don't be harsh on the protesters. 400 hundred years of oppression can make you crazy. anyway, wear the mask, isolate, wash your hands a lot. Our best friends, Jean and Danny, were just tested because they felt ill. They'll know in 5 days. So if they have the virus what about their 3 daughters? Florida cases rising by triple digits every day. Gov. DeSantis swaggering with, nothing to see here, folks.
Some years ago, I was in therapy and my therapist asked, "Where do you want to be 5 years from now," and I sincerely answered, "Not dead." I never made long-range plans. I made short range plans and made them happen. One thing led to the next. An unexpected meeting at a sci fi meeting (the Hydra Club) introduced me to my first husband. We met,and from our date the next day until he died 36 years later, we were never apart. Wenths later and were together 36 years when he died. I didn't plan any of it. I joined a bereavement group where I met Ed. I thought he was full of himself. He used to walk me to the subway and eventually we dated. Three years later we got married. He used to say he'd never marry again, that if he did, it wouldn't be me, and he would never live in Florida. And I kept saying, sure, whatever. After the wedding, he told me he was rich. Who knew. Mr. Careful. My engagement ring could pay for a house. Living in a dream house on big water, surrounded by wildlife. Ed is afraid of being happy. Ed working as a court appointed guardian for the elderly. Loves it. Now that he is isolating, he misses his God fix. (They all think he's wonderful.) I keep reminding him to count his blessings.
Re Star Trek, I never watched the first series, thought it was juvenile. I loved TNG series in the early 90s. Data was my favorite character. That was a while ago. I am back normal to now. One of the nurses on my husband's home care rotation loved Jonathan Frakes. One of the nurses, Anthony, whose brother is Tate Donovan, the actor, was a control freak withe the remote and we used to fight over it.
I have a genteel affection for all living creatures, insects excluded. I am upset when I see road kill. Recently our trash can was upended, so I had to stop leaving it out the night before pick up. The closing of restaurants means that rats and other vermin had to venture off their "beat" to find food. In the house, due to super cat, I have to rescue geckos pretending to be dead by not moving. I drop a Chinese plastic container over them, slip an 8x10 cardboard underneath, and take it outside and put it in a shady spot on the lawn. I give it a little lecture about coming into the pool cage (don't ask me how they manage that).Bears are definitely on my I think you are adorable, but I think I'll keep my distance list. Large birds come on our lawn. They are skittish and fly away if you try to come near. Egrets, pelicans, herons, osprey. Yes, it's Paradise, but intellectually: mostly brain dead.
Florida where I live now has had a spike in cases, probably fueled by demonstrators and by the Republican governor's insistence on "returning to normal". Even before the virus, I didn't go out a lot. I am keeping doctor's appointments that must be done in person (just had steroid injections for my back), and I shop at the market with a mask. But
Gov. DiSantis is withholding numbers updates on cases and is still insisting on going back to normal. At the market yesterday, I did notice more shoppers without masks. Stupid stupid stupid. I kept my distance.
My favorites are Love it or List it and the Chip and Joanna Gaines show. Haven't seen them for a while. I like to see the end result. Currently watching every single re-run of the Law & Order Franchise and its spin-off Special Victims. I never get tired of it. Other than thatit's MSNBC non-stop.
a right wing group pretending to be Antifa (anti fascist leftist group) posted violent messages on Twitter before the posts were taken down. Don't be too quick to blame "militant" protesters. Aside from thug opportunists taking advantage of the crowds to rob and loot, I think right wing money persuaded some thugs to burn buildings and loot stores. It certainly fits in with what I know about right wing tactics.
The Matlacha Hookers (it started with a small group of women who hooked doilies -- it's a needle skill, who knew) that has grown into a substantial philanthropic club, got volunteers to clean up Pine Island Road. We went out one morning with bags and gloves and gathered trash for several hours. Most of it from tourists. The locals don't do this. The local paper covered it. I got my picture in the paper. It was an awful photo. I told people someone used my name.
Your sister is a control freak, and seems to be focusing on you. A suggestion for the next time ...Look her in the eye and say, "Sorry, dear, but you don't get to tell me what color my drapes should be (or whatever she is harassing you about). Has she always been this way with you?
You are so beset. I sympathize totally. We just have health insurance. It's lovely to have family that would benefit from our having life insurance, but we don't. Hang in there. Eventually we'll come out of this. Stay safe.
Miss I don't make it, I buy it, reads this post with wild surmise. I have spent a lifetime trying to make a home without actually spending a lot of time on it. Cooking and cleaning I will do, suffering in silence and being brave. Friends sent Ed and me masks.Beautiful. Otherwise, just an oblong scarf over lower face.
Sorry you have to jump through hoops to get your laundry done safely. When I was a kid, our lower hallway was always full of drunks sleeping it off. I didn't begrudge them. Somehow, even as a kid, I had empathy. Once I was grabbing ice chunks (a rare treat) off the back of an ice truck (before refrigeration was common), and a drunk on the street thought I was hungry and offered me part of his sandwich.
Adorable critters, all of them.
My immediate family was just my sis and me. Parents and sis gone. I am close to my two first cousins, but they are in Illinois. I wish I could see them but Connie is fighting cancer and even before then, was not inclined to travel. I worry about her a lot. I have bouts of sadness and have to fight it off. It is what it is. I filled out a med questionnaire today and depression was on it and I had to think about it. I don't think I have clinical depression, I am just sad a lot. Does that count?
I had to go in person to the doctor and wore a mask made for me by my friend and it was very uncomfortable and my nose felt smashed. And I have two more doctor appointments. I am getting a pain injection moved up from later in May. And I am anemic. This past year hasn't been great. xx, T
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