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

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!

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.