Kamala Harris is an LGBTQ ally, and here are a couple of things from The Advocate:

‘Elon Musk’s trans daughter Vivian Wilson is speaking out after Musk spewed transphobic things about her on a recent show. In posts on Threads, she wrote that the billionaire was “desperate for attention and validation from an army of degenerate red-pilled incels and pick-mes who are quick to give it to him.” 👏🏽

🏛️ Michigan has done away with so-called “gay and trans panic” defenses. Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed a bill this week that prohibits using the “sexual orientation or gender identity of a victim as a defense to a crime.” ‘

PLEASE VOTE BLUE, people. PLEASE. The other side will be out in hoards to vote, and we have to do the same or we are just saying, go ahead, turn this country into a NAZI-style dictatorship and take away all our rights and freedom. This is the result of not voting. Please vote BLUE. Please. It DOES matter that you vote. Seriously, it does.

On the home front, new homemaker is working out okay. Finally got someone who does what needs doing that I cannot do. I am having sleeping issues again, why? Why, why, why? IDEK, but it is very frustrating. I want to be awake during daylight hours please, Mother Nature. Or whoever is in charge of that kind of thing. Declutter person will be back next week, so we can finish up where we left off. Not much to go, it seems. Got another new coffee maker. Does not grind the coffee, but has a timer you can set to have it make coffee so it’s ready an hour after I get up cause I have to wait that long after taking my meds, and it makes nice hot coffee. Something positive. Of course, I set it for 10am, and did not get up til noon, because awake most of the night. Oh, well.

Asked on NextDoor if anyone does tinkering anymore. You know, fix your toaster, your coffee maker, your blender. There used to be people that did these things. Apparently they no longer exist, as the only reply I got was to take it back to the store. NOT helpful, people. I am all done with PT and OT, as well. Going to miss that. It was fun and weirdly, I am better while at the same time, I am worse. Not easy to explain, but true.

That’s it for now. Homemaker will be here any minute. Stay hopeful, people, and vote. Please vote BLUE.

and so humid. Dew Point has been in the 70’s for several days. I am so lucky to have central air. And fans. And an air cleaner. Which all are running so I don’t have to keep the a/c setting below 74.

Been really struggling with pain and exhaustion. PT and OT are helping, I can feel a difference already, but the recovery time just goes on and on and on. I hope that’s what it is, anyway. Have resorted to taking double dose of Celebrex along with 2 extra strength tylenol in order to be able to even walk without having to hang on the everything in reach. And last Tuesday, I was so fine I could walk up and down the hall raising my knees with every step and no cane. That was part of the PT, along with balancing with my eyes closed, which did not go well at all, but was pretty funny.

Getting more and more worried about what is going on, and the willfully ignorant who may well destroy this country by voting in the orange disgusting excuse for a human being who has that very thing as his goal. What is wrong with people? It is getting very scary. Vote BLUE, please. Biden is old, but he does not have dementia, and he has a young black woman as backup, whereas the other guy has more like him as backup. Please think it through before you vote red, or don’t vote at all, which amounts to voting red in the end. The consequences will be devastating for all of us who are not rich old white men.

Oi. Did my morning exercises, and pain, pain, pain now. I was thinking about the whole exercise thing. When you do not have Fibromyalgia, when you exercise, you can expect to get stronger and fitter over time. You shouldn’t have pain if you don’t overdo, either. With fibro, your body does not work like that. Even doing small amounts causes a lot of pain, sometimes not until a couple of days later, either. And the ‘stronger and fitter’ does not seem to happen. At least not for me. I keep forgetting about ‘recovery days’, which are always needed after doing pretty much anything beyond reading on the couch. LOL I kind of figure that if I do something that I know is going to cause pain, well, I’m going to have pain anyway, so might as well do something fun anyway. But I am at the point where the pain never stops. Never stops. Just sitting here, messing about on the laptop, my arms and shoulders and hands hurt. I have taken the Aleve. Yesterday I took Tylenol. I had been taking Celebrex and Tylenol. Nothing seems to work anymore. All pain, all the time. Pain causes fatigue, which is already a fibro thing anyway, but coping with pain, walking, moving carefully, takes energy that isn’t really there in the first place. So always, always exhausted. Exhausted and in pain. All day every day. Fun times, people. Fun times.

On the bright side, my coffee maker is still working, and making almost no work at all coffee with freshly ground beans is just the best way to start off the day. I am using oatmilk, too, not dairy, because of the whole bird flu things and dairy is really not recommended when you have fibro anyway, as far as I know. I love cheese, Mother Nature. Come on. But oatmilk is surprisingly really darn good. In coffee, as a glass of cold, which I do not normally have cause I really don’t like milk that much. Although that Organic Valley milk is good enough to drink by the glass. Why is it different? No idea, but I like it. Still doing the avoidance thing, though.

Remember when life was good. In the respect that you went to the store and bought your food and cooked your food and enjoyed your dinner? Then it was OMG FAT. NOOOOO So everything went fat free, which only meant more sugar, which is deadly. Seriously, Duck Duck Go it. Then it was one thing after another on why we should not be eating this food or not the way we always ate it. Now it’s no runny yolks, no milk, no this no that. Food is not what it was anyway. It is all processed and messed with and does anyone ever just buy meat as it came from the animal, veg as they came from the garden, fruit as it came from the trees or bushes? Grocery ads used to be the meat section, the fresh produce section, dairy, and then canned and packaged things like flour and sugar, etc. Look now. Everything is processed, and virtually everything is really junk food. Why are young people getting cancer? Why are so many children plagued with food allergies? Why are people getting sicker? Well maybe it’s because we have not evolved for our bodies to process chemicals and food so processed that it bears little or no resemblance to what it was meant to be. I don’t know. Apparently pain makes me grouchy. 🙂

Again, this post was written by someone who has a frig stocked with ready meals, because cooking is beyond me right now. Heat and eat. Or eat it cold. I just had Cedar’s chickpea salad, which is so good. Oh, Cedar’s got its start about a five minute walk from where I lived in NH way back when. A teeny little store front where the guy would give you free samples to try, because Lebanese food? What even is that? But so good. Here’s an article I found about it.

https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/haverhill-cedars-foods-hommus-hummus-it-happens-here-wbz-tv/

And here’s where it started. There were two store fronts in that little building, so guess how small Cedar’s was. Now look at them. They are everywhere, and deservedly so.

This is right over the line from Haverhill, Mass. You could tell when you crossed the line by the condition of the road. Nicely plowed/barely scraped. Nicely paved/pot hole city. Not going to say which was which. 🙂 Top circle is where I lived. Bottom is the place Cedar’s got it’s start. About a five minute walk, if that. Neat. Of course, a lot of it is very different from when I lived there, more buildings and crap. Blogging is fun. LOL

Decided to give it another try and it is working again. Yay!! LOL I’m really pleased, cause I love it, and they don’t make it anymore. This one is refurbished and I got it at Ocean State Job Lot. 🙂 It’s big and heavy, but it makes good hot coffee, up to 16 ounces at a time.

OT person and I figured out that doing OT and/or PT every day with fibro is a really, really bad idea. Also nixed the orange gunk for the hands because it made my right hand hurt quite badly for days after, so doing other exercises instead.

Had fun today. Friends came over and we played Big Kahuna, which always involves laughing hysterically, because it just makes up its own words. Homemaker came, too, and we did some laughing with him as well. So not a bad day, even though it is hot and icky outside. Me and G and the A/C. It’s a song I wrong. Or not.

I do it some times. I get up to here with being really, really frightened about the whole ‘Republicans have lost their minds and become evil country-destroying bastards who want women to carry dead babies’, and angry about the exact same thing, and the gross stupidity and willful ignorance of so many of my fellow humans.

Then there is the ‘it doesn’t matter what I do, what I eat, how I sleep, if I exercise or not; I never, never, never get better’. So F it, I just stop caring. Right now I just had dinner. Contents of Just Crack an Egg (So overpriced) fried in a bit of butter and two eggs scrambled in and an eng muff, and now I am eating an entire pack of Hydrox (the actually edible precursor of those sickeningly sweet Oreos) and having a glass of applejack. So. Screw it, people. I fear we are doomed by stupidity, and I worry for my children and their children. Because I don’t know how to help. I don’t know how to fix it. I am scared. Truly scared like I have never been in my entire life. Even back in the 60’s when the hippies were flocking to Boulder because it was the only place that was going to survive the end of the world. Oops. (Boulder is quite nice, btw. Or it used to be.) Anyway. Save us, please. Vote Blue.

Mark Ruffalo: “”Project 2025 is not a game, it’s white Christian nationalism. It is the Sharia Law of the ‘Christian’ crazy people who aren’t Christian at all but want to control every aspect of your life through their narrow and exclusionary interpretation of Christ’s egalitarian, inclusive, and kindly teachings.”

“Don’t be fooled by Project 2025’s extremist and perverse ideology,Trump is bringing it to all our lives: abortion, LGBTQIA+ rights, freedom of expression, freedom of religion, freedom of education, and equality between the races and genders—GONE. Forced birth and forced religion. Trump’s American Taliban.”

Have to admit it is getting pretty scary. A decrepit old man with dementia will have the power to kill, torture, jail anyone he doesn’t like. Any one he doesn’t like. They don’t even need to have done something specific. This is what we’ve done, by voting for the man who gave you permission to hate and persecute and denigrate without consequences, or by not voting at all, which meant his opponent did not get enough votes to defeat him. You are about to understand consequences. Seriously. Enjoy.

So, I bought this neato Cuisinart one-cup coffee maker. It is so easy and I can set it up the night before and I only have to dump the filter and rinse the holder to clean up. Easy hot coffee. It also does grind and brew. So I finally got some whole beans and pressed ‘grind and brew’ and it ground the coffee into the filter and stopped. Dead. Tried it again bypassing the grind feature and still dead. I have had this thing less than two weeks, and finally tossed the box, because it works, right? Wrong. Frustration. Why is everything made today just shitty? Oh, capitalism. Profit is the only thing that matters. Quality costs more, meaning less profit. I need to go back to bed. Sheesh!

I really should not check instagram and Tumblr in the morning. It ruins the entire day when It becomes very obvious that while we will be sitting around on the fourth of July, barbecuing our hot dogs and burgers, our country is being destroyed by the deliberately engineered ignorance of a huge segment of the population. People who were not taught how to think, how to reason, how to ask questions, but to just blindly believe what they are told and obey unquestioningly. Under-funding schools and under-paying teachers leads to under-educated citizens who have no ability to think for themselves and who it seems are now confusing the Constitution with the Bible. Separation of church and state is getting lost on purpose. If that is the kind of country you want to live in, ruled by fake-Christian dictators, forcing you to live by their idea of what is acceptable (meaning profitable for them), then go ahead and vote Red or even better, don’t vote at all. When you wake up in that country, think about what you have done, but it will be too late.