As you can see, it’s slow going on the puzzle. To be honest, I’m easily distracted these days and I suspect that has a great deal to do with it. I also think that will change over the course of the next week – basically, as soon as we get Biden/Harris safely installed in office.

We had to take a break from Rachel last night. I may listen to the podcast today. There is so much information about QAnon and the insurrectionists that we are digesting. It’s awful and frightening. So we took control and didn’t watch anything news related last night.

Instead we watched Pretend It’s a City,  the 7 part documentary about Fran Lebowitz by Martin Scorsese. Actually, we’ve been watching it for the past few days. I’m a huge fan of Lebowitz. I identify with her take on things. She’s brilliant, a great observer of human nature, an acerbic commentator on society, and she sees the absurdities of daily life. Famously known for not having a cell phone or a computer, she walks the streets of NYC with her head up, observing it as only she can. She’s also a bit of a curmudgeon, which I love. (So am I.)

If this seems like a promo, it isn’t. But I am an unabashed fan and have read much of her commentary. Scorsese filmed an earlier documentary in 2010 about her called Public Speaking. I’d love nothing more than the opportunity to sit down and have a chat with her. Or walk the streets of NYC with her. Pretend It’s a City  is on Netflix.

We’ve also been watching a series called Occupied. It’s a Norwegian series and it’s excellent. We had to take a break, however, because it hit a little too close to home when the assault on the Capitol happened. We’ll get back to it soon.

Other than that, we’re hanging out. Don went to pick up our groceries yesterday and we have a full larder again. But all of that – driving there, picking them up, bringing them home, disinfecting, and putting them away takes a big old chunk of time. We don’t always disinfect these days, but Don watched the guy putting everything in the trunk and felt we should disinfect this time. So we did.

Yet another gray day here, with a bit of rain. I’m over it. I miss the Christmas tree.

He’s been impeached. Now he needs to be imprisoned.

Stay safe.

Happy Thursday.

Random thoughts:

Yet another item I found in the shed purge. It’s not vintage, but I like it. I also like the texture it adds to this little display.

By the way, we keep all sorts of things in that wooden box; dish towels, kitchen items, all the things that used to be in the drawers of the former kitchen island. It has a lid built into the top.

So…we have another impeachment today. The only *president* that will have been impeached twice.

As this investigation goes on, we’re going to learn a lot more about the insurrection at the Capitol. I predict that some members of Congress will be implicated, as will members of the administration.

We’ve been watching a lot of news but I feel it taking a toll on me again. Yet, this is such an important time and there are huge concerns about more seditious and dangerous activity over the next week and beyond. These people must be rooted out and stopped. And those members of Congress who aided and abetted the lie and the subsequent insurrection must be expelled. We need a clean sweep.

Dollhouse wallpaper? Who the heck knows where it is? It’s ‘delayed’ up in Albany. Heck, I could drive up there and pick it up!

Ah well. Since there’s nothing I can do about it, I watch from the sidelines, knowing it will arrive eventually. I also have a small package that was mailed to me from Spain on December 13th. It dropped off the radar completely as of December 15th. Sigh.

Hang in there, everyone.

We’re off to pick up our groceries.

Stay safe.

Happy Wednesday.

Gone.

I missed those lovely lights this morning, though we keep our porch lights up for several months. I don’t like little tree lights anywhere else except on the tree, so I’m not going to be hanging them anywhere else in the house. Further explanation: I think it reminds me too much of my freshman dorm room, where we had them up all year long. That’s not a bad memory, but it’s a “young” memory. Just as mid-century modern furniture is a ‘young’ memory. Had it in our house growing up, don’t want it in here now. Hopefully, that makes sense.

Anyway it took a long time to remove the vintage ornaments and wrap them carefully. Don took the tree outside and left it in the woods for the birds and animals. I vacuumed like crazy. Then we moved the pew back. What else? I repotted a plant that’s not been doing well. After I investigated further, I realized it was very root bound, so fingers crossed that the repotting helps.

Still haven’t started my puzzle. I really do hope to do that today, in the midst of washing sheets and participating in the second zoom reunion of my high school pals at 4 pm.

Don and I are spending a lot of time discussing what happened on Wednesday and allowing ourselves to vent. We’re also giving ourselves permission to be a bit obsessed with the news. We have never been through something like this and we need to bear some sort of ‘witness’ for lack of a better word. I wake up each morning in disbelief that this attack on our democracy actually happened. But it did. And I think we’re going to find it goes much deeper and further than we initially thought.

Let’s see if Mike Pence invokes the 25th Amendment today. (After all, Trump’s insurrection nearly got Pence killed.) I read last night that he was still considering it if Trump got ‘worse.’ Really? We’re going to wait for worse than insane?

We’ll see. If not, it’s impeachment.

In the meantime, I’m going to finish this post, take a shower, throw the sheets in the wash, and find some pockets of peace.

Stay safe.

Happy Sunday.