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Monday, August 3, 2020

#MicroblogMondays: Annoying things & small pleasures

Annoying things: 
  • Dark, gloomy & rainy outside yesterday & today (after a long spell of heat & humidity).  
  • The rain in southern Ontario never seems to "clear the air" of heat & humidity, as it usually did on the Prairies when I was growing up. :(  
  • Realizing that my Kobo e-reader is (gulp) almost full. I know I can remove & (re)add books as needed/wanted, but it's still annoying. 
  • Watching hockey. In August!! The men in my life are thrilled that pro sports are back (hockey, basketball, baseball and soon football -- all at once!)... I could care less even at the best of times (lol), but there are already games being cancelled because of athletes testing positive for COVID-19. Why are they even trying to have a season right now?? 
  • Pro athletes getting tested frequently (& getting prompt results), while others can't. 
  • Long, bushy "mountain man" beards. I think they are SO unattractive (not to mention germ magnets, in the age of COVID...!). 
  • Not being able to think up anything more original for a #MM post. :p  ;) 
Small pleasures: 
  • A semi-decent night's sleep (for a change...!). 
  • Celebrating Younger Nephew's birthday on the weekend, and seeing & holding Little Great-Nephew while we were there. 
  • Looking forward to getting haircuts (yes it's time for trims, again!) later this week. 
You can find more of this week's #MicroblogMondays posts here.  

4 comments:

  1. How lovely to get to spend time with nephews and great-nephews. AND get some sleep. And being able to get haircuts.

    I agree with you on the beards. And ugh, rain SHOULD be refreshing. (I remember my July spent in Rome - the rain saved us several times from the oppressive heat and humidity!) Though I admit I quite like the occasional dark and gloomy day - a good day to read. Or sleep! lol

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  2. Oooh, trims, nephew/great-nephew time, and good night's sleep! Excellent. Feeling you on the gloomy rain, although I do love a good storm. I do NOT enjoy the tornado warning we had a few days ago. Seems we keep getting weird more severe weather lately. I don't know about you up there, but we are supposed to have gloriously cooler weather starting tomorrow. Wednesday looks sunny too, and cooler, like a sneak peek at fall. HA! Bryce totally had the mountain man beard for a while and just trimmed it closer. I thought it was funny, but after a while it felt a little...much. :) A little...Walt Whitman-y. And yeah, sports and the privilege wrapped up in that. Seems some people can get star treatment with testing and results. Harrumph.

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  3. Oh, trims! That sounds wonderful. So does spending time with your nephews and great-nephew, as well as some good sleep. All such good things.

    Totally hear you on the dark weather and the heat/humidity. It really does feel so often like the storms don't clear the stickiness. Agree entirely with you about the pro sports leagues trying to have a season - it's just not safe (plus the frequent tests).

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  4. Sleep...glorious sleep...congrats on that AND a hair trim!

    I'm freaking out about sports now, too, as my menfolk are also tuning in. It feels out of synch for me, the hockey playoffs. I hadn't figured out why until you pointed out the season is usually over by now.

    With you on mountain man beards.

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