks the space to feel stress, negative emotions, etc - so they don't get bottled up. If you can't deal with them or listen, don't, leave. But let them have that space.

Will most likely jump between The Expanse and The Olympic Dance Skating competitions.

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News...

* The Australian government declared the koala an endangered species.

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* In the U.S., gray wolves will regain federal protection across most of the country. A court ruling struck down a Trump administration decision to take the animals off the endangered species list.

* According to the John Hopkins COVID DASHBOARD OF DOOM (they gave up on the map some time ago) - the US has surpassed 900,000 deaths.

( the tally )

* The Rams and the Bengals will face off at the Super Bowl on Sunday in what is almost certain to be the most watched television broadcast of the year. ( Read more... )

Eh, I'll skip. I don't like the Rams, the Bengals, or Rap.

* The Times has a dialogue with folks about living with the virus. My difficulty is - there are 65,000 deaths a day, if not more. My heart goes out to the health care workers.
( two statements I agreed with )

I'm worried about mother, who's left knee is killing her. She's moving less and less now. It's bone on bone. Which means a knee replacement. But first she has to get new teeth - and that's not happening until February 28ths. She's missing various top teeth - due to a gum infection that had to be treated and her implants had to be removed. They are creating new ones and will insert them on the 28th, couldn't get an earlier appointment.

Here's a picture...

Because I want to be on a beach right now..(I even looked up Turks and Caicos, and freaked out over all the COVID crap).