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!
zee's muse 
Block me if you like, but I have to say this – and I hope you read it:
We know you have a capable brain in you head – when are you going to start using it?
Do some FACT checking!
No, twitter searches of silly pictures tweeted by random people isn’t fact checking.
Fact checking includes consuming news and articles of various sources.
Check for known experts, e.g. Mr. Fauci.
A little hint: Every time the POTUS calls something “fake news” read it as “FACT news”.
Autocorrect is a bitch.
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How to wear a mask when you are wearing glasses:
– Put the mask up as high as comfortably possible (on the bridge of your nose not the tip)
– Put your glasses on (they should be on the rim of the mask, pushing the fabric a bit closer to your skin)
– If the glasses fog, remove them, dry them, put them on again (DO NOT just lift them til they seem to be dry)
Most of all: Do not believe the ridiculous stuff about CO2 poisoning and what-not. It’s not true.
As long as you don’t have serious problems with your lungs, such as COPD, lung cancer, and probably certain types of asthma, there’s no reason not to wear a mask.
Worst thing to happen: If you do something that makes your breathing faster, you may be out of breath a bit sooner than usual.
So what?
Stand still for 20 seconds and it’s over.
Move a little slower than you’re used to.
Impossible for you? Fine. But please be honest and say “I don’t want to wear a mask.”
And don’t call a little child a bully because s/he knows more than you – and more than you want to know.
Thank you.
Wow. I don’t know if I should laugh at the audacity or cry that you didn’t actually read what I fucking said.
I never mentioned Fauci… who doesn’t follow his own rules, take a look at him at a baseball game. Also, he changes his mind about things like a revolving door. Sometimes, I wonder if he’s working for WHO on the sly.
The cloth masks were a JOKE! I love the one my friend in the state of Washington has – My governor is a complete idiot.
Go and reread what I said about the child. Here! I’ll repost it for you!
>>>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. <<<
NOTE: I NEVER called the child a bully. I said the child was coached by her bully mother. For the record, I had to go through a screening before I was allowed in the store! That should be enough as everyone in this county has to go through one if they aren't wearing a mask. I have asthma and 5 minutes in a mask of any kind tends to put me in an asthma hack. But thanks for ASSuming that it was because my glasses fog, which it's not.
Also for the record, I work very hard to social distance – going the right way in a one way aisle, staying away from people, masked or unmasked – which in the majority of this state – is optional. Excuse me for exercising my rights. The child and her mother were going the wrong way. The child also walked right up to me – like less than a foot from me, stuck her finger in my face and said – you're breaking the law! You want people to die! First off, it's NOT a law. It's a current heavy handed suggestion in this county that states very clearly – if you can't, please make sure you're healthy and you explain to whoever stopped you why you can't! So in short, my statement that I have asthma is enough. The fact I got through the screening process SHOULD be enough and most of the time it is. I was in the store without a mask. Apparently someone let me in! I had a similar incident earlier that day – at the county court house! I was getting tags for our newest addition to the Zee-driveway. I was stopped by the local sheriffs and all I said was – I have asthma. The response was quick – you're good honey. Go right ahead. Watch the social distancing boxes!
However at that moment, I had a 4 year old standing in MY space with her finger in my face telling me I"m doing 2 things that are not true.
I explained very nicely that some people can't wear one because of lung conditions, like asthma. People with asthma can't wear one. I then told her it wasn't nice to assume things about people and say things that aren't true. If she wanted to know why I wasn't wearing a mask, I would be too happy to explain it – which I was doing, because I was talking to a CHILD! I then suggested she was standing too close to me and she needed to stand by her mother.
As I passed her mother, I let her know that what she did – sending a child in an attempt to shame someone – was heinous of her. Actually, what I said was 'It's one thing for a child to be curious, but to teach them to try to shame someone for something they have no control over, is nothing short of teaching her to be a bully, Karen.
Quite frankly, if an individual has to go through a screening process, that should be enough. When I was that age, I would NEVER go up to a complete stranger and accuse them of something that was none of my business and I had no clue of what it was. As an adult, I wouldn't do that. I wouldn't. I would figure they had a reason, whatever it was, and I should do what I needed to do to be safe.
So take your ire, and your insults and your assumptions somewhere else. Don't tell me about google and research. I did mine. I'm very good at it! Be nice if you did yours and didn't rest on what others tell you to do.
We return to school in a few weeks and masks are optional. I'm good with this. I will be going through a LOT of lysol spray, clorox wipes and I"m taking my air purifier to my room to do what it can.
not going to block you – that's not the way I work. I haven't blocked anyone from here. But when I go to someone else's page when my opinion is the opposite of theirs I'm civil and nice about it.
Thank you for showing everyone what “blunt” means.
Just a more few words before I am out of your garden:
I’m sure everyone knows what sources you use for your research. Not only on the coronavirus but also on other things.
I didn’t ask around about it but I think that’s the reason for the lack of comments on your blog lately. *shrugs*
Of course Mr. Fauci changes his opinion. That’s what science is: Gathering informarion, thinking about it, making a decision about what’s best based on said information, gathering more information, re-think …
We want children to be strong and stand up and say something when other people are doing anything “wrong”.
Except when they do.
Btw, shaming the mother in front of the child is a good way to react on shaming from the child.
Oh, I can only be insulted by people I respect. My respect for you vanished more and more in the last few months – and finally died this morning.
Nevertheless: Good luck to you, Spawn, your family, your friends. Stay healthy.
Feel better? You know, I always feel better after a good BM!
I was going to let this go, but after a restless night, decided there are a few misconceptions you have that desperately need cleared up and even if YOU don’t come back and see or respond, anyone who comes after will know that you have issues and you should deal with them on your time, not mine.
First off, if I have issues with the content of someone’s social media, I leave. No need for a long screaming missive that makes a mountain out of a mole here – or in this case – a lot of bullcrap assumptions about nothing. And incorrect assumptions at that. It’s almost laughable. Almost.
You made the comment ‘you’ve been losing respect for me for some months. Then, why were you still here to begin with? I lose respect for people, I leave. I have. I have better things to do. Write, learn a new instrument, plan lessons, collect lint from my belly button for a new mattress.
Either way, out of SHEER curiosity, I went back and read through my previous posts for the last few months and I tried to see if the tone or content had changed.
Not really.
Lots of Richard, LOTS AND LOTS of Sir Guy. ManCandy. Books. Hell, I even had a quick flash fic that kicked up an old abandoned fic right back up. Clothes.
There are 2 changes and it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out.
Like many who have been under a long quarantine, I’m suffering from depression. I”m not the only one, I won’t make a big deal of it. I try to stay on top of my meds and my vitamins. Spend time grilling in the backyard, watching the birds. I have a family of cardinals who built a nest in my hanging basket of impatiens. I’ve hung a suet basket up next to the basket. If I go by at the right time, I can see all 4 babies with their heads out and beaks open – where’s mama! We’re hungry! It’s beautiful things like that keep me from going completely off the deep end. But reading back, it’s pretty obvious and I”m not the only one.
Second? Politics. To the best of my recollection the less than 5? times I”ve brought it up, it would be one line. Passing by. Not the long entire blog rants about *thebigbadorangeman* and tbh, I would pretty nice considering all. But I’ve been told on more than one occasion that my input or opinion didn’t’ matter – I was to sit in the corner and when they were talking knitting or story building or fandom or music or whatever, they’d let me know and I would trotted out like a puppy on a leash, put on show, and then put back up when they were done.
Do I seem to be the sort of person that would sit for that?
But I digress.
You seem to think you know where I get my news and information. I’m pretty damn sure you don’t.
You seem to think I don’t like to wear a mask because it fogs my glasses. You found that in a post months ago. True it does and yes there are ways around it, but you might recall for years I’ve discussed my asthma and how ill it makes me during certain times of the year. And the CDC as well as other reputable health organizations have stated people with lung ailments SUCH AS ASTHMA have no business wearing a mask. Neither do people with sensory perception issues, like those with autism.
You seem to have missed the announcement that I have purchased face masks JUST IN CASE I’m forced to wear one. I have a dear friend who is a music teacher as well and has WORSE lungs than me who is being forced to wear one. They also told her she was going on a cart and into the classroom. This would kill her. She had to threaten to resign today to keep her room. Her letter was typed up. They relented while I was typing this.
Somewhere you seem to think it’s a GREAT thing for a 4 year to go up to a complete stranger, get IN their personal space, DAMN THE SOCIAL DISTANCING (I mean really I had to look over my boobs to see her, she was that close) shove their finger as close to the stranger’s nose and YELL completely ignorant lies. YOU’RE BREAKING THE LAW! YOU WANT PEOPLE TO DIE! I said ‘ignorance’ because ignorance can be taught. And that’s what I did, in my best, patient teacher’s voice. No, it’s NOT against the law for me not to wear a mask. I have asthma. I can’t wear one as I have breathing problems. There is no law. I passed a screening to get in. It’s okay.
(What there is, is a city ordinance, if you can, please wear one. If you can’t, please limit your time in social situations. If you can shop online, do it. If you can’t, please use social distancing. Go during less busy times of the day. And No, I don’t want people to die. I don’t know why you would think that.)
This doesn’t embolden her or make her strong. It certainly doesn’t mean she knows more than an adult who is living the situation. Unchecked, this makes a child obnoxious and I foresee great issues when she goes to school.
You seem to think me calling her mother on the carpet in front of her child just really nasty of me. No. It was nasty of her MOTHER to coach her child to be a bully and try to shame me for something beyond my control in front of everyone in listening distance. Pray, please tell me, what was my alternative? Oh honey, can I have your phone number? I really need to cuss you out for your stupidity, but you know… the kid….What fantasy world do you live in? Of course I told mom – you’ve done a disservice to your child. I probably shouldn’t have called her ‘Karen’, but it fits, y’know? To NOT say anything would be to allow her to continue to believe she’s entitled to be a bully and to teach her child to be a bully. It was a teachable moment she failed. And I’m not supposed to say anything? Just let it go? Why? Because she’s entitled? Or you think should be entitled.
Well, I’m entitled to. It’s called opinion. I’m usually pretty good with people’s opinions that don’t agree with mine. Would be so nice if people who didn’t agree with me had that same tolerance and openness.
Now I’m not one to block people or tell them to never speak to me again, (Like I said I typically just unfollow them) but i will ask that if you choose to walk out that door, a) don’t let it hit you in the ass as you leave and b) if it does hit you, be so kind as to clean and disinfect it. I clean up enough shit without have to clean up someone else’s.
So social distancing by the child went out the window and his/her mother wasn’t concerned about that? smh
I understand when it comes to being unable to wear a mask for certain health conditions or extenuating circumstances, but I must admit it’s heartening to see most people wearing masks when it’s mandated, such as it is in the city (still own choice in country areas) Anything we can do to try to stop the virus spreading is worth the effort, something we should do as a community. I’m helpless against grossly negligent government handling of hotel quarantine, people who refuse to social distance or go out when they should be isolating at home, but wearing a mask? That I can do when it’s deemed necessary or I feel safer doing so.
Stay safe and well!
Yeah – social distancing gone, not following direction rules, out the window, sending a child to do ‘your’ nastiness – (nothing strong or empowering there) and somehow this is MY fault? Please.
Most people wear them. That’s great. We’re NOT California or Michigan, where people are being strong armed. Where I live, the mandate is – IF you can wear one, wear it. If you can’t, please limit your socialization. That’s what I do. I’ve been home from the Interior since last Tuesday, I’ve made one trip out – the grocery. and the tag office. I was stopped both times – once by a sheriff. I explained, I have asthma. The sheriff waved me on. The kid at Kroger got a tad testy. I then reminded her the wording of the mandate and she let me in.
In some places over here, it’s alright to go to the bar, go to a restaurant, okay to riot en mass… but it’s not okay to go to church. Even if following social distancing and other ways to stay safe.
Speaking of staying safe, I get paid Friday. I hope there is Lysol spray and clorox wipes on the shelves. I’m going to need to buy as much as possible!!! A couple of teacher friends on my social media drove a radius of 100 miles last weekend looking for Lysol Spray. I KNOW I have 1 or 2 bottles at school, I think. I also have at least 2 HUGE bottles of hand sanitizer as well I”ll hit dollar tree as well to get more. I”m going to be going through that in a few. Also hoping my air purifier will help in some way. I probably should try to find 2 more to service the entire room.
OH! THis is interesting. I was dinking around the CDC website (that would beh Centers of Disease Control, which I had a TAD more useful than say… a so called health organization headed by a career Communist politician, rather than a doctor, whose country is eyeball deep in hock to the country that started this mess amazeballs, right??? Either way, I”m dinking around there because that’s where I get my information from and i crunched some numbers – something called ‘maths’…
EITHER WAY
A little over 14% of the US population has taken a COVID test. Been tested for it.
Of that 14%, 9% have tested positive. Not the entire population, just 9% of the 14%.
And of THAT 9%, less than a third of 1% have passed away. 0.300129…
Now, if you want to use the BIG number to base on, 1.33% have tested positive and 0.0412885 have died. I’ve not checked ages, just the numbers.
But that’s US numbers.
Honestly tho, I think after months of being quarantined, this disease should be pretty gone. Maybe it is, people are just focusing on the wrong thing.
I’m ‘safe’ for another 10 days!!!! You stay safe as well! At least you no longer work in a germ factory. I have to go face the masses!!!! LOL!