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More June Questions...and memage
The heat (it was 101 degrees today, and tonight has not dipped past 95 degrees with a high barometric pressure, and moderate air quality) - resulted in a sick nauseous headache by the time I got home, which is still lurking in the background. I felt dizzy, wiped out and off. Most likely the hangers on from my bout with COVID last week.
So instead of walking the fifteen to twenty blocks to the voting place, which is about a twenty minute walk in the heat, not helped by my sciatic nerve, I copped out. I feel really bad about it. But it is what it is. It's not like I have anyone I really want to vote for anyhow. I really did not like any of the people running. I'd landed on one, but I wasn't happy with the choice. I'll vote in the actual election - possibly by mail. This has taught me to try mail in voting from now on.
Heat and menopausal bodies are not mixy things. I also think my blood pressure was a bit off. I took the additional meds, it's seems to have leveled off a little now.
21. What is your favourite salad dressing?
Right now, it's usually lemon juice. I rarely use it. But if I do use it - I live olive oil and vingear, or Cesar Salad Dressing (with anchovies flavoring it).
22. Have you owned an aquarium or had a pond in your garden/backyard?
Don't have a backyard. So no on the pond. Parents had a lagoon for a bit.
And brother has a pond in his backyard, but not sure that counts? I owned an aquarium when I was a child - but not since then, too high maintenance.
23. Where is your favourite holiday destination – have you been more than once?
Don't really have one? I grew up with the view that you go somewhere different every year. I go to Hilton Head Island, South Carolina (it's a nice island off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia, that has sandy beaches, and is large enough to have a town, etc. It's not a small island.) But I only go to visit my mother, previously my parents, whom I'm exceedingly close to.
24. In 1911 French couturier Paul Poiret held his infamous 'The 1002nd Night' costume ball to launch his “Parfums de Rosine", the first signature scent linked to a design house. Have you a favourite scent?
I am allergic to most perfumes, unfortunately. They give me headaches. But I do like Lavender - doesn't bother me. (Note - most people with scent allergies or who are sensitive to perfume, have no problems with lavender for some reason or other). I also like lemon or citrus, euclyaptus, and pine.
Cinnamon now makes me sneeze. And Vanilla can make me queasy at times, weirdly.
I adore the scent of coffee.
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More on what comforts me?
Songs or musicians that I find comforting?
* Joni Mitchell, Sarah McLachlan, The Magnetic Stripes, Sand Sheff, Bruce Springsteen, The Beatles, Sondheim's Into the Woods, The Stones, David Bowie, Janis Ian, Suzanne Vega, Joan Jett and the Runaways/ also that other band - basically anything with Joan Jett, Brenda Carlyle, the Indigo Girls,
and Pink Floyd
Mostly Folk and Classic Rock, also classical music - anything by Yo Yo Ma, or John Williams movie themes. I have a fondness for Gershwin and Jazz. Jazz reminds me of my Dad, who adored it, that and Frank Sinatra.
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Smartbitches tempted me to buy another couple of books on Kindle, both were a $1.99. Went to get the first one, Hench, only to discover I'd already purchased it a year ago and forgotten about it. At least Amazon will inform me, other places aren't as considerate.
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A picture of the fountain outside my workplace. It's finally working. No, no one was climbing into it. They can't without hurting the flowers. It's not a swimming fountain.
People were threatening to open up fire hydrants today - which is illegal. The city parks and the city has fountains folks can play in.
So instead of walking the fifteen to twenty blocks to the voting place, which is about a twenty minute walk in the heat, not helped by my sciatic nerve, I copped out. I feel really bad about it. But it is what it is. It's not like I have anyone I really want to vote for anyhow. I really did not like any of the people running. I'd landed on one, but I wasn't happy with the choice. I'll vote in the actual election - possibly by mail. This has taught me to try mail in voting from now on.
Heat and menopausal bodies are not mixy things. I also think my blood pressure was a bit off. I took the additional meds, it's seems to have leveled off a little now.
21. What is your favourite salad dressing?
Right now, it's usually lemon juice. I rarely use it. But if I do use it - I live olive oil and vingear, or Cesar Salad Dressing (with anchovies flavoring it).
22. Have you owned an aquarium or had a pond in your garden/backyard?
Don't have a backyard. So no on the pond. Parents had a lagoon for a bit.
And brother has a pond in his backyard, but not sure that counts? I owned an aquarium when I was a child - but not since then, too high maintenance.
23. Where is your favourite holiday destination – have you been more than once?
Don't really have one? I grew up with the view that you go somewhere different every year. I go to Hilton Head Island, South Carolina (it's a nice island off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia, that has sandy beaches, and is large enough to have a town, etc. It's not a small island.) But I only go to visit my mother, previously my parents, whom I'm exceedingly close to.
24. In 1911 French couturier Paul Poiret held his infamous 'The 1002nd Night' costume ball to launch his “Parfums de Rosine", the first signature scent linked to a design house. Have you a favourite scent?
I am allergic to most perfumes, unfortunately. They give me headaches. But I do like Lavender - doesn't bother me. (Note - most people with scent allergies or who are sensitive to perfume, have no problems with lavender for some reason or other). I also like lemon or citrus, euclyaptus, and pine.
Cinnamon now makes me sneeze. And Vanilla can make me queasy at times, weirdly.
I adore the scent of coffee.
***
More on what comforts me?
Songs or musicians that I find comforting?
* Joni Mitchell, Sarah McLachlan, The Magnetic Stripes, Sand Sheff, Bruce Springsteen, The Beatles, Sondheim's Into the Woods, The Stones, David Bowie, Janis Ian, Suzanne Vega, Joan Jett and the Runaways/ also that other band - basically anything with Joan Jett, Brenda Carlyle, the Indigo Girls,
and Pink Floyd
Mostly Folk and Classic Rock, also classical music - anything by Yo Yo Ma, or John Williams movie themes. I have a fondness for Gershwin and Jazz. Jazz reminds me of my Dad, who adored it, that and Frank Sinatra.
**
Smartbitches tempted me to buy another couple of books on Kindle, both were a $1.99. Went to get the first one, Hench, only to discover I'd already purchased it a year ago and forgotten about it. At least Amazon will inform me, other places aren't as considerate.
***
A picture of the fountain outside my workplace. It's finally working. No, no one was climbing into it. They can't without hurting the flowers. It's not a swimming fountain.
People were threatening to open up fire hydrants today - which is illegal. The city parks and the city has fountains folks can play in.
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22. No. My brother and his wife had a big aquarium in their kitchen for many years. A few minutes every few weeks then, was plenty of fish watching for me.
23. I wonder if by holiday destination this person means vacation destination, as in the British usage. For holidays I prefer home. Back when I was working I'd go on road trips for vacations, lots of National Parks and Monuments. When you are retired, vacations don't mean much. ;o)
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And I agree on thousand island - the appeal of that is completely lost on me. I find it disgusting. It's like putting sugary pepto bismal pink mayo on the salad, just no.
LOL
I like pickles, alright. But not in sugary pepto-pink mayo on lettuce!
Re: LOL
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Though the year of the Queen's Jubilee (in the seventies, when I was a teenager) may have got that high, though it was too long ago now to be sure.
Actually, the following day when it was supposedly a few degrees lower (23/24) felt a lot worse, and I think I was suffering a bit of heat exhaustion; likely more to do with two days of higher than usual temps, and a certain amount of very oppressive air pressure (?) than the temperatures.
If I remember correctly, back in the nineties, there were record high/low temperatures recorded (in the same calendar year) in Cumbria in North-West England; just south of the Scottish border. Not too sure of that though.
Every year though the averages have been slowly creeping up, every year, month on month & year on year; almost everywhere ~ going on for decades now and, though it may be just my perception, the seasons seem to be shifting and more chaotic; even in the just over twenty-three years I've been living up here.
I'm actually beginning to wonder if I'm going to live long enough to see the Gulf Stream fail; cutting off this part of the world from it's temperate haven and giving us here the same summer/winter patterns of lands on the same latitudes (close to the NE United States and Eastern Canada).
Been fascinating following the Buffy rewatch reports; not done a proper rewatch for a very long time as I tend to rewatch Season One; favorite episodes from two & three and most of Season four, and a few episodes of Season Five.
Last episodes after Season Five I rewatched were back when the tenth anniversary so Eighteen (?) years ago now. I struggle to even watch reactions to anything after Season Five; even the finale.
Still been fascinating to see your reactions; especially comparing to your memories of watching the episodes at the time.
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Yeah, temps here this week have been ranging between 81 (21C) in the morning, and 98-99 (30s C) in the afternoon, topping around 100-101 in some locations and with humidity in afternoon such as yesterday (40s C). Not the best air quality - moderate.
NY generally speaking has a similar climate to UK and Europe for the most part. But over the past few years all have been getting warmer. Much warmer. And storms are becoming more and more frequent.
I expect to get worse before it gets better, unfortunately.
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I have to be careful with citrus scents as they can give me headaches. Lavender is very soothing.
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