What I was thinking, was this: yes the sun is still shining and yes its still hot out there, but, c'mon now -the six pm church bells just rang, so it can't be as bad as it would have been to go out @ high noon or two ...
I got out there, started driving (w/ the a/c on) and realized
It's 102 degrees out there ;-
I about turned myself around, but I had to keep pushing myself (no matter how sick it was going to make me), because I was running out of provisions:
No peanut butter and jelly - no sandwich bread to put it on - no butter for the special bread I bought for bread and butter! And one of the next biggest things: I was out of Gatorade, essential in such awful! weather!!!
I also needed fresh coffee, as well as minutes for my cell phone ... got lunch meat, too.
As Sgt Esterhaus always said - "BE CAREFUL OUT THERE!!!"
Thursday, July 5, 2012
My kitchen trash & being a good neighbor
I have a next-door neighbor here who is a guy that doesn't cook - he doesn't even barbecue - and he sure isn't wealthy! so we're not talking, you know,a potential neighbor who would be like that surprise millionaire tv show, lol! ....
He's interested in recreational activities that I'm sure he can sense aren't things to invite me to, lol: like NASCAR, DVDs, possibly even fishing and hunting... and may I say he has a girlfriend who can be - ahh - prickly, yeah, let's put it like that! in fact, he's let her invite me to there church, rather than overstep that boundary!
So why do I consider him one of the top 5 neighbors I've ever had???
There's the low to no noise deal, surely ... but more than that, there are two bigger things:
He never hesitates to say hello and to pet CoCo!
And, he did it again: I changed the kitchen trash bag and as we're having a heat wave, I simply opened the front door and set it outside ... and when I had to go out anyway (for CoCo), I turned around to take the trash across the parking lot to the dumpster and
it was gone!
Now, you see what I'm saying here???
Even without much money or shared activities, he specifically has looked for a way to be the best neighbor possible to a broken-down woman living by herself ...
And that makes him a Very Good Neighbor!!!
He's interested in recreational activities that I'm sure he can sense aren't things to invite me to, lol: like NASCAR, DVDs, possibly even fishing and hunting... and may I say he has a girlfriend who can be - ahh - prickly, yeah, let's put it like that! in fact, he's let her invite me to there church, rather than overstep that boundary!
So why do I consider him one of the top 5 neighbors I've ever had???
There's the low to no noise deal, surely ... but more than that, there are two bigger things:
He never hesitates to say hello and to pet CoCo!
And, he did it again: I changed the kitchen trash bag and as we're having a heat wave, I simply opened the front door and set it outside ... and when I had to go out anyway (for CoCo), I turned around to take the trash across the parking lot to the dumpster and
it was gone!
Now, you see what I'm saying here???
Even without much money or shared activities, he specifically has looked for a way to be the best neighbor possible to a broken-down woman living by herself ...
And that makes him a Very Good Neighbor!!!
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Political Ads - my time in the box
I cannot even begin to tell you how sick I am of all the political, presidential ads that play over and over and ...
So I got this *wild idea*! Hehehe -- if I had a friend w/ a video camera, this is what I'd do :
Outside my apartment (I'm talking right outside my front door) is this long patio-sidewalk that goes past four apartments. Isn't that great :) I could start up by #4 and take a seemingly casual walk down the sidewalk ... I'd go past these great pillars, too (altho mine are wooden, not white house), and I would casually look over to one side (but careful not to look in anyone's windows!) reuniting my hands with the pockets of my blue jeans giving myself that polished jacket look w/ my purple suede QVC number that's the right length, as my voiceover would say - I'm Jeannee Waseck and I approve this message! (For the soft focus shrubs behind me as I walk down, I figure I can redirect my neighbor's potted plants.)
I even figured when I get to the end of the sidewalk, I could continue my political presidential participation by looking in the camera, making big eyes and saying, "I know how babies are made - and I won't ship them to Mexico, China, and India!!!" as my first political campaign promise ;)
So I got this *wild idea*! Hehehe -- if I had a friend w/ a video camera, this is what I'd do :
Outside my apartment (I'm talking right outside my front door) is this long patio-sidewalk that goes past four apartments. Isn't that great :) I could start up by #4 and take a seemingly casual walk down the sidewalk ... I'd go past these great pillars, too (altho mine are wooden, not white house), and I would casually look over to one side (but careful not to look in anyone's windows!) reuniting my hands with the pockets of my blue jeans giving myself that polished jacket look w/ my purple suede QVC number that's the right length, as my voiceover would say - I'm Jeannee Waseck and I approve this message! (For the soft focus shrubs behind me as I walk down, I figure I can redirect my neighbor's potted plants.)
I even figured when I get to the end of the sidewalk, I could continue my political presidential participation by looking in the camera, making big eyes and saying, "I know how babies are made - and I won't ship them to Mexico, China, and India!!!" as my first political campaign promise ;)
Monday, July 2, 2012
And speaking of hot like an oven....
Until I moved here, I hadn't lived w/o a microwave in a kitchen since somewhere around the mid-80s....
Now, when I first moved here, it was winter ... so I bought myself a saucepan, and I adapted ... when I went back to NJ for Christmas, I was told I could be gifted the microwave of my choice - but I declined, because I knew I couldn't lift it, so how would I get it in here?! Nah, thanks, me and my saucepan are just fine, thx!
Well, now I'm rethinking all of that, wondering if I should grab a male neighbor and take him shopping ...
Using the oven heats the entire kitchen - something I didn't even think about in the winter as a problem, but now in the summer ... if I'm going to heat something, using the oven, I try to keep myself all the way over here on the computer, no where in the kitchen, and of course I make sure the a/c is on!
The oven itself is something I had to buy special pans for, btw, because it is a small apartment-sized unit and so it doesn't fit a regular baking pan. Also, the stove itself has one burner that doesn't work - and of course its the big burner, that would speed-up production (yeah, I could tell management, but to have someone come in for that, when I have three working burners?! nah! however, it does mean that something in a pot or pan takes longer, because its on a smaller burner)
Another problem is that it seriously limits what I can eat. Now, while I have to watch anything w/ high fructose corn syrup in it, I do occasionally want something as a "goodie" but -- if I'd have to cook it 55 minutes V 5 minutes in the micro, fagetaboutit! it goes back on the shelf! Also, there are things I really don't want to be messing around with a big production of pans and stoves and ovens, just to feed myself, like if I wanted hot dogs, for example.
Because of being disabled, I can't always lean and do the saucepan thing - a microwave would be good for times like that, too!
Hmmmm ... considering it, fersure!
Now, when I first moved here, it was winter ... so I bought myself a saucepan, and I adapted ... when I went back to NJ for Christmas, I was told I could be gifted the microwave of my choice - but I declined, because I knew I couldn't lift it, so how would I get it in here?! Nah, thanks, me and my saucepan are just fine, thx!
Well, now I'm rethinking all of that, wondering if I should grab a male neighbor and take him shopping ...
Using the oven heats the entire kitchen - something I didn't even think about in the winter as a problem, but now in the summer ... if I'm going to heat something, using the oven, I try to keep myself all the way over here on the computer, no where in the kitchen, and of course I make sure the a/c is on!
The oven itself is something I had to buy special pans for, btw, because it is a small apartment-sized unit and so it doesn't fit a regular baking pan. Also, the stove itself has one burner that doesn't work - and of course its the big burner, that would speed-up production (yeah, I could tell management, but to have someone come in for that, when I have three working burners?! nah! however, it does mean that something in a pot or pan takes longer, because its on a smaller burner)
Another problem is that it seriously limits what I can eat. Now, while I have to watch anything w/ high fructose corn syrup in it, I do occasionally want something as a "goodie" but -- if I'd have to cook it 55 minutes V 5 minutes in the micro, fagetaboutit! it goes back on the shelf! Also, there are things I really don't want to be messing around with a big production of pans and stoves and ovens, just to feed myself, like if I wanted hot dogs, for example.
Because of being disabled, I can't always lean and do the saucepan thing - a microwave would be good for times like that, too!
Hmmmm ... considering it, fersure!
What being heatsick feels like
I know that I can't tolerate the heat ... but now its gotten to where if I even go out for a very short while, and stay in a/c while driving and while inside a business, I get heatsick ;( ... which is no fun! So as an FYI, here's what being heatsick feels like to me (note - I went today around noon - I'm typing this @ 7:42 pm, and, I'm still sick) :
The headache is the worst part. It feels like there is a hat on my head that is several sizes too small and its pressing down directly on the very top of my head.
With the headache comes some mental slowness, depending on how well I take care of the next part of this, which is
Severe dehydration. I can't drink enough! My drink of choice is diluted Gatorade - str8, and I get stomach cramps.
Fibromyalgia pain increase -especially at the base of my neck, spreading outwards like a stain.
Tiredness beyond 'the usual lousy normal'.
I feel hot, like I have a fever.
When its really bad, I get painful dots of perspiration.
The headache is the worst part. It feels like there is a hat on my head that is several sizes too small and its pressing down directly on the very top of my head.
With the headache comes some mental slowness, depending on how well I take care of the next part of this, which is
Severe dehydration. I can't drink enough! My drink of choice is diluted Gatorade - str8, and I get stomach cramps.
Fibromyalgia pain increase -especially at the base of my neck, spreading outwards like a stain.
Tiredness beyond 'the usual lousy normal'.
I feel hot, like I have a fever.
When its really bad, I get painful dots of perspiration.
Social media *failure*
Sigh ... life, at times, can be very complicated. Families need seating charts - name tags, for pitys sakes! Take my grandsons for example --
They have a mom and dad - but also a stepmom ... so, that now gives them, at this date, three grandmothers and a couple of grandfathers ...
Now, on there father's side, they have two aunts - there father's two sisters - and one sister, has two kids -- and my family geology tells me that these children -whether or not I've ever had the privilege to meet them f2f - are my grandson's first cousins ...
So, ok ... when I received a Facebook friend request from one of these cousins - a young girl the same age as my oldest grandson - I was (a) full of sighs my grandson doesn't have a page and (b) more than happy to accept her request - after all, we're what I would call "shirttail relatives" ....
So I was just up on Facebook and I received an instant message from said young - person. I won't call her a lady. Altho there was no profanity, she very curtly demanded to know who I was. When I explained it to her, she couldn't follow it - and got all huffy and said she had never friended me in the first place.
I clicked out of Facebook.
Does she need a family tree? Don't they teach who's related to whom in schools anymore, ferchrissakes?!!
They have a mom and dad - but also a stepmom ... so, that now gives them, at this date, three grandmothers and a couple of grandfathers ...
Now, on there father's side, they have two aunts - there father's two sisters - and one sister, has two kids -- and my family geology tells me that these children -whether or not I've ever had the privilege to meet them f2f - are my grandson's first cousins ...
So, ok ... when I received a Facebook friend request from one of these cousins - a young girl the same age as my oldest grandson - I was (a) full of sighs my grandson doesn't have a page and (b) more than happy to accept her request - after all, we're what I would call "shirttail relatives" ....
So I was just up on Facebook and I received an instant message from said young - person. I won't call her a lady. Altho there was no profanity, she very curtly demanded to know who I was. When I explained it to her, she couldn't follow it - and got all huffy and said she had never friended me in the first place.
I clicked out of Facebook.
Does she need a family tree? Don't they teach who's related to whom in schools anymore, ferchrissakes?!!
Just like Cody on AFV ;--
So last night I was watching America's Funniest Home Videos, and there was a doggy named Cody w/ the most unearthly, human-like howl!!! Honestly, I've never heard anything like that, from any dog ;- In this case, he howled like that when his name was called...
Anyway, I was happy when Cody won! ( and not someone falling due to stupidity or kids w/ snot, etc.) ...
So, earlier today, I dashed out to run a few errands (before it got too bloody hot!) and as I came into my apartment --
Look here: I was not feeling the best (so what else is new?!); I was hungry and wanted to get to the food in the supermarket bags; and those supermarket bags were dammed heavy! In fact, I had maybe four of them and while that is too many for me, yes, I figured I would just 'run in' and drop them on the chair. And it was dark in my apt -but hey! I'm saying MY APT, which means - I know where everything is, right?!
I got across the living room, started to drop the bags, and HEARD THE SAME HUMANLIKE SCREAM CODY MADE ON AFV YESTERDAY ;--
I jumped backwards and then put on the kitchen light - poor CoCo! I had stepped on her foot ;--
I got all upset - in fact, more upset than CoCo, who wasn't even limping - I was the one crying, hugging her, apologizing ....
Now as I type this out, I'm wondering one little thing, and that's this:
I've had CoCo since 1999.
CoCo never even remotely pays attention to tv (ok, wait - if there's a doorbell that sounds like where we're living, she'll bark and run to the door), unlike her late sister of the heart, Myndie.
However, when I was watching AFV yesterday, CoCo was seated right next to me.
Hmmmmm ..... 'Mom thinks this is adorable, so maybe I'll just hold on to this for future reference' ?!! ;)
Anyway, I was happy when Cody won! ( and not someone falling due to stupidity or kids w/ snot, etc.) ...
So, earlier today, I dashed out to run a few errands (before it got too bloody hot!) and as I came into my apartment --
Look here: I was not feeling the best (so what else is new?!); I was hungry and wanted to get to the food in the supermarket bags; and those supermarket bags were dammed heavy! In fact, I had maybe four of them and while that is too many for me, yes, I figured I would just 'run in' and drop them on the chair. And it was dark in my apt -but hey! I'm saying MY APT, which means - I know where everything is, right?!
I got across the living room, started to drop the bags, and HEARD THE SAME HUMANLIKE SCREAM CODY MADE ON AFV YESTERDAY ;--
I jumped backwards and then put on the kitchen light - poor CoCo! I had stepped on her foot ;--
I got all upset - in fact, more upset than CoCo, who wasn't even limping - I was the one crying, hugging her, apologizing ....
Now as I type this out, I'm wondering one little thing, and that's this:
I've had CoCo since 1999.
CoCo never even remotely pays attention to tv (ok, wait - if there's a doorbell that sounds like where we're living, she'll bark and run to the door), unlike her late sister of the heart, Myndie.
However, when I was watching AFV yesterday, CoCo was seated right next to me.
Hmmmmm ..... 'Mom thinks this is adorable, so maybe I'll just hold on to this for future reference' ?!! ;)
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