Oh, my goodness, I am failing so miserably at Holidailies this year. I try to write with a little more substance but this year I’m so short on time!
BUT, I had a lovely evening with friends. We had dinner at my favorite take-out place, which is closing on Tuesday after 40 years in the neighborhood.
This topped off a day of shopping—I’m surprised how many people were at Pentagon City Mall today—wherein I got a new winter coat, new sneakers, my favorite cheap Victoria’s Secret Body Spray that I put into the cup of my humidifier so my bedroom smells like a bordello, er, an evening-blooming garden, and these, which I will feature here individually once I put up my tree. You may or may not notice a theme.
I love deer. They’re so gentle and beautiful.
And it’s almost midnight so I’d better post this! More tomorrow–I hope!
Ha! I can’t wait to see what the third day brings.
Oh, bad form? Yeah. No. Dude made $10 million a year from a company notorious for rejecting claims and letting people die. I had problems with UnitedHealthCare, myself, in which they botched my payment processing through the health exchange and canceled my insurance even though it was their fault. Then I later came home with an $8,000 emergency department bill for a partial small bowel obstruction because I could no longer get insurance for that plan year, so pardon me while I sing “Cry Me a River.” And believe it or not, there’s nothing abnormal about that. There is no “right” way to respond to someone’s death, so whatever you might be feeling about it is fine and don’t let anyone try to make you feel bad if you can’t muster up any sympathy or empathy for it. Patients die because of greedy people like him and these other ghouls.
As for Nick Fuentes, he is the raging misogynist who started the whole “your body, my choice” thing. Well, I guess he’s about to find out that the law doesn’t agree with him. I hope they lock him up and throw away the key.
But on to happier news, shall we?
I’m really digging the Finch app. Just finished my first week and I worked out four times since Monday, ate all of my fruits and veggies every day, and stayed fully hydrated. I can’t remember the first time I did all of that in one week. Usually there are a days short on fruits and veggies, or when I don’t drink enough water, or I only work out a couple of times in a week. Finch works for me, so I’m keeping it–which is probably a good thing being that I paid for a full year in advance for $40 on a Black Friday deal. I think it’s 10 bucks a month otherwise.
Right now my Finch, Sherbet, is in Iceland and she has a pet cow. I’ve earned enough points to give her that fancy outfit, including her Cosmic Crown.
Looks like I took the screenie while she was mid-blink. Normally she’s not scowling.
Never thought I’d have a toddler, but here we are.
I’ve been working on a snowflake this evening but won’t finish it by midnight, so I’ll post it tomorrow. In the meantime, have a seat at the revolution, folks.
Long day with lots of writing for work, so I’m pulling out one of my little emergency tricks for an entry. Here’s my laptop wallpaper for the season, by Toni Cuenca on Unsplash. I love all the red.
Apparently DesktopNexus has imploded, which bums me out. I’ve been a member there since 2012 or so and enjoyed so many of the pictures there. Granted, that site was one giant copyright violation, as a lot of people uploaded any image they found on the internet that would make a good wallpaper, as evidenced by the number of duplicates. I used them mainly for their intended purpose, as wallpaper for my laptop, as well as for my Facebook cover photo and header images for a private journal on an old diary site. Call me selfish, but I hope it’s just a server migration or something. I have probably 200 bird photos saved on there.
Ah, well, things change, and I don’t mind going to Unsplash. At least there I know who took the photo and can credit them properly.
That’s all for tonight. I’ll be back with a real entry tomorrow. And probably a snowflake. Maybe. Doing one a day might have been too ambitious a goal for me.
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