Thursday

I didn't do my long swim today because I got in late and wanted to go to the grocery store and get home before traffic and hot. So instead of doing an hour and 15 or 20 minutes, I only did an hour. Still enough to make my tracker goal later on today.

Did the grocery and the drug store. There is a Seahawks game tonight and as it is the first one of the year, there is more of everything - traffic - vendors - police (they moved in a watch tower over the parking lot - kinda creepy actually). By the time I rolled back home a little after 9, stuff was already being assembled for the 7 pm game. They are going to have a LOOOOOOONG HOOOOOOOOOT day. But, not me. I may well make a trip to the dumpsters in the garage but that is the very outer limits of my range today.

The whole gum chewing thing has turned into a real thing because it is working! I chew one piece about an hour before bedtime and one piece just after I get out of the pool and my mouth feels more normal than it has in a couple of years. I'd chew more but I forget to. I've now but sticks of gum all around - purse, car, chair, sewing machine. Hopefully that will help me remember.

My financial ducks are all ready for my meeting next week - Tuesday - with my financial adviser. I haven't done this kind of study/research in a long time. Interesting. I'm so glad I have a good place to take all my questions and make all my decisions.

Now it's time to make dolls.

More of Thursday

I think Donald Trump is an idiot. I think all of his facial expressions are hilarious and not in a kind way. And, of course, his fake skin color and exaggerated hair add to his ridiculousness. And while I understands how he thinks - I've done business with many who are on that same train of thought - I don't admire it and I sure as hell don't want it running our country. But, I think setting up sculptures of him naked with no balls in cities around the country is just not humorous in any way. It's down on his level and as disrespectful as he is. I just honestly don't think fighting stupidity with stupidity is the way to go.

Zoey just let me clip all her nails - front and back - and she was very nice about it. The first thing I do, when I get a new cat, it take that cat to the vet for a check up and a nail clip. And then, every week, whether it needs it or not, we have kitty nail clipping time - until the cat is ok with it and no longer battles. Zoey gave in more quickly than most. She lets me clip her front paws almost any time i want to. The back ones, I have to pick my times, but if I pick carefully, she's chill and she was today. Thanks, kitty.

I haven't looked outside to see how the pre-football frenzy is building. The shades are down to keep the cool in and heat out and the a/c is on loudly, so I'm guessing that if I keep everything like this, they can have their game and I'll never even know it.

The sewing room got hot after two dolls so I'm now thinking of maybe watching one of my precious (because there are so few) episodes of the British Bake Off.

Thanks but no thanks

I've got time. I've got opinions. People will pay for those opinions so why not? Except I think I said yes 1 too many times. I did this really dumb survey thing for a week for Microsoft but it was only two 5 minute email surveys a day for a week and they paid me a $100 gift card from Amazon. Nice. That's the way it should go.

The TiVo NBC thing has been the opposite. They had me install a very invasive (they warned me) app on my phone, tablets and desktop. And then two Olympic apps both of which were really crappy. Then answer a survey only they didn't always tell me when and where the surveys were. It was killing the wifi speed on all the stuff that had that invasive app and it was annoying the shit out of me.

Tonight I got a weird voicemail - no phone call, just voicemail that I hadn't completed the requirements correctly so they were booting me out of the program. FABULOUS! Now I can get all this crap off my hardware and go back to my much better life. I should have smelled a rat. TiVo survey's are always stupid. And that app was a big flag.

Then I got another survey in the mail for a survey group I signed up for and the damn thing wouldn't work. I suspect it wanted a Windows or a Mac or a different browser. But by now I'm done. I just said fuck it, don't send me any more anything.

Put a fork in me, I'm done. The next one who wants to pay for my opinion will pay in money BUT ALSO in good sense, decent software and on a timeline that suits me. (That damn software is taking 4.6 days to uninstall off my PC. Holy crap.)

Lesson Learned!

Oh, here's a bear that I just finished. New one starts right now!