Just A Thought

 It would be an amazing, time saving, money saving, and stress reducing trend for humans if wearing naturally wrinkled clothing came to be in vogue.  I mean who really is to say that pressed is best.  It’s an indoctrinated preference and ideal.  I’m sure humanity could survive just fine if such a notion was abandoned and people carried on with business in whatever state of wrinkling their clothes might find themselves.  #wrinklesarepartoflife  #clothesareclothes  #ropa My laundry trick.  Clothing that is hung up immediately after drying doesn’t become as wrinkled and wrinkles will fall out when clothes are hanging.  More stubborn wrinkles can be sprayed with water with a mist bottle and just smoothed out by hand and it works quite well.  These are my own no iron tricks.  😄 I don’t think clothes need to be completely wrinkle free.  They won’t stay that way once they are worn anyway. 😛

 Our photos stored in our phones are the property of ourselves and whatever technologies are sophisticated enough to be able to access our phone’s data and preserve that data outside of our phones regardless of whether we ourselves have opted to have our photos uploaded to any kind of cloud storage.

 

 Mine has been broken for quite some time now. 🫤 We are going to replace our sink also before we replace the dishwasher when we actually get around to it.  I have been washing dishes the old fashioned way.  I have to have a dishpan full of hot soapy water to wash the dishes in.  I even have one with clean water for rinsing the dishes.  I don’t know how people can stand to just wash dishes without a dish pan. 😲😩 (I have my reasons why these things are difficult for me.)

 Spinach on sandwiches is very good and it comes pre washed  and ready to eat!  Popeye would approve.

  Life is short so I have decided that I want to take enough time for myself to enjoy what I have left.  My house cleaning method is now as follows.  I clean things as I see and notice that they need cleaning (though sometimes I decide to wait) so my house is never completely clean but it is never completely dirty either.  And I don’t use rubber gloves, I just liked the picture. 😂

 I had forgotten about this store.  We have 3 all within close vicinity.  It is a place where you can still buy things that aren’t being sold for super inflated prices.  Everything isn’t $.99, but much of the store’s inventory sells for $1.99 and $.99. They have much more than just shoes and slippers! 😄

 It has never bothered me when stores and shopping locations put out their holiday items early.  I know a lot of people don’t like and are bothered by this.  Stores and malls are businesses, though, and their business is to sell stuff.  Okay, I don’t like there being Black Friday that starts at midnight and more recently Black Thursday starting on the afternoon of Thanksgiving.  People don’t need to be made to work on holidays unnecessarily.  Putting out merchandise early, though, doesn’t bother me.  No one has to put any holiday items in their homes before they desire.  But life is busy and the weeks fly by so quickly.  It is nice to have time to anticipate and appreciate the spirit of the holidays before they just suddenly arrive and then have passed us by.  IMHO I would call this isle, “The Nightmare Before Christmas”. 😂🎃🎄 

  I did not buy this book for $0.99 at one of my favorite thrift stores.  I could never read it.  It would take me like a decade to get through it even if I did want to know all the details.  My inability to read this book, of course, is not meant as a criticism of it.  It’s just about me and my ability, or rather inability, to read such a thing.  I think I gathered enough, though, from reading former president Trump’s ridiculous twitter tweets.  He rallied and convinced people that a terrible and wrongful injustice had been done and that the very foundation of our American government and freedom was being violated and jeopardized, and that gathering together on January 6th to rally against this injustice was going to be one of the most important things to ever happen in the history of the American government.  The injustice, of course, was that he did not win his reelection.  He was narcissistic and delusional and out of touch with reality. ...

 Again, I don’t know why I always find myself thinking about these things but I just had a thought about child brides.  No young minor girl should be forced or even asked to enter into a marriage that will not be an adult choice made by her.  This sounds like a no brainer but it does happen in the world.  I don’t care if my opinion is ethnocentric.  I am of the opinion that some things are wrong regardless of whether they are a normal part of a culture.  If things do harm to others and especially children, they are wrong. Oh I remember now, I just got a DVD involving this topic from a thrift store.  It is called “Water”.  I haven’t yet watched it. I haven’t yet written about my thrift store treasures either.

 I’ve noticed something.  Parents who have been successful in creating a very popular social media account or social media video account along with their child or children, seem likely to move into marketing sponsorships with their children.  I think if I was a parent of a child growing up now in the 2020s, I would think long and hard before taking my child/children down that road.  I wouldn’t want them to later have any regrets or resentments about being involved in something that was not an adult choice that they made for themselves. 

  https://www.maculogix.com/adaptdx/ I had an adapt test today.  I’ve had it twice now due to having some eye drusen.  It’s not covered by medical insurance but the cost is reasonable.  It tests for AMD (age-related macular degeneration).  You wear a VR like headset and the test is completely guided by an artificial intelligence called Thea.  Thea gives all the directions and is completely responsive to each person’s eyes and their input to the test via a hand remote.  This makes me think about how amazing medical care will become in the future with more advanced technologies like this.  In years past, I used to get eye exams at the vision center at Walmart.  Now I go to the vision center associated with the University Medical School. Walmart eye exams are fine for the basics and getting glasses prescriptions but I would never get the same level of care that I do from UT Health System and of course, lest I forget, their amazing RGV O.D. ...

 We all have our own versions of it.

 In Connecticut:  Wow, it’s a hot one today.  The car is going to get so hot in the parking lot.  We should drive around and look for a shady or somewhat shady parking spot.  It’s worth the extra time and effort.  We don’t want to bake when we have to get back into the car. In South Texas:  It’s over 100 degrees here today.  This is normal in the summer.  Park in any damn spot.  No one makes any special effort to look for or park in shady spots.  Upon returning to your car, jump right in and get the air conditioning going.  You will feel the cool air very shortly.  You will be fine.  It’s not a big deal at all.   But when a cold spell hits South Texas: OMG it’s less than 60 degrees!  We are going to freeze if we don’t bundle up properly.  We definitely need a warm jacket and boots and a hat and gloves.  And we also need to bring blankets so we can wrap them around ourselves if we have to be outside...

 I was just thinking about Harambe the Gorilla.  Before he lived at the Cincinnati zoo, he had lived for 15 years at the Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville TX.  I’m sorry you had a really bad day Harambe.  🦍 💕 https://cincinnatizoo.org/news-releases/new-rookie-silverback-in-gorilla-world-for-spring-training/

 I have always been a very nostalgic person, but it seems that even more so lately it has been my new thing.  I don’t think I can chalk it up to being a mid life thing because I am already beyond that point.  It’s just like I want to see things from the past with a new perspective and sense of appreciation.

 I was very young when I watched Mr. Ed so I really don’t remember any details about the show.  I feel like I would like to watch it again now.  I wonder if I would find it lame now, or if I would be able to appreciate it with a new perspective that I didn’t have when I young.  Thinking about old programs makes me think about the experience of people living maybe 500 or 1000 or even 2000 years from now.  They will (God willing) be able to watch shows and movies from centuries or even millennia ago.  Imagine if we could watch programs and movies made by people centuries or millennia ago.  How cool would that be!!!

 I see identical twins frequently when I am out at various places.  It really seems to me that the region that I live in has an above normal amount of identical twins.  Is this possible?  Maybe it is just because there are a lot of people where I live.

 Ah, the days when the only cameras we had required film that had to be developed and then printed onto photo paper or slides.  I once, when my kids were young, held onto some rolls of film and never got around to sending them to be developed for well over a year even though I did really want to see my pictures.  I’m odd.  My mother has told me I get that from my father.  He will let his Christmas presents just sit around in their boxes for months even when the gift is something that he will eventually get around to making good use of.  We just take our time. 😲🫢 Back in the days of film cameras, we put our photos in photo albums and we didn’t store them on our telephones.  Imagine telling someone back in the 1970s that in the future they probably wouldn’t bother with making photo albums because they would just keep all their photos in their phones.  🤯 😂 That would have sounded really Looney Tunes.

As a first time mother to be, I felt my baby’s first kicks in a “Magic of Disney” like tale.  We were at Walt Disney World in Orlando Florida on a family vacation.  While in Tomorrowland and riding on my favorite attraction there, “The Carousel of Progress”, I had my first experience of feeling my daughter’s kicks.  Okay, to me it was something special. 💕 “The Carousel of Progress” was the prime Disney location to me. 😄 Yes I know, “The Carousel of Progress” is rather lame if you have previously seen it or if you are over the age of twelve. 😂 For me, though, it was about the experience of nostalgia and not just the content of the scenes.  If only my daughters birth could also have been a “Magic of Disney” experience instead of an absolute hell on earth experience.