Couch 206: The Hersilia Couch

Uh oh, I better get to the gym so I can keep up with you!

Weights today. yesterday and tomorrow.

I’m watching Grease and waiting for H to get done eating so we can go run an errand. I walked a ton yesterday. 4 miles total with the dog and I also went to the Outlets then to a mall. So I don’t feel terrible I only walked him a mile today. He will go for another mile walk after I get back from the store.

Altho... i got a flu shot friday from my favorite pharmacist, and i havent been able to tell if i was illin or not, so i was a little pukey friday night, and now my ribcage hurts from hocking, so youd THINK SD would show me a little honey-whiskey, but nooooo....

But i am soooooo proud of myself for being consistent and getting shyte done. Not that anybody could TELL but me - i mean we are talking micrometers less mess here, but hey its math and it counts!

I am digging on old western movies lately. Yesterday i watched The Horse Soldiers with John Wayne, William Holden, and Strother Martin (whom i adooore!); tonight will be 10 Wanted Men, of whom Lee Van Cleef is one Also Skip Homeier, which is just such a great name!

Eta - also the stinking badges guy is in it!!!

In other advent calendar news, for all the cat people here, Trader Joe's is bringing out a cat advent calendar filled with yummy treats for your kitties. They apparently previously had a dog one.

I love Stockard Channing.

She has to be, what now? Probably close to 80.

Me too! I think she is a bit older than i am, so yeah.

My mom just called, I tried to be my usual cheerful self but she could hear in my voice that I'm not and asked what was wrong. I couldn't tell her cuz it's so ridiculous. Oh well. Time to go to the haunted house thing. I may have to get a margarita over there.

Managed to do 3 of the 5 things I wanted to do today. Going to try to do the other 2 things tomorrow after T. I feel like crap after the pumpkin patch. An hour in the sun and it's sucked any energy out of me that I had.

You ageists, she’s only my mom’s age (75).

Speaking of whom, my mom has an irritated nerve in her back and is having physical therapy for the first time ever. Being my mom, she keeps complaining the at-home exercises are “too easy.” And she uses the stretching times to massage her cat to up the difficulty.

She can borrow my 80lb dog and massage him if she wants.

I'm considering a T break. Even saying that scares me. I just want to see how I do without it.

I just started PT for my back. I have yet to see anybody else there under the age of 65...

I have just listened to a speech the Danish Crown Prince's wife gave at his 50th birthday gala. It is one of the sweetest speeches I have ever heard. It is on youtube.

The cup my margarita came in haha

Tonight is just what I needed h and I are having fun

In one of the shows here they sang the katy perry song roar it is now my new anthem roooaaaarrrr!!!!!

Is there anyone here into scifi who can explain the appeal of the genre?

Scifi in the sense of shooting lasers and interstellar wars and lots of time spent on technology. I do read some scifi but it’s more like literary scifi (think Gene Wolfe).

I’m trying to read the submission for tomorrow night’s workshop. It’s scifi. I’m not criticizing those who like it, I just don’t see the appeal and it makes it hard for me to make useful comments on scifi drafts. I like the writer and would like to be helpful to her.

Eta: for instance, how do I treat a sex scene between two demons?

I suppose it depends on how well-written the sex scene is.

That last haunted house made me scream twice eek!

I love my margaritas out of a stocking leg cup lololl

TMI, women's body stuff

You ever see the movie Species?

I used to looooove scifi. Of course i prefer mine slightly tongue in cheek, or very sad.

Some of my favorite short stories are:

Eyes do more than see - i think by isaac asimov

All summer in a day - ray bradbury

Robert sheckley? I think was also quite amusing. I vaguely remember something about a vacuum cleaner, but it was the best thing i ever read.

Eta - just googled it - called, "can you feel anything when i do this?" written in 1969.