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1. Apparently the trick to staying sane on most social media marketing platforms is: 1) not caring if anyone responds or reads your posts, 2) not caring how they respond to them, and 3) disabling comments and email notifications if you can't do 1 or 2.
Truth is it's almost impossible to predict what and how folks will respond to a particular post. People are frustratingly unpredictable in some respects, believe it or not.
2. Doctor's appointment - went well - I guess? She didn't listen to me, they never really do. If you say anything that doesn't fit the chart they are filling out - they will either interrupt you, cut you off, and tell you sorry - doesn't fit, can't help.
We might as well be working with AI at this point. It's insurance's fault.
Healthcare isn't equal or much good for 90% of the people in the US, because of the evil insurance lobby.
If you have Government or Medicare insurance - you get crappy medical care, because they don't pay the doctors well.
( the skinny on the doctor's appointment )
Then I set up the ENT...for the same day as the Gynecologist, which according to my information was set up with Maureen Clark for October 31. (yeah, right. I should have known better.)
( frigging gynecologists or why I no longer have a gynecologist and have given up entirely )
Suffice it to say - I've had bad luck with gynecologists. When I discuss this with girl-friends or relatives, I discover I'm not alone. My mother has given up on them too - the last one she had - convinced her to put a plastic mesh in her body to combat urinary tract infections - which was later proven to be a huge mistake. (She takes antibiotics now.) Sisinlaw has also given up. No one has a good one.
At this point? I've decided the hell with gynecologists. I give up. I'm hunting a menopausal specialist instead or no one at all. The worst doctors on the planet apparently specialize in women's health. This is just sad.
3. Today, I chilled. Yesterday was the doctor's appointment and grocery shopping.
I did laundry - and finished "Killers of the Flower Moon" audiobook. It's tragic what happened to the Osage Tribe. The last chapter uncovers a government sponsored cover up that resulted in countless deaths of Osage and others for money. There's a lot of metaphorical vampires on this planet.
It's a good book, but depressing, and infuriating.
As a palate cleanser - I chose Willian Least Heat Moon's Here, There, Everywhere and Elsewhere - which is a collection of his journalistic wanderings. It's actually pretty good - discusses the journalistic process, publishing, and travel. Also various cultures and places he went - such as Japan. And the people he met along the way.
Audible wants me to listen to the Last Action Heroes for some reason, I do not, and keep resisting.
Then watched two flicks on Amazon Prime.
* Mrs Harris Goes to Paris - takes place directly after WWII, and features a cleaning lady in her fifties or sixties (I can't tell age any longer) who decides to go to Paris to buy a Christian Dior dress. It's not what you think. I was surprised by it. It really revolves around how ordinary acts of kindness and compassion can reward you and others. Very uplifting film. Stars: Lesley Manville, Isabelle Hupert, and Jason Issacs.
*A Thousand Years of Longing - this is the latest film directed by George Miller, and stars Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba. It's about a narratologist (Swinton) who uncovers a djinn (Elba) while attending a scholarly conference in Turkey. It's not at all what I expected. Instead of focusing on Swinton's character and her wishes, it focuses on Elba's character, or the Djinn - and he tells her, the narratologist who specializes in story narratives, how he got imprisoned in the lamp three different times. It's a story about friendship and love - and surprised me.
Ignore the reviews, go in blind like I did, and just enjoy.
Both are love stories geared towards folks in their 50s and 60s, who are either widowed, divorced, or perpetually single.
[I stopped reading movie and television reviews for the most part a while back. Why? There's too much content out there - so they've either not seen it all or are just into the stuff that appeals to them personally. And the current crop of reviewers is targeting 18-45 demographic. I'm 56, that's not my demographic any longer. They don't care about me. Actually the evil marketing people never did. Which I'm fine with - being the target of evil marketing people is not necessarily a good thing.]
Also been watching Castlevania - which is an anime series based on a video game - and written/directed by Warren Ellis. It has a good voice cast: Richard Armitage, James Callis, Emily Swallow, Theo James...but alas Warren Ellis. I don't like the man, but he's not a bad writer - actually he's a good comic book writer. And the series is engaging, with art that is good - if not stellar. It's good and similar in anime style to say Cowboy Bebop, Lupin, Ghost in the Robot, etc. More adult style. It's not long. Just four seasons. The first one had four episodes. And the episodes are relatively short.
In regards to laundry? Someone left their laundry in the basement overnight, and in the wire mesh baskets we use for taking laundry out of the washer and into the dryer. I removed them from the baskets and put them in the laundry bins. It was a lot of laundry.
Mother: Did you fold it?
ME: No. Why would I do that? I don't like touching someone else's clothing and things. It's hard enough just to move from basket to bin. (They are supposed to go in the plastic bins.)
I got up before the crack of dawn to do it - 5:45 am. I got down there by 6 am, which is first wash, and it's quiet, no one else is down there at that time.
4. Also took a walk and completed another water color, which is more freestyle and rough around the edges. I didn't base the water color on anything but what was in my head. I have to print off some photos to use them as a basis. But right now - I'm challenging myself to just go off of what is in my head. Which is not always easy. It's easier to do it from a photograph or life.
Leaving you with a photo from my walk.
Truth is it's almost impossible to predict what and how folks will respond to a particular post. People are frustratingly unpredictable in some respects, believe it or not.
2. Doctor's appointment - went well - I guess? She didn't listen to me, they never really do. If you say anything that doesn't fit the chart they are filling out - they will either interrupt you, cut you off, and tell you sorry - doesn't fit, can't help.
We might as well be working with AI at this point. It's insurance's fault.
Healthcare isn't equal or much good for 90% of the people in the US, because of the evil insurance lobby.
If you have Government or Medicare insurance - you get crappy medical care, because they don't pay the doctors well.
( the skinny on the doctor's appointment )
Then I set up the ENT...for the same day as the Gynecologist, which according to my information was set up with Maureen Clark for October 31. (yeah, right. I should have known better.)
( frigging gynecologists or why I no longer have a gynecologist and have given up entirely )
Suffice it to say - I've had bad luck with gynecologists. When I discuss this with girl-friends or relatives, I discover I'm not alone. My mother has given up on them too - the last one she had - convinced her to put a plastic mesh in her body to combat urinary tract infections - which was later proven to be a huge mistake. (She takes antibiotics now.) Sisinlaw has also given up. No one has a good one.
At this point? I've decided the hell with gynecologists. I give up. I'm hunting a menopausal specialist instead or no one at all. The worst doctors on the planet apparently specialize in women's health. This is just sad.
3. Today, I chilled. Yesterday was the doctor's appointment and grocery shopping.
I did laundry - and finished "Killers of the Flower Moon" audiobook. It's tragic what happened to the Osage Tribe. The last chapter uncovers a government sponsored cover up that resulted in countless deaths of Osage and others for money. There's a lot of metaphorical vampires on this planet.
It's a good book, but depressing, and infuriating.
As a palate cleanser - I chose Willian Least Heat Moon's Here, There, Everywhere and Elsewhere - which is a collection of his journalistic wanderings. It's actually pretty good - discusses the journalistic process, publishing, and travel. Also various cultures and places he went - such as Japan. And the people he met along the way.
Audible wants me to listen to the Last Action Heroes for some reason, I do not, and keep resisting.
Then watched two flicks on Amazon Prime.
* Mrs Harris Goes to Paris - takes place directly after WWII, and features a cleaning lady in her fifties or sixties (I can't tell age any longer) who decides to go to Paris to buy a Christian Dior dress. It's not what you think. I was surprised by it. It really revolves around how ordinary acts of kindness and compassion can reward you and others. Very uplifting film. Stars: Lesley Manville, Isabelle Hupert, and Jason Issacs.
*A Thousand Years of Longing - this is the latest film directed by George Miller, and stars Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba. It's about a narratologist (Swinton) who uncovers a djinn (Elba) while attending a scholarly conference in Turkey. It's not at all what I expected. Instead of focusing on Swinton's character and her wishes, it focuses on Elba's character, or the Djinn - and he tells her, the narratologist who specializes in story narratives, how he got imprisoned in the lamp three different times. It's a story about friendship and love - and surprised me.
Ignore the reviews, go in blind like I did, and just enjoy.
Both are love stories geared towards folks in their 50s and 60s, who are either widowed, divorced, or perpetually single.
[I stopped reading movie and television reviews for the most part a while back. Why? There's too much content out there - so they've either not seen it all or are just into the stuff that appeals to them personally. And the current crop of reviewers is targeting 18-45 demographic. I'm 56, that's not my demographic any longer. They don't care about me. Actually the evil marketing people never did. Which I'm fine with - being the target of evil marketing people is not necessarily a good thing.]
Also been watching Castlevania - which is an anime series based on a video game - and written/directed by Warren Ellis. It has a good voice cast: Richard Armitage, James Callis, Emily Swallow, Theo James...but alas Warren Ellis. I don't like the man, but he's not a bad writer - actually he's a good comic book writer. And the series is engaging, with art that is good - if not stellar. It's good and similar in anime style to say Cowboy Bebop, Lupin, Ghost in the Robot, etc. More adult style. It's not long. Just four seasons. The first one had four episodes. And the episodes are relatively short.
In regards to laundry? Someone left their laundry in the basement overnight, and in the wire mesh baskets we use for taking laundry out of the washer and into the dryer. I removed them from the baskets and put them in the laundry bins. It was a lot of laundry.
Mother: Did you fold it?
ME: No. Why would I do that? I don't like touching someone else's clothing and things. It's hard enough just to move from basket to bin. (They are supposed to go in the plastic bins.)
I got up before the crack of dawn to do it - 5:45 am. I got down there by 6 am, which is first wash, and it's quiet, no one else is down there at that time.
4. Also took a walk and completed another water color, which is more freestyle and rough around the edges. I didn't base the water color on anything but what was in my head. I have to print off some photos to use them as a basis. But right now - I'm challenging myself to just go off of what is in my head. Which is not always easy. It's easier to do it from a photograph or life.
Leaving you with a photo from my walk.