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Monday is Canceled

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Who needs Mondays anyways, right?

Remember last weeks Monday? I had to spend 160 bucks on a locksmith to get back into my home. On Sunday I was over it, sorta, but then came this weeks Monday. I woke up feeling like I’ve been hit by at least 2 trucks. Monday morning always is grocery time, to I pulled myself together, got up and dressed. Got a coffee and expected to feel better but nope. I ended up texting T. and tell her that I would not be able to join her. Then I went back to bed. Last time I had a cold was about 10 years ago. I do not get sick often. So I was kinda thinking that it would be done and over with the next day but nope. Wednesday I was still feeling like crap and T. asked if I would like to test for Covid so we would know at least with what we are dealing with. I do not like to guess when it comes to medical issues, so I was all for it. I never had Covid (the blessing when you avoid people in general) so it was a first for me and I never got vaccinated (I’m old enough to remember Contergan). You bet, it lit up like a christmas tree on steroids. I’m almost certain I picked it up from that guy at the supermarket checkout who was sneezing all over the place. Seriously, I don’t get it why the supermarkets do not send their sick employees home.

Today is Friday and I’m still not good. It’s not like a typical flu for me but it isn’t less annoying. Everything hurts, even my eyes, and I feel very fatigue. At the same time I can not sleep during the night for some strange reason which doesn’t help. But chicken soup works wonders. Needs to be the one is lots of noodles in it, tho.

Now the next Monday is creeping up and I’m not having it. It’s canceled. Period.

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Shit Happens Monday

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My Monday started at 5.30. Ok, almost, it took me about 30 minutes to roll outta bed after the alarm clock woke me up. The mornings are really chill already and it was just that cozy in bed. But eventually I would get up and ready, T. and I wanted to do our grocery early so she could be in time for her riding lessons. We always do our grocery together and we always hit up our local Lidl. When that was done I went to our local dollar store for fun, new yarn and some misc. items. One of them being an items for T. she asked me to look for. So after a good half hour I carried my booty home and then I was about to brew a fresh coffee when I thought it would be good to drop T’s item over at her home (she and her family live right next to me). I hopped down my stairs, stepped outside my door and pulled the door shut . . . as soon as the door snapped into the lock I realized that I forgot my key and that is was stuck inside. Scheibenkleister! T. has my spare key but since my key was sticking inside, that wouldn’t work. T’s hubby and I discussed briefly if it would make sense to try to use a ladder to get to my sundeck but we dismissed that pretty fast. So he called the locksmith for me. I had to wait for about an hour til he arrived and then it took him about 20 minutes to crack my door without destroying it. I’m actually impressed how safe my door is. To put the cherry on top of the cake I received the invoice about 166 bucks to be paid right away on the spot. *gulp*

But you know, it could have been much worse. It gets much more expensive when they have to drill open the lock or break the door open. And I had the money. Yes I wanted to spend it for some new winter wardrobe, but oh well, I will get there eventually plus this was the first time in 55 years I had to call a locksmith to open my door. That’s pretty good, don’t you think?

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Hmpf!

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You know that? Your computer stops to do what it is supposed to do and you just can’t find a valid reason for it no matter what. I had it happen again. See, usually it works this way: I take a photo with my iPhone, the iPhone pushes it into the cloud and the cloud then hands it over to the Windows 🤮 desktop PC. Then I fire up Gimp, resize the photo (doesn’t make sense to upload this ginormous photo since most people look at it on their tiny phone screens) and often frame it. After that I upload and post it here. I’m sure, for most of you this sounds ridiculous cumbersome, but look, I hate to type on my phone, it annoys the living daylight outta me. That tiny screen and this impossible “keyboard”. I just need my comfy traditional keyboard, where I can type blind with all ten fingers. And I enjoy my big screen where I can see everything clearly. Yes, it might be very old school, but I like it that way. Don’t get my wrong, I do a ton of things with my cell phone, just not posting.

However, about 2 days ago my desktop started to refuse to talk to the cloud. The iPhone would upload to the cloud but the communication between cloud and desktop would not happen and I couldn’t find a reason for it. Soooo annoying and I had to find a way how to get my photos up here. I dodged the WP app for mobiles the past 2 years but it looked like now was the time to give in. And if only to get the photos up to my media library, then I could do the post as usual with my desktop. It worked like a charm but I still wanted the option to resize and frame the photos. So I rummaged through the app store. Had a look at PS but figured to my own surprise that I do not like it at all. Then I found that little piece of software that is perfect for me and even better, the sub fee is more than fair. So I got that too and I’m a happy camper again.

This morning I checked my photo folder on my desktop again, just out of curiosity and surprise, they are talking again. All the new photos arrived on my desktop. Oh well, the way I see it, something really annoying brought new options for me. I’m happy it all worked out that well. Have fun and be safe. 💖

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Distraction Alert

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Actually I should finish off the pair of sox I’m working on but then it happened again. I was checking the Reuters page on YouTube for news when I hopped back to the main page, you know, the one with all the recommendation on, which you usually couldn’t care less about, but ones in a while there is that one video you just have to check. This one video was nagging me for 3 days now when I gave in. Super cute tutorial for an even cuter market net bag. Oh I have to try that and I have to try it now, who wants sox anyway, right? See, that exactly is the point why I sometimes end up needing 2 month for just one pair. It’s ridiculous! Attention span of a 6 years old. 😜

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Bloody Murder

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Noooo, not what you think. 😁 But let’s start at the beginning. Some years ago I developed some sleeping issues. First it was falling asleep and then it was waking up and then not being able to fall back asleep. I’m sure a lot of you know exactly what I’m talking about. After some time I figured that audio books can be a big help with that. The trick is that the book is more on the boring/slightly entertaining side (a really good book would be rather counterproductive since you would want to keep listening instead of dosing just off to lala land) and a pleasant voice.

So a few weeks back I was looking for a new audio book and stumbled about Brothers Grimm complete collection. 30 hours filled with 200 fairy and folk tales. What could go wrong, right? I mean, when you think of Brothers Grimm you automatically think of the Disney versions. Cute stuff you can read to your kids as bedtime stories that always have a happy end. Right? Well, no, wrong! 😮 These where the original versions as written down by the brothers. In that funny ancient German, but that wasn’t even the worse of it. 30 hours of bloody murder, chopped off heads, hands and legs, extortion, abduction, rape, assault and battery, fraud, theft and even two cases of racism. I swear, there is no difference between this and the crime statistic of Detroit city.

I knew that the original versions of those stories where darker then what we tell our children today, but not to that extend. Honestly, I was shocked. It’s even worse than the modern creepy pasta you can find on the internet. And there people keep saying that everything was better in the past. I’m not so sure about that anymore.