Song of the day: “Hallelujah”
originally by Leonard Cohen, but I’ve been having covers in my head ever since
I got curious and found a whole batch of them on Youtube. Seriously, there have
been oodles of people who did the song…and in many beautiful ways, I might add.
Worth a spin, if you like the song!
So, yeah. Had a bit of relapse with
my cold. It was gone, which had me getting back to my workout routine all
excitedly for over a week of daily workouts of over 45 mins a pop, only to end
up with my cough coming back full force and a fierce pain in my throat that
took me three days to get rid of again. Grrrr. No worries, though. At the
moment, considering I don’t have a job or anything (well, I am doing some
serious writing at the moment, so that is debatable) I’m not doing my workout
in one allotted time (seeing as it is a known fact that for a little while
after your workout your immune system has a serious drop) but am stretching it
out through the course of the day with five to ten minute exercising sessions.
Annoying, for sure, but doable for the moment. Hah.
I have broadened my job search
from night reception work at hotels, courier and facility management to--sit
down, don’t get caught unawares—work as a jack of all trades in greenhouses.
Saw an application for that recently, and thought, what the heck. I’d get to
work with plants, be inside a relatively warm place most of the down, and get,
according to statistics, decent pay. Now, I’m pretty sure that my resume (and
lack of official qualifications) isn’t going to look very impressive to these
people, but still, it’s worth a shot.
Been doing a lot of reading
online lately, including on American politics. I have friends on either side of
the fence, so it can’t really be helped, and considering that this is not a
political blog, I am definitely not picking sides, but it is a big event in
history, so it’s gotta be mentioned. Admittedly it is a fascinating thing to
watch, really, hearing both sides hammering away at each other, guessing what
is going to happen based on he said-she said kind of stuff. I can only think
back of this blog back when the last president was picked. Basically everyone
thought that finally all their troubles were going to be over and he was basically
going to achieve world peace. Back then, I said it was going to be pretty tough
for the guy to live up to that, and it was. With this future president, I can only say, he’s
probably going to surprise people. Right now, there is such a low opinion of
him that even if he manages to do one thing right, he’ll astound people, let
alone if he does a couple of things moderately well. Puts the last president at a bit of a
disadvantage, but from what I understand of him, he rather likes martyrdom, so
basically he got what he wanted.
As with all things, we’re going
to have to wait and see what happens in the future.
The other thing I’ve been reading
up on is 1st, 2nd and 3rd wave feminism (I
know, how controversial am I today, right? I swear, I’ll keep it mild, and won’t
do this a lot) and have come to the
conclusion that I am more of a 2nd wave feminist. Serious,
the 3rd wavers are completely bonkers! The hate that is coming from
them, the convoluted logic and full blown hatred toward men in general, it’s astounding…especially
since these women, well, girls really are either my age, or younger than me,
and have not faced the problems that 1st and 2nd wave
feminists faced. In fact, the majority of these girls seem to have been
coddled, helped at every turn, and now think that it is time to get back at the
“oppressors” for the evil deeds perpetrated towards the generations preceding
them.
Now, if these girls were living
in Middle Eastern countries, Asia, Afrika or whatnot, I would understand,
seriously, there is some evil shaite going on around the globe, but they’re
not. These are girls and women in Western countries where they are protected,
supported and helped by not only the law, but by the general public too. They
have healthcare, the opportunity to educate themselves, work whichever job they
wish to pursue, and basically live their lives the way they want, and yet they
figure they have to fight the opposite sex and the establishment for rights
that they already have. And all this while there are women in this world who
are really bad of. I have to say that the stuff that I have seen online about
these so-called feminists is nothing short of embarrassing (for me anyway), if
not downright insulting toward women with real problems. Feminism has
definitely gotten a bad name because of these entitled girls trying recapture
the “magic” of brah-burning for a plain and simple game of “getting back at”
and what can only be called an underhanded attempt at gaining power in the
world over the back of men, but most especially other women.
Okay, enough silly things that
thankfully don’t much affect my world at this juncture in my life, it might, at
some point, but not yet. I’ve been having some seriously weird dreams lately.
Several have been downright icky, in fact. Like the other day I was dreaming of
this evil serial killer who used a metal garrote to literally saw the hands of
a woman. He was starting on the second hand, lots of gore, lots of screaming
going on, when I finally managed to wake up. I was seriously freaked out from
that one, but will admit that this particular dream is going to do really well
in a book at some point.
Luckily I had some nice dreams,
too. One of them included grandpa still being around, which was rather nice.
So, there was a rather big storm
in Spain, which had us worried about family, friends and pets for a while.
Seriously, there was a red alert and everything. There were floods that caused
two deaths, lots of properties destroyed, animals in distress, a tornado over
sea, even, and gawd knows what else. Reassurances were a long time coming, but
in the end everyone I knew reported back with an “okay” so that was a big
relief. Jeez. The only plus that comes from this that the water reservoirs that
have been close to empty for the past decade or so, have filled up to almost 40
percent for the first time in 20 years!
Writing wise I’ve been doing
relatively well at the moment. I am doing an average of 2K-3K words a day, at
least, so the book is steadily progressing. Yay! At the very least I am
completely back IN the story, which certainly helps. Yay
On the cooking front I’ve been
doing some experimenting lately. Made a rather interesting pumpkin pie the
other day, also a lentil/beet salad that went well with the folks I made it
for, but didn’t resonate well with yours truly. Hah.
Littlest brother’s visit has been
rescheduled to this weekend. Something came up the last time, so that was a
no-go. Considering big brother and I were still battling our colds back then,
neither of us minded all that much.
So that about sums up this blog.
I’m sure I’m forgetting important stuff, but that can’t be helped. I’ll be
back.
