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Currently reading/watching/making - Part I

I did many things this week… At least, that’s how it feels. I’ve been so busy with work, but I made progress on my craft project, and that makes me happy. I know I’m not an artist and my skills aren’t out of this world, but embroidery is an activity I really love. I read, finished a series I’d had on hold since December, and caught up on a few others from my list… though not all of them. I also kept up with my Chinese classes, went out for food and drinks with friends on Friday… and yeah, it did feel like I did a lot. There are days when I wish I could do everything, but it’s just not possible. I try not to sacrifice sleep to do everything I want to do, but sometimes my brain is too active and insomnia kicks in, so instead of just tossing and turning in bed, I read or watch stuff, though I try to keep that to a minimum.

But anyway, on to the update.

Currently making

Not-so-secret craft project – Yuri on Ice test for a future triptych…

Finished reading

SVSSS Vol. 2

Finished watching

El secreto del río (Mexican drama) – 8 episodes

Currently reading

SVSSS Vol. 3 – Chapter 15

Currently watching

Winter Begonia (Chinese drama) – Weekly, weekends – 33/49 episodes
My Stubborn (Thai BL drama) – Weekly, Sundays – 8/12 episodes
Boys in Love (Thai BL drama) – Weekly, Sundays – 7/12 episodes
The Ex-Morning (Thai BL drama) – Weekly, Thursdays – 3/10 episodes
Break Up Service (Thai drama) – Weekly, Mondays – 9/12 episodes
Leap Day (Thai drama) – Weekly, Tuesdays – 8/12 episodes
The Bangkok Boy (Thai BL drama) – Weekly, Saturdays – 2/12 episodes

On hold

Perfect 10 Liners (Thai BL drama) - No schedule - 4/24 episodes

Last weekend, I transferred the pattern onto the fabric. It’s a black cotton fabric that I love. I don’t know why I’m so drawn to dark fabrics, but there’s just something about them… I have some embroideries from almost a decade ago and I made them on black fabric. I think they have a certain charm. Maybe one of these days I’ll post pictures of them here. And last year, I made a gift for an event here on Dreamwidth… also using black fabric.

But before actually starting to embroider, I remembered there are some DMC threads that would be perfect for this project (on black fabric, though I think they’d look good on colored fabric too) and went looking for them. I found an online craft store in my country that sells them individually and was about to buy them (they’re in my cart), but before doing so, I wanted to check a local craft store that carries DMC threads, just in case, by some miracle, they had them. Since I was out on Friday anyway, I stopped by, but unfortunately, they didn’t have the specific series I wanted. So I’ll have to order them online… after payday.

Since they didn’t have what I needed, I bought some satin threads instead and started embroidering over the weekend. It’s still a test run, but at least I have a clearer idea of how I want the final project to look. Hopefully, I can pull it off, haha. I’ll share a photo of my progress… for accountability. I think I need to change the font of the text I want to add and maybe increase the size a bit, too.

Working on the embroidery let me finish (well, mostly listen to) El secreto del río, since it’s a Mexican series and I could follow along without needing to watch every second. The show is set in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and follows two childhood friends who share a dark secret. SPOILER! *One of them is muxe, and the series also touches on muxe life.* I’ll admit, one reason I paused it was because it deals with transphobic violence, and I wasn’t in the best mental space to watch it without feeling triggered. There are painful and difficult moments, but in the end, I really liked it.

After finishing the series, I embroidered while listening to music playing through my beloved headphones: the Yuri on Ice OST, of course. No, the obsession hasn’t ended 😀

Ahhh, SVSSS Vol. 2 was so fun. There were some really interesting and hilarious moments. Well, at least I found them hilarious. SPOILERS! *I loved the reveal of Luo Binghe sleeping with Shen Qingqiu’s corpse when he thought his shizun was dead and was trying everything to bring him back… meanwhile, Shen Qingqiu was already inhabiting his magical mushroom body. Luo Binghe is unhinged, but ridiculously sentimental (affectionate, I love a weirdo) when it comes to his shizun. I’ll admit, that passage gave me ideas. I imagined Luo Binghe dressing and undressing Shen Qingqiu’s lifeless body in different outfits like a doll, combing his hair, being absurdly gentle and careful, even talking to him (kinda like Hable con ella).* I don’t know, those thoughts made me want to read fics about it, but I haven’t gotten around to searching for something that fits what I want… As for writing it myself? Please, I haven’t even written MDZS fic… and I do have ideas sometimes. But anyway, I finished Vol. 2 and already started Vol. 3. Maybe I’m regaining some of my reading stamina? Who knows… but my need to know what happens next is strong, and that always motivates me, haha.

I’m almost caught up with Winter Begonia again, and that makes me so happy. But oh gods… the last seven? eight? episodes have destroyed me. It’s such a wonderful series, and I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t curious about the novel it’s adapted from. But beyond that… The visuals? The acting? Love it. I adore Shang Xirui more with each episode. I’d also love to embroider fanart of this series someday. There’s one of Shang Xirui’s opera costumes (not one of the more intricate ones) that I loved, and I think it’d make a beautiful piece.

I thought I’d have enough energy to finish this whole post, but I overestimated myself… my eyes are closing. I’ll write the rest tomorrow in a second part.

It's my father's fault

My parents had 5 grandchildren. At some point they decided to give each a substantial gift for use after high school. My mother told me years later after Daddy died that the biggest discussion about giving the gifts was me. My brother and sister would benefit from the gifts being given their children and I'd get nothing. Mom said she was fine with that (hahahah Mom!) but that Daddy had really wrestled with the fairness of it. Thanks, Dad - you were always my favorite. Not true, really, Mom.

Anyway... that shit apparently is in my DNA. I have two nephews. One is getting married and I zelled him money for a wedding present this weekend and then thought that was not really fair to his brother who just bought a new house and got no house warming present. So this morning I zelled him. Except. It didn't work. No reason given. Just didn't work. Zelle said he has a valid account but just no send. I checked the limits and I was well within. I have money in my account. I tried sending $5. nope. I finally got him engaged. He sent a QR code which linked to his account successfully but still didn't send the money. Fuckme. The wedding money zelled perfectly the first time. Wild.

So... finally... I called the credit union which is usually a major PIA only this time wasn't too horrible. I explained the issue and was transferred to a guy who knew his shit. He said he could see the attempts and could see that all was fine. "basically, you just hit a zelle glitch". He waved his magic wand And, after a few more log ins and log outs, it worked, he said but I couldn't see it and would not let him go until I did. He was very kind and patient and finally I could see it and so could my nephew. So all's well that ends well.

But a very exhausting way to start the week!

The Annual Window Washing starts next Monday. Right now there are three window washers down in the plaza looking up at our dirty windows. It's quite the endeavor, this window washing. Apparently they have tried it via rappelling from the roof a few times and that was not as good as going from apartment to apartment. This latter is how they do it now. They open the windows and remove the screens and then hang out that open one to clean the others. Move to the next apartment. It takes about 3 or 4 weeks to do them all. The most painful part is listening to everyone conjure on how they are doing it wrong. As a group, old people know best. And those with no real knowledge of the situation, know best of all.

But, it will be fun to have clean windows again.

And it is beyond marvelous not to have a single piece of skin in the operation.

We broke heat records yesterday and probably will again today. I have no reason to go outside and so don't intend to. All is lovely and cool in here.

Comparing

[ooops this is yesterday's entry but someone forgot to post! thank you Draft Saver!!] I moved here 19 months ago. Without a single regret. Until I sold the condo. Maybe it was the finality of it. But, in the past few days, I've found myself thinking about things I'll never do again, never get to see out that front window, missing familiar places I used to go... Not really regret more wistful. It will hit me now and again without warning. Weird.

One of the few reservations I had about moving here was the homogeneity of the whole situation. This is a really white community. We have some residents who are of Asian decent but mostly it's all European white. The community is green. Nearly perfectly green year round. Beautiful trees and plants - so many that it's hard to see the shops. The zoning around here is iron fisted. It's very very pretty everywhere. No road cracks. No butt cracks. No tents. Hardly a soda can on the side of the road. Very Stepford in many ways.

It's actually pretty much the antithesis of downtown Seattle. In all the good ways and all the bad ways. Interesting thoughts.

I had ordered, from Amazon, two storage bins to set on the washer and catch the extra stuff. Then, yesterday, I went out to do my returns and, on a whim, popped into to Target and found an even better solution for cheaper. So for the second time recently, I stood in a retail store and canceled an Amazon order and made brick and mortar purchase. Now, that's something I never did in Seattle.

I have now spent a whole lot of time in the tiny room that is my utility room but I think it's finally hit max functionality. I have new hooks and mounted the hand vac, and fixed the tools situation and moved this and tossed that. This apartment is such an easy place to live. Everything is somewhere and I know where that where is. I can get to it and reach it and find it and put it back with ease. It is less than half the size of the condo but feels so much bigger.

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daily life,
krurun

After the massage

Today after work I went to have the aromatherapy massage. Recently, maybe because the change of the weather or air pressure I have felt rather tired, my neck and shoulders got stiff. I expected the massage would soften my body.

After the massage when I came home I noticed I could not walk as fast as usual. The massage worked very well, and I felt my legs weak X( Now at home, after supper, I just feel sleepy X). I hope tomorrow my physical condition might get better X)

“My body is always very soft and relaxed!”

I'm so sick of living for other people, took meeting you to realize

And we're back to Monday again! Yesterday ended up being a mostly chill day. We played a game at noon with Jess' friends, but the afternoon got cancelled on account of our DM having a really bad cold. Which honestly was okay. The game would have been super fun, but the rest was nice too.

So, I got the "Too Good to Go" app, which will put up restaurants in the area that sell "suprise packages." Mostly leftover food, or little meals for cheap. They're usually worth about $18, and sell for $6.99. I've used it a couple of times to gread effect, and decided to do it again. We tried a food truck called "Y'all Hungry."

It was the sketchiest food truck in existence, but the food was really good. I think they're just starting out, so theirs was $4.99 a portion. For that $4.99, you got an enormous pulled pork sandwich with this slightly spicy bbq sauce that I loved. Baked beans and corn on the cob, a piece of cornbread and a bottle of water. Not half bad.

Today, I ordered an IKEA bag. Last time I did IKEA, I got a shitton of chocolate, so this should be interesting. I wanted to go over there anyway to look at a cabinet that might work as a pantry for us. I need to see the actual size, to see if it'll fit all the shit that currently lives on our counters. It's called the Skruvby. https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/skruvby-storage-combination-black-blue-s89561337/

I think it might be enough, and I know I can put together IKEA furniture. I had 7 years to practice that shit.

Tomorrow is farmer's market! Apparently the first raspberries have arrived--excite! I will get my little bag and go find some things!

First, though. Monday. It's going to be super busy, I have no doubt. But on the plus side, I have extra strong Tim Horton's Dark Roast coffee. (Good lord Canada, you okay? This shit is straight motor oil-I love it, but wow.)

And on that note, I'm going to hop off and go get myself together. Everyone have a stellar Monday!

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m: movies,
reviews

Review: Cure (キュア) (1997)

This movie was kind of a surrealist horror in the sense that even by the end, the audience had a sense of how the crimes were perpetuated, but not the details. I thought it was decent.

Spoilers.

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I want your body, mind, soul, etcetera

It's Sunday! Today shall be a day for relaxing and having a couple of games. It should be a lot of fun, if the everyone is up to play.

Yesterday was a long day! I had my shower and then we took Mao down to be cremated. The dude at the cremation place was SUPER nice. I was really pleased that I went with them. After it was done, I felt good that we'd finally gotten him taken care of. We'll be able to pick him up on Wednesday. (We'll probably have to wait til Saturday. I can pick him up in the morning before I head out for Pride.)

Then, we came back and piddled around until it was time to go bowling. The alley is very nice, and it was good to see friends, but since I wasn't willing to bowl with my back, it wasn't very engaging. It was all fine, though. The food was good, and we got out for a bit. We also stopped at Trader Joes on the way back, and bought way too much shit. Today will be a grazing day. We all have leftover food, so we're just going to eat what we've got.

The fridge is full, so we all better get cracking.

I say shit, but most of it is stuff for lunch for Jess and I. Tomorrow, we need to get back to cooking like a normal person rather than takeout.

And now, I'm going to get myself together and forage for breakfast. Everyone have an amazing Sunday!

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daily life

Raccoon!

At the end of the last year I have installed the security cameras outside of our house. They always record the view in front of the entrance door & back door, and when something moves in their sight they send message to my smartphone. Sometimes I checked the video to see if everything's all right. Most of time the moving thing is waving tree or insect, and of course sometimes they record our garden cats walking into or out of the garden X)

Some days ago I checked the video recorded in the middle of the night, and found some animals walking out of our garden - but they are bigger than the cats !

The video is not clear enough but I can see they have the thick, striped tails. So I think they are raccoons!!

Here in Japan originally there were no raccoons, they are the exotic animals. But now they lives everywhere though the number of them is not much big and we seldom see them. I heard many raccoons have hydrophobia or other dangerous diseases, I hope our garden cat would not come across them :(

Return to volleyball

About 5 last night, the facilities coordinator sent out a note that the pool was fixed and it should take about 6-12 hours to reheat. I swapped some texts with Steve and we agreed to give it a go today. Turns out 12 hours was a hair optimistic. It was warmer but it was still pretty cold. In hindsight...

But, we had a good time and a nice crowd and it was fine and fun.

Elbow coffee was its normal nothing but harmless today. Also a good crowd. It's really a nothing gathering but also a painless way to touch base with neighbors and make sure everyone is fine. Without Myrna, we really don't even see each other much any other time.

I'm still working on my utility room. I have one more item coming from Amazon (Monday) which will take care of the final issue. But it does look much nicer now and is easier to find shit.

I got the invitation to my nephew's wedding today. The wedding is in the middle of October. This is June. Clearly wedding rules have changed. At least I don't have to go. And, according to their website, one of their top two most wanted gift requests is money. Whew. That takes a load off. Also their wedding website let me RSVP so I don't even have to hunt down a stamp and mail this little card back. I like these new wedding rules. In my day...

Last night they had fried chicken on the buffet and I loaded up. So now I have fried chicken for lunch. Yum. Then baseball. My perfect afternoon.

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daily life

Flower vases

Now it’s June, the early summer. Most of the spring flowers are gone, there are some flowers in my garden but not good to display, so it’s a bit difficult to arrange the flower vases. Though I like put the leaves in the vases, some leaves are as beautiful as flowers.

Child, take your dark memories like seeds, and plant them far from here

It's Saturday!

Half of Fridays plans got cancelled on account of not giving a fuck. We are still new computerless and we didn't make it to the steak house. Instead we went to a steak and sushi buffet. It was okay--standard buffet fare, though the abundance of seafood was very good. I had crab legs, stone crab claws, plus lobster tail and a pretty credible NY strip steak. Also some pretty good sushi. All that for $36 sounds pretty good to me.

One thing that did not get scrapped was my hair. It's not exactly what the picture showed, but I love it. It's bright and happy and fun and it makes me feel good. Picture below the cut.

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I'm going to go grab a shower and wash it out for the first time, so we'll see how much the tub looks like I slaughtered a muppet.

Today, we take Mao to be cremated. He's waited a long time, so it's good that we're finally doing it.

Then later, we have bowling with the work crew, which should be fun.

Tomorrow is all games all the time which will be fun. Okay, gonna go shower! Everyone have a perfect Saturday!

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travel/going out

Looking at the map

I’m going to visit the Peak District in UK in this coming summer, and enjoy looking at the paper maps or Google map on computer screen sometimes. And the names of the places … Mam Tor, Stanage Edge, Cave Dale… oh how these names look fascinating to me!

Friday

The new litter box situation seems to be fine except, I got the wrong litter box. It's an inch too wide. Skinnier replacement arrives today. Biggie seemed oddly reluctant but he went in the morning and did his biz and that's all I can ask. Julio, of course, thinks it's his new play house.

The sun is blasting this morning and my new shades are all 'not so fast there Mr. Glare!'. I love my new shades. They are also giving me the gift of Amazon Prime. Amazon uses a special process that makes most of their shows very dark. On my television with the shades up, in daylight or even at night with lights on, a night scene is just black. Just black. With audio. But with the shades down and the lights off, turns out, there is actually something to see. So I'm catching up on Prime stuff.

Today is menu day. And Tuesday is the 10th. Last day to use up this month's meal money. Depending on what the menu looks like for next week, I may make another food bank donation.

I am enjoying the Trump/Musk breakup - the two best were 'It wouldn't be Pride month without two queens breaking up on social media' and 'SLOW DOWN! or we're going to run out of popcorn!'

No big plans for today. I am doing some reorganizing of my utility room now that there is some space. I need some more command hooks to and I need to mount the hand held vac. So probably I'll get all that done today. And knit more Pride monsters. I'm still photographing each one but they all look the same some no more posting anywhere until I get back to dolls.

It's supposed to be hot hot today and this weekend - 80's - which is hot hot for us. So for sure, I won't be going outside. But, that's not exactly breaking news since I rarely go outside anyway.

However, the Timber Ridge staff has been working all week on cleaning up and arranging the patio furniture and getting the outdoor cookers (that anyone can use) ready for action. There will be old people in the sun this week, I'll bet.

She'll say, "Look what I had to overcome in my last life--I think I'll write a book."

It's finally Friday! Whoohoo! It's a short day at work for me, which I'm looking forward to, because the rest of my day is busy as hell. First, work til 11am, then I go to get my hair cut and dyed. I'm a little nervous about this, but I'm sure it'll be fine. The person I'm going to was in the same shop as my former hairdresser (the one who died suddenly) and they do good work. I'm not asking for anything particularly tough. I'm a little worried about borking my back up, but I'll be fine. Then, its home to relax for a few minutes, then we drive 45minutes to get Jess' new computer. Then, we go grab dinner, and then head home. It's a lot, but it'll be good.

Unfortunately, it's supposed to rain tonight and tomorrow, which just figures. Tomorrow we shall go down to get the frozen cat cremated. Once that's done, we have a bowling party tomorrow night. With my back, I won't be bowling, but I want to go to see people from work.

Sunday, we have games, which will be fun. I'm hoping the weather holds off tonight while I'm driving in the dark. The bowling is at 4pm, so I won't be out too late on Saturday.

Yesterday was busy, but not horrible. I had one spicy patient, who was scheduled incorrectly by a team member who is no longer with the team, so it fell to me to reschedule. They were not happy, but y'know, it's nothing personal, and I don't actually care that she's upset.

The other day, I went a little insane on pastries from Paris Baguette, a new bakery that opened in Towson. Holy shit, y'all, it was so good. The pastries are light and delicious and I will definitely be ordering from there again.

Tonight, since I'll be getting my hair cut, Jess is going to take care of dinner, which will be chicken. It's the first chicken I've had since the money came in. I'm sure it'll be good, but a little part of me was really enjoying the steaks.

Oh well, maybe more steak on Monday. We'll see.

I now have completed the trifecta of big box stores. I reupped my Costco membership and went ahead and got BJs, too. BJs had the creamer I wanted, and I've always been a fan of their fruit and veg. And Costco has Gimbap, and other ethnic foods that the others don't. And Sam's is cheap.

Okay, time for me to get my shit together. I still do have three hours of work to do today. Everyone have an excellent Friday!

Victory!

I pulled the Litter Robot out and disassembled it and still the pieces where too big for our shoot. I found a dumpster down in the garage and a push cart so I came back up here, loaded up and unloaded down there. Done. Probably broke a dozen rules but fuck 'em. It's done. I cleaned up the area in the utility room and the rug that catches the litter spills is now in the washer.

Then I went to aqua fit. I did not want to go. It was better than those damn machines and, honestly, I knew Martha would check (which she did since her yoga class is in the gym at the same time). The water was very cold when I got in but, really, it was very lovely in less than a minute. Invigorating. I last took the class a year and a half ago. Now they have music which makes such a difference. And it was good and it was hard. And I thought it was 30 minutes but turned out to be 45! My arms are going to be very mad tomorrow but I'm going to do it again next Tuesday.

I bought a Litter Genie from Amazon and it came with a giant dent in it. So I returned it and bought the plastic one which isn't arriving until tomorrow. PetCo didn't have one but, hey, Pet Smart does AND if I order online and go get it, I save 20% - plus it's cheaper than Amazon anyway. So score score score. Cancel Amazon. Now I'm going to get dressed, take my two Amazon returns and go to PetSmart.

The utility room looks so much nicer and tidier without that gynormous Litter robot.

Thursday

Martha came over yesterday for an impromptu visit and to pick up a couple more Pride monsters. She said that there was a new guy teaching the aqua fit class and since the water was cold, attendance was low. Doh! I could/should do that instead of those stupid machines. This seemed like a much better idea yesterday than it does this morning, but, I think I'll go ahead and try it.

The class is Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8:30. Our volleyball game ends at 8. I tried doing both once but 30 minutes is too long to wait in between. Also I was starving and 30 minutes was not enough time to dry off, find something to eat and get back. So I never went back.

It's just after 7 now so I think I'll use the time til class to dismantle the little robot.

I now have two Amazon returns so I think I'll quit talking about it and just do it. I did get my car license tab actually onto the car before I lost it. Go me.

Oh and last night I remembered house insurance. Of course there is no way to cancel online so hello telephone tree. The whole thing was only moderately painful. Very interesting, tho... This is Progressive and, while she did ask why I was canceling, she made zero effort to find out if I needed new insurance for my new living situation. I should probably get a renters policy but not with her, I guess. She is sending me $100 in refund which is lovely.

I was able to see that GeoffTheFinanceGuy was good at his word. When I log onto my account, I can see the correct amount for my Timber Ridge bill is set to go out today and land in my checking account where Timber Ridge will automatically come get it this weekend. Sweet. So amazingly lovely after all those months of money stress, to have it all settled now.

Guess I'll go get started on the dirty work before I head to the pool.

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daily life

A comfortable early summer day

Today I worked at home. After the recent some days with quite changeable weather, today it’s fine and a bit windy. The sunshine is already strong though the humidity must be low, for it’s quite comfortable in the shade :) The plants are shining in the sun, I like their mild green colors...

A happy cat :)

Here comes the rain again, falling from the stars. Drenched in my pain again, becoming who we are

It's Thursday! We've almost made it to Friday!

Yesterday was a momentous day. The house is officially sold. The albatross is gone. The house that felt like my personal antagonist. (By the end, when there were problems, it felt like it was having problems at me personally.) Perversely, I'm having feelings about it.

I feel relieved, because it's over, but also a bit sad. It had been my grandparent's house since before I was born. We lived there until I was two with them, and then went to the apartments, which were literally around the corner. Then, when I was 17, we moved back in to take care of my grandmother. I'm 52 now, so that's better than half my life tied up in one place.

I remember it how it was, sparkling clean. All the years of Christmas morning, going over to open our pile of presents in front of my parents and grand parents, followed by the parade of family and friends. And all the animals that house saw. Tammy, Freddy, Sandy, Tigger, Flakey, Willow, Millie, Gracie, Mao, Samwise, Koty, Kyan, Tucker down to our current pair, Boodle and Yoda. All those memories. So many good things are bound up in those four walls.

But lately, there's been more bad things than good. Watching my grandmother die, my mother's death, Dad's slow deterioration. The flood in the basement, the heat being turned off for three long painful winters. The constant fear that if something happened, we wouldn't be able to afford it. The fear every rain or snow that this would be the time the roof leaked. It was a constant stressor. And with Dad taking up most of our time and energy, cleaning wasn't even a vague possibility. We spent our lives in constant filth, and no one had the spoons left to do anything about it.

Since we moved, so many physical symptoms have eased up. my asthma has improved, my anxiety, though still there, has gotten better.

Still, I feel wistful for what was and for now, what will never be again. I hope the new owners do an amazing job of refurbishing it. I hope it holds another family soon, and I hope they have good years in it. I'm just going to miss the good things that we had.

Tomorrow, I get off work early, and go to the hair dresser to see if she can make my hair look cool. It's way too long at the moment, but I haven't been able to afford to get it cut. I'm also getting it colored, because a vacation from gray sounds lovely. I will post a picture tomorrow, once it's done.

Then, we go to pick up Jess' new computer, and have dinner, and then come home. We're trying out Rodizigo Grill, which is an all you can eat Brazillian steakhouse. I'm looking at it as a possibility for the get together in August. It's a little cheaper than Fogo, so I want to see how the food stacks up.

Okay, time for me to get myself together. Everyone have an amazing Thursday!

Coconut, Lima beans and exercise

Things I do not like. At all. Although, I do like the smell of coconut. The texture does me in, tho. I went down to the gym this morning and did 20 minutes on the elliptical. I did not enjoy it.

I know that one day, maybe after I die, they will announce that exercise wasn't all that good for you after all. OR They will have a pill you can take instead.

I watch ad supported TV only for news and baseball so my exposure is limited but I do know that the supplement game is big and growing. Young adults swearing their liver is happier with XXX or YYY are truly the thing now. My liver is unmoved, BTW. And everyone who takes drugs for heart and diabetes will be singing and dancing up a storm. Also, not new, men can't get it up but there is actually a pill for that and all you have to do is sign up for a free account and unlimited sex is yours. So don't think those ads are wasted on me!! Also this is why it is well worth it to me to pay extra for the ad free versions of streaming services.

I have decided, to deep six the Litter Robot. It's too big and too fiddly and I know it's going to quit any day now. So I'm going to just pull the plug. We've had a lovely run but it's time to go back to the old fashioned litter box. Simple. Plus this means I can go back to the light weight litter. Amazon is bringing the new box today. I'll set it up in the same little room and run both for a day or two.

I got the final bill for condo electricity today. $7.25. The Title Company collected $250 to pay this giant bill. So I am expecting a nice refund, lordknowswhen.

I got the sticker for my license plate renewal and I need to get it down and onto the licence plate before I lose it and forget about it. I will be doing that today. No baseball until 4.

First I need a shower. I hate getting sweaty so much. See paragraph 1 above.

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travel/going out

The new passport

Today after work I went to some public office to get the new passport. I had used the old one for 10 years and its validity ended in May, so some weeks ago I applied for the new one.

Compared to the last one, the photo of myself on the new one looks - quite -older X( But, anyway now I can travel abroad again with it X)