Y2/D359 - Happy

For no good reason, just am. Mood is much lighter. It may be gray and drab outside, but I'm sunny on the inside. (Note, I've also been avoiding the news entirely the last few days. So I've no idea what is happening in the world at the moment. And I don't really want to know.)

When I arrived home from work today, a neighbor kindly opened the front doors for me, and when I trudged upstairs (deciding not to check the boxes in the lobby since I had nothing due until April), sitting in front of my apartment door - was an Amazon package. It was the Kindle Paperwhite Signature that I bought myself with the trade-in. (Shaved off $75, and got free shipping, plus free charger and cover - which arrived in February.) The Signature wasn't scheduled to arrive until April 16-20. So, I wasn't expecting it. Also, Amazon seldom delivers packages to my apartment - usually they are left with all the other packages in the lobby.

Considering we've had the package thief stop by lately - I was relieved to find it.

And I adore my new toy - ( Read more... )

Current fav romance novelist is Grace Burrows - because she writes about more than just the couple. ( Read more... )

The other package waiting to be opened and put together is my new Robot Vacuum or IRobot. It's to take the place of the ILife vacuum, which is on its last legs.

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Crazy Workplace

Former Head Honcho stopped by, out of retirement. He looks like a seven foot tall mottled Santa Clause in street clothes.

Me:So are you back to fix things, and switch everything back to the way it was before?
FHH: Nah, but you all don't really want that, do you?
Me: Yes, we do. I'd say ..it's pretty much unanimous. (I laugh, as do my co-workers.)

Co-workers found out yesterday was my birthday and started threatening to do something for me tomorrow.
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I was getting along with my fellow cubicle inhabitants today. Management stayed tucked inside its offices for the most part. I didn't see BYT at all, and barely saw BB.

Also, the time clock didn't work for my group. It worked for everyone but my group. For my group - it said, "Rejected Punch Unknown At Home Employee". If I'd known that - I'd have stayed home and worked remotely.

We've been told to clock in by email - until it starts working again. The stupid thing has been wonky ever since it was hacked back in December. Globally hacked.

Also I got stuff done today. I was impressed with myself. I should take these mental health days more often.

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Talked about movies with Chidi and Mel at work. Chidi loves The Last Duel and Power of the Dog. (He thinks Power of the Dog is a beautiful film. Beautiful isn't exactly the adjective that comes to mind regarding that film. Other adjectives come to mind - but beautiful? He also adores Jesse Plemmons who plays the brother and is barely in it.) He didn't like Fresh - which validates my rational for not seeing it. It's on Hulu - it falls under the category of film that I won't watch. Gory Horror Movies. Also torture porn.

Fresh's description and trailer were enough to turn me off of it. In regards to the horror genre, I rather picky. I really only like cosmic horror (basically horror that is a puzzle or mind-game), psychological horror, and ghost stories. Fresh is basically Promising Young Woman meets Hannibal Lector. When I read about it - I thought, oh great someone decided to imagine a date with Armie Hammer taken a few steps too far.

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Good moods are lovely things. Temporary. But lovely. Good night's sleep. Having various anxieties magically relieved. All of this plus a pretty bouquet of flowers, and birthday wishes can alleviate a mood, also avoiding the news. I've chosen to stop checking the John Hopkins Dashboard of Doom, used to be the COVID Map of Doom - but there were too many cases and deaths so they shifted to a Dashboard to keep track. I mean we were just looking a pock marked map, with very little space that wasn't covered with red circles left over. Also after a while, the numbers felt meaningless, and it was hard to equate them with human lives. So I stopped for my own mental health and continued sanity. [ I stopped about two-three months ago.]
Also have slowly stopped reading the Times news briefings. And, pulled away from FB and Twitter. My mood has lightened as a result. Social media can depress me if I let it.

Covid

Anyhow, in regards to masks...I'm getting used to people not wearing them everywhere now.( Read more... )

The infection rate in my area is below 0%, or 0.65%. But I'm in an urban area - ( Read more... )

It's odd to think how much has changed since March 10, 2020. Kind of overwhelming actually. Yet, I feel the same, at the same time? I don't.

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Here's a picture of my birthday bouquet: