In a few hours I am turning a year older. It has been a pretty nice ride though I wish I had made better decisions at certain points, it’s all been one heck of a learning experience, nonetheless. I have seen some really great things, some which I really could forget and yet I continue to want to absorb so much more of this life experience. While time is being very cool with me, I am happy to continue learning and living.
Month: February 2023
The nightmare
After taking the day off of work due to not feeling overly well and having slept quite a few hours extra to ward off the ills, I went to bed early last night, taking a single melatonin to help me nod off. I was in bed by 9ish and though I toss and tumbled a bit, finally nodded off but the worst thing happened: a nightmare jolted the heck out of me. It was 11:58 when I turned my cell phone screen on after my heart was racing. In my dream I was startled by a tall man coming into my space and hurting my upper right shoulder. As I lay there trying to shake off the fear and the weird sensation in my body, it made me wonder what had sparked that worry. Was it the strange person who had wandered through my front porch earlier that day which made me primally worry. Granted, he had knocked on my door and walked past twice, which I witnessed each time, but he really was not threatening. Was there something in the deep recesses of my brain which activated and lingered? Who knows. All I came to realize is that I had been resting and a really fierce reaction to a dream had my heart racing at nearly midnight. After fifteen minutes or so the power of sleep forced me back into dreamland, which wound up staying peaceful until the next morning. Small blessing but still welcomed.
Doorbell is broken, got a knock on the door
This morning, I called in sick after waking up with a clogged nose and sinuses causing my head and body to ache. In the late afternoon, as I lounged around in my pajamas while trying to recuperate, there was a knock on my front door. The TV was on, but I am unsure whether it could be heard from outside, so I quickly muted the sound, walked up to the little peephole and looked to see a young man, in his mid-twenties who waited around five seconds and then left. The sharp knocking had startled me a bit since my neighbors normally never bother me. As quick as a plump fox, I dashed over to the second bedroom and peeked through the window shades to see him walking away.
A good hour later when I was prepping lunch when I noticed some legs through the mostly closed shades of my kitchen window so again, I dashed to the second bedroom, peered out and saw the same person, stopped at the curb, pull out his cellphone to speak with someone as he began walking. Inside of walking the curb, he had come up close to the front porch because that is how I saw his legs. He luckily had a mode of communication on-hand but it made me wonder why he had walked so close to the front of the house. Moments like this make it clear that I need to install a video camera onto my doorbell – which happens to not be working correctly so that also needs to be figured out. It’s good to have some way to speak to a stranger who is suddenly standing on your doorstep without having to open the door or at least peer without having to sneak all over.
The tickle spots
Visiting my parents this weekend, I was playing with their doggo, a little bit of rough housing, tossing her toys and giving some bites but nothing too bad. After a while, once the playing around started to calm down, she started to lick the inside of my exposed backs of my knees or the inside of my elbow, both which when a slobbery wet tongue touches causes incredible tickles. She is not intending it, she’s a dog who knows nothing about tickles but it’s insane who much it makes me want to jump out of my skin with the feeling.
The thought was to eat healthier today and then…
Came out of the movie theatre having watched the earliest preview of the newest Marvel movie. I had eaten the kid’s combo of popcorn, a little bag of fruit jellies and a small soda but it was nearly dinner time. Stopped by the local market to refill my water bottles for the rest of the week, thinking about having the bagged salad that was waiting in the fridge when I walked by their deli/pizza oven area where the employee was pulling out a freshly made pepperoni pizza out of the oven. The cheeses and pepperoni were bubbling hot, the faint scent of the cooked dough came across and filled up my nostrils. The salad was a forgotten idea – all I wanted was fresh pizza to pile into that now growling belly of mine. I gave in. Spent the $7 I could have saved but instead packed up two slices into the cardboard box and went off to pay for it… with my waters. Got home, packed away all the items, washed my hands and bit into that still warm pizza as my tastebuds rose to nirvana. Wound up onto eating one and the bottom half of the second slice. Tomorrow’s breakfast will be pizza once more! *happy dance*
Ever been really disappointed in a movie or series?
In the main years I’ve lived, there have been quite a handful of movies or television shows which I was really anticipating, counting down the days until I saw it and then once I viewed it, was terribly disappointed. The trailer or preview boasted something amazing which blew up the anticipation. Little did I know that oftentimes the trailer or preview holds the only interesting portion of the flick or show. One time I watched a movie which had such a horrible actor that it totally ruined the entire event. His monotone “acting” was just… beyond bad while I enjoyed the rest of the movie. He’s supposed to be this strong, silent man but the lack of performance just throws sand into my eyes whenever I try enjoying it. This movie plays every once in a while, and I will pause my day to watch it because it has some good music but cringe every time the male character “acts”. Ugh.
The password confusion
For the most part, whenever I create a new account, I will save the sign in information plus the password into a stored account which I have maintained for several years. Have been pretty good at updating it but there have been slip ups. It’s very frustrating when I try to sign into a site which I don’t have saved details for and type in what I am 95% sure is the password, only to get rejected. Try another one, rejected again. When I go to reset the password and type in one of the ones I first tried to see that I cannot reuse a password, it makes me lose my marbles. I had tried that one and you, website, did not accept it. What the @#$! So now with storing the data in my excel spreadsheet plus onto my Google account, I pray that I can avoid that hot mess.
Tracking of items
I know I’m not the only one who continually will look at the incoming item you shopped, tracking the package as it makes its path to you. Whether it is the rare Amazon delivery or a less rare Target one, I will head to the appropriate website where the UPS or USPS tracker tells me where that little cardboard box is running round before it makes its stop on my porch. It eases the worry of where it is… I did have one beach chair which I ordered online three years ago which vanished once it arrived at the UPS store in Lakeland. It was never found which was the oddest situation. I’ll be it was in the original box, displaying what it was and someone else decided that it was theirs instead. Oh well. At least that purchase was reimbursed yet somewhere out there is someone sitting on a stolen beach chair.
The accident on the interstate that cooled my heels
No driver looks forward to seeing the impact of two cars, especially when they’re on the road having to deal with reckless others. I was traveling down I4. heading towards my first work destination when I noticed, about five minutes from the turn where I would get off the interstate, that there was a trooper dealing with two cars which had collided. From the quick look I was able to catch I saw two young men, mid-twenties sitting on the small hilly part to the side of the road, sad or perhaps frustrated due to the situation they were dealing with. The car which had the front impact, and it was a pretty bad looking hit was a black Mustang which had nearly 30% of the hood crumpled up. The vehicle which had taken the hit on the rear was some SUV type which my quick look could not figure out the model. If my small knowledge of cars is anything, I would say that the Mustang was probably a goner. Since I did not see the collision, I could not tell whether there was road rage, if the one car was going too fast and then the impact or whether the SUV slowed for reason X or Y. For me though, seeing things like that. shakes me up for a while. You remember that this several tons piece of metal and wires can cause a lot of damage and it takes a bad move or decision to mess up a day.
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