I got a lot done this weekend

 

My favourite MadTV sketch

I really don't like SUVs, unless you have a Land Rover on safari.

A strange heirloom

My stepmother recently sent me something from my great-grandparents' farm that my dad had and I love it. It was always in their living room. It has been put in a place of honour on my bookcase headboard on my bed. 🙂 Behold, the Duncan family ceramic frog!

This child could have been me

Although I do have evidence I could hula hoop at some point. At one point someone I knew who is a graphic designer made it a Yule card cover:

A decent day

Today I was off work. I had a great PT appointment, took friend to the doctor, and went to the dentist who fixed a broken tooth in addition to the teeth cleaning. She figured out why it was breaking (another tooth was too high and was going up against it when I ate). She took that one down and they essentially did a filling with the correct colour on my front tooth which has now chipped in the same place four times. So I have a smile again.😃Plus it was nice to get away from work, with its week of Mondays, or so it has seemed, for a day.

This is so me

So this morning my physical therapist [who is 6'4"] and I were talking about height differences in setting up the table I'm using [I've apparently lost a bit of height, as last time I was measured, by my orthopaedist, I was 5'3", so it's a significant difference), as well as my difficulty feeling the movements of my lower shoulder blades when trying to do my exercises. This led to a discussion of my short arms and he mentioned Tyrannosaurus arms [which a friend also teases me about]. He asked me if I'd ever seen 'Meet the Robinsons' (which I haven't) and showed me this clip, which I found hilarious, although I should probably be a bit offended. I love the dinosaur waving around his tiny arms.

Love this...

A bluesey-Bluegrass version of the classic

My therapist, who is a musician, shared this with me.

My view on things

Hmmm....okay, I'm finally weighing in on this. Although I am not Jewish, I did minor in Judaic Studies, took classes on the Arab-Israeli conflict, get news from a variety of sources, am trained to evaluate them, and at least tangentially know people impacted by the attacks on October 7th and beyond. Don't get me wrong, I'm very much for peace in this conflict. But this, along with a lot of videos showing protesters who don't actually know what their goals are and can't explain them when pressed, make me wonder what this is really all about Also, I'm sorry, saying the university should feed the protesters as one story reported? I'm pretty sure the anti-Vietnam protesters brought their own snacks. My point is that it is not wrong to protest injustice-peacefully-it should be protested, but know what you're protesting and don't be entitled gets parroting someone else's agenda, or destroying property, trespassing, or making threats against other people. Yes, the political situation is horrible. No, there should not be a sort of apartheid in Israel. The response to the terror attacks should have targeted Hamas as much as possible, not civilians. But I don't understand women's groups who support terrorists who use rape as a weapon in a society that would oppress them, or gays marching when they are considered abominations in that culture. The protesters (on both sides) are often ill-informed, they're believing a lot of disinformation, they're not thinking critically, and some of them are downright bigoted. Which is sad, particularly the 'best and brightest' at Ivy League and other prominent schools, which have failed them in their education. That's my opinion, anyway.

NYC says half of those arrested at 2 pro-Palestinian campus protests were not students

A bit vulgar, but essentially true