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Thursday, September 7
Sep. 8th, 2023 02:50 amToday I am grateful for:
Sunny and warm today, but not TOO hot. Very pleasant.
I better day mood wise. I have felt kind of crappy the past few days, and I am fairly sure it's hormonal. Finally today I feel some optimism seeping back in.
My Sweetie and I had several things to do in town today.
First I needed to renew my driver's licence, and it went smoothly. I am still not pleased at all with the clerk who processed things, as she asked in an orderly fashion if my legal name was the same, the address, and so on, and then put it all through and I paid for it. Then she took me over to get a photo, and I looked at her and said "my weight has changed quite a lot" and she said "too late to put that on your new license now, unless you want to pay for another one to correct it".
Wow. She was asking all the questions, never asked about my weight. I had actually really wanted to change that, because I have lost so much weight and KEPT IT OFF for about three years now, and it meant a lot to me to sort of hit that land mark where I could change it on my card.
That was upsetting.
IT WAS NOT MY FAULT she didn't ask about my weight as she was entering the data.
We went to the recycling depot and got a good pile of big pieces of cardboard to go under the mulch, and I found more books (it looked like a teacher dropped off a few boxes) that again, if I don't read will become potentials for trading in at the second hand book store. I only took the better ones that I thought were interesting or would have trade in value.
We had building materials as well as another cube of mulch to pick up.
I went to Winner's, hoping to find a shirt to use in my freestyle video with River. I did try to make a shirt out of shiny purple material, and it wasn't horrible, but I was NOT feeling it. I did find a very classy shirt with lines of sequins, that fits my vision better. It will be very wearable for other occasions too.
Then we got groceries, which was a little scattered because the store is still not finished, and while I had some idea of how to find my usual foods there, my husband was all over the place, I ended up getting distracted and had to pull us back to our list, and he did this thing of taking off to go find something and leaving me, but the heck I was just going to stand there waiting for him.
It was a mess.
In the end, I think we got what we needed.
I usually donate at least a can of food to the food bank, and I could not find the bin anywhere. I went to customer service, and even the people in customer service had no idea. They talked to the manager, who popped out of the back and pointed at a small pile of food randomly sitting on a counter with nothing to indicate what it was for and said "this is stuff for the food bank, you can put it here".
Wow. I felt kind of awful, because what assurance do I have that the food I donated will actually get to the food bank, and not just end up being re-shelved because NO ONE EVEN KNEW IT WAS FOR THE FOOD BANK?
Anyhow, our trip to town at least got us some materials to keep the projects going.
We came home, put everything away, let the animals out for a while.
We were just sitting and relaxing, when my husband heard this little crackle, and one of the lenses of his glasses cracked like a car windshield, vertically, all the way. These glasses are maybe a year old, and NOT CHEAP.
He hadn't done ANYTHING to them, they were literally on his face and he was just sitting there and they cracked.
So, he's going to talk to the place he bought them and see if there is anything they can do. These are not cheap lenses, and WHAT THE HELL? I have NEVER heard of glasses doing that before.
We at least enjoyed some uncomplicated entertainment in the form of "Shitt's Creek".
I learned that the population of Ireland today is still roughly one million people lower than the population of Ireland before the Great Famine of 1845.
The famine caused by potato blight, over the next few years caused the starvation of about one million people, and about another million people emigrated.
There were also people in Ireland being turned out of their homes and their lands during the Land Evictions, and then also starving or dying of exposure and other illnesses.
People continued to leave Ireland in droves, mostly immigrating to the United States. I had never quite pieced together WHY the Irish were met with so much scorn in the United States, and this article points out that at the time, there was still a great deal of British influence in America, and of COURSE they would hate the Irish immigrants, because the British were always jerks to the Irish back in the old country as well.
The population of Ireland today is: "The population of Ireland is just over 7 million, of which approximately 5.1 million reside in the Republic of Ireland and 1.9 million reside in Northern Ireland, and it was a little over 8 million in 1845." (from Wikipedia).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland
https://www.dfa.ie/irish-embassy/usa/about-us/ambassador/ambassadors-blog/black47irelandsgreatfamineanditsafter-effects/
Sunny and warm today, but not TOO hot. Very pleasant.
I better day mood wise. I have felt kind of crappy the past few days, and I am fairly sure it's hormonal. Finally today I feel some optimism seeping back in.
My Sweetie and I had several things to do in town today.
First I needed to renew my driver's licence, and it went smoothly. I am still not pleased at all with the clerk who processed things, as she asked in an orderly fashion if my legal name was the same, the address, and so on, and then put it all through and I paid for it. Then she took me over to get a photo, and I looked at her and said "my weight has changed quite a lot" and she said "too late to put that on your new license now, unless you want to pay for another one to correct it".
Wow. She was asking all the questions, never asked about my weight. I had actually really wanted to change that, because I have lost so much weight and KEPT IT OFF for about three years now, and it meant a lot to me to sort of hit that land mark where I could change it on my card.
That was upsetting.
IT WAS NOT MY FAULT she didn't ask about my weight as she was entering the data.
We went to the recycling depot and got a good pile of big pieces of cardboard to go under the mulch, and I found more books (it looked like a teacher dropped off a few boxes) that again, if I don't read will become potentials for trading in at the second hand book store. I only took the better ones that I thought were interesting or would have trade in value.
We had building materials as well as another cube of mulch to pick up.
I went to Winner's, hoping to find a shirt to use in my freestyle video with River. I did try to make a shirt out of shiny purple material, and it wasn't horrible, but I was NOT feeling it. I did find a very classy shirt with lines of sequins, that fits my vision better. It will be very wearable for other occasions too.
Then we got groceries, which was a little scattered because the store is still not finished, and while I had some idea of how to find my usual foods there, my husband was all over the place, I ended up getting distracted and had to pull us back to our list, and he did this thing of taking off to go find something and leaving me, but the heck I was just going to stand there waiting for him.
It was a mess.
In the end, I think we got what we needed.
I usually donate at least a can of food to the food bank, and I could not find the bin anywhere. I went to customer service, and even the people in customer service had no idea. They talked to the manager, who popped out of the back and pointed at a small pile of food randomly sitting on a counter with nothing to indicate what it was for and said "this is stuff for the food bank, you can put it here".
Wow. I felt kind of awful, because what assurance do I have that the food I donated will actually get to the food bank, and not just end up being re-shelved because NO ONE EVEN KNEW IT WAS FOR THE FOOD BANK?
Anyhow, our trip to town at least got us some materials to keep the projects going.
We came home, put everything away, let the animals out for a while.
We were just sitting and relaxing, when my husband heard this little crackle, and one of the lenses of his glasses cracked like a car windshield, vertically, all the way. These glasses are maybe a year old, and NOT CHEAP.
He hadn't done ANYTHING to them, they were literally on his face and he was just sitting there and they cracked.
So, he's going to talk to the place he bought them and see if there is anything they can do. These are not cheap lenses, and WHAT THE HELL? I have NEVER heard of glasses doing that before.
We at least enjoyed some uncomplicated entertainment in the form of "Shitt's Creek".
I learned that the population of Ireland today is still roughly one million people lower than the population of Ireland before the Great Famine of 1845.
The famine caused by potato blight, over the next few years caused the starvation of about one million people, and about another million people emigrated.
There were also people in Ireland being turned out of their homes and their lands during the Land Evictions, and then also starving or dying of exposure and other illnesses.
People continued to leave Ireland in droves, mostly immigrating to the United States. I had never quite pieced together WHY the Irish were met with so much scorn in the United States, and this article points out that at the time, there was still a great deal of British influence in America, and of COURSE they would hate the Irish immigrants, because the British were always jerks to the Irish back in the old country as well.
The population of Ireland today is: "The population of Ireland is just over 7 million, of which approximately 5.1 million reside in the Republic of Ireland and 1.9 million reside in Northern Ireland, and it was a little over 8 million in 1845." (from Wikipedia).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland
https://www.dfa.ie/irish-embassy/usa/about-us/ambassador/ambassadors-blog/black47irelandsgreatfamineanditsafter-effects/
