Games, Gaming & Re-establishing my Life Balance

My (adult) Grandson [the one here in NC] sold me his Nintendo Switch awhile ago .. I just recently bought Animal Crossing New Horizons and started playing it :) .. it is as much fun as I remember from all those years ago when he was a little boy and chopped down all the trees in his Mom's town .. lololol .. I think he cut down all mine too but I cannot remember for sure now. One thing that makes me laugh is that there is a toilet .. ya sit on it and when ya get up .. it flushes!!!!! I laughed til I cried the day of discovering that :) I told my daughter .. she thinks it is hilarious too :) AND Saharah sold me a carpet with a pnd in the middle .. it sloshes as I walk thru it!!!

I am taking a vacation from ESO (Elder Scrolls Online) .. the next chapter, "Necrom" launches June 5th so now is a good time to take a break :) and I want to spend more time doing art .. traditional Inktense pencil-to-paper as well as using my Artisul tablet to create some digital art. Little Doggie wants me to spend more time with him too :)

He was sooo happy earlier .. we were outside when his favorite neighbors came home from their errand .. he got petted by both of them .. he adores them both very much but his very favorite is the wife :) I agree with him that she is a wonderful person!!! Her husband is a very good and kind man too!!! We are very lucky to have the very best neighbors!!!

 I took a test today :) This is the result .. No I was NOT surprised INFJ-Personality Link 

"Advocates are quiet visionaries, often serving as inspiring and tireless idealists."

December 2021 & January 2022 Thoughts

Covid continues to ravage the world .. I went for my vaccine booster shot a week late due to my daughter having food poisoning .. being 70 with COPD-Emphysema means I have a giant target on me .. I am as careful as I can be. Who knew even 2 years ago that someday we would be grateful for food poisoning instead of Covid.

American Politics continue to frighten me :( .. I do not understand why most of the Republican party .. Trump on down through the Congressional ranks down to local American city dog catchers if found to be involved .. are not behind bars for their part in Jan 6th. That is a day I cannot forget .. watching it happen on the tv screen was horrifying .. them wanting to HANG the Vice President .. they built a scaffold outside the building!!! They were using an American Flag on a flagpole to attack police officers .. they put a confederate flag in place of a US Flag .. I am ashamed of each and every one of them :( they were behaving like Nazi's .. our ancestors are probably still turning in their graves at them desecrating the very meaning of our Country and the symbols of our Democracy.

The little doggie is still full of himself and full of barks he is more than happy to share with the world :) He brings soooo much joy and happiness to my life as well as keeping me ACTIVE .. walks are important :)

I survived the xmas holidays :) and the Happy New Year celebrations tho it was very quiet mostly here thankfully. I am still playing ESO :) though probably not physically fit enuf to play a healer for Veteran Dungeon or Trial content .. it is far too intense. Getting OLD is not for the faint of heart :)

I saw this image today on Facebook - it is also on Instagram: Sweatpants & Coffee


It made me really think about our children's today reality vs what we wish it could be for them ..sigh .. In some ways this reminds me of the days of the polio vaccine rollout .. tho everyone in my neighborhood and school was HAPPY to get the vaccine. In my 50's, I worked with a lady who had had polio as a child .. she was grateful to be alive and well considering everything tho by then she spent a lot of time in a wheelchair or her leg braces.

Happy GOTCHA Day!!!

Today is Little Doggie's GOTCHA DAY :) .. I have been his Mama for 4 years now .. Happy Anniversary Little Doggie!!! He went for a bath and a haircut 2 days ago .. he gets chilled a lot easier now than before when he had lots of hair. He still has a summer cut .. he loves his sweaters for colder weather though.

 I take lots of pictures but most of them end up on my Facebook not that many of him on My Instagram. Mostly I post my art to Instagram.

The Pandemic has worn me down along with all the Political divisions and the craziness of ppl NOT wanting to get vaccinated and they are dying because of it and also taking others who do not want to die with them :( 

I pray our Country & our people find some common sense soon and remember that Science is good for them as well as for us!!!

2020 Quarantine Holiday Season

 I have always loved the festive decorations and traditional carols and discovering other peoples holiday traditions.

As a kid I used to go caroling in our neighborhood .. and I could not carry a tune in a bucket .. lol .. yet I was asked to go caroling every holiday season.

I have my little tree on a stand and plug it in at nite and I have been listening to traditional xmas music too.

When I saw this article on FB .. I had to go read it :) Hope you enjoy it too!!!

Happy Holidays from me to you & yours!!!

Kolyada: The Old Slavic Winter Solstice | Kolyada: The Old Slavic Winter Solstice (patheos.com)

My American Election Nov 2020 Aftermath Feelings

The election was yesterday .. I voted DEMOCRATIC: up and down my ballot .. starting with Joe Biden and ending with our local races.

.. as expected AND as NORMAL .. we do not have a clear winner yet .. votes are still being counted in several states .. there was a RECORD-BREAKING number of votes .. but .. below .. THIS is what I posted on my personal Facebook wall this morning:

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".. win lose or draw - I feel so betrayed today

I am not depressed nor suicidal .. I just feel heart-sick .. approximately HALF of Americans voted for the orange traitor & the red-thugs for the US Congress yesterday

... 238,000+ DEAD Americans from Covid today mean NOTHING to any of you .. nor will the next 238K+

... you voted for Covid to continue killing American ppl unchecked

... you voted for systemic racism to continue to kill People of Color unchecked

... you voted to put USA life for us all back into the Middle Ages with your abortion bans & gay marriage bans & hundreds of guns in every home & street & grocery store ideology

... you voted to resurrect Nazi Germany & Hitler on American soil

OUR Ancestors who fought in WW II against Fascism are turning over in their graves. I am ashamed of each and every one of you who voted Republican in this election.

I am NOT surprised .. I wish I were .. the numbers are in and still coming in. You cannot take back what you have done.

May YOUR Golden Calf bring you exactly what you deserve." ==========

I am not sure how I will get involved in my local community in the near future being that I am nearly 70, no longer drive and little doggie cannot be left home alone in the apt .. but I will figure it out and channel my inner Dr King Spirit of NEVER GIVING UP & moving mountains .. EVENTUALLY!!!

Dr King was a wonderful man .. I admired him while alive and I still admire him today!!!

Art Communicates & Connects

Over the years, I have been accused of being a nice person many times .. many have detested me for being nice. I did not really understand so I just never really paid a lot of attention to it since I am normally a happy person UNTIL I became an elderly single woman that felt life-draining depressingly unloved & unwanted & worthless with zero reason to live AFTER someone online .. seemingly deliberately .. took advantage of my kindness, generosity & loving heart. I HEALED .. and the experience did have some beneficial health effects in my recovery from Dementia process - it was far cheaper than any Occupational Therapy would have been .. BUT .. I still need to work more on my boundaries!!!

I do not know if it is possible for me to unlearn living in auto-TRUST mode.

I do not even know yet if I WANT to live in an auto-UNtrust mode.

Here are a few of the articles I read this morning

• Why Would People Dislike a Nice Person?
  
• 10 Things Nice People Do Differently That Make Them Achieve More
• The Dangers of Being Nice
  
• Sensory Overload Meltdown
• The Art of Autism: One of my favorite quotes is:“If you’ve met one person with autism, you’ve met one person with autism.” – Dr. Stephen Shore

Turns out that being a nice person actually has a lot of unexpected good benefits :) Yet I am all too aware of the dangers of being nice as well from my lack of social comprehension and abusive childhood. Plus I still have sensory overload meltdowns sometimes. I also used to be a writer - personal and professional. I was quite good at it :) tho I have serious communication issues .. but I discovered that I can say with art what I have no words to say. I still have a LOT to say that only art [both words & pictures] can coax into it making sense to others.

I just replaced the computer monitor on my desktop .. the old one just quit working one day. I did not think to buy a touchscreen monitor even though I have been wanting one for years - I love the one on my slow ancient Win [7 upgraded now to] 10 laptop. I have a drawing tablet my family bought me for Christmas - simple & uncomplicated to use.

I have not been using my drawing tablet much because my hands are painfully swollen and sore a lot more now since the doctor changed my medications this year. I had not really noticed that I was not using it much until yesterday. That discovery was traumatic for me. My current linearly thinking during all this dementia healing means that .. sometimes .. I just do not "see" more than one branch of the tree at a time. Other times I see all of the "tree". I need digital painting in my life as well as traditional painting. My art career started with discovering that I could oil paint via the Bob Ross method. Arthritis & Fibromyalgia took that away from me. Digital painting gave it back to me.

My entire family have amazingly awesome physical art/drawing abilities that I do not :( But I am the one that WANTS & NEEDS to create art as a work career as well as a daily life need to communicate. Art communicates. Art touches people where they live. Art connects us to ourselves as well as to each other. My new touchscreen monitor arrives tomorrow :)