Day 131 - the united states of a mood

 Today is the 5th day of the 19th week, the 11th day of the 5th month, the 131st day of 2023, and:

• Eat What You Want Day
• Hostess Cupcake Day
• Make-A-Book Day
• National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day
• National Foam Rolling Day
• National Twilight Zone Day
• World Ego Awareness Day

Quote of the day:
"For some people, a fixed state of irritation is oxygen.  I understand this all too well."

~ Jamaica Kincaid,  Antiguan-American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardening writer

The mood - the "I'm in a mood" mode - persists

Global:  Well there's war and poverty and posturing and climate change, topped off with AI and the Doomsday Clock.

Country:  Charges, convictions, posturing, disinformation, in a never-ending torrent

Work:  dragging into the office to sit in a cubicle and do the same thing I could be doing at home in a great deal more comfort

Home:  forgot to open the windows and the balcony door before leaving for work, and the temps are supposed to soar to the 80° mark today, which will make the apartment very hard to cool down

Health:  not sure what drinking less water is doing, but the rash is less itchy.  For some reason a single trip to IHOP last night sent my blood sugar levels soaring so high the app couldn't track it, and it took a lot of insulin to convince it to come back down.  

Mental health:  indifferent.  I don't feel like doing anything but burying myself in a book and leaving the world behind.  I am leaving my kids alone - their lives are chaotic enough without dealing with my angst. 

Intellectual: 

As one newscaster used to say "and that's the way it is"

Construction update:  management has sent out the second email showing where cars have to vacate by 7AM tomorrow.  Let the parking wars commence!  I'm hoping the current construction area will be opened up and folks allowed to park there to ease the congestion, but so far, no sign of that happening.

AND this is why I am happy that I have a garage space reserved for me, but resigned that I will have the problem of someone parking in it despite the signs that it is taken.  I keep playing around with the idea of snitching one of the construction cones to put into the space to drive the point home - that is what a lot of people do, but the idea of having to get out and move the cone myself, then getting back in the car to park, or pulling out, then getting out of the car to place the cone, is not one that I really want to contemplate at this point.  So far it has only actually happened once; the second time I pulled up just as the interloper was getting out of their car and able to convince them to move off.

Tune in tomorrow for another breathtaking update on the state of one 73 year old CIS female navigating the work-a-day life as best she can.