Miscellaneous stuff and nonsense!

 

For those of you who may have forgotten, The Prisoner sliced my index finger last week, and I bandaged it up.  It healed, of course, because at least my body still remembers how to do that.  Thankfully!

Thursday it was Rubia who leapt for the table, missed, and dug her claw into my pinky (on the same hand!)  I yelped and called her a bad kitty and opened the sliding glass door for her to flee to the great outdoors.  She knows what "bad kitty" means.

Cats!  I bandaged it up and hope the body will do its thing again.  

Goofy thing of the day?  Working out with the trainer, he said something about not being THAT much older than I am, and I did a double-take.  Gary, I'm older than you.  He'd forgotten that I'd turned 70, and he's just 66!  I said "thank you", and then he said I was in good shape (fitness, he's happily married, ladies, and I am no poacher!).  Two great compliments in one session!  Besides the "good work" comment at the end, too.

Reading report:  I'm back into the Black History reading in White Rage.  We are now into voter suppression as the backlash to the election of Barack Obama, so fairly current day stuff.  Unlike while I read the chapters on Brown Vs Board of Education and the Civil Rights movement, I did not feel that I was clueless during this period of history.  

I was an adult and watched it all happen with interest (his election).  I guess I had my rose-colored glasses on, as I saw this as a sign of progress and acceptance.  But I also watched the backlash, and the growing public hatefulness.  The backlash is still going on, in laws being instituted to ensure "ballot integrity" which tend to put certain groups at a disadvantage in trying to exercise their voting rights.  It's easy for those of us with driver's licenses to assume "everyone" has one.  It's easy for those of us living as a "nuclear family" to assume having a piece of mail like a utility bill in your name with your address is not a barrier to an adult obtaining Identification, etc.  A lot depends on how these laws are written, and they CAN be tailored.

On Wednesday slopping over into Thursday I did laundry, folded and put away.  And I went online shopping.  You know those things that you never replace even though they are gradually getting more and more "terrible"?  The kind you used to notice your parents using, and you'd buy them a new one for Christmas?  In my case, it's my egg pan, and my small oat simmering pan.  Both have seen far better days, but I have kept on using them.  I would hate for anyone to see them now.  On Thursday I went shopping on line.  The replacements will arrive next week.

I also got an e-mail from Project Repat... the quilt I ordered in November and deliberately did NOT put a rush on, will be arriving soon... they have shipped it.  And some raspberry chocolate coffee I ordered will be arriving today, according to another e-mail.  

Friday here is the best weather day we'll have for a while.  The sun is out there brightening things up.  We will be hit with snow overnight and deep cold for the next five or six days.  Winter... but somehow, even though it is Winter, next week also brings a calendar page turn, and February always seems like there's not much Winter left!

I think I may have mentioned family plans to go to the movies on the 22nd being canceled due to the ugly head of Covid being once again reared.  Lacey's dad got it a second time!  So they put that outing off, and his isolation time is up again for THIS weekend, so the plan is to brave the cold and go see "A Man called Otto" in the theater for the Sunday matinee.  I'm looking forward to it.

Enough for this week!  Here's hoping you all have a good weekend.  Take care of yourselves... be kind to yourselves... and to others, too.

Life is good.

Keep Sparking!

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