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Jul. 8th, 2023 10:21 pm1. Managed to put together a tray table that I bought from Amazon for eating and possibly drawing and painting on. I may use it for the laptop as well. Haven't decided yet.
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It's not perfect, but it does get the job done. Only quibble is it is really hard to adjust the angle of the top into different positions. Also took forever to adjust the legs.
2. Went grocery shopping - and appeared to be accident prone - or I left disaster in my wake, one or the other. ( the mini-disasters that I left in my wake at the grocery store )
After that, I kind of tip-toed around the store, afraid of causing another mishap.
I wish I could say I felt something one way or the other - but I didn't.
It's as if I'm walking around in a fog lately.
Did manage to pick up healthy things and avoid sweets and ice cream for the most part. Got peaches instead. Buying peaches and nectarines is always problematic. The chances you'll get an overripe mealy one or unripe hard one are high.
3. My Church is doing a "go off plastic" challenge via the sustainability group, that I've no clue how people manage it. One woman stated that she'd picked up bar shampoo and bar soap. Considering I can't stand bar soap, that's not happening. I really can't avoid plastic - it's every where. It's akin to trying to avoid sugar (another discussion). I bought a glass bottle of natural spring water today - in my attempt to get away from plastic, after reading that plastic bottles are bad for you. Although they do have ones that are BPA proof now. Whatever that means.
4. At work yesterday, Gabe informed me that she needed to taste her medication in order to remember that she took it. And took powdered tynenol. It had sugar in it - but that helped her remember and soothed her. I thanked her for explaining that too me - because I'd always wondered why they added sugar to so many medications. Now I know.
5. I don't know about anyone else? But I'm finding the information age to be exhausting. ( Read more... )
6. I am still in a reading slump. Cat Sebastian's book "The Crimes of Marian Hayes" isn't grabbing me. I don't know why.
I am enjoying Geena Davis' audiobook - Dying Politely. Apparently she spent some time in NYC pretending to be a mannequin in shop windows. She was trying to get into modeling, but at six foot, she was considered too big.
The clothing samples they provided for catalogue and runway models were sized at 5'10, if that. But Geena was determined. As a side gig to working in a retail store, she pretended to be a mannequin in several shop windows. She even found a wire to make it look like she was plugged in. The challenge was to fool people into thinking she was a mannequin. I don't know how she did that - I'd have given up after ten minutes.
I'm thinking of trying another book by T Kingfisher - who to date has written the only book that I could finish that wasn't an audio book, and also that I remembered and haunted me. Plus no romantic love interest.
I may be burned out on romances? I should stop buying them. And switch to horror and dark fantasy for a bit.
I seem to want books that have a spot of magic in them? I don't know.
Wales jumped from a Jennifer Weiner beach read, which annoyed her, to a Patricia Highsmith novel. She also tried to read Elena Ferrati's My Brilliant Friend, made it through most of the first novel, before getting fed up and throwing it against the wall. She didn't like anyone in it, and didn't care what happened to any of them. And was bored. Didn't understand how the writer got published or why people loved her. I can relate - I couldn't get past the first fifty pages. I got bored. That sort of fiction no longer works for me. I'm sure it's lovely, it just doesn't work for me right now.
7. Yesterday discussed nails with Mel.
( getting nails done )
It's fascinating to me how different we all are, and how our different upbringings inform who we become.
8. Trying to get spoilers on a comic book character that I'm concerned about. But the spoiler sources aren't reliable - mainly because they don't like the character, and have troll logic.
( venting about annoying comic book journalists who don't understand the characters and have the story/character analysis skills of two year olds, no offense to the two year olds intended )
Ugh. I know they aren't going in that direction.
9. Night Agent - saw the first episode. It's good. Basically an FBI agent after stopping a bomb from taking out a group of folks on a metro train that he was on, is assigned to the counterintelligence Night Desk, as the Night Agent. The phone never rings. Until one night it does. Rose, who has just declared bankruptcy and lost everything, discovers her parents are spies and in trouble. They tell her to run next door and call the Night Agent, and give her the codes. She does - and well, it goes from there.
Long past my bed time - heading there now.
( Read more... )
It's not perfect, but it does get the job done. Only quibble is it is really hard to adjust the angle of the top into different positions. Also took forever to adjust the legs.
2. Went grocery shopping - and appeared to be accident prone - or I left disaster in my wake, one or the other. ( the mini-disasters that I left in my wake at the grocery store )
After that, I kind of tip-toed around the store, afraid of causing another mishap.
I wish I could say I felt something one way or the other - but I didn't.
It's as if I'm walking around in a fog lately.
Did manage to pick up healthy things and avoid sweets and ice cream for the most part. Got peaches instead. Buying peaches and nectarines is always problematic. The chances you'll get an overripe mealy one or unripe hard one are high.
3. My Church is doing a "go off plastic" challenge via the sustainability group, that I've no clue how people manage it. One woman stated that she'd picked up bar shampoo and bar soap. Considering I can't stand bar soap, that's not happening. I really can't avoid plastic - it's every where. It's akin to trying to avoid sugar (another discussion). I bought a glass bottle of natural spring water today - in my attempt to get away from plastic, after reading that plastic bottles are bad for you. Although they do have ones that are BPA proof now. Whatever that means.
4. At work yesterday, Gabe informed me that she needed to taste her medication in order to remember that she took it. And took powdered tynenol. It had sugar in it - but that helped her remember and soothed her. I thanked her for explaining that too me - because I'd always wondered why they added sugar to so many medications. Now I know.
5. I don't know about anyone else? But I'm finding the information age to be exhausting. ( Read more... )
6. I am still in a reading slump. Cat Sebastian's book "The Crimes of Marian Hayes" isn't grabbing me. I don't know why.
I am enjoying Geena Davis' audiobook - Dying Politely. Apparently she spent some time in NYC pretending to be a mannequin in shop windows. She was trying to get into modeling, but at six foot, she was considered too big.
The clothing samples they provided for catalogue and runway models were sized at 5'10, if that. But Geena was determined. As a side gig to working in a retail store, she pretended to be a mannequin in several shop windows. She even found a wire to make it look like she was plugged in. The challenge was to fool people into thinking she was a mannequin. I don't know how she did that - I'd have given up after ten minutes.
I'm thinking of trying another book by T Kingfisher - who to date has written the only book that I could finish that wasn't an audio book, and also that I remembered and haunted me. Plus no romantic love interest.
I may be burned out on romances? I should stop buying them. And switch to horror and dark fantasy for a bit.
I seem to want books that have a spot of magic in them? I don't know.
Wales jumped from a Jennifer Weiner beach read, which annoyed her, to a Patricia Highsmith novel. She also tried to read Elena Ferrati's My Brilliant Friend, made it through most of the first novel, before getting fed up and throwing it against the wall. She didn't like anyone in it, and didn't care what happened to any of them. And was bored. Didn't understand how the writer got published or why people loved her. I can relate - I couldn't get past the first fifty pages. I got bored. That sort of fiction no longer works for me. I'm sure it's lovely, it just doesn't work for me right now.
7. Yesterday discussed nails with Mel.
( getting nails done )
It's fascinating to me how different we all are, and how our different upbringings inform who we become.
8. Trying to get spoilers on a comic book character that I'm concerned about. But the spoiler sources aren't reliable - mainly because they don't like the character, and have troll logic.
( venting about annoying comic book journalists who don't understand the characters and have the story/character analysis skills of two year olds, no offense to the two year olds intended )
Ugh. I know they aren't going in that direction.
9. Night Agent - saw the first episode. It's good. Basically an FBI agent after stopping a bomb from taking out a group of folks on a metro train that he was on, is assigned to the counterintelligence Night Desk, as the Night Agent. The phone never rings. Until one night it does. Rose, who has just declared bankruptcy and lost everything, discovers her parents are spies and in trouble. They tell her to run next door and call the Night Agent, and give her the codes. She does - and well, it goes from there.
Long past my bed time - heading there now.