Weird fasting today. I can eat rice and white bread and baked chicken until 7 pm, then nothing. I can't put milk in my coffee today! And tomorrow, I brush my teeth, then fill 10 test tubes with my breath, every 20 minutes. It takes about 3 hours. I return the test tubes to my doc. Fun!
I'm going to submit something today. Read it if you find time!
!mied epraC
It was a fun weekend. We had a good friend over for the march and made a day of it. It felt sort of bougie to follow up a protest with cocktails and sandwiches on the patio, but it is is what it is (and that Manhattan tasted GOOD).
And...baseball season! Mets are 2-1 as I write this.
I hope everyone else had a good weekend. Talia is well. I'm tempted to post a pic, but she would kill me!
!eeffoC
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No, I didn't die. I've just been busy with boring irl things as usual.
My boyfriend and I did celebrate a year and a half of being together on the first of March though.
Congrats on the boyfriend. We finally found the Drew Carey Show on Pluto. It holds up.
Had ANOTHER stomach bug over the weekend. Yuck. Lots of pukiness and diarrhea (sp?). Sorry for the TMI. Mostly over it. New critique group meets tonight. So far I like them.
!eeffoC
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I wish the weather would make up it's freakin' mind. Spring-Winter-Sprinter (somewhere in between)-Winter-Spring... Got snow on the ground again here but not much. And it was cooooooold today, with a wind chill on top. But then by the weekend, it's spring again (as it should be given Friday is the Equinox). Sigh. I'm going to get whiplash reading the weather forecasts. Oh well, two weeks until vacay.
Yeah, our snowstorm of last weekend has turned into 70+ degree days! Great for walking.
I went through my first session of a new critique group last night. I got a couple rough reviews, but that's a good thing, and overall I liked it. Plus, it's weekly, so I can submit smaller sections more often, which works great for me. They're international, if anyone is interested. Limited to speculative fiction.
!yad eht yojnE
It's a snow-tastrophe! (That's a vague Friends reference.) Ton of snow falling right now. I expect it all to melt during the weekend.
I am starting a new writing critique group this month. Wish me luck!
Watching Jesse's funeral on TV. The Presidents are about to speak. Coffee!
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Is it right to hate someone for their beliefs? I do not think so. However, I kinda think youall will hate me for my feelings and beliefs and I accept that 😔.
I think a belief system is evil that dictates that women are so tempting to men that they need to wear a burka and gays are so evil that they should be hanged as was/is the case in fundamentalist Iran/Islam. However, killing is also bad.
I am conflicted. I think it is bad for government to force us to do and think things it believes to be right regardless of what the individuals believe to be right. On the other hand, “freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.”
I don't think anyone hates you here. We can agree to disagree, and it doesn't sound like we disagree that much. I don't think anyone is arguing that Iran is an evil regime.
Anyway, I'll quit talking politics, if it's divisive. My apologies.
Glorious day here - in the 70s and sunny. And, I went to the doc yesterday and she seems to think I am in pretty good health.
I'd love some coffee.
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The state of the union, at least from the view up here above you, is "royally f**ked". But maybe there's still a way to unf**k it. I just don't know what it is. What your nation needs is a pragmatic leader with a strong economic lens but Carney's ours and you cannot have him.😋 He is far from perfect in my somewhat leftie eyes, but he's at least mentally stable and focused on the real economy unlike Trumpie Dumpie, who seems to live in his dream world.
That's enough politics for tonight.
We are back into winter but a quieter, milder form of it. Temps from -7 to 0C, occasional flurries.
Turns out not much happened. A two hour slog of a speech.
No matter. Tomorrow is a new day. Writing and half-listening to pre-season baseball. We have a rookie on the mound!
Coffee and a couple Tylenol please.
Entered both the writing contests (thanks again WG!). Hot and cold, love and hate. One of them is a sci-fi apocalypse, one of them is a simple love poem without the word love.
We're ordering a pizza tonight so we can sit down and watch the State of the Union speech. Regardless of what is said, or what happens, we are watching History, with a capital "H." I hope our better angels prevail.
Coffee would be swell.
Okay, here's my Rainbow poem. It's mostly a true story!
Rainbow
I'm in bed with my wife. We're both
sick, sniffling, snuffling, handing each other
tissues and medicine. Our breathing
synchronizes. I watch her chest
rise and fall.
Outside, a storm. It's come by once
already, dusting our home with cold
rain. The worst has passed. In the storm's
wake, broken branches, trash.
No matter.
The sun rises from the storm. A rainbow forms.
Our faces turn to the color,
receiving light. I watch my wife's chest
rise and fall.
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I love the beach in the winter.
I've never see n a beach in winter. It sounds beautiful.
Same old thing here. Writing, with the news in the background. Pick up the grand-boy from school later. I've got a bit of a cough myself - there are SO MANY GERMS at the school. A giant petri dish.
!esaelp eeffoC
Windy af down here. It's a little scary, though I can't imagine we're in danger. I'm picking up the grand-boy later, the biggest worry is that he'll blow away.
About halfway through House of Leaves. What a crazy read! It's like walking through a dark house, which I guess it literally is. But having to turn the book and squint and even occasionally use a mirror really makes it a trippy experience.
!eeffoC
Happy President’s Day, for those in the US. Ha. We prefer to think of it as a three day Valentine Day weekend.
The comp entries are fun. I may give Rainbow a shot. We’ve got a month.
Making some headway on the new novel. Talia was laughing at me yesterday for recording and playing stuff backwards. .driew s’ti seY
!!!!!!eeffoC
Shamrock
“Frikkin Roombas,” howled Owen, lobbing an e-bomb toward the door. He never dreamed he’d use hate-speech, but then the robots went rogue. Burnt the fields first. No more human food. Skies black. Billions dead.
Owen took the kids, hid in an abandoned Walmart. Food, hiding places, guns. Here they’d make their stand.
The door blasted open. In the doorway: a Roomba. Held in its cold hand: a fragile plant. A shamrock. Their shared future. Life.
Hope.
“Come in,” said Owen.
We watched Materialists last night for Valentine’s Day. Really above average rom-com. Other than Dakota Fanning living in Manhattan on $80k a year, we totally bought into it. Well rounded characters, excellent dialogue, good acting. I just enjoyed listening to everyone talk. Highly recommended.
Got ripped up by the cat yesterday, but we did get her to the vet. Notice the scratches look weirdly like my tattoo of the Pleiades. They gave us kitty Xanax (gabapentin!) for next time.
Sorry about the news from Canada, Ape. Sounds like an US headline. Our thoughts are with you guys.
Man. Woke up, turned in the news, and saw House Representatives and AG Bondi in a live screaming match on Capitol Hill. Things are getting weird. The government is no longer interested in answering questions.
Anyway. Taking the cat to the vet for a checkup today, so the always stressful catching of the cat and putting it in the carrier is about to commence.
