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 It is the 29th of December we are fast approaching the end of the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-two.  It is my big cousin/sister/soror's birthday, and I need to call her soon, but I'm feeling very ranty right now.  MORE than usual so wanna hear what has my bonnet in a bunch?!!?  

1.  I'm not sure why this vexes me so, but the Behr (Home Depot) paint color of the year for 2023 is beige.  I don't know why it's beige, out of all the colors on the color wheel they decided to make it BEIGE.  So then I was like well what is Glidden's color of the year?  Theirs is Vining Ivy which is a pretty blue green shade.  BUT THEN I go to see what Valspar's (Lowe's) color is and it is FREAKING BEIGE!!!!  Now of course the color name is not beige, but Ivory Brown, just like Behr's is Blank Canvas.  I was on IG last night and a guy who I don't know nor am I invested in his life was doing a room make-over and painted his walls white or maybe beige... it looked like the same shade it already was and I was like WHY sir who I don't know?!?!  WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT??? which leads into 2

2. Who decided that having multiple parts to a story was the new thing to do?  If you haven't wrapped that shit up in 30 seconds, then WHY?!?  Cause now I have to go to your page, find where you left off alerting IG that I like this type of content so inevitably they give me more, click on several reels until I get to the part 2 and then watch only for there to be a part 3!!  Like ma'am sir, NOOOOO!!! To be honest there are a few that I have been pleasantly surprised, well relating to home improvement.  And then the AITA (am I the asshole) threads always prompt me to watch more because usually most of the people are not in fact the asshole, but they need validation that they are not.  The stories are crazy, like the one where the parent took the mini iPad away from their 6 and 7 year olds several months ago for good reason and wanted to regift it back to them for Christmas.  That is genius if you ask me! Which you didn't...

3. Can we talk about these damn hot flashes?  I thought I was prepared but I was NOT!!  AM NOT!! Currently have the heat on my ankles, but I promise in about 5 minutes I will turn my fan on.  I just started taking black cohosh, but WHY does it say it may take 4 weeks to work?  Like WHY FOR!?!?!?  That literally makes no damn sense.  It just don't!! And misery loves company because one of my girlfriends has flashes now too and I be like I FEEL YOU GURL!!!  My little cousin who just entered her 40's don't quite understand, but she gon learn!!! And... FAN ON!!! I actually can deal with the during the day flashes, it's the wake up at 2:30 am and kick all the covers off, turn the fan on and just lay still until it passes, but then I'm just UP.  Start scrolling through social media, then Paisley thinks this is an invitation for her to hop her loud breathing ass onto the bed and want to be pet and cuddled, NO BITCH, I'M HOT!!! Leave me alone!!!! Now she has an attitude, I have to pee and now my knees are cold so I put the cover just over my knees because I am still sweating and JESUS when will this be over??  And if someone touches my thermostat one mo gin!!???!!!! Oh they have a death wish for sure... on to 4

4. I have new roommates.  Well, 1 new roommate one and her son.  The son is the one who took it upon himself to turn MY thermostat to 70.  Now some of you might say well 70 isn't so bad!  And you would be wrong.  Every house is different.  Mine tends to hold heat and I keep it at a crisp 64.  Don't at me... that's what I am comfortable with.  So this dude walks around with a tank top and shorts.  Like sir YOU HAVE TO PUT ON MORE CLOTHES!!!!  You just have to!!!  I keep a nice basket of blankets, some heavy, some light, and I have a portable heater you can use.  But don't touch the thermostat!!!   I posted the other day that the roommate I had a few years back, her daughter has moved in with me.  And for those that don't know, it's my sister and my nephew LOL (heat back on... knees are chilly).  To say this has been a challenge would be an understatement, but we are working through it, and it is temporary.  I'm just a live by herself kinda chick so it has been an adjustment for me and I know I nitpick, so the obvious stuff to me, is not obvious to everyone involved.  I have to let the small stuff go, burn some sage and keep it moving!

5. That's it!

Have a wonderful New Year!! 

Stay warm and safe!!! 

Tell the ones you love that they are loved!!!!

 

Winter done came!

 I am really not so good at the blogging thing anymore.  I guess I have other outlets and maybe.  I still have very random ass thoughts though, I'm not sure that will ever change.

**Spoilers... but I mean come on the show has been over for 2 years)** In one of my blogs a few years ago I joked that maybe one day I would watch Game of Thrones and get all the jokes, and memes and saying that everyone else did.  And I DID IT!!!  I finally FREAKING DID IT!!!  I watched Game of Thrones.  I'm not sure WHY I wasn't a hopper oner, but the greatness of that show is not oversold.  It really is an amazing series.  And per my usual I have the questions... So what happened to the Children of the Forest?  Are they all dead after the Hodor incident?  And time is a loop because Hodor got 'touched' as a child from something that happened in the future. Staying on the Children... what were the humans doing that was so bad that they needed to create basically a monster to stop the humans only to ban with the humans to stop the Wight (or white I've seen it both ways) walkers?  We never got a good back story on that!  Who was the man they stuck the Dragonstone into to become the Night King? How much did the dude playing the Night King get, cause he never spoke a word.  I really thought they were going to raise the dead from the water but that never happened.  And did the babies grow up to be adult Wight walkers when they got turned from Caster's male baby children.  And that whole thing was gross... they were his wives, daughters, granddaughters and they were all related to each other.  I mean Caster took incest to a BIG nother level.  Moving on... Are there more dragons?!?  I feel like there should have been more eggs/stones somewhere maybe that is explained in the prequel? I had high hopes for Brienne of Tarth and Tormund... but alas she did the dead with Jamie, and low key when she was writing in the book, I thought it was going to be about her being pregnant!  Did Arya really want to be No One?  Or did she know she would get good training there so she could kill all the people on her list? So all or at least most of the people in the East Essoso were brown?!?  I mean the folks in Dorne were too, but they were part of Westeros.  Greyworm did not have a peen, and I have seen an interview with Jacob Anderson the man who played him, who incidentally is in a new series that I want to watch and reimagining of Interview with a Vampire, and he says he did, but NAH!!!  All the gore and naked bodies, well women's naked bodies OH and that one-time Hodor gave us full frontal, and they couldn't show us what the unsullied were working with?!?!  LIKE come on!!  No one had the imagination enough to show us their eunuched private parts?!?!  I actually was on the edge of my couch thinking they were about to show it but then nothing!!  They said it was very graphic in the novel and that was a huge let down that they didn't show that!  I don't think men understand how deeply a woman can love because Missadei LOVED Greyworm, no peen and all.  And she didn't need that to complete making love to and with him.  Oh I'm sure they did some thangs... would have liked to see that mainly cause I like a well crafted love scene and we had seen sooo very much up to that point, I don't want to use my imagination. LET ME SEE!!!!  My favorite characters in no particular order were Tormund (he was comic relief most of the time and he kept NOT dying!!), Samwell (and let's not forget his very sweet moment when he had the secks for the first time), Gendry (who I thought at some point was going to be king or something, I don't know... I KNOW he was a bastard!), Lady Olenna (who was a complete badass up until her death), Little Lady Lyanna (who ALSO was a complete badass up until her death... she was 10!!! and spoke the best good and common sense!!), I mean truth be told all of the women were total badasses with Khaleesi leading the charge! To say I enjoyed this series that I binged for the last few months would be an understatement.  I know I have more questions!  I know I will be rewatching at some point!  And eventually The house of Dragons.  

I just started watching Succession and this is a terrible family, well no specifically a terrible father who has terrible kids.  I'm only on season 2 but I can't look away!!!  Like how you marry a dude and then be like, well you know I might not be able to be monogamous!?! You ok with that??? WHO DOES THAT?!?!  And it is supposed to be funny right, cause I've been laughing the whole time!

In a little over 2 months, I will be 49.  Like WHEN did that happen that I became almost 50?!?!?  HOW SWAY???  I have been trying to think of what I'm going to do, and I think a solo trip is in order.  Still not sure where. I also know I will be having a 49 1/2 birthday bash because it was a good time when I did it at 39 1/2.  Not sure if it will be at my house, or at a park or at a hotel... maybe all 3?!?! Maybe a whole weekend of events... EWWW now that would be fun!!  I'm still thinking, but if you are anywhere near downtown Woodlawn next July 15th. you are invited!!

 

There's something on my back that I need to get off babY...

 The year of our Lord and Savior 2022 and I have not blogged one single word.  I don't have a reason!  My faithful 4 have probably found other blogs to read, or maybe they are on the TikTok... I don't know.  But I am feeling the need and mostly I do this for me so if you read and enjoy, GREAT, if not, dats cool!!

I'm sitting here listening to a vlog on the YouTubes and they are eating Peruvian food, so you know now want Peruvian Food, but the way I'm doing things right now is I am trying to eat the food that is in my house and/or food I purchase to cook myself.  I am trying not to buy food out ALTHOUGH I did yesterday and that McDonald's hash brown and sausage McMuffin was EVERYTHING!  It was crisp and fresh and so good!  And on this past Saturday even though it was not raining at my house, the heavens opened up the second I got to Baltimore City and attempted to run across the street to Sugar Mama's. BTW if yo have not done yourself the favor of stopping by this spot and live in the Baltimore metro area I really need to know why you are living your life that way? I got the jerk chicken on coco bread with fries, and 3 wings on the side and a triple mix. It was worth every single calorie! What I will say that it wasn't even my favorite thing to get there because my usual is a French toast sandwich.  I have digressed... So my goal is to cook more and eat more green veggies and fruits and berries and I am on my way to the Aldis to get food to cook.  And even as I type this I have yet another goal to try new restaurants in the area.  I follow 3 or 4 food bloggers on the Instagram and everything the have, I want.  The way my bank account is set up though tells me that I can't live my life like that.  Also, the 40 pounds that I had lost during all of the Covid (why is there still squiggly lines under covid?!?!) quarantining, well not all but a few of the pounds, have found their way back and I need to get them off and going out frequently is not the right answer.  I attended a webinar at work today and outside of the basic information I already knew, something that I didn't is that berried are a better fruit choice than apples.  You know the saying an apple a day? And I do like strawberries, and blueberries so they are on the list when I hit the store.

If I'm being honest I am pretty bored today.  I probably could be doing a lot of other things, but I don't feel like it.  All the reports I need to do are done.  Paperwork is where it needs to be.  So I'm just going to enjoy this small amount of down time this afternoon.

Also, still in the vein of honesty, I am bummed I don't have a trip that I have planned.  I love the idea of something to look forward to and I have nothing to look forward to right now.  At one point there was supposed to be an Atlantic City getaway and then another point there was supposed to be a Vegas getaway neither of which panned out.  I looked online at some of the various travel groups and no one has anything with availability until next year and the one that did have availability skewed toward a 20 something crowd.  I'm not quite the AARP crowd even though I am a card carrying member EVEN though I am under 50 (and that's a whole nuther thing on my mind cause 50 is way closer than I like to think about some days), but I wanted something that wasn't what I saw.  Then I am completely in my head, because I would like a little weekend SOMETHING, but where?! Do I drive? Do I hop on a plane?  Do I do a staycation? But then where do I drive; where do I fly? How many days?  Do I feel like being bothered with family or friends?  If it's solo then I need to feel safe.  And again... bank account is a consideration as well. So just too many questions and I am way too indecisive to answer any of the above.

And then these fucking men I work with/for.  MAKE A DECISION!!  Right or wrong then that will be that.  Which is funny because I just said I was indecisive, but business is business and your lack of decision making affect ME!! Also, they get paid tons more than me to make decisions.  I am so low on the totem pole and  I am interested in making my life easier, so if you want me to do whatever thing I need to do to make your life easy, you best to believe I am going to do the thing that make MY life easy.  And that's all I got to say about that!!

Some good TV I've been watching... P-Valley **no spoilers** but BAYBEEE the secks scenes have made me holler!!  And every one is having the secks!!!  Same secks!  Opposite secks!! Tittays OUT!!! Punani OUT!!!! Peen... OUT!!!!! wait.. is there peen out in this show or ws that another show?  It is a bit much but I'm here for it!! And I will say, whatever Diamond did to Mercedes to get the weight off her, I  NEED!!!

I just started re-watching New Girl and it still holds up.  It is a funny ass show.  I watched Dopesick and it is so fucked up that big pharma specifically that family in that show which is a real family are all about money,  I mean trying to heal people is NOT the main goal every.  I just finished the 2nd season of Russian Doll and that show was good!  I still have to start Stranger Things, I just haven't been in the mood.  And Barry... season 2 ep 5 was THEE most hilarious.  Now this is a dark comedy, but I literally laughed out loud the entire episode.  Like I shouldn't be laughing at people trying to kill other people, BUT I DID!!  Umbrella Academy left me wanting MORE!!!  I still can't get into The Expanse, but I finally got to a point where I was like OH OK... I get it.  Kenobi, is epic Star Wars goodness.  I like sci fi clearly!!  Ms. Marvel is a cute lil show.  And I am majorly pissed Naomi got canceled.  I started the latest season of Queen Sugar and Ralph Angel is still fine... but his accent isn't as ridiculous.  I need for Aunt Vi to calm down!! I'm only a few episodes in.  also, Everything's Trash so far so good, the main chicks acting is not the best, but I can dig it!

OK... I am feeling a little lighter now!  I still have a lot of thoughts and this is just a small snippet of my randomness but it's nice to get it down and off my chest.