Aye! All you Stalkers out there, I see you!!!

The Internets is a perverse pleasure.  It's a land of unbridled voyeurism, no shame, and a place to spill every dirty little detail of your life, if you should choose to do so. I'm not so sure I need "Fred" and his second cousin George knowing what I had for breakfast today.  I asked a few of these free sharers about why they do it, and overwhelmingly the response was "Oh, nobody looks at it anyway".  Oh yes, they do!!

It's their business, and I fully admit I find humor in some of it, and a lot of times it's "Really?  Who fucking cares!!" Attention whores? Maybe. I love my weekends when I can unplug and not think about it.  Meet people face to face, get out, do stuff!!  Life is too short to be acting out a drama scene for a bunch of crazed looky-loos.

I know you're thinking, wow, talk about hypocrisy!!!  I suppose one could infer that a blog isn't much different than social media, but at least here you can pick a topic and possibly crank out a paragraph or two about some subject a few might find intriguing. For whatever it's worth.



Raven, signing off.

The cold continues

We're now 2 days away from March, and we have about 3 feet of snow on the ground, and today marked about the 50th day of sub zero weather.  It sucks.  There is nothing we can do about it, but complain to anyone that will listen.  I really can't say anymore, I think I stand where everyone else does, and simply want my life back and be able to go outside and do things.

It's been a quiet week.  There was an incident last weekend in which a friend of mine got mad at me and pretty much told me to go to hell.  I very pretty shocked by it, and sad.  I think there was some sort of misunderstanding, or we both saw the situation differently.  It really doesn't matter why, because I feel bad that it happened.  Time heals, so I am hoping at some point things will smooth over.  A mutual friend seems to think this, that two people saw the same thing in two different ways.

Meanwhile, so far this cold season I have binge watched Breaking Bad and Sons of Anarchy.  Loved both of them.  BB has to be close to an all time favorite for me, I liked it even better than a few seasons of Dexter.  I just started The Shield, and am 4 episodes into that now, and so far I am liking it.  Lots of cross characters in this one. 

The gym has also kept me busy. I am getting in 2-3 spin classes a week, and weight routine 2x.  I am happy with what I am seeing, but also am wanting more, to be in 100% top shape. My biggest fallback is food.  I don't eat junk, but I do eat processed.  That's about all there is for a single person who doesn't cook.  Ah well, it could be worse. 

Below is how much snow is off my back patio.  I think it should be labeled obscene.

Some Days Are Diamonds

It's the middle of the week and not much is going on.  I really don't have anything interesting to say today.  It's another diamond day, weather-wise....weatherbug is reporting 40.  Another long walk is on tap for today. 

I miss my audience from long ago.  Maybe you're all FB junkies now, I was for awhile but it got old. So if you're reading this, at least comment, let me know I am not talking to myself, I already do enough of that.  I even made it so you can comment anonymous and don't have to sign up. 

Meanwhile, I guess I'll just throw whatever I want out here and hope someone bites.

Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday

Well hello again!  I am still here, alive and mostly well.  I will start right off and say that never, in my time on this planet, have I been through a winter as miserable as this.  It started December 1st, and hasn't let up and we're damn near through February.  It's relentless, it's repulsive, it's maddening.  People are snarky, people are depressed, people are short-fused, and who can blame them? I at first thought it was just me, and was thinking that oh yeah, people up here are reveling in it, they are making snowmen and snow forts, and skiing, all that, and I find that really isn't the case. 

What do we do?  We complain about it endlessly on Facebook :) 

So what's good in the world right now?  Hmmm let's see.  I am having a really hard time getting past this winter thing, oh, and the fact this country is still on a major downward slide into total destruction, but let's look beyond that, even if only briefly.

Spring WILL get here, we WILL be able to be outside until 9:30pm on patios, talking around Citronella candles.  Crickets will chirp, we'll be able to watch for falling stars, BBQs will kick off again.  Sunroofs will be open, music cranked up, socks will be left in their drawers.  See?  I am not always thinking about doomsday. It's the simple things that get you through.  Right now it's Tuesday.  Tuesday is a blah day.  It almost sucks more than Monday, because Monday already has enough haters.  Wednesday is hump day, Thursday you're getting closer to the weekend, and then Friday, oh how I love thee!  But Tuesday just plain sucks.

Think of it this way: You've already gotten up and are probably at work, so you're one step closer to closing Tuesday out for another week.  Yep!  Sometimes it's the little things.......