Monday, January 29, 2018

Tired of being tired of stuff - Microblog Monday

I stared at the computer screen for a while before writing this blog posts.

There are a bunch of things I felt like I should blog about.

The US Senate wants to ban abortion.
The occupant of the White House is making a speech.
I've read some good books.
Lotus is growing.

But I'm tired right now.

I'm tired of being angry a lot.
I'm tired of my husband being angry.
I'm tired of robocalls.
I'm tired of watching how much money we don't have.
I'm tired of worrying that some maniac with a gun will shoot up my husband's school or my daughter's school.
I'm tired of worrying in general.

I'm just tired.

I miss my mom.

I miss the way I used to think that people are nice and kind in general. I don't know that I believe that anymore. Yeah, Anne Frank lived during the Holocaust and believed that people were really good at heart. But she was better than I am.

I'm just tired.

Monday, January 22, 2018

Some Walk By Night - Microblog Monday

Some Fly By Day.

Love is All Around

I loved these theme songs.

Lotus is sick. I'm sure I'm getting it. I'm watching older TV shows. I'm loving the theme songs.

I think TV theme songs are a lost art and just when I think that we're not going to get any more good TV theme songs Cable and Streaming TV got in the action.

Like Game of Thrones
or

Orange is the New Black.

What TV theme songs do you like?


Monday, January 15, 2018

Not the day I wanted--Microblog Monday

I was excited when I went to sleep.

I was hopefully going to get Hamilton tickets from a presale. Yes we have seen it but I wanted to see it again very much and we planned to do so.

My car was in the shop from a check engine light.

We had a day off.

I had been feeling better from a stomach bug that I hadn't been able to shake. The night before I had the first real meal in a while.

I'd had a successful "Our Tree is Still Up" party.

Good mood.

This morning I woke up and ran to the bathroom as the diarrhea came back with a vengeance. (I don't care if it is TMI, it is my blog and I'll share if I want to.)

I slept.

I woke up for the Hamilton pre-sale and was seriously shocked at the prices. The cheapest seats--rear mezz were $200 - each. I know for a fact I didn't pay that much before. Maybe it was close but I know it wasn't that much and I got really annoyed because I could not justify paying more when I had seen the show.

D was in a mood and that's his stuff and I don't get into it here. Well with the exception that after 21 years of marriage his stuff is my stuff and well, stuff happened.

The car in the shop cost over $900. (It would have been over $1000 but I found a coupon.)

I slept some more because I felt like crap.

It's Martin Luther King day and I live in a country where when one of the 50 states were panicking
the man elected to the office of President thinks that the best use of his time is tweeting about a book.

I'm down. Today sucked.
Bad mood.

I hope tomorrow is better.



Monday, January 8, 2018

Oprah 2020


So, this was Oprah's speech at the Golden Globes yesterday.

I've heard a bunch of people saying that this might have been a speech to launch her presidential campaign for 2020.

I would vote for her.

Unfortunately that doesn't quite pack the punch it should. I mean if it turns out that the current occupant of the White House doesn't get impeached or resigns or something I would vote for Oprah's cat or dog before I would vote for him.

I am concerned that it will take generations to restore the country to what it was.

But I will be kind.
I will listen.
I will be the change I want to see in my country.

I hope.

That being said, when Oprah Winfrey can deliver a speech that makes me cheer. I would definitely like to see her more politically involved.

Monday, January 1, 2018

Microblog Monday - 2018, the blank page

Happy New Year.

I'm up way too fucking early because my darling daughter climbed into our bed and had decided that I was snoring too loud. I woke up and couldn't go back to sleep.

Last night we did our typical New Years Eve thing. This involves me cooking a 5-star dinner (though I will admit it was a 4 star one as the 5 year old had no desire for much of it.), putting child to bed and then watching the ball drop.
Oh, and for those who were bitching about Mariah Carey--I live 50 miles from Times Square. It is fucking cold here and last night it was 8 degrees. There is no one on the planet who can sing amazingly when it is 8 degrees. But I digress.

I'm not making resolutions. They don't generally work. Hell, I was looking at the things I wanted to do at Rosh Hashanah and I haven't gotten on top of that. I read this article about resolving a month at a time. I think that might be the way to go. So I'm going to list my goals for January, February, and March here.

January
Set up a working Work-From-Home routine.
As Lotus has half day kindergarten, and I've been out of work,  I decided to work from home (tutoring and free-lancing) until at least June.  Some days I'm good, some days I'm not. I will figure this out and work on it.

February
Fitness
This is the month to join the Y. Let's hope it works.

March
Social Media
Tame it to normal levels.


I think one a month might help. I hope so.

Wishing you all a happy 2018.