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shadowkatWell, the Sketchers UNO Black Sneakers finally got delivered. That was a lot of stress and bother over a pair of sneakers. I'm not ordering that again. 3rd time was the charm. They figured out the buzzing part, just not the entry part. He buzzed my door fifteen times. I ran downstairs to let him in - and he had a lot of pet food - so I wondered if he was FedEx.
Apparently the issue wasn't getting packages inside - it was that the FedEx guy wanted an electronic signature - the signature release form wasn't going to cut it. But, I got the Sketchers Uno Black Sneakers. And they appear to fit. So yay?
Also I turned my mattress, and made the bed up clean this morning. The heat came on around 9, so I had to turn on some fans. But it's off now, and the apartment is a comfortable 73-76 degrees. No A/C, no heat. One small fan, and the window fan in the bedroom which I reversed the air flow to the outdoors.
Sciatica is slightly better? Still hurts when I get up, and I got to walk for a bit. I'm definitely taking up chair and bed yoga again. I'm hunting a balance disc.
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Made a pot of chili last night - using my mother's recipe, with some tweaks and from memory. Basically a little beef, chili seasoning, three types of chili beans (organic), dark baking chocolate, tomato paste (organic tomatoes), chopped onions, olive oil, water. It's good. Put shredded cheddar cheese and chopped red onion on top. Didn't send blood sugar up at all. Next time - I might leave out the beef - it's not needed and adds zip to it. I'm fine with just beans. Also chopped tomatoes instead of paste. Still tasty and better than Annies.
Today - Had wild albacore tuna fish, celery, chopped onions and Helman's Mayo mixed together on seeded gluten free sourdough, toasted in George Foreman grill for lunch. It was a tasty lunch.
Breakfast was fried eggs, greens, and radishes. And some apple cinnamon almond flour muffins with walnuts.
Snack - green apple dipped in dark melted chocolate and walnut butter.
***
I indulged another actor crush today - and watch Cillian Murphy's latest film - Steve - which just popped up on Netflix. Also stars Tracy Ulman and Emily Watson. It's about an Irish headmaster of a school for troubled and mentally ill boys - that's about to be closed. Adapted from the play "Shy" - titled after one of the mentally ill boys at the school. It's good, kind of surreal in places, and I kept snoozing during it, but everyone is excellent in it - and it's a good character piece. Also a touch tragic in that the school is closing, even though it does get across how the teachers and head master do everything they can to help the boys and keep it open, with scant funds. (Demonstrating that the misappropriated use of public funds and political privilege is not just a US problem, but a global one.)
(My actor crushes are: Cillian Murphy, Idris Alba, Christian Bale, Robert Downy Jr, Mathew Goode, Mark Hamil, Harrison Ford, James Marsters, Anthony Stewart Head, Jonathon Groff, Vanessa Kirby, Toni Collette, Carrie Fisher, Juliette Landau, Claudia Black, Katee Sackoff, Michelle Yeoh, Angela Bassett, Cate Blanchett, Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Dench, Ian McKellan, Michael Fassbender, Michael Jordan. Although I may have forgotten someone in there.)
Christian Bale and Cate Blanchette are in another flick that just dropped on Netflix - "Knight of Cups" - which I found today. I thought - oh, goody, then oh damn - Netflix. Netflix has the worst interface of all the streamers. It crashes. You can't find anything on it. It's almost impossible to fast forward, pause, or rewind. It has a tendency to keep going to the next episode without telling you. And it is often unavailable - while I have no issues with Hulu or Disney + or HBO. Prime is getting wonky too.
You will have to pry my streaming channels along with my books and Apple music account out of my cold dead hands. I know I should do CDs and records - but my taste is too eclectic and I'd go broke. Apple Music is cheaper. And I'm tone death - so I honestly can't tell if a CD, record or a MP3 player through Bose headphones sounds better? They all sound the same to me? And I don't care what the albums look like - also I can see the album covers on my phone when the music plays (I rarely pay attention to them).
Memage
9. Did you ever have one of those ‘magic’ painting books where you used water on the paper to bring out the colours when you were small?
I asked my mother about it. She had one. But I didn't, nor did my brother. So maybe they weren't a thing in the 1970s? She also didn't bother with coloring books, paint by numbers oils, or any of that - preferring to encourage us to draw and paint our own things, finger paint, use paints, brushes, pencils, and blank paper.
My mother was a frustrated artist and art teacher, who had horrible teachers - who told her she wasn't any good. One idiot decided to help her redo her art. And her brother in law insulted a really interesting oil painting of a red sun over a black ocean. (I want to hunt them down and draw and quarter them and feed them to wild dogs. Although I did eventually forgive my uncle. You should NEVER EVER tell someone they have no talent or their art is no good. Just because you don't like it? Doesn't mean it isn't any good. It's more than possible your taste sucks. I often want to snark back - to comments that someone's poetry, or art is bad with the line: "okay, who made you the arbiter of taste? Do you really think that highly of yourself?" Or "You might want to check your ego at the door?") What endeared me to Juliette Landau and James Marsters - is they both state this - that you should NEVER get in the way of someone else's desire to harmlessly express themselves through art, whether it is acting, singing, painting, etc. If you don't like it? Don't watch or listen.
10. It’s World Porridge (oatmeal) Day! Are you a fan?
I am. But I don't think it likes me all that much? I get digestive issues with it. Sometimes it's like glue in my system, clogging things up. Also - when it's not like glue - it has a tendency to send the blood sugar sky-rocketing. It may have to do with being diagnosed with ceiliac late in life, I don't know? I eat eggs over greens instead - easier to digest. Or coconut yogurt and nuts.
11. Do you own/use a food processor or blender?
Yes, but I rarely use it. I am single. It's huge. And I don't process much. Food digests better when I don't?
Apparently the issue wasn't getting packages inside - it was that the FedEx guy wanted an electronic signature - the signature release form wasn't going to cut it. But, I got the Sketchers Uno Black Sneakers. And they appear to fit. So yay?
Also I turned my mattress, and made the bed up clean this morning. The heat came on around 9, so I had to turn on some fans. But it's off now, and the apartment is a comfortable 73-76 degrees. No A/C, no heat. One small fan, and the window fan in the bedroom which I reversed the air flow to the outdoors.
Sciatica is slightly better? Still hurts when I get up, and I got to walk for a bit. I'm definitely taking up chair and bed yoga again. I'm hunting a balance disc.
***
Made a pot of chili last night - using my mother's recipe, with some tweaks and from memory. Basically a little beef, chili seasoning, three types of chili beans (organic), dark baking chocolate, tomato paste (organic tomatoes), chopped onions, olive oil, water. It's good. Put shredded cheddar cheese and chopped red onion on top. Didn't send blood sugar up at all. Next time - I might leave out the beef - it's not needed and adds zip to it. I'm fine with just beans. Also chopped tomatoes instead of paste. Still tasty and better than Annies.
Today - Had wild albacore tuna fish, celery, chopped onions and Helman's Mayo mixed together on seeded gluten free sourdough, toasted in George Foreman grill for lunch. It was a tasty lunch.
Breakfast was fried eggs, greens, and radishes. And some apple cinnamon almond flour muffins with walnuts.
Snack - green apple dipped in dark melted chocolate and walnut butter.
***
I indulged another actor crush today - and watch Cillian Murphy's latest film - Steve - which just popped up on Netflix. Also stars Tracy Ulman and Emily Watson. It's about an Irish headmaster of a school for troubled and mentally ill boys - that's about to be closed. Adapted from the play "Shy" - titled after one of the mentally ill boys at the school. It's good, kind of surreal in places, and I kept snoozing during it, but everyone is excellent in it - and it's a good character piece. Also a touch tragic in that the school is closing, even though it does get across how the teachers and head master do everything they can to help the boys and keep it open, with scant funds. (Demonstrating that the misappropriated use of public funds and political privilege is not just a US problem, but a global one.)
(My actor crushes are: Cillian Murphy, Idris Alba, Christian Bale, Robert Downy Jr, Mathew Goode, Mark Hamil, Harrison Ford, James Marsters, Anthony Stewart Head, Jonathon Groff, Vanessa Kirby, Toni Collette, Carrie Fisher, Juliette Landau, Claudia Black, Katee Sackoff, Michelle Yeoh, Angela Bassett, Cate Blanchett, Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Dench, Ian McKellan, Michael Fassbender, Michael Jordan. Although I may have forgotten someone in there.)
Christian Bale and Cate Blanchette are in another flick that just dropped on Netflix - "Knight of Cups" - which I found today. I thought - oh, goody, then oh damn - Netflix. Netflix has the worst interface of all the streamers. It crashes. You can't find anything on it. It's almost impossible to fast forward, pause, or rewind. It has a tendency to keep going to the next episode without telling you. And it is often unavailable - while I have no issues with Hulu or Disney + or HBO. Prime is getting wonky too.
You will have to pry my streaming channels along with my books and Apple music account out of my cold dead hands. I know I should do CDs and records - but my taste is too eclectic and I'd go broke. Apple Music is cheaper. And I'm tone death - so I honestly can't tell if a CD, record or a MP3 player through Bose headphones sounds better? They all sound the same to me? And I don't care what the albums look like - also I can see the album covers on my phone when the music plays (I rarely pay attention to them).
Memage
9. Did you ever have one of those ‘magic’ painting books where you used water on the paper to bring out the colours when you were small?
I asked my mother about it. She had one. But I didn't, nor did my brother. So maybe they weren't a thing in the 1970s? She also didn't bother with coloring books, paint by numbers oils, or any of that - preferring to encourage us to draw and paint our own things, finger paint, use paints, brushes, pencils, and blank paper.
My mother was a frustrated artist and art teacher, who had horrible teachers - who told her she wasn't any good. One idiot decided to help her redo her art. And her brother in law insulted a really interesting oil painting of a red sun over a black ocean. (I want to hunt them down and draw and quarter them and feed them to wild dogs. Although I did eventually forgive my uncle. You should NEVER EVER tell someone they have no talent or their art is no good. Just because you don't like it? Doesn't mean it isn't any good. It's more than possible your taste sucks. I often want to snark back - to comments that someone's poetry, or art is bad with the line: "okay, who made you the arbiter of taste? Do you really think that highly of yourself?" Or "You might want to check your ego at the door?") What endeared me to Juliette Landau and James Marsters - is they both state this - that you should NEVER get in the way of someone else's desire to harmlessly express themselves through art, whether it is acting, singing, painting, etc. If you don't like it? Don't watch or listen.
10. It’s World Porridge (oatmeal) Day! Are you a fan?
I am. But I don't think it likes me all that much? I get digestive issues with it. Sometimes it's like glue in my system, clogging things up. Also - when it's not like glue - it has a tendency to send the blood sugar sky-rocketing. It may have to do with being diagnosed with ceiliac late in life, I don't know? I eat eggs over greens instead - easier to digest. Or coconut yogurt and nuts.
11. Do you own/use a food processor or blender?
Yes, but I rarely use it. I am single. It's huge. And I don't process much. Food digests better when I don't?
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Date: 2025-10-12 02:38 pm (UTC)