I feel terrible. Sore throat, headache, body aches and feeling like I’ve been run over by a truck. So, as I wait for my COVID results, I am trying to heal my body and mind. It’s likely I’m not infected. Mostly because… I’m an introvert and so, as each week in the past few months […]
Tag: politics
Beware of Milwaukee Drivers: The Rant To End All Rants
I was in a bit of a funk last weekend so, on Saturday morning, I decided to take the car to run a couple of errands because I like driving. Driving relaxes me. Until I remembered that I live in Milwaukee. I try to avoid the interstate interchanges or “highways” in Milwaukee because they feel […]
Patience
My PC laptop is very old and our apartment’s WiFi is very shit so it takes forever for me to, say, open a folder. FOREVER. But then, when it eventually, finally, does manage to OPEN A FILE FOLDER and I verbally exhale an exasperated ‘finally‘, my PC makes a satisfied happy sound which I interpret […]
The Polls Took a Toll But Holy Cats Biden Won😺
Tuesday Oh boy. Election Day. Here we go! Wednesday Oh wow. This race is way closer than I feel it should be. What is wrong with people. Thursday Okay. Things are sort of looking more clear. But it also feels as if the votes will never all be counted. Nevada has gone out of its […]
Right and Wrong, Lies and Truth
Watching the American election results pour in, slowly, and seeing HOW MANY AMERICANS VOTED (yay!) and how all the votes have caused those counting the votes to need more time to tally them… as expected… but also seeing how many people voted for what Trump represents… it sadly surprised me. The Trump folks said “Wait […]
Just in Time For Halloween! A Villainous Threat or… Voting 2020?
What’s scarier than Halloween? Politics. And Voting 2020 is getting into the Halloween spirit. Now I don’t order stuff online often (because it will be stolen if left on our stoop for two seconds #milwaukeeproblems), but when I do… it’s recently and for this All Hallow’s Eve Vampire Dinner which I’ve been planning. Yet, last […]
Halloween in September and Improving My Street Cred
I have found the best pharmacy. And that isn’t street/code for anything… I mean I have genuinely found the best pharmacy. You know you’re old and/or sickly when you regard this as a major achievement. Maybe I’m so excited about my new pharmacy because I had such a terrible pharmacy before… so it’s relative. My […]
Milwaukee vs. the Secret Police Who Are Trying To Make It Worse
I’m sitting here in the only air-conditioned room in our Milwaukee apartment, trying to keep track of the newest batshit thing that’s happened in America over the past week. And it’s easy to see without looking too hard that things have gotten even crazier. Why? Fear and anger got Donald Trump elected president of America. […]
Looking for a Good time? Me Too.
Wellity. Got my MRI results. Ugh… lots of white matter lesions 😬 BUT there aren’t any more lesions than there were in 2015, when I had my last brain scan. Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo… I received the nicest call from my new neurologist’s nurse who I speak to almost daily and… well, it’s comforting that we don’t know […]
Dirty Winged Creatures
I was diagnosed with chronic asthma yesterday. Good timing, eh? What with the shifty global pandemic continuing to wreak havoc on the entire world, whether people want to believe it or not, it’s not an excellent time to have asthma. And, not only that, but I may be on my way to acute bronchitis once […]
Coping: a Frustrating Revolutionary Reality
Yesterday, my husband David received a NEGATIVE! result for the free coronavirus test we took last Friday. So that’s great. However, since we took our tests at the same time at the same place… it felt weird I did not receive my test result when he did. First my sense of humor and #1 coping […]
“Want a beer?” and Other Life-Saving Techniques
“Want a beer?” is what I’d hear if I walked into a Wisconsin friend’s house because it’s what is first said when terrible (and good) things are actively happening. I’m so demoralized and not surprised by all the news reports about American violence of late I’m going to talk about drinking alcohol. However, I’m not […]
“Is the American Health System That Bad?” Asked my Scottish/Not Scottish Friends. “Well, It Depends Who You Are.”
My husband David and I lived in Edinburgh, Scotland 2007-2010. Since his mom is 100% Scottish (though she resides in America but not in this photo because she came to visit us when we lived in Scotland), her family still lived there and we were therefore able to spend time with them. One time we […]
The Moths Are Mobilizing
In addition to the armed people who are trying to intimidate? state governments into opening everything by gathering in protest crowds near state capitols… because… they don’t “believe in” the coronavirus, science, hard data, global news reporting, or how New York City officials are digging mass graves… the tenuous relationship between this apartment’s moths and […]
Brain Wars!!! 