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Streaming AKA Screaming
Take a Leap
Just do it! Get on board. You’re going to have to do it sooner or later.
These were a few, among many, thoughts I had while surrendering to streaming and a cell phone only existence. There was no other choice, so I jumped in.
The leap was and continues to be traumatic!
I dislike this fast pace, speed talking, push a button. . . data collection, artificial intelligence life style.
Do you?
And Streaming aka screaming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The learning curve is high. But my cable bill was $246.
So let’s talk about AI.
Someone else writing your term paper is plagiarism. Am I wrong?
I was befuddled to learn WordPress now offers an AI component to help bloggers write a post. An individual’s uniqueness is what readers like. Will this have a cookie cutter effect? Personally, I will not put my name on someone else’s work, especially if it enhances, and enriches my writing.
In my opinion, that would be cheating.
I would love to hear your thoughts.
. . . just saying
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What Is Vogue
Vogue is synonymous with fashion, trend, craze, fad, style and the latest. . . exclusivity.
Designer fashion has always been for the rich, however, now even the rich question. . . what they can afford.
Yesterday the March issue of Vogue magazine came in the mail. It is two hundred and seventy-five pages of beautiful photos and many articles.
My daughter used sky miles to subscribe, but since she’s not billed, doesn’t know how to stop them from coming. I don’t usually read the articles because the print is too small, but the title, What Is It With the Price of Clothes?, intrigued me.
Apparently only the richest of the richest are buying. But designers aren’t complaining, because prices are climbing. Channel’s classic quilted flap bag now sells for ten thousand dollars, double what it was five years ago. Why would Channel increase the cost and why do the rich pay the significant jump?
Well, if only the richest of the richest can afford to buy their status increases and so does designers’ profits. . .a win win
However, none of that is my concern. My worry is what to do with the magazines filled with pretty pictures.
Before Covid I would bring magazines to the hospital for their reading cart. Remember reading carts? Sometimes I’d leave them in a doctor’s waiting room. I can’t do that any more. So out of desperation I stacked them.
What do you think?
I’m still conflicted about throwing them out.These are some of the photo from the current magazine.
Ruff, tough and baggie are stylish. I don’t go for any of these looks, although the shoes are classy.
The pictures below aren’t from a photo shoot, but from a professional photographer on the street looking to prove that messy is a trend. I thought a large open over filled hand bag a pick-pickets dream. Wrong! Today, it’s “a marker of modern womanhood”. Go figure.
To make matters worse, I’m binge watching Project Runway and haven’t seen anything I’d buy it I could afford to.
I was never cool, but. . . still. . . is it really fashionable to look frumpy, and messy, your hair in disarray?
Please let me know if there is a way to cancel a subscription you aren’t paying for.
. . . just saying
Cruising
I’m back from a cruise. I went with a group better known as Girls Night Out, or GNO. My mind struggles to state acronyms correctly, and this is no exception, so I tell people I’m going on a cruise and men aren’t invited.
It doesn’t matter where we’re going. All I need to know is the date and boarding time. . . so I don’t have to shop for food, cook and clean for seven days, all in a row.
We left from Port Canaveral, which is within driving distance if you live in Florida. The ports were Norwegian’s or NCL’s private island, Great Stirrup Cay in the Bahamas, Falmouth/ Jamaica, Georgetown/ Cayman Islands and Cozumel/Mexico.
The ship docked in Falmouth port rather than tender, and shopping and restaurants were a few steps away. But walk a little further and you’ll see how most locals live. Signs pave the way into the town center and tell the real story of Britain’s attempts to enslave Jamaicans while passing their efforts as freeing them from poverty.
In Georgetown almost everything was beautiful and we went to the Cayman Turtle Center.
Green turtles are very large, friendly and native to the island. For a time they were endangered and consequently, now protected by law. I did buy something to remind myself they will swim to you and like to be stroked on their head. It’s a new grocery bag to replace my 15 year old one. The photo is the two bags side by side. I planned to discard the old bag but if still has life in it and can’t.
In Cozumel we took a trolley city tour and I bought 12 ounces of Mexican chocolate for $30. I’ll let you know if it taste different from other chocolates. The chocolate factory located on the island employs many people. We do no cooking or cleaning. We mostly. . . just laughed.
. . . just saying
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Mundane Sunday
Mundane Sunday
My Tandem insulin pump, wakes me up at 6 A.M., like an alarm clock would, to let me know I am going low. So, like it or not, I am up for the day.
It’s Sunday morning, January 7th.
Like it or not, I drink a glass of juice, then fix a cup of coffee and a piece of toast.
Now. . . it’s Wordle time.
I started doing the word game last January. In the beginning I struggled. Now I’m fairly good. This morning I figured out the five letter word of the day in less than five minutes. My current winning streak is thirty-seven days long and I feel proud.
At my last eye doctor’s visit, hoping to engage him in normal conversation, I asked if he played the game. I expected to chat about fun or finding time to play. But, his response was a dissertation on vowel versus consonant approaches. His take on a mundane pastime was genius, the only one he had, and why he’s a retina surgeon.
According to him, I use a vowel approach. I always use the word years, because it has three vowels. If none are in the word, I attempt to use the remaining vowels, i o or u.
Well, it is time to shower and blow dry my hair. Then I will bake a crumb cake for my grandson.
Yesterday, January 6th is a date I will always remember because. . . it is also my grandson’s birthday.
The day won’t be totally mundane. Dominic, his wife Marcela, and our daughter Janine, will join us for dinner out, then we’ll come home.
I will light a candle on the crumb cake and we will sing Happy Birthday.
P.S. It’s not snowing in Florida, but I wish it were.
. . . just saying
Metaphor Dice January 2nd 2024
Today I rolled the Metaphor Dice. The words; wonder, memory and unspoken spoke to me. If you would like to use the words in a poem or short story in a post please do. After you post, copy its link in my comment section.
Unspoken
Memory is an unspoken wonder
Disappearing quickly over time
Delete the past to make space for the present . . . or vice verse.
We cling to the passage of time.
Fond memories become fonder, an unspoken wonder of days gone bye.
. . . Claudia just saying
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Thank you Judy. I’m having fun.
Happy New Year 2024
The temperature is forty-five degrees this morning in Ormond Beach and I am sitting outside with blankets and a hot cup of coffee. My nose is cold and occasionally I slip my hands into my robe pockets to keep them warm.
I feel optimistic about the new year, and don’t know why. Certainly world affairs and political agendas paint a dismal picture at best. Perhaps it is the realization of how little power or influence I have. Frequently I have offers, from other seniors, to help me load my groceries into the car. I accept their help gracefully.
As I look back on 2023, the highlights are trumped by health events and staying alive. Please don’t be nervous. My husband and I are well, however, it is a time consuming effort.
Moving forward into the new year, call them resolutions if you like, I’ve decided to stop worrying about; recycling, global warming, the wars in Israel and Ukraine, and how to get people to delete stored emails, or if a semicolon or comma should be used after about in this sentence.
Good health and publishing my novel, Morningside Drive, will be my focus. I planned to publish in February, because Roxanne Hart marries on Valentine’s Day. However, staying healthy got in the way. You’ll be hearing more about Joy Webb, the main character, and her return to Daytona Beach after missing thirty years, to confront her father about the past.
Thank you for supporting my writing.
I wish each of you good health and happiness in the year ahead.
. . . Claudia just saying
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