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Jan. 30th, 2023 09:50 pmLoving Peaky Blinders. Appeal is lost on co-workers, but not on my immediate family members. Mother and Bro have ripped through the episodes along with me. We're all loving the series. It's rare that all three of us agree on a television series. Maybe two of us, but not always all three.
Mother posted on FB that she is happy that the Chiefs won last night, apparently she watched the game. Co-workers were also discussing the game, and happy they won. I stayed out of it. I didn't watch and am blatantly ignoring their win - even if the stupid Empire State Building decided to light up in their colors, after having lit up in the Eagles colors the night before - to much controversy. I'd prefer the Eagles.
Extended family is Eagles, Mother is Chiefs, no clue about brother.
Hmm. Texted Bro, to see if he was into the Chiefs like Mother. Apparently not.
Bro: I don't follow football. When is it?
Me: You don't? LOL! That's so cool.
Bro: Haven't in 20+ years, not since I was 15. Too many commercials.
[See? We are related.]
Co-workers are on to me - they know I don't follow spectator sports. Five things you should know about me?
1. The appeal of most spectator sports are lost on me, particularly sports that involve balls. I get bored easily. I may dabble, but I don't truly follow.
I will follow soccer, basketball or baseball on occasion. And I've been known to watch a football game once in a blue moon.
My family isn't really into spectator sports. My brother watches and follows soccer, but not football. My parents followed tennis. Mother will watch just about anything.
2. Not a gamer. This includes: board games, card games, video games, ball games, pretty much anything that is competitive. I've played chess - I find it very boring. Backgammon, also kind of boring. Card games - I'm good at but I forget the rules. Blackjack - I can't count to save my life. Monopoly, traumatized me when I was a kid. Video Games - The appeal is lost on me. RPG - too math oriented and rule oriented. Dominoes - too easy.
Mother is the family member who adores games. Bro is too competitive. My father and I didn't like games and lost interest quickly.
I think we may have played Clue the most as a kid, that and trivia pursuit.
Not a fan of competitive activities - I think I got traumatized as a kid or something?
3. I tend to like solo sports or endurance sports/activities, and puzzles or pattern games. Such as running (can't do it now - so walking/hiking), swimming. Watching skating, gymnastics. Dance - anything with dance in it.
Games like Tetris, Wordl, Dominoes, Majhain tiles, pattern games.
***
Vitamin E isn't reducing the hot flashes. It was helping for a while, but still getting them. Maybe not quite as frequently? Hmmm.
I am trying to figure out if there's a connection between chocolate, caffeine, and sugar to hot flashes. I know there is between alcohol and hot flashes - one of the reasons I stopped drinking alcohol.
Been told red wine is good for blood sugar. But it just gives me bad hot flushes, heart burn, and headaches.
I don't drink alcohol any longer. Or rarely, and only on social occasions.
***
Started the audio book Spare by Prince Harry and the e-book, Within these Wicked Walls - which is a re-imagining of Jane Eyre, except in Ethiopia, with an Ethiopian Exorcist, and a cursed lord in a haunted house. Actually outside of the name Rochester, there's relatively little resemblance to Jane Eyre, which works for me. I don't understand the point of redoing classic literature.
The Jane Eyre trope - is the gothic governess trope. This isn't that.
It's more of a Beauty and the Beast trope...or saving the cursed boy, similar to the original Snow Queen, or again, Beauty and the Beast.
It's swings heavily towards horror though, which interests me. What may turn me off is that it is also YA. But we'll see.
I may go back to Sabriel. I don't know yet.
***
After I watch Peaky Blinders, I'm going to attempt Picard again - in preparation for S3. Also need to retry The Magicians, and Last of Us (Twitter is all agog over Episode 3 - apparently it blew them all away.)
Mother posted on FB that she is happy that the Chiefs won last night, apparently she watched the game. Co-workers were also discussing the game, and happy they won. I stayed out of it. I didn't watch and am blatantly ignoring their win - even if the stupid Empire State Building decided to light up in their colors, after having lit up in the Eagles colors the night before - to much controversy. I'd prefer the Eagles.
Extended family is Eagles, Mother is Chiefs, no clue about brother.
Hmm. Texted Bro, to see if he was into the Chiefs like Mother. Apparently not.
Bro: I don't follow football. When is it?
Me: You don't? LOL! That's so cool.
Bro: Haven't in 20+ years, not since I was 15. Too many commercials.
[See? We are related.]
Co-workers are on to me - they know I don't follow spectator sports. Five things you should know about me?
1. The appeal of most spectator sports are lost on me, particularly sports that involve balls. I get bored easily. I may dabble, but I don't truly follow.
I will follow soccer, basketball or baseball on occasion. And I've been known to watch a football game once in a blue moon.
My family isn't really into spectator sports. My brother watches and follows soccer, but not football. My parents followed tennis. Mother will watch just about anything.
2. Not a gamer. This includes: board games, card games, video games, ball games, pretty much anything that is competitive. I've played chess - I find it very boring. Backgammon, also kind of boring. Card games - I'm good at but I forget the rules. Blackjack - I can't count to save my life. Monopoly, traumatized me when I was a kid. Video Games - The appeal is lost on me. RPG - too math oriented and rule oriented. Dominoes - too easy.
Mother is the family member who adores games. Bro is too competitive. My father and I didn't like games and lost interest quickly.
I think we may have played Clue the most as a kid, that and trivia pursuit.
Not a fan of competitive activities - I think I got traumatized as a kid or something?
3. I tend to like solo sports or endurance sports/activities, and puzzles or pattern games. Such as running (can't do it now - so walking/hiking), swimming. Watching skating, gymnastics. Dance - anything with dance in it.
Games like Tetris, Wordl, Dominoes, Majhain tiles, pattern games.
***
Vitamin E isn't reducing the hot flashes. It was helping for a while, but still getting them. Maybe not quite as frequently? Hmmm.
I am trying to figure out if there's a connection between chocolate, caffeine, and sugar to hot flashes. I know there is between alcohol and hot flashes - one of the reasons I stopped drinking alcohol.
Been told red wine is good for blood sugar. But it just gives me bad hot flushes, heart burn, and headaches.
I don't drink alcohol any longer. Or rarely, and only on social occasions.
***
Started the audio book Spare by Prince Harry and the e-book, Within these Wicked Walls - which is a re-imagining of Jane Eyre, except in Ethiopia, with an Ethiopian Exorcist, and a cursed lord in a haunted house. Actually outside of the name Rochester, there's relatively little resemblance to Jane Eyre, which works for me. I don't understand the point of redoing classic literature.
The Jane Eyre trope - is the gothic governess trope. This isn't that.
It's more of a Beauty and the Beast trope...or saving the cursed boy, similar to the original Snow Queen, or again, Beauty and the Beast.
It's swings heavily towards horror though, which interests me. What may turn me off is that it is also YA. But we'll see.
I may go back to Sabriel. I don't know yet.
***
After I watch Peaky Blinders, I'm going to attempt Picard again - in preparation for S3. Also need to retry The Magicians, and Last of Us (Twitter is all agog over Episode 3 - apparently it blew them all away.)