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random ramblings of Yours Truly.

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Valid Reasons For Feeling Meh

Blog entry: from the car.

Let’s see how this works out. I’ve never dictated a blog entry using Siri while I was driving, but there’s a first time for everything.

This is actually kind of cool, except for when my phone thinks that I’m done because I pause too long.

Anyway, I wanted to talk about feeling kind of meh today, since it doesn’t happen very often anymore. (Sidenote: it seems that if I don’t use Siri, and instead I just use the microphone, it works pretty well with my Shatner-esque pauses.)

As I was checking my email on the john this morning, I learned that some friends of ours are moving 40 minutes away. They currently live about 5 to 10 minutes from our house. So, that was kind of a bummer for me, although I am super glad for them. It sounds like they’re super excited to move out to the country.

It’s kind of funny, though, because their idea of the perfect place to live is the exact opposite of what we were looking for when we wanted a house. What we wanted was something close to the highway, so we could get places quickly. What they wanted was no neighbors.

Then, when I went to drive my son to school this morning, I saw that it was spitting rain or snow or something in between. I was displeased.

So, I guess I can actually pointed to a couple of good reason why I have that familiar old feeling today. It happens. I’ll get over it.

Edit to add: Also, people who drive 15 mph through downtown infuriate me. Not what I needed.

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Interesting Interactions

Wow. Well. I thought I was coming to the coffee shop to write about my new desktop computer, but then I sat down next to the most fascinating woman. Yes, fascinating in that sort of Why Did You Choose To Speak To Me sort of way.

The internet is a wide open place, so I won’t divulge all the intel she gave me, but the conversation began with her finding my Bluetooth keyboard amazing and ended with her informing me that her intelligence doubled last night due to a “high-profile” incident and that God told her that he is dumb compared to her. In between, she told me about how Iran are pros at stealing credit card numbers, how Europe gets all the best tech first and the US is kept technologically in the dark and treated like a third-world country, and how her family came illegally by boat from Germany.

That was a Very Interesting twenty minutes.

 

Edit to Add: Ten minutes later, she started talking to the baristas about how she’s a reincarnated six-month-old baby, and I just had to leave and go write someplace else.

 

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Bangs

My husband and I were waiting at the end of the driveway for my son’s bus to drop him off yesterday. (I’d taken the day off for a salon visit and a doctor’s appointment.)

Aaron looks at my hair and says, “Do you know that one meme, with the cat wearing a lime on its head…?”

After we both had a good laugh, he backpedaled a little and told me that my updated ‘do reminded him of an astronaut’s wife — like, classic retro ‘60s hair.

I think maybe he was thinking more along the lines of Sharon Tate:

My bangs v. Sharon Tate’s

At any rate, my new bangs definitely made an impression. I can dig it.

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Our Cat is Geriatric

My husband took our cat to the vet last week, for only the second time in 14 years.

Seems he’d found her meowing loudly on the floor of the family room, weak and not fully in control of her limbs. He carried her out to the living room and set her on the couch, and watched her as she returned to normal.

The next day, we arranged for a vet visit.

En route to the vet

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Me Time

Self-Portrait in the Sunroom

I’ve had worse days by far.

Still, after staying up until 11:30pm last night restoring my new phone (hooray for mobile insurance when your battery starts swelling up like Violet Beauregard), then getting the 2:30am “my foot hurts” wake-up call from my six-year-old, I was mighty lethargic today. Add to that the fact that I had intentionally NOT upgraded my phone to iOS 11 because I knew it would break some apps I loved… well, guess what OS my replacement came loaded with?

Yeah. Plus, my phone appears to no longer sync with the Kia UVO system. I’m still holding out hope that a reboot of my phone might actually correct the issue like the UVO system seems to think it will. If not, I guess I’ll either use Bluetooth or drive the other car. Or, you know, just listen to a CD, but that’s so 2002.

Anyway, I decided I deserved a little time for myself this evening. I sat quietly in the sunroom for 15 minutes before making dinner (because I had the time), then spent a half hour out in the garden after my son was (theoretically) asleep. I had meant to just read magazines in the sunroom and soak my feet, but dirt therapy worked just as well, and I got stuff accomplished to boot.

That fresh air does wonders.