How the day is going

 A day in the life of me, the blogger…

Have you Googled your blog name to read the description AI has written about you. 🥰 

You may be surprised.

Writing this after posting this morning, and returning from doing errands, I feel chatty. 

Diet wise, I try to switch things around to healthier foods, and place limits on frequency of not so great foods. A frozen dinner has become my new cup cake.

My new cupcake

Update on vehicle key fob: The new fob has arrived. Now I have to find a place that will cut the blade after I transfer the battery and circuit board. I will call around first before any transfer. 

The maple walnut cake making will be late next week. There’s too much to clear away this week before I can sit at my dining table again to enjoy a slice of cake.

Working on limiting scrolling time, I deleted my Reddit account. The rules there are such that I cannot post or comment until my account is a certain age or I have a certain amount of activity. Drop in now and then like I did, is not welcome there.  It was nice in the old days when I first joined years ago. The new place with zealous moderators is not nice, IMHO.

What’s left for this afternoon? I have reading to catch up on. Remember, 1984, by George Orwell is the novel I selected for this summer’s re-read. 

After that, a heavy push on gathering up clothes and things to donate. Most is done already. Then there’s a bookshelf move and a lamp gathering. I use to buy bargain lamps at yard sales. Many I use. There’s a few that might make a nice rewiring project for somebody. Thrift stores refuse lamps that need to be wired. 

Hoping your day is going well

Out my window, the sky is darker and the trees have a wicked waving thing going on. 

Later…

Blue sky and puffy clouds are back

I got side tracked hand sewing fabric strips together. Now I’ll get to reading. 

Thinking again: Starting out the last week of August

With thoughts about presentation and attitude, I begin the day pondering where am I where they are concerned.

There was a professor that taught a science course I took years ago. He taught easy style, captures well one’s attention, explains in terms, I feel, anyone can understand. 

You read the material, attend the lectures, all is good until an exam. Exams were the opposite style of easy to understand. Nowhere, I believe, written along the lines his lectures followed. The exams were hard core science right out of the textbook. It was like going from student in an introductory course (which it was) to a final for a master’s degree.

It felt very unfair to me, like a set up to fail. I knew the subject. I understand the science. Yet, exam times, I felt lost. 

That can happen when you are guided in one direction, but end up at another destination. 

Okay, thinking grade level. You don’t teach a first grader the same as you do a college freshman. That holds true, I believe, in how you write as well as paint.

At a juncture, what I paint and write is very much on my mind. My classroom experience rises up because it is a teaching guidepost that shows me paths to take, possibilities to consider, detours to avoid. 

On this Monday morning, it is a subject to post about because I am procrastinating. Instead of getting right into doing something physical, I’m relaxing by posting here, sharing thoughts. Tomorrow I expect to have something to show for where this pondering is going. 

Have a Wonderful Week!

Don’t think too much

P.S. 

Allow to add photos on Safari is once again blocked despite no change to my settings that allowed me to post photos the last time I signed into Blogger. 

Note: After installing Google App

Thank you Safari! Good News

Update: After signing in the next time, Google blocked adding photos here.

After I installed the Google App, adding photos is allowed.

Hours I have spent searching browsers, settings, google, everywhere instructions tell me to go.

Not all Privacy & Security settings are the same.

In each browser there are settings. There is suppose to be one for cookies. The only browser where I have found a clearly labeled cookie setting feature is in Safari. Once I shut off rejecting cookies, I can add photos to Blogspot.

In celebration:

Might as well get use to it & another Google Glitch

Week before last I felt a sliver of cool air while sitting on the porch that right away made me think, that’s autumn on the way.

I don’t want to feel that way. I like the warm weather so much that hot is good with me. I am beginning to think that moving south is a real option. Me, a die hard 4 season person, thinking of giving up bear sightings for watch out for snakes and alligators is a major shift. Who am I? 😱😳

Have you ever been typing a blog post, clicked on another tab, and forgot you were posting? When I read some other blogs, I get up and cook a meal before finishing what I was reading. Must be there’s a cyber universe thats wobbles into reality and back again. 

Lots going on here arrangement wise. I question why am I creating more messes when there’s already so many to choose from. The positive side is that along my way, I find more things to donate. Today I dropped off some clothes. 

Anyway, the apple crates I bought are perfect for a shelf unit to store art supplies. The hitch is that in order to fasten it to the board on wheels. I have to empty the bookshelf that’s on the board. Another mess create. 

I am getting use to fall not far away with as much enthusiasm as I have for getting use to moving things around every other week.

An additional note about my adding photos to my blog dilemma:

Using Firefox the first time, the Allow cookies notice appeared, and I was able to post a photo.

I logged out and back again. Google has shut that down like it did with another browser. The Allow cookies option doesn’t appear now. That is proof to me Google is the problem. 

Update: On Safari I found the cookie setting!

Left hand, note at wrist the curve,
my hand looks crooked. Right under wrist
line is where the break is on
the left side of arm
When swelling goes down?
it will look straight again.
Flakey skin happens when
splint is taken off. 
My fingernails are so long
they look fake. 🤣

Well, it has started

There is a time in life when the body wears out, needs physical therapy or a joint or two replacement. 

I’ve been limping for years. The knee injections don’t last or give me much relief. The pain relief cream isn’t forever. So I caved. I had my first knees’ evaluation exam. One knee looks rather grim. 

Before I need a wheelchair, I think a knee replacement is a good idea. Maybe next spring after I lose weight and tone up with strength exercises. Thankfully, 4 people I know have had excellent results with the same orthopedic surgeon.

On a happy note, I am glad to report I lost the weight I set as a goal to reach in order to have birthday cake. I’m going to probably make it myself because it has been years since I baked a real cake. A maple walnut cake with coffee icing sounds nice. After losing 90% of my sense of taste from the 2022 covid booster, the memory of such a cake* will be wonderful to feed. 

* Noting, the cake can wait. There’s ingredients I need to buy as well as a cake pan. 😂

Using Firefox browser, the Allow option 
appears when I click photo icon.
It is Google that controls blogspot settings. 
Whatever setting it is that Google
is using to block adding photos to my
blog, despite reading the instructions,
has yet to be found by me. 

Google blocks finding where to sign into 
Google when already signed into Gmail
with the same account ID and password.