Let's get un-meh

[stormkeeper_lovedoris]

 
I've been in the most meh mood all day today. So I'm going to do some gratitude to try to get things going in the right direction here.

- My crush level on Battlestar Galactica's Felix Gaeta (played by Alessandro Juliani - who was also Sinclair in The 100) is high. Maybe too high.

- Got takeout yesterday from Healthy Substance. Obsessed with the place and its burritos, gorditas, and tamales

- For whatever reason, Doris bought me clothes last week. She and her employee Janet decided to just go on a shopping spree when patients cancelled (!!). Doris came home with new workout pants and shirt for me. 

- One more shoutout to last week's long weekend in Lake Geneva!

- Game night later today, and tomorrow Doris and I are going to the fun, small waterpark again

- The season of RuPaul's Drag Race that just ended was one of the best yet

- Yesterday and today the temp was cool enough in the AM to take a walk. It made doing the farmer's market table today very nice.

- I will admit I love the Netflix dating show Dating Around. I wish there were more than 12 episodes.

- Also am reading an excellent, mind-expanding book call "Imaginable" by Jane McGonigal

On the 'quandary' side....I was at Postcards for Swing states yesterday and they confirmed that they will be done sending out all postcards in a week or less. Once Roe was overturned, they were inundated with orders, and they only have so many voter names/addresses and thus they only have so many postcards to send out for the midterms. So....they are nearly done for this year. It leaves me with the quandary of not knowing where to volunteer next. At the Dems' table at the farmers' market today, someone asked what we have going on and honestly the answer is not a ton. The challenge of living somewhere that's fairly uniform in belief. I know what it means. My volunteering is going to have to be canvassing. Not my favorite thing to do at all. On the other hand, last time I did it, it was fine. It's do-able. And really my only other choices are phone banking, text banking, getting on a bus to a swing state like Wisconsin, or doing more 'charity' work like the food pantry rather than political work. (Nothing wrong with that, but not my jam). So canvassing it is.

Comments

[nytshd3]

I did love Gaeta! And he was definitely super cute in the show :) Did you have a crush on sinclair?

Since you got a flat tire, did you still end up going to the waterpark?

Do you like the new workout pants? I just bought new workout pants too because I wanted to go to the gym the other day for non-pool reasons, and everything I tried on either fit weird or had no pockets or was too uncomfortable. Lane Bryant had several pairs on clearance so I was able to score a few.

I was looking to see if I could volunteer at postcards on Sunday before we meet up for scrabble but it looks like the last shift they have is on Friday! Nice that they were able to get everything all packaged up! I was looking at a site where you can see what volunteer opportunities there are in the area and I was struck by how many non-profits are looking for volunteers for the kind of positions that would be a regular work position at most companies - everything from receptionists to social media managers to full stack developers. One that cracked me up - billed as a virtual office helper, the things they wanted you to do were copying and filing. Not sure how you do that virtually? Call someone who is in the office and say 'ok, now put this piece of paper in the copy machine and hit the green button'? Really, though, it's rough keeping a nonprofit's head above water, and there are folks with the right skills who look for volunteer opportunities, so it's good when that connection can be made.

[stormkeeper_lovedoris]

I love that you like Gaeta too! And yep, I always crushed on Sinclair too. Someone (not me) posted on The 100's Reddit page "Sinclair is daddy". For a side character, he is popular there too.

We didn't do the waterpark. Long story short, Doris's brother's first ex-wife (whew!) had a memorial thing for her dad so we decided to go to that instead. I knew I wouldn't have the energy to do both.

The workout pants are...ok. They fit fine but they look weird. IDK. I'll have to show them to you.

Very interesting about volunteering! I get it though. I was always amazed by all that Gail at Poised had to do by herself, on a part-time salary. And LOL, not sure how the virtual assistant would work when you have to do copying and filing. Very odd