but not too much to post this.

I did stuff.  Yay, me.  Not a lot, but still.  And I actually went downstairs and got my mail.  I have not gone down to get my mail from the lobby without having gone out for whatever reason in a few years.  I don’t go out unless I have to, or am doing something with someone else.  I hardly ever just go out or even downstairs on my own.  There is no real reason for that, except I am weird.  So I enjoyed it.  Going downstairs, seeing the work they are doing to bring my building back to it’s ‘former glory’.  Didn’t know it had former glory, and I could use a new frig and to have this hideous and really old wall-to-wall crap ripped out.  Oh, well.

So it dawns on me that since I am better, it is no longer, I could, I should, I ought to.  It is I HAVE to go outside. I HAVE to get my mail.  I HAVE to reboot my life, or what’s the point of being better?  So.  I will.

And I cooked again.  I made this really good dish I found online with italian sausage, onion, mushers, and a nice cream sauce and campanelle, my fav pasta.  Oh, man is it good.  Enough for a couple of meals at minimum.  Would be more but since I’m really only eating about once a day, I tend to eat more of whatever I’m having.

I am rebooting myself.  Yes.  Yes I am.  I have stated it here, where no one ever sees it, but still…

And this makes me happy.  Gareth is ten English monies that I don’t know is it Pounds or Euros or how to type it.  But I am so buying him.  Oh, yeah.

Just had a long and fun one with youngest daughter, about the mess we are in due to certain members of Congress hijacking the government for their own ends.  They never seem to be looking out for MY best interests, or even the best interests of any one I actually know.  Nice to converse with someone who has a brain, nicer with someone who has a brain and it works.  Proud of my child.  Both of them actually, but this one is the one I have the political/sociological talks with.

I don’t understand the problem.

Doesn’t it seem like someone should be able to fire, recall, impeach, or just send to the corner those congressmen?  Aren’t there checks and balances that should apply to members of the government trying to usurp the constitution and the law for their own ends?  If not, why not?  IDEK, people.

Just noticed that my blog seemed to be all one page.  All One Page.  Holy crap.  You could scroll to infinity, which is, I found, a setting in the settings.  Unchecked that.  Now there should only be ten posts per page.  Whew!

Okay, so I googled ‘really long page’ images for something to put here.  This was in the first four results.  This. I’m not exactly sure how it relates to ‘really’, ‘long’, or ‘page’, or ‘really long’, or ‘long page’, or ‘really long page’, but I don’t work for Google, so what do I know?  It’s a puzzlement.

I’ve checked it out briefly before now, but am doing it again.  Came across this article, which explained a lot about myself to me.  There’s a bit in it about judging people without really understanding anything about their lives, as well.  But that’s minor.

http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-5-stupidest-habits-you-develop-growing-up-poor/

It got me thinking about the ways you adapt without realizing when you have a chronic, debilitating illness.  Which I do.  Even before I really understood what was going on, I stopped doing some things, like buying juice, because it’s heavy and takes a lot of strength and energy to get from the store to the car and the car to the frig.  Or having ‘laundry day’.  Wash as you go as long as you are able.  Or doing anything involving stairs, because it hurt and was exhausting.  Or worrying about things that really don’t matter, like are the sheets messed up.  Am I warm enough?  What else matters?  Is the bed made?  Don’t care.  Things we deal with mindlessly become major events when you are ill.  I used to make everything from scratch.  Now I open the box and eat the contents.  Or stick something in the microwave.  Whatever gets me fed with the least amount of time and energy and pain.  All the things I used to think mattered to me, don’t.  It’s very freeing, if at times unbelievably frustrating and disheartening.  You learn to adapt, without even knowing you are.  Don’t know if it’s good or bad, just an observation.  The pain is coming back, so the illness is on my mind.  It was fun having a few weeks of only feeling not great, instead of being in constant pain.  Oh, well.

Daily Kos: Obama refuses to capitulate, Republicans at a loss.

Daily Kos: House Dems to pursue discharge petition to force vote on reopening government.

Gay-Friendly Pasta 

You kind of have to like Jon Stewart to watch that one, but he makes some good points.  The first one is about what happens with the shut-down.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/10/01/the-nine-most-painful-consequences-of-a-government-shutdown/

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-september-30-2013/jon-stewart-s-rockin–shutdown-eve?xrs=share_copy

This is their leader.

Not everyone agrees with them, however.  But they need to do more to get them out of OUR government.  We are not all Far Right devotees.  Some of us have brains.  Use them, people.  Use them.

“It’s kind of an insult to lemmings to call them lemmings…

Made your day, didn’t I?

I have stood on the edge of the cliff, and it is a looooong way down, people. There’s a train track down there, too.

The last sentence in this article bothers me.  I’m for greening, but not for turning natural wonders into pseudo theme-parks.  The fires in Colorado, where I grew up, informed me about amusement parks and such in Estes Park and at the Royal Gorge Bridge.  The Park is just lovely nature, and the bridge used to be the highest suspension bridge in the world (may still be. IDEK) and if you’ve ever stood on the edge of the Gorge and looked down, or been on the bridge, the ideal of needing an amusement part to attract people is ludicrous, and these things get in the way of just appreciating nature.  It’s about nature, people.  Otherwise, it’s just another way to make money out of something that should be open and available to all, unsullied by man and his greed.  /Rant.

http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/201307/strange-landscapes/slide1-fly-geyser-nevada.aspx

Not that I AM opinionated, you understand, but…

So I never look at google plus, even though I have it.  Until yesterday.  Messing about, decided to check it out, started scrolling, and scrolling, and scrolling ad infinitum.  This is an efficient use of my time and internet?  Who thought this was a good idea?  So I was thinking about it today and here what I came up:

It’s not my idea of a user-friendly interface for communication.  It’s like Tumblr, but Tumblr is just for seeing what other people post about Torchwood, Gareth David LLoyd, and John Barrowman mainly, not for socializing. (Little inside joke there, people) Google plus looks to me like a time sink, is all.  Hundreds of posts, saying almost nothing.  Not anybody in particular, just everything on there.  It’s like some people’s Twitters.  “I am off to the store.”  And you feel the need to share this with the world because??????   I guess I am a social site dinosaur.  They seem kind of stupid and self-promoting, is all.  Kind of like language-not-picture based selfies.  I don’t need to know what anybody anywhere is thinking, feeling, doing, every second of every day.  Blog if you have something to contribute, otherwise, keep it to yourself.  Like people did for all of human history.  Yeah, I think google + annoyed me, what do you think?   LOL  Let’s all be narcissist, and convince ourselves that the world really cares about the minutiae of our every moment.  I don’t think so.    Update:  My own blog posts show up in Google plus.  Did I do something to make that happen?  Does it invalidate my whole opinion post?  Do I need more coffee?

When Did You Choose to Be Straight? – YouTube.

is-your-congressman-one-of-the-13-who-get-federal-farm-subsidies-but-voted-to-cut-food-stamps

Just read a thing about people simplifying for one week, limiting themselves to only ten foods:

*Made a list of 10 foods that were the only things we could eat: cheese, frosted mini-wheats, potatoes, water, diet coke, bread, bananas, peanut butter, eggs, chicken

Diet Coke? Diet Coke is not even a food, let alone how bad it is for your body. IDEK