When your recuperating what do you watch?
I don’t know about everyone, but aren’t you supposed to watch bad movies, maybe some cheesey love story or bad holiday romance.
Here is am, lying on the sofa, recuperating and what am I watching? Crime dramas, huh? Midsomer Murders and Criminal Minds.
Is this mindless? I ask you! No, it’s not. Do I enjoy it? Why yes, yes I do!
What do you watch?
That sounds so official or ominous. So many acronyms in the world today, right?
It stands for a positive post office experience! How often can you say that?
I have packages to mail, as you can imagine, some are going to places I am not and some are going to where I am going to be for Christmas and I won’t be able to carry them, so ship them off.
There is a UPS office pretty close, so I took a chance. It was about 800 degrees in there and the girl helping me was moderately helpful, she had a lot of trouble reading my writing, the word yellow…”yellaw?” Really? Ok, never mind that.
What irritated me was the cost! The first box, $39.50 and it had to go 3 day, if I went ground, no guarantee it would get anywhere by the 23rd. After two boxes of this, and an envelope, thin and light, $9, really?
So, boxes back in the car, off to the post office.
I wrangled my large bag and three large boxes the few blocks, after finding parking, someone held the door open, first good thing. Then I waited, and waited, and waited, the boxes got heavier and heavier. A girl asked if she could help, I asked her to pick up my sunglasses that had fallen, second nice thing.
It wad finally my turn and the woman behind the counter was pleasant and helpful. And my first package… $15.14 vs UPS’ $39, sold! And the $9 envelope? $3.14…hmmm.
Overall, a pleasant experience, everything should get where it needs to be, on time, I paid the extra .17 for one box, by golly!
I made two of the women behind the counter laugh a few times, always a good thing. Got out of there for a heck of a lot less than it would have been at UPS, go me!
I walked out with a smile on my face and a spring in my step. Ha ha.
Geeking out tonight!!
I finally got my Samsung Gear S2 watch tonight!
Anyone who knows me knows I LA LA LA LOVE my smartwatch. I have had it for about four years, I’m on my second, the first I dropped on a driveway after about 3 years, so sad, so I had to get another.
The technology is great, it’s just slowing down a bit, I’m sorry to say, part of the reason I had a fitbit as well. And if you know me, you know I want the latest and greatest. I got a Samsung Galaxy Note 5, then I see the watch…ooh…
I researched and since they’re both Samsung, they connect. The other watch, Motorola, was great when I had a Motorola phone, connected easily.
This thing is magical! Apps, phone, fitness tracker, emails, music, video, you name it! It even comes with a charging stand!!! And yes, I already downloaded some apps including the winter watch face!
I’m in geek heaven! Sigh.
I want to watch them all!!
This has happened before. Wow, it sounds like a problem!
I was making a spreadsheet of the movies on my portable hard drive, after moving them around and I got nostalgic for them. I wanted to watch them all..and all at once!
War Games, The Expendables, RED, Star Wars, The Philadelphia Story, Holiday, Born Yesterday [birth versions], the list goes on and on.
I so love movies! I used to want to make movie trailers for a living, I suppose part of me still does. I suppose I could, who knows.
For now, I’ll just watch them all and sigh and enjoy myself. That sounds good to me, right?
A cold in the winter or a cold in the summer?
I should have said which sucks less, ha ha. I find that it doesn’t bother me as much when I am sick in the winter vs being sick in the summer.
At least in the winter, there’s a reason, it happens, it’s cold and dreary out, it’s going around, you get a cold. Put on warm jammies, get under the covers, have some warm soup and hot tea, box of tissues in hand and your set. You also don’t question, you have a cold, it’s winter, it happens.
Summer, you just get annoyed. It’s hot out, you go from heat to A/C to heat and back and forth, you get sick and annoyed, you do not want to be in bed in your jammies under the covers with hot soup and tea, you want to be outside enjoying yourself.
Now you now my opinion, what’s yours?
[I promise, this will not be a week’s worth of posts about having a cold, this was just a random thought]
That translates simply to I have a cold.
I felt it coming on about a day or so ago and wasn’t site, but last night I knew, especially since I was tired enough in the afternoon to take a nap, so I got some nyquil out and waited for it to take effect.
By 330 this morning, I couldn’t figure out why I was still awake and when I went to the bathroom, I saw them sitting on the counter, duh! I promptly took the two pills and feel asleep shortly after.
I spent the day in and out of consciousness and taking dayquil, until PSM came over, with some beautiful lilac colored roses to cheer me up, light the menorah and then take me to dinner, a little Chinese restaurant down the street from my apartment.
Now, I am safely ensconced in my pjs, warm blankets and cats. I’m writing to you and then passing out.
Good night.
Couldn’t resist!
I still have to touch the door!
I like the electric high powered hand dryers in the bathrooms, they save paper, which in turn saves trees, go green! Although, I must admit, I prefer paper towels most of the time. Don’t tell on me!
When you go into a public restroom and you wash your hands, you still have to touch the door handle to get out of the bathroom. Now, I wash my hands, but I can’t guarantee that anyone else does. Ick.
I would like a paper towel to hold the door, since there are none, I use my sleeve most of the time. What do you do?
I think I’ve told you before, but I’ll tell you again.
Bruce Springsteen’s version of Santa Claus is Coming to Town is my favorite Christmas song and to me it symbolizes the start of the season.
I never feel settled in the season until I do and once I hear it, I always sigh and then declare, to myself of course and anyone with range, “I’ve heard it, let the holiday begin”.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DGYIVYxZOWwo&ved=0ahUKEwia5tuSic7JAhVJdD4KHTwGBikQtwIIXzAJ&usg=AFQjCNFtYxvZe7Fk2Cfx67d-BTlsYpeekw
[this link should take you to you tube]
December 7, 1941 was a day that changed history.
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor marked the US’ entry into World War II. “It is a day that will love on in infamy”, President Roosevelt.
We learn about it in school, we see movies, documentaries, annual tributes. We are touched, we respect, we want to know more. We empathize and sympathize, but we weren’t there, we don’t really know, but we want to know.
In 2008 I earned a trip to Hawaii and one of the things I got to do was visit Pearl Harbor and it was something I never will forget.
The first thing you do is sit for a video giving you a history, setting the tone. Then instructions, silence when you’re in the hall.
It’s truly an experience like no other, you can feel it in the air, you feel it in your heart. You are transported, it’s surreal and awe inspiring.
You look out and still see the oil on the water, look further and see life, the fish are swimming, giving hope. I was awestruck.
When I was back in the center, I had the honor of shaking the hands of a few men who had there, fought and they are still with us.
We need to remember those who fought, those who gave their lives and those still with us, to teach us and help us to remember.
December 7th, a day that will live on in infamy.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Harbor_attack
I’m about done for!
This will not be a long post as I am fading. I took a nyquil and it’s doing the job?
My allergies have kicked in to high gear and my eye has been itching like crazy. Tonight, I may have rubbed to hard! It hurts!
Then there’s the bee sting. It itches and hurts at the same time.
So, after a very nice dinner, we went back to the hotel, I took a nyquil and now…zzzzzz
