MONDAY

Back story: my camera lens cap has been missing for ages. It’s USUALLY missing, to be honest…with just brief moments of being found and put on the lens before it is lost again. Anyway, I shot video and pictures for Wednesday’s blog post and IGTV…and when I was editing the pictures I was like, what’s that round thing in my right (camera left) pocket? It was the lens cap! Ha ha. I hadn’t even been aware of it while I was wearing the shirt.

TUESDAY

Ugh. The dopy doctor, when I asked him to call in a new prescription for me of the wellbutrin cuz it was about to run out…only called in ONE MONTH. UGH. Now I have to CALL there again and maybe even have to TALK TO HIM again.

Why.

Why.

WEDNESDAY

Went to the camera store to see if Camera Guy could figure out how to get my camera and cell phone talking to one another via wifi. I’d been trying to do this (occasionally when I’d remember that was A Thing) since April 2019…but the issue seemed to be that the previous owner (I’d bought the camera as a refurb) had put her info into the wifi settings and I Could Not Get Them Out! Friends couldn’t help, Google couldn’t help. I felt slightly validated when it took Camera Guy almost 45 minutes to figure it out, but…he did, and now the cell phone-camera remote shutter things is working…it’s just not as magical as I’d dreamed.

Then had dinner with friend…with Hovering Waiter. I needed to vent and rant and he kept coming over to take our order, refresh our whatever, etc., and I had to keep being like GO AWAY. Ha. There were TWO other tables with people…go bug THEM. I’ll let you know when I’m ready! I wasn’t mean to him…other than glaring at him behind his back.

THURSDAY

It’s all stupid.

FRIDAY

The week just keeps getting better and better. This week, by the way, was The Slowest Week EVER.

SATURDAY

At least the child is having fun.

Piddled in the apartment most of the day. Met a friend in the park at 5:30 with take-out dinner. It was so pleasant we sat there til 8:30, well after dark.

I came home to a dead mouse in the kitchen garbage can 🙁 He got himself in then couldn’t get out. Made me sad.

SUNDAY

PLANNED to be SO PRODUCTIVE today.

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA.

I’d started working on a blog post…and I was trying to fix a timeline in my mind of when certain things happened and finally I was like, if I write this down it’ll be easier. NOPE. I spent about two hours on this sucker…and I was only in the period of time between 1977 and 1985! That was a…dramatic time…lots of things happened…and now I’m really struggling to put some of them in the right order. So I thought, “ooh! my journal!” I dug out Journal #1, which started in 1974 and went to sometime in 1980…stopping before I had questions. Then I started searching for Journal #2…looking looking looking…found Journal #3 (or maybe even #4?), but that didn’t start til 2003! So now I’m searching for one OR TWO journals…and then I think OOH, my college diploma (which would help solve some of the timeline questions). Hmm. Found my HIGH SCHOOL diploma. And I did not go straight to the college I eventually graduated from, so HS didn’t help with the timing. THEN I remembered in ONE of my moves, taking pictures of several diplomas and even my driver’s ed certification and sharing it on…Facebook or Instagram…and asking if people thought I needed to hang onto these things. I’m pretty sure they were like NO but I was not convinced and now I can’t remember if I threw them out or not. BUT, the pictures might have the date I’m looking for in them. So now I scroll back through my past two moves, on Facebook and Instagram, and through my camera roll and icloud…can’t find the pictures anywhere. I might have shared them on IG STORIES, so they would be gone now. I wonder if there’s anyway way of retrieving them. At this point I realized I’d just spent the last four hours trying to find out a date I WANTED but did not NEED for a POSSIBLE blog post SOMETIME in the future. Maybe.

SO. It’s been one of THOSE days.

WHAT I’VE BEEN READING

WHO CAN READ NOW THAT THERE’S TIKTOK?

WHAT I’VE BEEN WATCHING

TikTok!

I actually did turn the tv on Friday night after the laundromat (woohoo, I’m living large, baby!) and after some difficulty finding something Not Dark and Not Stupid, I landed on a sweet movie called, “Small, Beautifully Moving Parts.”

The movie was released in 2011. And I have to ask. How, in NINE YEARS, has no streaming service (and I subscribe to THREE) served this up to me as “Recommended,” or “You Might Like”?? Instead, I get the SAME moves showing up in “new” “trending” “popular” “you might like” blah blah blah…and RARELY are any of them something I might like! I usually have to go rogue and like…visit a favorite actor’s IMDB page to see every movie he/she has ever made and add THEM to my watchlist, or watch movie trailers on YouTube and add the names of the ones that look appealing then wait an interminable period of time til they have flopped at the theaters and come to streaming and then, and only then, can *I* watch them! I rate the movies I watch so the algorithm can SEE what I like and don’t like…and still…I see the same “popular” scary, action, suspense, intrigue, adventure, copsandrobbers, medical stuff I HAVE NO INTEREST IN. I’ll consider comedies but they’re mostly stupid. I’ve already seen every mainstream romcom ever made…and then there are Very Few movies that I’ll watch a second (or more) time(s).

Yup. I am CRANKY this week.

Fingers crossed the next one will be better.

Please.