Sunday Stealing-Book Tag

Book tag

Hi! I'm your host Bev Sykes of the blog "Funny the World". . Welcome to Sunday Stealing. This feature originated and published on WTIT: The Blog. Here we will steal all types of questions from every corner of the blogosphere. Our promise to you is that we will work hard to find the most interesting and intelligent questions. (Past hosts include: Our first - Judd Corizan, Mr. L, Kwizgiver and Bud)  Cheers to all of us thieves!

 
These are from booktraveler

    
Who is your favourite author?

I don’t really have a favorite author, but I have read more than 1 Stephen King book.

What was the last book you read?
I’m still reading “Dancing With Myself”, Billy Idol’s autobiography. I’m enjoying reading it, however reading on my Kindle doesn’t help my headaches. Fascinating man. 
What book reminds you of your school days?
Any accounting book. 
What book releases are you looking forward to?
I get Kindle Firsts so I do get books before release, but there isn’t anything on my radar.
What movie releases are you looking forward to?
I really don’t go to the movies. The chairs are torture chambers for my back. But I am looking forward to “Linda Ronstadt:  The Sound Of My Voice” when it is on one of the streaming services. 
What 3 books are you planning to read?
I’m planning on finishing “Dancing With Myself”. Beyond that, I don’t know. I have a lot of books on my Kindle, so it would be other books on there.
Have you ever damaged a book?
I once used an old accounting book to prop up my bed frame. This book was not something I had needed for 20 years, so I guess it was a good upcycle. Lol!
How long does it take you to read a book?
It varies. I’ve read some books in a day.
Books you haven’t finished?
See above.
Popular books you didn’t like?
“A Million Little Pieces”, I bought it just before the scandal broke. When it did I stopped reading it. 

“The Poisonwood Bible” I just could not get past the first page. I didn’t care for the writing style.
Is there a book you wouldn’t tell people you were reading?
I read “Fifty Shades of Gray”. A friend insisted I buy it, review it, and see if any of the kink could be used by lesbians. Here’s a link for my review:

Fifty Shades of Grey Review
How many books do you own?
Not a clue.
Are you a fast or slow reader?
Fast.
Do you read better in your head our out loud? 
In my head.

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Friday the 13th

Didn’t see any black cats today. (Bubba doesn’t count, she’s black and white). Didn’t pass any ladders to walk under.

Today we had a stellar list of gotchas and obstacles.

1. A certain utility sent a letter warning we defaulted on our payment plan (when they keep changing the due date every month and it is no longer on or after we get income, that will happen, especially when the quarterly trash bill is due. Next day the new bill comes, Thursday we were sent a disconnect notice with a very high amount to pay, higher than the payment plan and higher than the figure on the letter. I had just thought I had juggled enough to pay the amount on the letter, then they want me to pay $80 more for no apparent reason other than they want to f with me.

2. My daughter had a doctor appointment with her PCP that turned into a 6 hour tour, including a trip to the hospital for barium contrast CT scans of her abdomen. 

3. While waiting for my daughter to drink 2 bottles of swill for the test, my spouse calls to say she is stranded with the Pilot 3 cities over. All the electric works but it won’t turn over. (Probably the starter solenoid.) I don’t have AAA, or any other Auto Club, and due to that utility bill I have a rule of spending zero dollars until the 1st, unless it’s for that utility bill. Think. THINK! The Buick has roadside assistance, but that’s only for the Buick because it’s part of the warranty/extended warranty. Wait! When I called my car insurance agent to add the Buick I removed roadside assistance from my auto policy for the Buick. Bingo! I have roadside assistance on the Pilot through my auto policy. I call my agent to double check, then call the 800# and I order a tow. A FREE tow!

4. I’m at the hospital with the kids, waiting for my daughter’s tests, then another hour for test results. 

5. The tow was supposed to get to the Pilot in an hour, it was 2 hours.

6. My daughter’s PCP who ordered the CT scans called with the results. My daughter took the call first and her eyes were glazed over, I could tell that she didn’t understand. She passes the phone to me and he gives me the results. Her right ovary is inflamed, the cyst has increased in size and somewhere there is bleeding. Could be hemorrhoids.

7. I’m thinking a special place in Hell should be reserved for every staff member responsible for my daughter not getting her hormone pills as prescribed, messing up her cycle, causing the gynecologist surgeon to have to stop hormone therapy to let her body gets back to its usual cycle. Those hormones had shrunk the cyst. HAD SHRUNK THE CYST! Without hormones for 2 months (and several months of improperly distributing her hormone meds) her cyst increased in size and caused her ovary to be inflamed. 

8. On Monday we have to go to the inner city to see the gynecologist surgeon. From what the PCP said, it doesn’t look good. I’m hoping I’m wrong. I really don’t want my daughter to have to have surgery to remove the cyst and probably the inflamed ovary. In general I don’t want her to have surgery. My daughter is not at a stage in her life that she wants children, and that’s understandable considering she is likely still a teen psychologically, due to her illness. If she wants kids in the future, mid-late 30’s it could be more difficult to conceive with only 1 ovary. She doesn’t need extra things to ruminate on. I think having children isn’t on her radar now and I think she may not get the correlation between her possible surgery and conceiving in the future.

9.  I meet the tow truck at our mechanic and pick up my spouse. We told him no rush. So it looks like we’ll be getting the Pilot fixed for our anniversary! Yay! 😕

10.  Anastasia took the kids for dinner and video games, but with all that happened we had no energy to cook for a “date”. Hello leftovers! I’m hoping my spouse gets home soon. Anastasia has a habit of chatting and chatting. But we do want to hear how she’s doing. She was in the hospital last week. Colon issues again. Hernia. The surgeon popped it back in (seriously), so we’ll see how it goes.

12. Thank goodness tomorrow is Saturday and Friday the 13th is done! 

Can I get a hallelujah? 

Hallelujah!

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Friday

Found this in an old wallet:

‘Nuf said.

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Sunday Stealing-Compassion

Hi! I'm your host Bev Sykes of the blog "Funny the World". . Welcome to Sunday Stealing. This feature originated and published on WTIT: The Blog. Here we will steal all types of questions from every corner of the blogosphere. Our promise to you is that we will work hard to find the most interesting and intelligent questions. (Past hosts include: Our first - Judd Corizan, Mr. L, Kwizgiver and

Bud)  Cheers to all of us thieves!

These are questions suggested by Compassion, Int'l

And BTW, Happy Birthday to Lori, whose birthday is the 9th! 

What is the most fun thing you have ever done? 

It’s so hard to pick just one thing. I’ll go with camping. No matter the location or circumstances, we always have fun camping. It’s been too long, hopefully we can figure out a way to do it next year.
Are you left-handed or right-handed? 

Left handed.
What is the nicest thing someone has ever done for you?

In December 1990 my Dad passed away in the middle of the night. A co-worker friend knew he was ill and knew that I spent every other weekend out of state to care for him. She told me to call her anytime I needed to talk, or if something happened with my Dad. I got the call around 1:30am, hugged my dog for awhile and packed a bag. Around 5am I called my friend, told her my Dad had passed and I was getting ready to head out. She said to get my dog’s food together and bring him over, that she would take care of him while I was out of town. When I got there she had a huge coffee from Dunkin Donuts and a bag of donut holes. She had run to the Dunkin near where we lived and picked them up for me, knowing I had a long ride ahead of me and I wouldn’t be thinking about the need for caffeine and food. It ended up being the only thing I ate that day.
What is the biggest animal you’ve seen in the wild?

I’ve never been in the wild.
What is the smallest animal you’ve seen in the wild?

I’ve never been in the wild.
Do you ever have funny dreams at night? 

Sometimes. I either haven’t been dreaming or haven’t been remembering them lately. I actually just thought about that this morning.
If you could make a law for your country, what would it be?

Have LGBT rights and gay marriage be iron clad, with no ability whatsoever to reverse them. That would include the right for gays and lesbians to adopt. I have met so many wonderful gays and lesbians who have adopted and they are the most awesome parents. Many of the children they adopt are special needs. These “gay adoptions” are helping these children flourish and keeping these children from being neglected or abused in whatever situation they had been in prior to their adoption.
What would you do if you were invisible for a day?

This is probably childish, but I would go get the keys to a certain storage locker and take all the things my ex stole from me and all the gifts he gave the kids but wouldn’t let them bring them to my house. He has promised for at least 2 years he would bring the kid’s stuff here, but he hasn’t. I wouldn’t take anything that wasn’t mine or the kids.
If you could be someone else for a day, who would you be?

No particular person, but the someone else would be someone pain free, with no back, shoulder, knee  pain. I would spend the entire 24 hours doing things I haven’t been able to do since my car accident. I would ride a bicycle, ride my motorcycle, hand wash and wax my cars myself, take my golf clubs to the driving range and hit a couple buckets of balls, I would walk the grocery store and pick up items for a dinner that would require me to stand over the stove or grill, I would walk around the neighborhood with my kids,  I would play yard games with my kids and shoot some hoops, I would let my kids and my spouse hug me as tight as they wanted and not tell them when to stop because it wouldn’t hurt.
What would you like to change about yourself?

My weight. Become a smaller size without the usual accompaniment of a huge amount of sagging excess skin.
What is your daily routine.

I don’t really have one.
What would your perfect day be like?

Be able to get out of bed painfree, walk without a cane or walker, take a walk around the neighborhood with my family and be able to walk that far without pain, do some yard work (I miss it), take my family to a driving range and be able to stand and swing clubs and step in to help my kids improve their shot, cook dinner for my family and go to bed pain free.
How old were you when you learned to read?

I have no idea. 
What is the most interesting thing you know?

I need to ponder this one.
What makes you nervous?

Driving (fear of another accident), shopping (fear of someone deliberately slamming their cart into to the rear of the electric cart I am using, causing days of increased pain), fear of family arguing, yelling, fear of falling, fear of losing my balance, finances (how close can I get to the end of the month and have enough money), fear of the neighbors close to me that I don’t know (there seem to always be domestic disturbances, a derogatory comment about lgbt, just unfriendly stares the kind that makes you feel you don’t belong), fear of gaining weight because I’m cheating too often.
What is your favourite flower?

Purple bearded iris.
Have you ever ridden on a horse or any other animal?

No.
What time do you go to bed? 

When I start nodding off.
What time do you get up?

Depends on what’s going on for the day.
What is something that is always in your refrigerator?

Condiments/Sauces. Like Chulula, ketchup, different mustards, oyster sauce, fish sauce, all kinds of sauces because we cook all types of cuisines. When I say “we” I mean I find a recipe, I shop for the ingredients not on hand, then my spouse or my kids prepare it.

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Very interesting...and this and that

The very interesting part:

Drummerboy, aka Metallicahead’s former house sold. It actually sold a while ago for $88,000. Then they probably spent about $8 on Oops paint from Lowes and put lipstick on a pig. See what I mean about the paint? Gotta be Oops paint. Who would choose these colors on purpose?

They were asking $125,000. This is what they got:

Yeah, that’s $90,000. So they made a profit of approximately $1,992.

Check out the roof. That’s either a brown tarp or it’s some other temporary cover that is covering the area where the roof caved in.

A dumpster was dropped off last week and some men showed up removing things and throwing them in the dumpster. We surmise that they are doing the pre-demolition work, or maybe they are gutting it, removing drywall, cabinets, etc. 

The this and that parts:

Our Craftsman green riding mower is dead. I fear it may be the transmission. Spouse has tried jumping the battery and charging the battery. Nothing. It could be the alternator, the battery, or something else. One of us needs to talk to my next door neighbor who fixes small engines. I have a new guy. He just repaired my snow blower. I’m all set...come on snow! The new guy costs more, but he actually comes over and does the work. As opposed to the neighbor who says he could do this or that job, but then ducks you at every opportunity.

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The Forgotten Ones

Pain management. 

Ortho dr for my shoulder was handling it, but I can’t see him until I am ready to have rotator cuff surgery. Spine dr refused. She said she only does prescriptions right after she does surgery. I guess if you are still in pain beyond x weeks post surgery you are SOL. She messaged my pain dr and asked if he would do it. He would, but I would have to see him every month and have drug tests. He doesn’t take my insurance, so all of that would be out of pocket. I can barely handle seeing him every 3-4 months. He did prepare a letter to fax to my PCP, but I haven’t heard from them. 

Unless a miracle happens, I will need to see my PCP this week asap. My shoulder pain is out of control. I mean...I cannot move without feeling pain. Can’t even scratch my ear because the pain is horrible. There is nothing I did that could have aggravated this. I literally don’t do anything. I won’t even pick up a gallon of milk because that sets off my back pain.

What am I supposed to do? I’m babying the arm, icing, and I MacGyver’d a sling with a large scarf. I have a real sling, but it doesn’t feel right, seems like it might be a kid’s sling. The last time I was experiencing shoulder pain I Googled “how to delay rotator cuff surgery”. One of the top things is to immobilize it with a sling, ice as needed. Last time it really helped (of course I also had pain meds then). 

A lot of articles have been popping up in my Google feed about the forgotten ones in the Opioid Crisis. I’m one of them. All the articles were about people legitimately with chronic pain who got their pain meds cut off. Like me, these people were taking them as prescribed. Quite a few of them had the issues I have in my back. What are we all supposed to do? How are we supposed to bear all this pain? 

Because my shoulder pain is so intense, it’s affecting how I sit, stand, walk, even lie in bed. This shoulder pain has already affected my gait and has made me more off balance (ok, cut with the jokes). It’s also going to affect my back pain because I am moving differently to try to lessen the shoulder pain.

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Sunday Stealing-Love Me Some Questions

Hi! I'm your host Bev Sykes of the blog "Funny the World". . Welcome to Sunday Stealing. This feature originated and published on WTIT: The Blog. Here we will steal all types of questions from every corner of the blogosphere. Our promise to you is that we will work hard to find the most interesting and intelligent questions. (Past hosts include: Our first - Judd Corizan, Mr. L, Kwizgiver and

Bud)  Cheers to all of us thieves!

These are from Love Me Some Surveys.

1. Has anyone ever made fun of your taste in music?
Not that I can recall.
2. Is anyone’s birthday coming up?
My spouse.
3. Do you remember who you liked in grade eight?
Yes I do!
4. When was the last time you burned any part of your body?
Yesterday.
5. If I gave you ten dollars, what would you spend it on?
Gas for my car. Going to be some trick to get to the 1st of the month.
6. What are you most excited about right now?
Labor Day. I like planning the menu for holidays. 
7. Does / did either of your parents serve in the military?
My Dad was in the Navy. 
8. Are you somewhat of a perfectionist?
Yes.
9. Do you like sour candy?
Sometimes.
10. Are all nighters something you have grown used to?
Yes.
11. Do you usually wear sunglasses when you’re driving?
Yes. I have the kind you put over your eyeglasses. They look like Ray Ban Wayfarers. So much cooler than the Sun Shield ones.
12. Do you wear your shoes around the house?
I usually wear slippers.
13. What clothes are you most comfortable in?
Casual.
14. Are you good at painting nails?
I am horrible. No matter what I do or how long I wait for them to dry, they don’t dry. I even tried that spray. Still had fingerprints or paint smeared off. It was clear early on that I would not be a girly girl. 
15. Smoothies or slushies?

That depends. Hot weather-slushee, any other time, smoothie. 

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