Just Jot January/Stream of Consciousness Saturday–Movie Title

Per Linda:

Your prompt for #JusJoJan and Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “movie title.” Take the title of the last movie you watched (just the title, not the premise of the movie), and base your post on that title. Have fun!

So Saturdays we often watch disaster movies when we are tired of watching shows about animals and veterinarians.  If we aren’t in the middle of a binge. Today’s movie was Day After Tomorrow. It is a fun go-to for us if we are both busy writing or knitting or reading.

The day after tomorrow is Monday. Cloudy, cold. But the day after that may have snow. I hope the snow we have right now isn’t gone so that soon the world will be as white as the world in the movie. No, I don’t want it that cold. I certainly don’t want to have to move to South America to get warm.

I promised that the second slipper sock would be done by today and: Ta DA!

I can’t wait to make more of these for the charity. I can imagine people stuck in bed needing to have warm feet. Again, this is done on the blue, 24-peg Knifty Knitter loom with (I think) homespun. It had to be a cuff down as the toe-up Kitchener doesn’t work well with this yarn. The cuff is e-wrapped and folded. The rest was a combo of mostly flat-knit or u-wrap.

I still have three socks on separate looms, a hat, and about three toys in the process. So I can’t tell you what will be finished the day after tomorrow.

I wish I could tell you what the next binge is for the day after tomorrow. We seem to be at a loss since finishing Gilmore Girls. Please don’t groan. My daughter tried to get me to watch them with her when she was in high school but I was working and very busy and just couldn’t get into it. When I finally got to it I groaned. I seemed to have run out of anything interesting. Sometimes you just have to give a book or a movie a chance. After watching the first few episodes alone, my husband came in and got addicted, too.

Being able to move through the last few decades, seeing old actor ‘friends’, the music and movie references just made this so much fun. And associating it with my daughter, empty nesting and the like made it a sinus clearer! It is weird that I haven’t needed my nasal spray or anything since watching it. We watched all of it and then the Seasons In The Life. Gosh, I miss it! I may have to go back and start again!

Any suggestions for our next binge?

Music and Dance

Extra arts education boosts students’ writing scores — and their compassion, big new study finds

Laziness Does Not Exist – Human Parts

Psychological research is clear: when people procrastinate, there’s usually a good reason

Source: Laziness Does Not Exist – Human Parts

Working on us # 24- Managing Your Mental health during Holidays

If I weren’t busy with NaNo I would try to do this. There is a lot here I’d like to respond to. I hope I can come back to this in December.

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Beckieis hosting this series to create awareness about mental health,

Working On Us

Hello, All! Welcome back to “Working on Us” – A series that represents people with mental health illnesses/disorders.

Topic: Managing Good Mental Health During The Holiday Season:

Question Prompt:

1. Do you have a stable relationship with your family and/or friends during the hustle and bustle of the holiday season? If your answer is (YES), please give us an example of what the holidays are like with family and/or friends? If you answered (NO), Please explain to us why not?

2. Do the holidays trigger certain memories of people, places, and things?

3. Do you have a favorite holiday, if so which one and why? (Note: This does not have to be based on the current holidays coming up either).

4. If you stress out during the holidays, what is the best way that you…

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WordNerds Help With Word Count

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Brought me tons of words before dinner which is way better for me than usual. At least it isn’t midnight!

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Happy Halloween

Working on Us Week #19- ADHD

When my kids were tested and proven to have ADHD. I was tested and surprised when the doc said mine was severe. And though some do well on drugs my guys and I found none that worked. Reblogging!

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Beckie of Beckie’s Mental Mess is the creator of Working on us.

Hello, All! Welcome back to “Working on Us” – A series that represents people with mental health illnesses/disorders.

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(ADHD) Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder is A chronic condition including attention difficulty, hyperactivity, and impulsiveness.

People may experience:

Behavioral:aggression, excitability, fidgeting, hyperactivity, impulsivity, irritability, lack of restraint, or persistent repetition of words or actions

Cognitive:absent-mindedness, difficulty focusing, forgetfulness, problem paying attention, or short attention span

Mood:anger, anxiety, boredom, excitement, or mood swings

Also common:depression or learning disability

Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a treatable, neurobehavioral disorder found in kids, teens, and adults.

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Though I don’t suffer from attention deficit myself, I have seen how it disrupts the life of people who suffer from it.But there are treatmentsavailablewhich should be availed as it makes a great difference in the progress

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One-liner Wednesday

Well, this is doable.

Thanks, Linda G. Hill, for a prompt I can handle!

Review: Lost Roses by Martha Hall Kelly

Lost Roses by Martha Hall Kelly
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I was lucky to read this ARC from NetGalley. It was an engaging read.

Enjoyable in places, it was hard to read in others. After all, the author tried to give us a bit of a history lesson, while helping the reader to see what it might have been like for the Russians as the Red Party took over and the current royalty was killed or escaped the country.

There seemed to be a bit of repetitive information. As this was my go-to-sleep book, it was okay. It did its job. At least I caught it before the Kindle broke my head as I dropped it. But it wasn’t dull information. And that is a hard call. Sometimes you have to remind the reader about people or moments they may have forgotten chapters ago.

What I most liked is that this is a prequel for a book I read earlier, Lilac Girls. The book follows the family back in time and how they helped the Russian immigrants fleeing the tortures and possible murders of their home country.

I look forward to reading the next book that goes back further into the Civil War.

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The Trap

So, this happened this morning. Let me explain. Chris gets the cats. Kali sleeps with me. When he gets up early they congregate with the swing-shift sleeper. But how to get up? Kali’s dilemma is worse. Here’s the pictorial version. The first has a circle around our sleeping Rosey. Arrow points to Kali, who didn’t fit in the frame. Oh, and the blue plaid are my PJ pants and I’m right up against the wall.I figure out how to ease off the end of the bed.Kali’s face tells the story. And finally she has figured it out.