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Nov. 1st, 2016 10:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittydesadeI exist I swear. And I had fun and funny things to say about yesterday and unpacking from the show but I can't for the life of me remember what they were except oh thank god it's over.
Halloween happened! (Samhain happened too, but more quietly.) I think we had fewer kids than last year, which in retrospect had Halloween on a Friday, but we also had to compete with church functions which apparently one of those functions was to keep kids off the sidewalks. We were also one of the only houses on our stretch of block to be lit up for trick or treating. What's up with that. We gave away less candy partly because fewer kids but also because two thirds of the kids, instead of the usual grab a handful I remember if the person offered out the bowl, took one piece. Who does that? I ask you. We even asked them "no, it's okay, you can take a handful" but no, one piece was sufficient thank you very much. It's free candy, kids! I have no idea.
Oh well? Lots of leftover candy for Nanowrimo. Which is here! And me with a sore wrist already. Although going by the first frenzy of packing and tape gun madness and so on typing doesn't aggravate whatever's causing this kind of soreness, so I should be all right as long as I don't type too much in any one stretch, and maybe use the dictation program some.
Trying not to think too much about politics. I am the most annoyed at the gnawing fear and upset creeping up some more though. The most annoyed. And even after the election, it's not going to automagically bottle up all the hatred of the 'other' that Trump's stirred up in straight white cismen. And now we all still have to deal with that to one extent or another. I just. Argh. A Latino guy had six cops called on him because two Spirit Halloween employees didn't want to return a light bulb, and if he'd been black they probably would have killed him. Over a fucking light bulb. Meanwhile in a study that surprises no one, hatred of women is a strong predictor of supporting Trump. I am so, so fucking tired of being hated for the stupidest of reasons that is nothing I can do anything about.
I do need to get my health care stuff taken care of though. Woke up at 5.30-5.45 in the fucking morning today, for no readily apparent reason, so the hour or so I would have spent threading the wonderful world of dental insurance I instead spent sleeping. Tonight, though, I will try the open enrollment because fuck everything I want that over with. If I'm very lucky my premiums will be less ridiculous than they are this year. I am healthy with one chronic condition, I take two regular medications, I don't smoke, I don't drink, I exercise, I see the doctor once a year for a physical. Possibly slightly more than that in the future to keep up with said chronic condition but that means at most four times a year for fifteen minutes three of those visits. I should not be fucking paying this much for health insurance. I would accept higher than seems reasonable if it were a single payer system and I was paying taxes for health care for everyone, but fuck you all you are a business trying to sell me a product and I am saving you money, do something for me. At the very least cover more of my fucking asthma medication.
I should have less angry and more happier things for you here but I have five knitting projects on needles right now because of this stress. I guess, happier is that I did fix my spinning wheel? I found out when I went to spin on it again that one of the treadle connectors should have been replaced when I replaced the other one, oops. But that got fixed with the help and steady patience and better functioning wrist of the boy, and I think that's all the moving parts that need replaced for a good long while. So I have spinning, I have sewing I really really really need to do. I have things to occupy me that are not politics! And stories to write, for Nano and otherwise. OH SO MANY STORIES DO I HAVE.
Halloween happened! (Samhain happened too, but more quietly.) I think we had fewer kids than last year, which in retrospect had Halloween on a Friday, but we also had to compete with church functions which apparently one of those functions was to keep kids off the sidewalks. We were also one of the only houses on our stretch of block to be lit up for trick or treating. What's up with that. We gave away less candy partly because fewer kids but also because two thirds of the kids, instead of the usual grab a handful I remember if the person offered out the bowl, took one piece. Who does that? I ask you. We even asked them "no, it's okay, you can take a handful" but no, one piece was sufficient thank you very much. It's free candy, kids! I have no idea.
Oh well? Lots of leftover candy for Nanowrimo. Which is here! And me with a sore wrist already. Although going by the first frenzy of packing and tape gun madness and so on typing doesn't aggravate whatever's causing this kind of soreness, so I should be all right as long as I don't type too much in any one stretch, and maybe use the dictation program some.
Trying not to think too much about politics. I am the most annoyed at the gnawing fear and upset creeping up some more though. The most annoyed. And even after the election, it's not going to automagically bottle up all the hatred of the 'other' that Trump's stirred up in straight white cismen. And now we all still have to deal with that to one extent or another. I just. Argh. A Latino guy had six cops called on him because two Spirit Halloween employees didn't want to return a light bulb, and if he'd been black they probably would have killed him. Over a fucking light bulb. Meanwhile in a study that surprises no one, hatred of women is a strong predictor of supporting Trump. I am so, so fucking tired of being hated for the stupidest of reasons that is nothing I can do anything about.
I do need to get my health care stuff taken care of though. Woke up at 5.30-5.45 in the fucking morning today, for no readily apparent reason, so the hour or so I would have spent threading the wonderful world of dental insurance I instead spent sleeping. Tonight, though, I will try the open enrollment because fuck everything I want that over with. If I'm very lucky my premiums will be less ridiculous than they are this year. I am healthy with one chronic condition, I take two regular medications, I don't smoke, I don't drink, I exercise, I see the doctor once a year for a physical. Possibly slightly more than that in the future to keep up with said chronic condition but that means at most four times a year for fifteen minutes three of those visits. I should not be fucking paying this much for health insurance. I would accept higher than seems reasonable if it were a single payer system and I was paying taxes for health care for everyone, but fuck you all you are a business trying to sell me a product and I am saving you money, do something for me. At the very least cover more of my fucking asthma medication.
I should have less angry and more happier things for you here but I have five knitting projects on needles right now because of this stress. I guess, happier is that I did fix my spinning wheel? I found out when I went to spin on it again that one of the treadle connectors should have been replaced when I replaced the other one, oops. But that got fixed with the help and steady patience and better functioning wrist of the boy, and I think that's all the moving parts that need replaced for a good long while. So I have spinning, I have sewing I really really really need to do. I have things to occupy me that are not politics! And stories to write, for Nano and otherwise. OH SO MANY STORIES DO I HAVE.