Ten Tuesday Thoughts

I don't even know that I have enough thoughts for my 10 Tuesday Thoughts. But let me see if I can try.

1. I signed up for a food methods conference a couple of months ago. I was good with it as long as it is virtual.  And it is.

2. I thought that this conference would be from September 8 through September 11th... something close to that. Why is this conference lasting from the 8th to the 24th? O_O

3. And it is one of those conferences that does not contain that much interesting chemistry. Sigh.

4. What I learned today: there is some type of test in development for detection the C-19 virus on surfaces. And that the coatings on bags and containers used to hold food, etc., can leach out! Hmm.

5. Otherwise, this has all barely held my attention. Sigh.  And I am still stuck on having to deal with this until September 24th. Ugh.

6. I hate to admit this, but I struggle with foreign accents, so some of these talks have been O_o. I do what I can just to concentrate and pick up on some important points. I hate to admit that, but it is what it is.

7. We are closing in on the 6 month mark of not going in to work, but just teleworking. There are some who are bored, and going in voluntarily. Not me. No way. Might touch the wrong thing, and end up looking crazy. They still don't have a good plan in place. As of now, I am just being safe and staying home.

8. My supervisor told me during my review that I need to display more confidence. I took that as him wanting me to get caught up in the male diva BS that goes on in our group. Sorry sir, I am not a costar in the reality show.

9. I told someone, I speak up/suggest/volunteer once... I speak up/suggest/volunteer twice.. that is it. If you ignore me, I am done. Ladylee's goal is not to get stressed out and drawn into the drama. Too many times I have been kicked to the curb in my workgroup. At this point, I just need my paycheck every two weeks.  Please and thank you.

10.  My favorite retort:  "Man, I ain't got time for this craziness... I'm trying to write some stories."

Somebody said they were going to get me a shirt with that printed on it. LOL

11.  In my group, whoever controls and manipulates management pretty much runs things. I have no ambition of controlling and/or manipulating anyone. I don't have the energy to work Jedi mind tricks on people, and I just honestly don't care. And I consider all of that type of behavior as a sign of low self esteem when one has to do all this plotting and backbiting and throwing people under the bus. It is also a sign of some deep rooted problems going on behind the velvet curtain of one's life.

That may not be the case. That is just the way I see it.

Not sure why I should be expending that much energy... That does not make me "confident". No sir.

12. The Michael Cohen book comes out today. You know there has to be some truths in there because there was an effort to shut him up. The same thing happened with the president's niece, etc. Hmm.  Y'all read that and let me know what's up.

As my grandmother use to say... "Looka there, looka there."

I came up with MORE than ten thoughts. So happy for that.

Have a great week! On purpose!

Ten Tuesday Thoughts

Ten Thoughts on a Tuesday.

1. Do you know what it is like to be robbed in the middle of a crowd of people in broad daylight without a gun?  I don't, and hopefully you don't either. But this whole post office fiasco feels like that. Maybe it's just me, but I can't believe the post office is being torpedoed right before our very eyes.

2. Do they know that they are messing up people's mail drug prescription services in the process? Thank goodness I can go to my local pharmacy and get my prescriptions refilled. My pharmacy even has an app. I don't know what I would do if I had to stand by the mailbox waiting for mail.

3. Looking at this, I have decided that if I need to mail something, I will go to my local UPS or Fed-Ex office. Folks have stories of their mail taking two weeks to get to its destination. I pay my bills online, but having to mail bills now... No Ma'am. No Sir.

4. I haven't had much of an appetite these past few days. If I do eat, it is late in the afternoon or evening, and I am trying to get away from that.

5.  I watched the first night of the DNC convention. It felt like a school assembly. It is so odd not to hear the cheers of the crowd.

6. Michelle Obama's speech, man... I was waiting for her to holler "BOOM" at the end. She didn't, so I hollered it for her."

7. I think the phrase "It is what it is" will be the official phrase for this election and COVID season.

8. So on Twitter today, the haters have ginned up the whole narrative again that Michelle Obama is a man. Sigh. And you wonder why black folk get tired of craziness. It is interesting when people try to attack your identity. It is a sign of something. I promise you, if you pull back the heavy velvet black curtain of their lives, you will find some mighty deep complex issues. I'm just saying.

Might take you a few days to understand that... but think on it. Look around you. You'll see what I am talking about.

9. I have been really getting into this podcast as of late: Therapy for Black Girls by Joy Harden Bradford, PhD.

The topics are interesting, and I must say it is really nice to listen to a psychologist speak on topics that are of interest to me and/or I am currently dealing with, especially in these trying times.

10. So our beloved president, Ben Carson, and the Pillow Guy are touting a new drug that they want us to try for the cure or help with the coronavirus. Sigh. Man, I am not going to even really take this serious. It is bad that you have to follow the trail to the money to figure out what's going on. But danggonit, I hope they don't try to line us up and force us to take some darn pills.  It all continues to feel very Jim Jones-Guyanaish to me.

That is all I have to say about that.

Look, we have too many resources at our fingertips. Please do your research. I will be doing mine. On purpose.

Twelve Tuesday Thoughts

Ten... no TWELVE thoughts on a Tuesday!!

1. I cannot stand commercials, on tv or radio, etc., that have people snoring in them. Drives me crazy.

2. What I'm reading right now: The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett.

Well, what I'm listening to right now. Thank goodness for audible.

I'm only one-third of the way through the book, but man oh man... it is FANTASTIC. The level of writing is off the charts!

3. I have decided to spend 30 minutes on each room of my house for the remainder of July. I started with the Laundry room today, and it looks great!

4. I am struggling with reading an hour a day. New requirement attached to that: it has to be something that is interesting and holds my attention.

5. I was looking around on my Hulu app and came across The Color Purple!

That movie is 35 years old, and it is still timeless. I cannot believe how well shot it is. Now I can look at it all day!

6. New crochet project well underway, ya'll!

7. Song I love right now. "Confused" by Tevin Campbell.



8. I am ordering a lot of Amazon right now, frankly more than I care to admit. What's interesting now is that the amazon deliveryman doesn't ring the doorbell, but just leaves the packages on my front porch, sometimes all in the open. I don't know it is there until I look out the front window. Do they not understand that I live in the 'hood? Hide that package behind the porch banister... doggonit.

9. I had some shrimp aguachile for dinner. Well, my bootleg version.

That's a pic from the internet. Mine didn't look that nice.

It is cerviche dish, which mean you do not cook your seafood, but let the lime or lemon juice cook it. The hell with that. I boiled my shrimp first.

10. I cannot believe we are almost halfway through July. Ugh. This is day uh... like 120, something like that.

11. My workplace is CLOSED, due to two people testing positive for the COVID-19. So we are shut down until further notice. Man, this is why I paid no attention to that "volunteer to come up to work" BS. I got stuff to do, but I ain't volunteering to do NUTHIN, when I can sit at home and still collect a paycheck. No sir. No ma'am.

12. And now they gotta sanitize the building and do all this contact tracing and figure out who was up there on specific days. This is one less Oldgirl they do not have to worry about tracing. I been at the house!

That is it for my Tuesday Thoughts!

Ten Tuesday Thoughts

10 Thoughts... on a Thoughtful Tuesday


1. I think this is the third week quarantine. I'm not sure, though. I have just stopped counting. I barely even know what day it is. (With that said, I hope this is Tuesday).

2. I use entirely too many paper towels. I seem to go through a roll a day. I only have 15 rolls left right now, so the goal is to slow my roll on using them. If I can stretch a roll out to lasting two days, I'm good.

3. NOW we have to wear masks.  I guess I can make one of the bootleg ones. Not all that interested in that, but oh well.

4. I was looking around the house and I found that I have ONE of the special N95 masks. ONE. I got it in a repair kit that The Cowgirl Cre gave me a few years ago. So I am going to save that one mask. And work on making the bootleg one.

5. I go to the grocery store one day per week. I may be able to skip this week. If I do, that means I will not have any salad greens. I may have to roll with that.

6.  I don't care to go to the big grocery stores. People DO NOT understand the social distancing concept. It is SO annoying. And then they look at ME crazy when I pivot hard. Knock it off.

7. Alas, I found a small local neighborhood grocer that I can patronize. Carver Neighborhood Market. It is 0.5 miles from my house. They have fresh fruits and veggies and salad. And their prices are comparable to the big stores. And it is quiet in there. Everybody respects everybody's space. Thank you.

8. Our beloved president has been pushing this plaquenil drug REAL hard.  I took it some 15 years ago for lupus. Didn't help me much so I was taken off of it.

9. But how about my doctor had me up in the ophthalmologist every six months getting my eyes checked, because it could mess up your eyesight? Why isn't that being talked about? And she was DAMN specific: go to an ophthalmologist, NOT an optometrist. Not to even mention the mess it can cause with your heart, kidneys, and liver? Hmmm. It is considered a little toxic. As all medicines have some tendency to be. Hell, even acetometoprin and ibuprofen can be toxic. But do yourself a favor and go read the fact sheet on it.

10. I know why it's being pushed extra hard.  Three words here:  FOLLOW THE MONEY.

Hmmm....

That's all the thoughts running rampart through my mind at the moment on a lovely Tuesday!

Ten Tuesday Thoughts

Ten Thoughts! On a Tuesday.

1. Why is it still hot outside?

2. No let me rephrase this, since it is snowing in some parts of the country. Why is it still hot in the ATL this week?

3. Isn't this October now? Shouldn't I be seeing some nice temperatures in the 70s and the 80s?

4. Oh well, can't worry about that now. We are also in a drought. That is far more important. I can only remember it raining once in the last two weeks. I will take the heat with the rain if I can get it.

5. I find it interesting that we're not waiting for it to become cold before we run up on all things "pumpkin-spiced".  I saw some cream cheese in the store the other day.

6.  Look at that price: two for $5. Better get up on it while you can!

7. Why? Because it has been said that the pumpkin-spiced Spam is disappearing off the shelves.

8. Part of me wants to google some recipes using pumpkin-spiced spam, just to see why folks are all excited about it.  But no... I cannot. I WILL NOT.

9. BUT, I did come across a pumpkin-spiced food that I found intriguing. Pumpkin pie kit-kats!

Those are GOOD! They taste like sweet potato pie. But I can only eat one or two. If I'm going to eat some candy, I want some chocolate.

10. Song I'm listening to a lot this week: "Next Movement" by The Roots


Can you believe that song is 20 years old? And it is STILL great? A rap group/band. You know that's not happening in 2019. Nope. And the Roots still going strong as Jimmy Fallon's house band. Can't beat that!

That's it for my 10 thoughts on a Tuesday!

Ten Tuesday Thoughts

1. It is only Tuesday, and I am already ready for the week to be over. I am SO glad that Friday is a holiday. That means a 3-day weekend for me, and I'm going to make the best of it.

2. I have 940 hours of sick leave. That works out to 23.5 weeks.  That is real close to 6 months of sick leave. It's good to have that much, but I hope I never get sick enough to use big chunks of time.

3. I have a terrible habit of turning my cell phone ringer and notifications off.  There is nothing worse than a ringing cell phone or notifications dings in our EXTREMELY quiet cubicle area.That's not the bad habit, though, as I am just being mindful of my fellow employees. The bad habit is not turning it back ON after my workday. Now, I will hear it vibrating and ringing if I am listening to something (music, talk radio) on my headphones, but it is a problem when I am not doing that,  or if I am running errands after work.  And at night when I get in the bed, I see I have phone calls. I need to figure out a way to remember to turn it on or put everything on low.

4. I hate these psychological dependences on cell phones. I remember when we didn't have cell phones, when you better stop and call somebody from a pay phone and keep it moving. 

5.  I am doing a lot of confusing paperwork right now. Might be best if I could work from home, but it sucks to need a piece of data from a computer in the lab... and not be at work, where I can just run to the next room and get it.

6. I tell you... Donna Brazille is pissed off. She is spilling much tea on the DNC. And she said if we don't like it, we can go to hell. Well alright, ma'am! I might get the audible version of her book just to see what the heck was going on during that election year!

7. I voted today. I wasn't going to, because there will be a run-off in our major mayoral race, but I did anyway. It took me all of 3 minutes and I was done.

8. One of the people running for a position was arguing with the elderly campaign workers. Apparently they were too close to the polls. (I think you have to be a certain number of feet from the polls if you're campaigning).

9. I wanted to holler out, as I drove by, "I hope you lose!!". I don't understand why anyone would want to fight with these old folks. And this candidate has been leaving WAY too much mail in my door. I rarely go through my front door. And I live in the hood. That mail in the door makes it look like I ain't home. She should know better.

10.  It was cold last week, but now it's warm this week. I believe it was even 80 degrees yesterday. This means I can still wear my capri pants, even if this is the last week to do so.

That's it for my Ten Thoughts on  a Tuesday!

Ten Tuesday Thoughts

Ten Thoughts... in the late night hour.

1. I teleworked today. This is rare, but I have a ton of data to crunch.

2. I should've worked from home on Monday, because it was storming something awful on Monday morning. I made it to work pretty fast though despite the rain.

3. What I'm watching right now.

And it's pretty good. Makes me want to pull out all my Tupac music. All of it!

4. What I watched this weekend.

And it was pretty bad. I'm still not sure what was going on. And the acting was bad. Ugh.

5. All of a sudden, it is COLD in my beloved ATL. I have been cold all day, and I finally turned the heat on. I was trying to make it until November without turning the furnace on.

6. My president never ceases to amaze me. Just when I thought he may have scraped the bottom of the barrel, he does something more low. I still don't think we have reached the bottom of the barrel.

7. I tell you what, though. He may be laughing about all this, but I'm thinking about seed, and how he's sowing some bad seed. He better hope for crop failure.

8. I am not all that interested in these repub senators coming out and speaking up all of a sudden against all this tomfoolery. And of course they do it when they won't be running for election. Especially McCain. He have zero f's to give right now. But don't ya'll think it's a little too late to be speaking up?

9. I think if we can avoid nuclear war, we can count ourselves lucky, blessed, and highly favored. I rather for us to be emotionally dragged than nuked any day. That might sound kinda harsh, but it is what it is.

10. During these times, I pause when I arrive home from work and pull my car into the garage.... I cut the engine and it's quiet. In those moments, I take time to give thanks that I made it home alive and I have the luxury of thinking about what I need to do that evening. 

Because some people don't get the opportunity to do that.

10 Tuesday Thoughts

1. I have had the most lovely 4 day weekend.  It was lovely because of the simple fact that I had that much time off.

2, I did not mean to take off on Friday. It was just that my sister came over the night before, and I'd rather hang out with her and Justin than go to work.

3. This is fine, as I have a weeks worth of what's called "use-or-lose" time. This means I don't take enough time off from work.

4. I may end up taking 2 or 3 weeks off for Christmas. And that is fine by me.

5. One thing that stresses me out: constantly having to password everything, and constantly trying to remember those passwords. When did all this begin?

6. Another thing that stresses me out: calling my credit card or mortgage company and the customer service is apparently in another country. I feel bad when I can barley understand what the person is saying. That bothers me, that someone in a foreign country can pull up all my information. Sigh.

7. One last that bothers me: when I have to deal with and understand that some of my friendships are seasonal, for a season, when I thought they were for lifetime. This is difficult to deal with, but I know it is for the best.

8. I sometimes do a fast on the holidays. So the Columbus day fast was three days of nothing but smoothies and infused waters. My life has been full of kale, baby spring lettuce, cabbage, broccoli, berries, pears, peaches, nectarines, grapes, apples, cherries. But I forgot to buy spinach, though. Sigh. Maybe next time. But it has been a decent thing for me to do on a regular basis.

9. This wasn't the best time for a fast since Aunt Flo is visiting. In other words, I am one weak chicken over here. All I want to do is sleep.

10. Aunt Flo is a HIGHLY unpredictable visitor these days, as I am premenopausal. It is so confusing, it is. I have to go buy a book on it or something. I like a little order to my life when it come to such issues.  And this change of life is not very orderly- physically, mentally and emotionally.