One Good Thing: It's another beautiful blue-sky day. It looks like it's going to snow and just generally suck most of the week, so I'm especially glad for sunshine today.
One Funny Thing: I started doing "Little Bunny Foo Foo" with Beast yesterday. He wasn't amused, so I stopped but it made me giggle briefly.
One Weird Thing: The more I get accomplished, the "forwarder" I go, the closer to permanently shutting down emotionally I get. Lots of good things and forward progress last week--and all I want to do is stay in bed forever.
One God Thing: I promised myself last night that if I woke up in time to get to church, I'd go, and then head to Beast's. There's still an hour to go before church starts and ... I'm not going. Sorry, God. I just can't face people or the music. Or, probably, the sermon, which is based on Jesus clearing the temple out.
One Music Thing: I have been listening to more stuff on Spotify, more saved/starred stuff. I have a lot of sad stuff, or at least stuff that makes me sad to hear. So the best "Good Thing" yesterday was Goodbye, Earl by the Dixie Chicks.
One Book Thing: Still slogging through the bio of LIW, and a book written by a woman who was nearly killed by an axe-wielding nutjob.
I'm back to not crying. Now, however, I feel like I'm on the verge all the time, so it's distract-distract-distract, which means doing anything that doesn't make me think too hard. I'm so sad, all the time.
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3.04.2018
2.28.2018
Wednesday morning
One Good Thing: I have a new mailbox!! And simply, THE most amazing friends.
One Funny Thing: Sparky doesn't know how to organize a junk drawer. I have close to a dozen screwdrivers left in it, but had to go dig for pliers yesterday. And no hammer in there, either. On the up-side--the drawer opens without yanking on it.
One Weird Thing: It's just strange how calm I feel in the face of being turned down for Medicaid. I'm more relieved that I don't have to deal with the form than I am worried about money, which is the exact opposite of how my sister undoubtedly thinks I should be feeling.
One God Thing: I skipped Bible Study this morning. Today's going to be a busy day and I just couldn't face starting it at 5:30 a.m.
One Music Thing: Thank God for Spotify! FM radio is just as bad as I'd remembered!
One Book Thing: I've got a bunch going, as usual, but the one I'm probably going to finish fastest is Strange Piece of Paradise, written by Terri Jentz, who was attacked by a man with an axe while camping with her college roommate in a state park in Oregon. The both survived, but the attacker was never caught, and so 15 years afterwards she goes back to that location and (that's as far as I've gotten).
One Funny Thing: Sparky doesn't know how to organize a junk drawer. I have close to a dozen screwdrivers left in it, but had to go dig for pliers yesterday. And no hammer in there, either. On the up-side--the drawer opens without yanking on it.
One Weird Thing: It's just strange how calm I feel in the face of being turned down for Medicaid. I'm more relieved that I don't have to deal with the form than I am worried about money, which is the exact opposite of how my sister undoubtedly thinks I should be feeling.
One God Thing: I skipped Bible Study this morning. Today's going to be a busy day and I just couldn't face starting it at 5:30 a.m.
One Music Thing: Thank God for Spotify! FM radio is just as bad as I'd remembered!
One Book Thing: I've got a bunch going, as usual, but the one I'm probably going to finish fastest is Strange Piece of Paradise, written by Terri Jentz, who was attacked by a man with an axe while camping with her college roommate in a state park in Oregon. The both survived, but the attacker was never caught, and so 15 years afterwards she goes back to that location and (that's as far as I've gotten).
2.26.2018
Monday morning
One Good Thing: The sky is blue. It's supposed to be a simply gorgeous day, lying to us all about spring being here already. We midwesterners know better, but it's a nice "fake" anyway.
One Funny Thing: Honestly, I've been sitting here for three minutes with nothing coming to mind. I can think of plenty of "absurd" but nothing particularly funny.
One Weird Thing: Everything in my life is weird now. Recently, I've been holding onto the thought that by next year this time, I'll have my feet under me again with most of the chaos. I sure hope so.
One God Thing: "I lift up my eyes to the hills-- where does my help come from? My help comes from the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth." (from Psalm 121)
One Music Thing: Now that I've disentangled from SiriusXM, I'm back to radio stations. I was using my Bluetooth and phone connection, but for some unfathomable reason, that has stopped working as well. So, it's either silence or local radio.
One Book Thing: I'm stuck. I have three books going, all of them really good but all of them also "serious" and complicated and hard to read for more than 5 pages at a time. This means I've been lazy and remiss in getting through them. And it means they are all overdue bigtime. I guess I'm going to have to go back to the lightweight stuff AGAIN, for the duration. I mean, I like light fiction, but I can feel my brain atrophying when I don't read something deeper once in awhile. ...so many things to read...
One Funny Thing: Honestly, I've been sitting here for three minutes with nothing coming to mind. I can think of plenty of "absurd" but nothing particularly funny.
One Weird Thing: Everything in my life is weird now. Recently, I've been holding onto the thought that by next year this time, I'll have my feet under me again with most of the chaos. I sure hope so.
One God Thing: "I lift up my eyes to the hills-- where does my help come from? My help comes from the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth." (from Psalm 121)
One Music Thing: Now that I've disentangled from SiriusXM, I'm back to radio stations. I was using my Bluetooth and phone connection, but for some unfathomable reason, that has stopped working as well. So, it's either silence or local radio.
One Book Thing: I'm stuck. I have three books going, all of them really good but all of them also "serious" and complicated and hard to read for more than 5 pages at a time. This means I've been lazy and remiss in getting through them. And it means they are all overdue bigtime. I guess I'm going to have to go back to the lightweight stuff AGAIN, for the duration. I mean, I like light fiction, but I can feel my brain atrophying when I don't read something deeper once in awhile. ...so many things to read...
2.16.2018
Friday night
One Good Thing: The bills are paid. I'm just not looking at the bottom line.
One Funny Thing: I'm listening to a podcast called "Dumb People Town." This episode isn't that great; in fact, I just switched to another one.
One Weird Thing: I find the fact that the mail carrier is stopping with my mail, even though the box is literally lying on the ground by the street, really amusing. And actually, amazing.
One God Thing:
Two are better than one,
because they get a good return for their effort.
For if they fall,
the one will lift up his companion.
But oy to the one who falls
and has no one to lift him up! (Ecclesiastes 4:9-10)
One Music Thing: I had a really annoying song stuck in my head this morning. Luckily, I have completely forgotten what it was. I'm not sad.
One Book Thing: I'm reading a book called Prairie Fires which is Laura Ingalls Wilder's biography set in history. Interesting, but a bit slow.
One Funny Thing: I'm listening to a podcast called "Dumb People Town." This episode isn't that great; in fact, I just switched to another one.
One Weird Thing: I find the fact that the mail carrier is stopping with my mail, even though the box is literally lying on the ground by the street, really amusing. And actually, amazing.
One God Thing:
Two are better than one,
because they get a good return for their effort.
For if they fall,
the one will lift up his companion.
But oy to the one who falls
and has no one to lift him up! (Ecclesiastes 4:9-10)
One Music Thing: I had a really annoying song stuck in my head this morning. Luckily, I have completely forgotten what it was. I'm not sad.
One Book Thing: I'm reading a book called Prairie Fires which is Laura Ingalls Wilder's biography set in history. Interesting, but a bit slow.
12.10.2017
Sunday morning
One Good Thing: The ol' standby: the sun is shining, the sky is blue. Maybe this is what should go on my tombstone, sort of my mantra as I go whistling past the graveyards in life.
One Funny Thing: The MFM podcast, and The Dollop podcast, which caused a bladder emergency from over-laughing earlier this week.
One Weird Thing: I'm really failing at basic life stuff lately: laundry, cleaning, calling people back, grocery shopping. Is this how "normal" people do life?
One God Thing: Advent this year. Totally where I'm at. Haven't even opened the closet with Xmas decorations. I did get a roll of wrapping paper out to get prezzies ready for the Greats, and then I got them directly into the mail, but that's the full extent of my Holiday Plan. Oh, wait, I asked Sparky what he wants. The reply: oil filter, oil, and jeans. Adulting hitting hard this year for both of us.
One Music Thing: Why, even with hundreds of radio stations, can I never find one that doesn't piss me off inside of 10 minutes for assorted reasons? Spotify has ruined me forever.
One Book Thing: I'm reading Eddie Izzard's autobio right now. It's oddly much less raucous fun, and more like reading the life story of someone you used to know in college or whatever. Comforting. Clever, too, of course, and funny, but also quite British in the sense that I feel a little removed from the "plot."
One Funny Thing: The MFM podcast, and The Dollop podcast, which caused a bladder emergency from over-laughing earlier this week.
One Weird Thing: I'm really failing at basic life stuff lately: laundry, cleaning, calling people back, grocery shopping. Is this how "normal" people do life?
One God Thing: Advent this year. Totally where I'm at. Haven't even opened the closet with Xmas decorations. I did get a roll of wrapping paper out to get prezzies ready for the Greats, and then I got them directly into the mail, but that's the full extent of my Holiday Plan. Oh, wait, I asked Sparky what he wants. The reply: oil filter, oil, and jeans. Adulting hitting hard this year for both of us.
One Music Thing: Why, even with hundreds of radio stations, can I never find one that doesn't piss me off inside of 10 minutes for assorted reasons? Spotify has ruined me forever.
One Book Thing: I'm reading Eddie Izzard's autobio right now. It's oddly much less raucous fun, and more like reading the life story of someone you used to know in college or whatever. Comforting. Clever, too, of course, and funny, but also quite British in the sense that I feel a little removed from the "plot."
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