Oh the horror! I just posted an entry replete with photographs and then when I went to edit it the contents disappeared like one a Samantha Steven’s relations. Now I am too peeved to try to recreate it right now. Perhaps later.
This morning feels like Christmas for me, but the sort when you wake up excited about getting that pony or cha-cha heels (black ones) but you are not certain if it is actually going to happen.
For four years I’ve been dealing with folks with depression and anxiety who resemble women trapped in a domestic violence relationship with a brute. I am curious to see if my patients will feel the same relief PTSD-types feel when the perpetrator is finally removed. Better people than I have written about the vile actions of the past four years so I won’t say any more. It is hoped the nation isn’t so degenerate it is beyond repair. Let us hope so.
In the future if I ever refer to that loser wannabe- dictator, I will use the sobriquet “Florida Man”.
Speaking of healing, I finally started exercising. Other than dog-walks I’ve done nothing for a year and I am quite out of shape. I started yesterday with a quick walk around the block and did some pushups and then some abdominal actions using a small wheel. It isn’t much but it is a start. I hope to do something daily and hopefully by summer I will feel less of a ticking time-bomb for a coronary.
Someone works for the city of Phoenix, so he qualifies for the vaccine, lucky fellow. He gets his first shot in a few weeks. Arizona seems to have made a mess of things. The elderly/snowbirds have been clamoring for shots, and their howls resemble an orchestra of scorched cats. I sense it will be many months before my turn arises.
I will be working nonstop today so I will miss the swearing in but I am looking forward to the headlines “President Biden”. Wednesday – or Wotan’s day as The Board of Directors Here at Spo-reflections calls it, is the busiest day of the week. I am amazed how many Scandinavians speak English and so well. TBDHSR does a fair job in their enunciation (thems with most of their teeth do the best) but they can’t seem to get the names of modern days of the week right. The tongue-tied dears declared today a holiday. Heorot Hall is bedecked with party trimmings and fresh heads of road kill for what they are calling ‘The inauguration ball”. If your invitation got lost in the carrier raven post, don’t feel bad. After reading my latest entries The Munificent Board composed a smorgasbord Jello-molds, pasta salads of suspicious substances, rats on toast, and rotten oranges. I have to be more careful what I write here.
30 comments
January 20, 2021 at 8:41 AM
Debra She Who Seeks
Rats on toast? Yum!
January 20, 2021 at 8:57 AM
Urspo
Sooner I’d eat rats at Tewkesbury – a case of literally eating my own words.
January 20, 2021 at 9:38 AM
Sam
I think him landing in FL, getting off the plane, and saying whatever he said, hopefully will be the last glimpse on the news we will need to see. As for health, I’m with you taking extra steps each day as I can and focusing on a healthier life, healthier society the next four years.
January 20, 2021 at 10:36 AM
Urspo
good luck with all of this !
January 20, 2021 at 10:28 AM
Parnassus
I just watched Biden’s speech, and with an immense sense of relief. I’m sure you’re right that the craziness and evil instituted over the past four years have left everyone on edge, so now is a time for celebration, but not too public, or without masks!
–Jim
January 20, 2021 at 10:37 AM
Urspo
I will have to listen later; it feels good to have someone who is bright, articulate and best yet not a self-centered ass
January 20, 2021 at 11:32 AM
anne marie in philly
the inauguration was FABU! we live-streamed it from CNBC.
January 20, 2021 at 12:14 PM
Urspo
I trust it was articulate and well said – and about ‘us’ not about one man.
January 20, 2021 at 1:21 PM
Mistress Borghese
I myself was hoping the “ex” occupants flight to Florida would go by way of the Bermuda Triangle.
January 20, 2021 at 1:44 PM
Urspo
It will be Bermuda Triangle like to see if he keeps talking/acting if he is president and head of GOP etc.
January 20, 2021 at 1:32 PM
Will Jay
I’m surprised that as a medical professional you are not considered essential and therefore further ahead in line for vaccination. Should you decide to volunteer to innoculate others (including the chorus of scorched cats), I imagine that it would advance your consideration further.
January 20, 2021 at 1:44 PM
Urspo
I suppose I could push my credentials but honestly all my patients are over zoom/on the phone never face to face. I should wait my turn.
January 20, 2021 at 3:35 PM
David Godfrey
Not your patient, but some of us feel better already with an adult back in charge. I sent an email to an assistant cabinet secretary yesterday, got a reply back this morning (that included his personal email and cell number) and his picture and bio were gone from the administration website by 2:00 PM. I briefly saw the missing post over lunch time. I wonder where it went, I can’t find it under my bed – my mother said that was were everything that was lost – had gone to hide.
January 20, 2021 at 4:21 PM
Urspo
I am very cross with WordPress that made a ‘new and improved’ template that routinely crashes on me. The old reliable is still available but it takes a few turns to get to it. I will post that entry anon after I calm down. But first, it’s party time. I can sleep soundly this evening like a DV victim knowing their brutish spouse is out of the house.
January 20, 2021 at 4:26 PM
Pipistrello
I saw your bibelots! You are wise to have them in a case thus only one smooth thing to dust. They’d otherwise need the judicious application of a feather duster.
Can you multitask? You could add some calf raises while admiring your bibelots when brushing your teeth. 30 per leg is what ballet dancers aim for.
January 20, 2021 at 7:09 PM
Urspo
Multitasking! I can hardly do one thing at a time without wondering off, losing orbit lol I don’t dare try 2-3 !
January 20, 2021 at 6:23 PM
Todd Gunther
Rats on toast? Just this once I will send my regrets to TBDHSR that I won’t be attending their banquet. But please keep in mind if they are able to bring back the Chinese buffets.
January 20, 2021 at 7:10 PM
Urspo
Chinese buffets (( hear) are notorious at germs and food poisoning.
January 20, 2021 at 6:28 PM
Old Lurker
Good for you for getting back into the exercise regime (and good for your personal trainer Harper for pushing you to exercise). Soon you will be featured as the Beard of the Day and commenters will say they would pay good money for you.
January 20, 2021 at 7:11 PM
Urspo
Ha! We will see the second coming first before I resemble anything like FB posts .
January 20, 2021 at 8:14 PM
catrina56
Since I live in Florida I prefer Mar-a-Lago Man. Well I’d really prefer Siberia Man, but…..
January 21, 2021 at 5:34 AM
David Godfrey
Maybe North Korea would take him in exile?
January 21, 2021 at 6:43 AM
Urspo
LOL even Florida doesn’t seem to want the miscreant.
Let’s agree to refer to him as TRB “that rotten b-td”
January 20, 2021 at 11:10 PM
Robzilla, Native of Slam Diego
He’s gone! Biden is erasing Trump from history rather quickly. I can’t wait to see what he does tomorrow.
January 21, 2021 at 6:45 AM
Urspo
I recently had a patient sighing Biden will soon reverse all that Trump did. I had to quickly hold my tongue before I ejaculated ‘well thank goodness for that!!”
January 21, 2021 at 3:19 AM
Moving with Mitchell
Don’t know yet when we’ll be eligible for vaccines. It’s looking now like March at the earliest, but maybe we’ll be surprised. Maybe you’ll be my inspiration. Although I walk for miles most days, I haven’t had much of a workout in possibly 6 months. I miss the gym, but i need to do what I can at home.
January 21, 2021 at 6:46 AM
Urspo
Good for you.
I miss the gym too, but I refuse to go, given there is no monitoring of the masks there, and thems that go seem defiant not to wear theirs. Also, everyone is touching the weights. No sir.
January 21, 2021 at 7:09 AM
Mary
I had the Moderna vaccine two days ago and have been sick since then. I hope you/someone have more tolerance for that kind of thing. My husband had it too and only has a sore arm.
January 21, 2021 at 9:58 AM
Urspo
That is a good sign the body is having a immunological response to the antigen. It means it is working.
January 21, 2021 at 8:19 AM
rjjs8878
Everyone at my gym wears a mask. There was initial resistance but those members are no longer seen. There are many home exercise videos on YouTube you may find helpful.