Thursday Thirteen

1. It's another one of those days where I haven't a clue what to write about. In fact, I haven't had anything much to write about for several days now.

2. Life is boring when you stay home, except for trips to the grocery store. 

3. Last night, we talked about taking a vacation. The best we could come up with where we'd feel safe was a cabin in the mountains. But I kind of live in a cabin in the mountains, so I may as well stay home and save the money.

4. I mean, what's the point of a vacation if you have to clean up after yourself, and cook? I can do that here just as well as in some condo, time share, or cabin. If I go on vacation, I want a hotel room with maid service.

5. Lately I have been enduring more pain in my abdomen again. I started a regimen of very modest exercises that my chiropractor gave me for low back pain. They have helped with that, but they have also made the surgical adhesions in my tummy angry.

6. This early, early spring is worrisome. I am concerned we may not have fruit this summer, if everything is blooming and March decides to bring us cold, foul weather.

7. Good thing the climate isn't changing, isn't that right, certain persons whom I will not name who insist there's no such thing as climate change?

8. I have heard there is a virus that people can get that is transmitted through computers and cellphones, via social media and texts and such. It's called Specialized Transmission Uninformed Pheromone Idiopathic Disease. I understand it's really terrible to have and it's highly contagious. Makes me glad I've stopped looking at Twitter. (Blogs tend to be immune, since bloggers generally use complete sentences and such. Though not always, of course.)

9. A book I recently finished, The Great Alone, by Kristin Hannah, left me feeling a little frustrated with the author. Mostly I like her work, but she is another one of those authors who give their characters head injuries, and they recover, at least to some degree. I know people with head injuries do recover, but honestly, can't the characters have something other than brain trauma? If I ever write something, I hope I remember this and don't use this trope, unless it is a parody. It's become rather tiresome to see in current writing.

10. Someone I love went out of town and came back with Covid. This is the main reason my husband and I can't decide on a vacation. We both had co-morbidities that mean we could get very, very sick if we get Covid. We're very careful. Maybe too careful. But it beats being worm food.

11. I have a friend who is not yet 30 and she considers that old. Since I am twice her age, I must be positively ancient. 

12. Speaking of brain trauma, last night on the first episode of the new season of Survivor (which we have watched every season of and I have no idea why, it's like a habit), some poor fellow named Bruce beaned his head in the initial challenge when they all arrived and ended up leaving the game later that night. His head bleed profusely, and while Jeff Probst later said he was fine and in good health, he acted like he had a concussion.

13. Time to go. Got places to go and people to see. Be safe, y'all!

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