Inconformista

Had a mostly happy post but then saw the news. The government (ICE) has murdered another US Citizen.

My heart hurts. This is not okay.

His poor family! And government officials spreading lies when the video shows him unarmed.

A nurse at a VA hospital trying to help someone the thugs had pepper sprayed.

Screams into the void.

Where's the supreme Court? Where's Congress? My Congress critters support him. Rick Scott is one of ours. Rubio was one of ours...

I hope everyone who stayed home and didn't vote is proud of themselves.

You did it.

Let us hope he doesn't get the civil war he's hoping to invite and use to deny elections.

Let us hope we can vote then out and end all this fuckery.

But I will always hope everyone who stayed home steps in a dozen Legos a day and gets food poisoning every time they are traveling in a car and can't find a toilet.

Hope this makes sense I'm so tired I can't see well anymore.

I hate sensitive skin so much. At any moment a skin product that didn't irritate me might irritate it. Rash up... Need a bandaid? Despite using sensitive skin bandaids and being extra careful peeling it off not only is the skin around it irritated but some of it is torn.

I'm having a flare up of a chronic skin issue too. So I keep having to lay down and have Ian regauze and tape the area so it doesn't tear my skin.

I am extra frustrated today because last night I couldn't get comfortable and ended up aggravating the flare up by scratching.

I also feel like I do right before my period.

Haven't had my period in a few months, am perimenopausal... But maybe she's coming or maybe my hormones are a mess. I do have polycystic ovarian syndrome.

Jasper cat is still slightly wobbly from his pain medicine. Last night he seemed like he might be in pain from his arthritis and the cold. He seems to be feeling better and is currently shouting at my husband. Because he wants cuddles and food but Ian is still at the computer doing engineering things.

This post is super whiny but then again when I'm in pain my inner 5 year old is out. And she wants cookies.

It's a high of 55 degrees Fahrenheit here in Florida. And the yearly ritual of hot tea, wrapping myself up in blankets begins.

This skit is pretty accurate for life in the South when it's cold:https://youtu.be/A_UWChMGUOk?si=oRthVD5huD1oT3GV

Especially the bit about the heating. It's one of two reasons I don't turn the heat on. The other one being the winter bills being cheap makes up for the other nine months or so that my bills are insane.

I spent today playing with pixels and remembering how to make icons. After a few atrocities not to be seen by human eyes, I got several I really enjoy. Some were posted in today and yesterday's prompts for daily icons.

I also spent sometime watching different YouTube videos about people from Europe reacting to a video about how big the United States is based on how many times Great Britain can fit into different states. Or people tasting southern style biscuits and gravy with sweet iced tea for the first time.

I especially like the ones that are disgusted until they realize it's sausage gravy over a plain scone and not a cookie with brown gravy.

But the reactions to iced tea are always fun. It's hot and humid much of the year of course we serve our tea over ice.

Due to various things, I haven't had sweet tea in forever but plain unsweetened iced tea is probably my most drank beverage.

Sadly, since giving up Instagram, I don't get to watch videos about people living in Germany learning about the apparently really complex garbage and recycling rules. Which is a shame because I found them both funny and fascinating. Same with videos about how German windows open versus the UK. The algorithm loved showing me those and I loved watching them.

Pretty much any video about differences between regions are always fascinating to me. I remember finding out years ago that a lot of places don't have central ac. I was fascinated even as I shared tips I normally only use when the Ac breaks or hurricane power outages to keep comfortable.

I changed my layout a bit but I'm not fond of how the colors look in dark mode but I don't want to turn dark mode off on my phone as it helps with my headaches and saves batteries.

About another hour before Ian and I will be playing Satisfactory all weekend. I think we're making tacos for dinner tonight.

Other things I watched today are videos about how to make sauerkraut. Since hurricane Milton, a year ago, my favorite restaurant closed down and their homemade kraut and schnitzel with mushroom gravy were amazing... But sadly they got damaged and chose to retire.

Although I don't know that I want to ferment my own food... So it may just be one of those things. Which is a pity, jarred isn't the same.

I'm so tired today. I had a doctor's appointment. The office required every 3 month to maintain my prescription for blood sugar meds and such. The follow up of the follow up of the follow up... For the past four years of follow ups.

It was a good one. My blood pressure was a lower normal reading, my weight was 13 pounds lighter. I'm morbidly obese so that's great news. Left with the promise of blood work in my future and the paperwork to get a mammogram.

The rest of the day was spent working on my farm in farm together 2 and avoiding playing dreamlight valley. I haven't wanted to play lately.

We had a sub for dinner because Ian's work got hectic in the late afternoon as one of his clients screwed up and made it Ian's problem. So when I mentioned the sub shop had a buy one get one sub...

Nori cuddled me a lot today as well. I also got the spreadsheet working again for the fanfiction yearly challenge on Tumblr.

https://www.tumblr.com/fanfic-reading-challenge/804532138916577280/the-2026-fanfic-
reading-challenge-link?source=share

It involves keeping track of the fanfiction I read and I'm curious which fandoms end up on top and which ships.

I finished reading my first book of the year last Friday. It was the English translation of a Chinese book. The English version is called to the sky kingdom by Tang Qi. The whole time I was reading it I couldn't put it down and thought it sounded like the C-dramas my best friend adores. And lol and behold it is. The drama is called Eternal Love and I'm enjoying watching it acted out but with changes of course. The book was better but
I see why they made it chronological the book is constantly switching times as she remembers things. But it was a great book that I apparently got years ago for free.

I'm also working on a book for the sub stack group Big Read where this year we are reading Les Miserables all year a chapter a day. So far I'm enjoying the read but I don't know anything about the plot and it's a slow but charming start.

Jasper has been sleeping through the night again for the past week hopefully he's over whatever was bugging him for the past few months since he had eye surgery. Where he'd come in screaming and scratch at my husband until Ian carried him to the couch and slept out there with him.

Let's see is there anything else going on? Hmm...

I made beef stroganoff with Spätzle for the noodles and it was so good. I'm going to be sad if Aldi's doesn't have the dried Spätzle noodles again. Last year they only had it for a few months.

https://www.spendwithpennies.com/easy-beef-stroganoff/#wprm-recipe-container-149619

There's the recipe if you want the most delicious beef stroganoff I've ever had. We used portalbella for the mushrooms as those are the only ones Ian likes.

Here we go a nice fun post that doesn't center around how stressful things are. It's almost like back in the good pre 2016 days...