purple room vents: THIS IS A CHALLENGE

Thursday, April 16, 2020

THIS IS A CHALLENGE

You know when you sit in your house day after day after day, it's difficult to find something to blog about.

I could just make this a complaining blog. I have way too much time now to think about crap that isn't right and can't be made right because we can't go out or all the businesses are closed.

For example: My eyesight. Its bad and getting worse, slowly. I really need to get into an ophthalmologist and soon. My right eye is so wonky now I can hardly train my brain anymore to ignore what it's seeing. It's beginning to interfere with what my left eye can see. It's almost impossible to read music, or do puzzles and now, horror of horrors, reading.

To make matters worse, my glasses are ridiculous. They def aren't strong enough, and they are all hazy and scratched. I really have trouble seeing up close stuff. Distance is just fine though thank goodness. Plus at any given moment I have enough gunk on them I could scrape off and make soup. They are ALWAYS dirty from cooking.

And I don't want to feel like I am walking out into a holocaust any time I need to leave the house. I look out my window and I see 'enemy'. The low grade constant fear in my gut reminds me of how I used to feel sometimes when I was 16, reading all those post apocalyptic books....where the world became poisoned by atomic war....which seemed so imminent at the time in the 6o's. My problem is that I am never afraid of anything...even when I should be. This is an alien situation for me and I am having to develop new coping skills. Whine! (shovel list). I thought my learning new crap was done with.

Enough whining. Now about the good stuff. I got a phone call from Pat yesterday. A friend of his had gone fishing that morning and had a load of cod and halibut for sale!!!!! We don't eat halibut but boy do we eat cod! So I bought about fifteen pounds of beautiful, cleaned, suspiciously small, whole length fish filets. And cheap cheap cheap!!!! It was soooo good.

Sometimes I just arbitrarily decide I don't feel like making dinner. Last night was one of those nights but that sure changed quickly. I coated them with mayonnaise and rolled them in extra crispy shake n bake. Mmmmmmm. Delicious delicious delicious!!!! And I made a bunch of steamed broccoli and put butter on it. OMG!!! And Monte had never had butter on hot broccoli before!! Loved it!

Well I think that's it for today. I am kind of cranky again today. I need to stop that. I think I will go out and try to make the deck look nice. It's such a nice big one, it's a shame to not make it look good. Sorry about the lame post. Stay safe peeps. TTYL