Quick thoughts

I am home for a few days and I have these thoughts running around in my head…

Pro football is at it’s very best right now and it helps me get through the cold days of January. This past weekend hubby and I watched 4 good games, and I made some chili yesterday. There is nothing like watching cold fans in the stands, from the warmth of my living room with a hot bowl of chili with cheese and sour cream on top!

Taylor Swift handles fame and all the attention in a pretty amazing way! I am in awe of how she goes on, acts herself, and seems to enjoy life. I said this before, but I think she and Travis are a good match: both are celebrities, excellent in their fields, they entertain, and they work hard and always want to do a wonderful job. Both love family. Both seem grounded in a crazy world of social media saying whatever they want to say. Keep going TayTay and Trav!

DeSantis just dropped out of the race for the Republican nominee for president. He has captured the news almost as much as Trump, and he has had wacko ideas just like Trump. (Book banning, Disney hate, LBGTQ hate, and more) Bye. Bye. Think of all the money he spent spewing his ideas across the country and especially in Iowa. What a waste. We sure need to change the political primary system.

My old, blind, hard of hearing, diabetic pug is still hanging in there. I can’t help but wonder about her quality of life. Obviously her favorite sense now is touch. I have noticed her sense of smell has definitely been important and seems increased at this point in her life. She can smell any food I try to eat (sneak) near her. And, sometimes I think she is sound asleep but she smells me tiptoe by and cries. She also sometimes wakes up from a nap on the couch, realizing she is alone and cries. Sad.

The past two days have been frigid for South Carolina. It’s enough cold weather for me. I could never live in a cold climate without getting depressed, and feeling listless. That’s just me. I need warmth and sunshine. It’s coming back tomorrow. Yay!

I have read some weird books lately. I struggle to finish them but I don’t like stopping part way through and calling it a lost cause. I am reading “A Little Life” by Hanna Yanaghara. Oh my! Deep. Depressing. Sad. I am thinking of skipping to the last chapter to see how it ends, so I can move on. Again, it’s not my normal way of reading – but I have a stack of other books that I want to get started on, and I hate wasting the time.

CoVid. Some of my friends have had it again this winter. As something that is still relatively new in terms of illnesses that effect us, still I worry. Some people seem to breeze through it. I have stayed current on the boosters and I have been okay, knock on wood. But I also know of a few people who keep getting bouts of it, and it can really take it’s toll. A friend’s husband just took his own life last week after being diagnosed with his 3rd bout in a row. CoVid effects people in many different ways, and we really don’t know all that much about it yet. Maybe we will in ten years. Maybe inoculations and meds will be better by then. But for now, CoVid is still scary. Don’t dismiss it.

Wrinkles. Ugh. Mine are getting bad. I’d love to hear from ladies my age on what they smear on their face to help fight them.

Trump – he is becoming delusional on top of everything else. He has always been a racist and a narcissist but now he is confused and seems like he is mentally weaker than he used to be. It still amazes me that people actually believe in him.

Things to believe in: Children. Music. Nature.

Keep life balanced with seeing the beauty and the good in all these things. Children. Music. Nature: these three make the world go round. They give us a look at all that we want to be. They remind us of what is not important to worry about too. Hang with children. Listen to music. Spend time in nature.