GUYDAY!

It has been 24 days since I bought anything.

I thought I should clarify that. Is window shopping considered ‘shopping’? Online ooogling? Thumbing through catalogs? If it is, I”ve been shopping every fricking day. I’ve NOT bought anything. Big difference. So it has been 24 days since I bought anything.

Happy Friday everyone! We made it! YAY!

honestly, last night I DIDN”T think I would make it. I’ve never been so miserable in my entire life. My son threatened to take me to the ER. If I have another night like that, I’ll let him take me.

Right this minute, I’m extremely in love with Alka Seltzer plus Cold and cough Maximum Strength PowerMax Gels. At the rate we’re going, we’ll be out of the current box by sometime tomorrow.

Food tastes wonky to me. Drinks taste wonky to me. Not enough flavor I think. That is NOT a good sign.

It’s funny. I’m sicker than sick and my mood is swinging back up to its normally perky/cranky/persnickity disposition. I wonder if depression of any sort is what kicks this crap off/

Aaaaaaaaaaaaand as most of you have heard, we are in dead sights of a hurricane! Yesterday, they said this thing wouldn’t reach Hurricane status and it DID within a few hours. Right now Isaias (ee-sa-EE-as) is churning up through Hispanola and the eastern side of the Caribbean. It MIGHT make Cat 2. If it drifts West, we’re in the shit. If it drifts East, we’re in the shit can.

These cones were done several hours apart. I think the yellow one is the most recent.

Either way, we are going to get a LOT of rain. Lovely.

I am tired and I’m ready for some Guyday.

 

There ya go. I hope y’all have a better weekend than I’m going to have.

It has been

23 days since I have shopped. There’s a reason for that. I’ll discuss it in a minute.

Dear Guylty – we need no rain. This was taken from my back door 15 minutes ago.

And this is heading our way. Welcome Hurricane Season. Getting an early start – 9th named storm already.

2 days ago they said it would hit us doing 40 miles an hour. I guess I”ll be keeping an eye out. Actually, Spawn will be keeping an eye out!

Girly Girl got comfy!!!

Spawn became more independent!

 

And he got a job! I’m gonna be getting Dollar Tree discounts!!!

Watty ‘hid’ a piece of art from my viewers at WattPad.

It had been up for years and no one else has said shit! I think it’s beautiful and the gentleman in the picture thought it was awesome. Said I made him sexy. Greatest compliment I’ve ever been paid was to learn the actor READ my fic about his character and let me know he had read it – by telling me some of the plot points through the fic. I went to send them a follow-up, but apparently, they’ve ‘lost’ everything- fics, reviews. I know a lot of people are enthralled with that site, but I am not. I’ve had problems for years and decided a while back it wasn’t worth the hell and aggravation they put me through when I have to spends hours correcting the formatting bullshit they do and then discover they effed up spacing. It’s a no win!!

I have not shopped in 23 days. I can’t seem to stay online very long. I have had a low-grade fever, runny nose, hacking cough, no appetite (I can taste food, i just don’t have an appetite.) I FEEL like I do when I have walking pneumonia. I don’t sleep for long, meaning I”m sleeping on and off all day.

yeah, I know what you think it is. It might be. I think there’s a good chance.

I called my doctor and they sent me to a drive in Covid test. Most uncomfortable thing I’ve been through in ages. I asked her when it was over if she was to find my Adam’s Apple via my nose.

Spawn got one too. They treated him a LOT nicer. His 10 seconds was faster than mine.

If I have it, I’m going to kill my brother. He mentioned a few days back he had all the classic symptoms – including the inability to taste food. He’s getting his test today! I’ve been healthy as hell until 2 days ago. And now I’ve gone from 0 to 201248753232558 in about 2 days. We’ve gone through all of the tylenol cold and sinus and can not FIND it anywhere. My friend out west is sending me 3 boxes. In the meantime I’m drinking hot tea – ginger, lemon, honey. and Orange Juice. Yeah – the blood sugar won’t like it, but at this point, I do not give a flying flip much less a farting fig.

If he has it and I have it, my parents are compromised and someone is going to have to take them get it done. I don’t think my mom will sit for it.

And at that point, I’m going to kill him.

I’m supposed to return to work Tuesday. If I have this lab virus gone berserk, guess who WON”T be going back on time! They’ve changed our kids return date – pushed it out 2 weeks. But still, seeing how I have to go back the normal time, if I have this, I get a free 10 days of sick leave extra, doesn’t go against my sick leave.

I’m trying to keep a sense of humor. I feel like the Flu on Steroids.

Night before last, I went to bed, falling asleep and put on the first episode of The Mandalorian. Due to my inability to fall asleep, I ended up binge watching the entire series. 3 AM.

You know, Baby Yoda is cute.

Soooooo cute. But this will make you look at Mandalorians a lot differently. Not the predator at all. And THIS Mandolorian – Mondo – is quite the hottie! Really. We see him ONCE, last episode.

I need to rest. My face feels like it’s been hit with a brick.

I keep telling myself, if I have this, I have a 97% chance of surviving. Then we find out this morning, Herman Cain died from it.

Dammit.

There ya go! Have a nice day! Guy Day tomorrow, anyone?

So Herba does this thing

She doesn’t know this, but I rather look forward to her Media Monday posts. Most of the time, I’m smacked with how little movie and television I watch and other times, hey! I remember that!!!

Media Monday is a weekly post made by ‘Wolf’ in which he asks a couple of questions about various movies and television series and actors/directors/producers. I admit to ignorance about most of the things.Once upon a time, I was big into my television series and movies. I LOVED them. That sort of faded away 20 years ago. These days, for the most part, the only movies I see came from the Tolkien franchise, Star Wars franchise or the Harry Potter franchise. I love Star Trek, but I have NOT loved JJ Abrams reboot. I have a shit-load of Richard movies I should watch – and probably will over the next few days as I’m seriously under the weather, as is Spawn. (Many of my detractors will be sad to know it’s not Corona. It’s allergies. My yard is overgrown and I’m walking mask-less. When Spawn gets off work this afternoon, I”m hot-footing him to the local doc in the box.  Meds take care of his issues, but the minute they wear off, he’s hacking as bad as I ever have. He’s not running a fever and he’s hacking stuff up, so go figure.)

Oh look I’ve wandered. Shiney!

Either way, each week Herba opens my eyes to things I’ve not considered and sometime in the night I thought to myself… y’know… maybe I should try that… it will be different!

I went to the blog linked and man, this has been going on for YEARS. I decided to start at the beginning and discovered it was actually started at another blog, Beat the Fish, but I’m kinda locked out of that. Dunno why.

So the soonest I can begin is the 26th entry and I was rather amused at one of the questions. You’ll see why. If this works, my eyes will be opened to new projects or I realize I DO know some of these names. Maybe

Media Monday # 26

1. For me, the best film with Javier Bardem is the only film I”ve seen him in – No Country For Old Men. I didn’t like it. He was great, but I didn’t like it. My boyfriend at the time, LOVED it! 

2. David Cronenberg did his best directing with The Dead Zone because well, Stephen King and Christopher Walken! For a long time, I was big into the horror genre. Stephen was my favorite author. I don’t know if I’ve told anyone this, but Halloween growing up was my favorite holiday. My dad and I would sit up ALL night watching scary movies (remember this was the late 60’s and 70’s) and my mom would fuss at him! She will be all night!! And Dad would respond – nah, she won’t. She loves this stuff. I did. And I really loved it, sitting next to my dad in my jammies, eating popcorn and Halloween Candy, hiding my eyes during the scary part in Dad’s ribs, and falling asleep somewhere in the middle of the 3rd movie and waking up the next morning in my bed. No nightmares. No bad dreams, Good times! 

I’ve read the majority of Stephen King’s books. Some, more than once. Him and Dean Koontz. I’ve typically been disappointed in the film adaptations of his books. But I did like this one!

Either way – I didn’t see the Dead Zone in the theater. My (now ex) husband and I watched it on television. He wasn’t as big a fan as I was, but we really liked it!

3. For me, the best film with Malin Akerman is not answerable. Like the previous names, I had to look her up. I see she was in CBGB – which I should have watched regardless because it’s Alan Rickman. But I’ve not seen it. She was also in Witchblade – which I did watch faithfully the one season. I remember that I was really disappointed when it was cancelled after the first season, because it ended on cliff hanger! But I don’t remember her or the episode she was in. I have recently downloaded the 1 season series and I”ll get to it. Along with the Baby Yoda series and the Stranger and The Witcher among many many others.

4. If you ask me about my three favorite actors / actresses, I spontaneously remember Alan Rickman, Richard Armitage, and Mel Gibson. I ‘met’ Alan in Quigley Down Under, quickly followed by Robin Hood. I thought Marian messed up – she should have killed the witch, ignored Robin and lived happily ever after with The Evil Sheriff. Do we see a pattern here? Richard comes in a close second. I think it’s the voice for both. I adore Mel’s earlier work – before he lost his mind. 

5. Last week, Sherlock Holmes – game in the shade started in the cinema. It is high time to ask how you like Guy Ritchie’s interpretation of the famous investigator, or who you have loved most so far. Y’know, I’ve NEVER seen any of the Sherlock adaptations. Never. None of ’em. Nope.

6. Also last week, the first official trailer for the Hobbit film was released and has caused some people around me to break into real euphoria, although the release is still a good year away. What film are you waiting for with great anticipation – even if it will only be released in many months or is still completely in the stars? See at the time this questionnaire hit, I was also clamoring for The Hobbit. To the point I didn’t want to be spoiled! I knew it would be full of beautiful scenery, I knew I’d at least recognize and know some of the actors – from the original trilogy, the ONLY actor I was familiar with was John Rhys Davies – thank you Indiana Jones! My thought was – how can such a tall actor play a dwarf??? What sorcery is this? I stayed away from the Vlogs, the trailers, anything from SDCC – I did NOT want to be ‘spoiled’! I wanted to be completely mesmerized and blown away. The ONLY pre-party anything I saw was the unveiling of the Dwarfs.  I thought Dwalin was pretty hot and very alpha! I thought Bofur looked like he would be a good fun time at the local bar. Fili and Kili made me wish I were young again – for some odd reason, I was more drawn to Fili. And then when I saw Thorin – finally – my first thought was – that’s damn fine lookin’ Klingon! At this point of time, I’m anticipating Castlevania S4. Really. 

7. My last film I saw was It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood and it was wonderful because Mr. Rogers.

Before Spawn, I didn’t watch or think so much of Mr. Rogers. Then after Spawn came, he loved Mr Rogers – along with Barney. I learned alot about life and the world along with Spawn. We’d talk about what he’d learned and then he loved Bob Ross. He still loves both. Sometimes I think these two men taught my son more than I did. Or school.

There ya go.

I have a question throwing it out to no one. When I went to Wikipedia to look these people up, to see if I knew them or at least, knew their work, and I’ve noticed this for a while – that people seem to think we need to know what a celebrities religious beliefs are, their political beliefs, their sexual practices. TBH – I’d rather not know that. I’d just like to go see whomever doing their thing. I really don’t want all this extracurricular stuff invading. Professional and private lives should be kept… separate. Just my opinion.

I don’t see me doing this on Mondays. That’s ManCandy Monday and I”m kinda thinking of starting that back up again. If for no one else, for me. I don’t know if I’ll do this on a weekly basis. I just don’t know. It just looked interesting and different. Thank you, Herba.

A little side note – I want to thank those who have stuck it out with me here and other places, albeit quietly or your lovely notes off from here. As you may or may not have guessed, there is a LOT going on with me and believe it or not, I don’t talk about everything in my life. I’ve been trying very hard to keep a humorous outlook while I sort through some personal and health-related issues. Thank you.

Been a while. Have some Richard. I’d dance with him! Hmmm mmm!

Get to know me uncomfortably well

1. What is your middle name? Drippy

2. How old are you? Old enough to know better and too old to give a shit

3. When is your birthday? I’m a December baby! 

4. What is your zodiac sign? Sag

5. What is your favorite color? Deep Purple

6. What’s your lucky number? 69

7. Do you have any pets? yup

8. Where are you from? As far north as Washington DC, as far west as Oklahoma and as far south as Florida.

9. How tall are you? Middlin’

10. What shoe size are you? Land Yacht

11. How many pairs of shoes do you own? 31 shoes, 3 pairs tennis shoes, 4 pairs of houseshoes, 3 pairs of boots and 5 pairs of booties

.12  What was your last dream about? I don’t remember. (Really! I do NOT remember!) 

13. What talents do you have? Writing, musician, Annoying the hell out of people who don’t agree with me politically. For some reason, I”m supposed to sit in the corner and stay quiet and not speak until someone tells me I can talk knit/writing/music/fandom. Screw that! We all have opinions. Embrace them! 

14. Are you psychic in any way? I KNOW when someone is watching me. 

15. Favorite song? OH that’s a hard one. It changes a lot. Right now, it’s Faun’s The Butterfly/Adam Ley Ybounden 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-7onTgOf3w

or 

Omnia Poetree Grund Lunden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xsOSn82F_U

(I’ve picked an old fic many thought abandoned and this music is just singing to my muses.) 

16. Favorite movie? Second Hand Lions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or2gV2aqZcs

17. Who would be your ideal partner?

He hehehehehehehe

18. Do you want children? Wasn’t supposed to be able to have any. The one is a gift. 

19. Do you want a church wedding? Had one! 

20. Are you religious? Very. Southern Baptist

21. Have you ever been to the hospital? Yes. A few times

22. Have you ever got in trouble with the law? I get tickets for stupid things – like a non-working brake light that was working 18 hours before JUST FINE!

23. Have you ever met any celebrities? Quite a few.

24. Baths or showers? I love baths, but getting in and out of the tub anymore is difficult

25. What color socks are you wearing? None.

26. Have you ever been famous?  HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

27. Would you like to be a big celebrity?  Oh hell no! Besides, I’m Conservative and Conservatives aren’t allowed to be ‘Big Celebrities’.

28. What type of music do you like? Pretty much anything but rap and screamo.

29. Have you ever been skinny dipping? Yas

30. How many pillows do you sleep with? Four

31. What position do you usually sleep in? On my side facing the door. If I’m in the bed with someone, I’m a spoon sleeper. My butt finds the warmest thing in the bed and moves in. Guess what that usually is?

32. How big is your house? I’m renting a 3 bed/2.5 ba with formal living and dining room, family room and a 2 car garage. My last 2 homes have been moderately kinda sorta large.

33. What do you typically have for breakfast? Oatmeal or cereal

34. Have you ever fired a gun? Yes. I’ve shot a handgun, a black powder front muzzle loader and a semi-automatic. It’s not that scary. Just loud!

35. Have you ever tried archery? Yes. Gym in HS.

36. Favorite clean word? Shucky Darn

37. Favorite swear word? Fuck

38. What’s the longest you’ve ever gone without sleep? 36 hours

39. Do you have any scars? a few surgical, some nasty scrapes as a kid. One or two from car wrecks. Liked to have gone through a windshield (I did hit it!) had the steering wheel not stopped me. Wore a bruise of the steering wheel on my chest for a month! 

40. Have you ever had a secret admirer? Yes. It was not pretty.

41. Are you a good liar? I don’t lie. Unless you ask me to keep a secret and then I will. I’ll tell whoever I don’t know.

42. Are you a good judge of character? Sometimes. Actually, I tend to take people as they are and go from there.

43. Can you do any other accents other than your own? I do a really bad Southern Charleston. I can’t keep it up for long. Same with Scottish.

44. Do you have a strong accent? When I’m tired and mad, my Southern is yeah, she’s from the South. My friends from New York say its VERY strong.

45. What is your favorite accent? I LOVE to listen to someone from the Caribbean talk. We had a teacher at one of my schools from the Caribbean and I talked about EVERYTHING with her – JUST to hear her. I”m also fond of Scottish, Irish, and northern English accents, although I have a hard time understanding them. Oh. Southern boys. I love to listen to Southern Boys.

46. What is your personality type? Sanquine. I can’t find what my Myers – briggs is. 

47. What is your most expensive piece of clothing? Probably a beige lace top I wore Thanksgiving. And I really didn’t pay a lot for it. I have this 50.00 limit and then I wait for the sale. Or clearance

48. Can you curl your tongue? Yes

49. Are you an innie or an outie? Innie

50. Left or right handed? Right

51. Are you scared of spiders? Terrified

52. Favorite food? Cheesecake. Plain.

53. Favorite foreign food? Asian

54. Are you a clean or messy person? uhm…. messy

55. Most used phrase? There ya go!

56. Most used word? Honestly? I’m a word smith.

57. How long does it take for you to get ready? Depends on if I need to shower or not. 5 to 30 minutes.

58. Do you have much of an ego? Well, it depends on who you ask. I don’t think I do. There are people that say I’m an egotistical pig. Their problem, not mine.

59. Do you suck or bite lollipops? I suck them until they get thin. Then I bite them. How many licks until you get to the tootsie roll center. 1 2 3. chomp. 3

60. Do you talk to yourself? All the time. Sometimes, it’s the only intelligent conversation I have.

61. Do you sing to yourself? Yes. All the time.

62. Are you a good singer? No.

63. Biggest Fear? Something happening to my son.

64. Are you a gossip? No. Not at all. If you ask me to keep something I will.

65. Best dramatic movie you’ve seen? The Shawshank Redemption. Or the Green Mile

66. Do you like long or short hair? ON a man, if it’s clean and well kept – LONG!

67. Can you name all 50 states of America? Sure can! Along with their capitals! (I teach it in a rap every year to 4th and 5th grade) 

68. Favorite school subject? Music! Well in elementary I didn’t like ANY subject. School was a chore. But when I got into the 7th grade, I had a choral director I adored. I’m still in contact with her on Facebook.

69. Extrovert or Introvert? Introvert.

70. Have you ever been scuba diving? NO

71. What makes you nervous? The only time I remember being nervous is playing in front of an audience. Typically, by the time I get settled – a measure or two in – I forget there’s an audience. It’s just me and the piano and we’re having a conversation.

72. Are you scared of the dark? Nope.

73. Do you correct people when they make mistakes? It depends.

74. Are you ticklish? It’s painful. I don’t like it.

75. Have you ever started a rumor? Nope.

76. Have you ever been in a position of authority? 9 months out of the year! 

77. Have you ever drank underage? I went to college when I was 17. Does that answer the question?

78. Have you ever done drugs? Not illegal. no. And I really don’t like heavy drugs when I’m sick.

79. Who was your first real crush? A cute Brit by the name of Davy Jones.

80. How many piercings do you have? One in each ear. 

81. Can you roll your Rs?“ No

82. How fast can you type? Depending on the day…. well over 100 WPM

83. How fast can you run? HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA! I don’t run. The best I can do is 3 miles in an hour on a treadmill. It takes DAYs to recover from that

84. What color is your hair? Brown

85. What color is your eyes? Brown

86. What are you allergic to? pine trees, palm tree pollen, orange tree pollen, dust. 

87. Do you keep a journal? Well I have. I have a blog and a livejournal. The livejournal is locked up as it’s personal. A friend has gifted me with several journals – I do grocery lists and sermon notes and sometimes I jot down thoughts and stuff. Nothing untoward or rude. Someday, I’ll die and my son will look at them and say – wth?

88. What do your parents do? They are retired. They were ministers for a while – I come from a long line of ministers. After they left the ministry, my dad was a printer and my mom was a book keeper. Both are also photographers.

89. Do you like your age? Meh. I’m happy to have lived this long. I know people who haven’t.

90. What makes you angry? intolerant people. Judgmental people. People who don’t want to hear any point of view but their own. People who harm children or use them for various reasons. Entitled people. People who hurt animals.

91. Do you like your own name? Actually, I love my name. It’s one of a kind! 

92. Have you already thought of baby names, and if so what are they? I’m 58. There are no more babies for me. I can’t even adopt now.

93. Do you want a boy a girl for a child? I have a boy! I’m happy for that. Girls are hard! 

94. What are your strengths? I have a pretty thick skin. Most of the time, I”m pretty open-minded.

95. What are your weaknesses? I trust people too easily. 

96. How did you get your name? My real name? I’m the first of my generation and I come from a HUGE family. They couldn’t name me after anyone! 

97. Were your ancestors royalty? No, My ancestors cooked. I did not get those genes!

98. Do you have any scars? Wasn’t this asked before? 39!

99. Color of your bedspread? Blue and white

100. Color of your room? White

 

 

Happy GuyDay!

I have not shopped in 17 days. I have looked, I have taken stuff OFF the wishlist and put stuff on but I have NOT purchased a damn thing! We’ll see what happens next Friday – which is payday.

BUT – I have NOT shopped in 17 days. If I can make it to 30 days, 90 days might be doable! Hmm mm!

I was reminded that I hate the world when my blood sugar is very high. Well, it’s been VERY high. Today it was under 300 for the first time in a while. I’ve been to the grocery and stocked up on things that don’t raise my blood sugar, but bring it down. So, we’ll see how it goes.

I’m in a bit of a quandary. My son was cleaning his room yesterday and found a stack of mail in a box. It was all from December. The bills we weren’t worried about as we pay everything online anyway and there was a bit of junk.

But there was a birthday card for me. It was sent about the time the sender and I had a falling out. I was going to be kind and say a ‘disagreement’ but it wasn’t that at all. it was a definite falling out. I’ve always joked – people love it when I’m blunt, until I’m blunt with them. Then I’m awful and that’s pretty much the case here.

Regardless, I’ve opened a birthday card, sent before the falling out and I’m kinda… do I become the woman my mother raised me to be and thank them for their thoughtfulness or do I let it go?

Yesterday, I had an ‘incident’. It involved a coached 4 year old, a mother who I openly named Karen and masks. I wasn’t mean or cruel to the child, but I let mama know that she did her child a serious disservice in teaching her to be a bully. I’ve had sound ‘vigorous’ discussion in the past over my inability to wear a mask, but I believe this is the first time a 4 year old very nastily informed me i was killing people.

I updated a fic 2 days ago I’ve not updated in 7 years. I feel strangely freed and it’s dawned on me it’s going to be a hell of a lot longer than I initially anticipated. I hope I have enough Jimmy Buffet titles. I also need to work on Gary. He’s cuddly and I can relate to him.

Are you ready for some GuyDay? I am!

 

Ya’ll have a great weekend!

What to go here…

I’m just going to cut straight to the chase.

I return to work in 2 weeks, unless the system decides to take the governor’s advice to not reopening until after Labor Day. (Early September) If we do return, we are pretty much banking on another school closure. I”m prepared for this. Kids are receiving their own chromebook for the year, so I will be expected to teach via remote. I’m prepared for this.

I have not shopped in 14 days. Go me.

Mom is going downhill quickly and dad is not only enabling her, but we feel he’s right behind. He’s agreed to allow us power of attorney and understand we must get it before her official diagnosis in a month. Once we get that, we can do the things he refuses to have anything to do with, but he needs. We were there a week. I’m exhausted.

During the week, Spawn took my car to the carwash. While he was going through the drying process, a barefoot, middle aged man walked up to him, with his hands in his pants and a sign that said what he’d do for 5 bucks. It included ‘swallowing’. Of course, Spawn called the cops and gave them a very good description of the crackhoe.

This is in a very rural county and this is happening.

Between school, my parents, me writing again, and my total ire with the stupidity of the Democratic Party in this country, I think it’s probably for the best I take a step back before I lose anymore friends. I might be gone a month. I might be gone until Thanksgiving or Christmas or next year.

I might not ever come back. I just don’t know. That’s just what kind of mood I”m in right now and that I”ve been in for a while.

Most of you know how to reach me.

Oh. If any of you would please share this, I know a lot of children who would appreciate some instrument that won’t fall apart or shatter when they use them.

https://www.donorschoose.org/project/my-classroom-instruments-are-older-than/5003438/?fbclid=IwAR3zLoy4IUikwY1OA-aVjgrzQutsVUSd6_pYi3hdJOWDQxCJ3Ks5JRiZNz8&context=true&utm_source=dc&utm_medium=page&utm_campaign=project&utm_term=teacher_5693704&rf=page-dc-2020-07-project-teacher_5693704&challengeid=21248064

here. Have some Richard.

I am

temporarily sated.

By that, I mean, at this moment, I’m breathing a little easier.

Well, as easy as one can breathe while he’s around.

lots of rambling behind the cut. Also Guy eventually.

No other words necessary