ALMOST

 

Almost the end of February. Almost heading for spring. I'm almost feeling a teeny tiny smidgeon of optimism. And I'm almost feeling in a good mood. Almost.

Good moods are almost foreign to me. I seem to have lost them during recent brutal times.

Devout pessimists like myself are very careful about feeling good. If you're too jubilant, something bad will inevitably happen. It's a fact, known as a certainty by seriously neurotic people.

I'm not referring to myself, of course. 

(stop that smirking and snickering)

This will be a haphazard post, jumping from one unrelated subject to another.

That's how my mind has always worked....jumping from one unrelated subject to another.

In a previous recent post, I mentioned that I got a phone call from the Dragon Lady whom I'll now call Tira  (that's not her real name) from Signature Health Care in Jamestown. She wants me to come back to Signature.

I was shocked and delighted to hear that. I've had issues about Signature in the past, but it's a heckuva better place than where I am now. At least everything is organized there and the staff knows (generally) what they're doing.

Besides, my home is in Jamestown. Everyone in Signature knows me very well (nobody ever forgot the massive hemorrhages from the cancerous wound on my arm). And all those nurses and other people who forced me to autograph my books (remember that?).

Embarrassing as heck.

I'm a very modest, humble, unobtrusive person. Of course, you'd never know it by reading this blog.

I needed to talk to Jennifer, my social worker here in Gainesboro, about leaving for Signature, but she's been absent all week due to illness.

I contacted Tira yesterday and she assured me that she's working on the transfer.

Will see.

Did anyone watch the Winter Olympics? I only got glimpses of it on YouTube. Nowadays finding a way to see all of the Olympics  is like searching for the Holy Grail. Is it still on NBC?

If you have a TV, there are probably 500 channels.

Turning back time.....

When I was a kid, watching the Olympics was like finding the Holy Grail. Everything was simple back then.

My parents turned on our black & white portable TV, tuned in to NBC (channel 4 in Los Angeles). And we watched every minute of the Olympics - - from opening ceremony......until the torch was extinguished on the final night.

I mostly watched clips of the Olympic ice skating on YouTube this year. I thought most of the skaters were exellent.

A tragedy that American men's skater Ilia Malinin could have won the gold if he didn't fall.

And the American pair skaters could have won the gold, if the biased judges didn't put France in first place.

The Olympic judges were always biased. Remember the days of the Soviet Union?

Naw, you're too young.

What scared me the most was the heavy makeup on most of the female skaters.

What's with the massive RED lipstick? It was like a Max Factor Festival.

A horrifying example was skater Amber Glenn when she made a boo-boo.

I'll be brutally blunt....

Her face looks like a death mask of Bette Davis.

(my humor is returning)

Young ladies shouldn't destroy their youth by packing enough makeup on to look like an 85 yr.old drag queen.

BTW the French pairs female skater looked really lovely because her makeup was very light (I don't recall her name - - look it up).

Well, I have a lot more to say but I'll cut it short.

I don't want you to have too much of a good thing.

Jon ❤️ a good thing

I'm going to order more food from Walmart today (Saturday). Wish me luck.