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stonepicnicking_okapi) wrote2025-01-21 01:31 pm
stonepicnicking_okapi) wrote2025-01-21 01:31 pm
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News & Views: instant frostbite edition
1. It's cold! It's 9 degrees F (-12 Celsius). I paid bills yesterday and my electricity bill is so high! I turned down the thermostat but of course now I am freezing. Apartments are drafty and you can't do anything about it. We got 4 inches of snow on Sunday and another half an inch yesterday. Yesterday was a holiday (MLK Jr Day) but school was cancelled today because the temperatures dropped so, that everything was very icy, and even though they cleared everything yesterday, it re-froze last night. I threw the boys outside for 30 minutes today before lunch and they told me not to go out because most of the world is very icy and they know I am afraid of ice. To be fair, I tend to slip a lot when I have to walk on it (more than normal people--maybe it's the way I walk?) and I have had a couple bad falls where I cracked my head. I am debating whether to even do my shopping run tomorrow because I'm just too scared.
2. I can't imagine that I am going to feel anything but anxious for the next 4 years.
3. I forced Minor to go down the hill with me to the liquor store on Saturday and bought 2 mini-bottles of 100 proof vodka and mixed one of my essential oils (sweet orange) into a 1-ounce spray bottle. The boys say it smells like orange juice, but it makes me happy. That was project #1. Project #2 was changing ink in the new printer. It was the first time I'd done it. It was easy but the illustrations were not exactly helpful. Project #3, this week's project, is hemming two pairs of pants. I have never hemmed pants before, and I don't own a sewing machine, so we'll see.
4. I have a sore in my left arm pit which, of course, I think is a fatal ticking-time-bomb tumor.
5. I hate being scared of life. Puzzle therapy is helping. So is listening to Classic Ghost Stories podcast. I love the guy who does it. His name is Tony Walker and he reads a story, then talks about the author and the story and then sometimes he just natters on about his life and I find him very funny. He's the only creator I am tempted to support financially (like Patreon or similar) because I just like him so much.
https://www.youtube.com/@ClassicGhost
6. The price of groceries is going up significantly and I feel like I should be more of a frugal mindset. Youtube algorithm has started throwing me videos like 'Feed your Family on X $ a week/month' but they do not have Picky Minisculus.
7. Putting the phone in the kitchen before bed is now The Habit. New habit to try: not eating in front of any screen (including phone). Hmmm. A tougher nut to crack for me, except at dinner.
I am doing exercise, I am meditating, I am doing yoga, I am doing housework and collaging and ficcing and reading but...sigh. It is difficult to get calm or remain calm. Everything is probably not going to be okay, in fact.
2. I can't imagine that I am going to feel anything but anxious for the next 4 years.
3. I forced Minor to go down the hill with me to the liquor store on Saturday and bought 2 mini-bottles of 100 proof vodka and mixed one of my essential oils (sweet orange) into a 1-ounce spray bottle. The boys say it smells like orange juice, but it makes me happy. That was project #1. Project #2 was changing ink in the new printer. It was the first time I'd done it. It was easy but the illustrations were not exactly helpful. Project #3, this week's project, is hemming two pairs of pants. I have never hemmed pants before, and I don't own a sewing machine, so we'll see.
4. I have a sore in my left arm pit which, of course, I think is a fatal ticking-time-bomb tumor.
5. I hate being scared of life. Puzzle therapy is helping. So is listening to Classic Ghost Stories podcast. I love the guy who does it. His name is Tony Walker and he reads a story, then talks about the author and the story and then sometimes he just natters on about his life and I find him very funny. He's the only creator I am tempted to support financially (like Patreon or similar) because I just like him so much.
https://www.youtube.com/@ClassicGhost
6. The price of groceries is going up significantly and I feel like I should be more of a frugal mindset. Youtube algorithm has started throwing me videos like 'Feed your Family on X $ a week/month' but they do not have Picky Minisculus.
7. Putting the phone in the kitchen before bed is now The Habit. New habit to try: not eating in front of any screen (including phone). Hmmm. A tougher nut to crack for me, except at dinner.
I am doing exercise, I am meditating, I am doing yoga, I am doing housework and collaging and ficcing and reading but...sigh. It is difficult to get calm or remain calm. Everything is probably not going to be okay, in fact.