"Somewhere.... out there..."

 I need to watch An American Tail (Fievel) movie one of these days because I haven't seen that movie in over a decade and the song "Somewhere Out There" has been in my head for two days. There have been times I've been singing "Never Say Never" but today I was in the car with my mother and she commented about a pen not writing. 

I keep 2 pens in my car - one writes, the other doesn't. Both have stylus' on the end. So her comment about the pen not writing, I said "one of them always writes, the other one always doesn't. Just like how one of them always tells the truth, and the other one always lies". She didn't get the reference. 

That just means someone's lacking in the movie watching. 

The other day I spent an hour and a half covering for someone at work. It was at the check-in point where employees and contractors must stop before entering the premises and get asked a couple Covid related questions, as well as submitting to a temperature check. Answer "no" to all questions, have a reasonable temperature, receive a wristband and be off, yo. 

A handy dandy digital thermometer was my friend for that duration of interrogation. It's pretty swanky. Something similar to this, however, it's currently under "see all buying options" mode. Other models are here and here. From the looks of it, most of them seem to be in stock right now. 

Sorry the pictures aren't that clear. I was trying to take the photos between a little bit of a rush in cars coming in. I also didn't realize they weren't as crisp until I put my name on them. #Oops. And they were taken on my fruit phone.

There was also a nice orange smelling bottle of hand sanitizer. It didn't leave my hands sticky or gross feeling, like some knockoffs / cheap gels do. This was smooth and nice smelling. Unfortunately, Amazon is selling a 1 gallon vat of it for $43.79 right now. Unless you're OCD and think you can use it as a refill somewhere, this would be a nice addition to the cache. Currently, there is nothing that says it's scented, there are no reviews and doesn't say anything about Prime shipping. I'm leery about wanting to say "go for it". Even the $173.79 four pack (one gallon) has no information. I wish I knew where the bottle I used came from (outside of the brand website).... 😞 

And by the price comparison, Amazon has the gallon jug cheaper than brand website by $1.20 before shipping / tax is filtered in. Although a local big box home improvement store has the gallon jug for $29 and change... Research counts!

Again, the photos were taken on my fruit phone, so apologies for not having clarity. 

On an unrelatedably related note, I started using Crystal Mineral Deodorant Stick, Unscented, today. We'll see how that goes! 

Until next time's check in...

✌☮

Cheers.

Apparently it was nature day...

 ...at work yesterday. 

Tis the season to find creepy crawling, buzzing, slithering sludgy things. 

I was walking down one of the halls in the common area I'm centered in, and a little flying thing caught the corner of my eye. Outside one of the massive windows is a wasp. Of sorts. 

It looks massive in the pictures I took, because plainly, I decided the window was within my best benefit and I was able to capture the flight of this insect without worrying it's going to attack me.

Photos are WYSIWYG and taken on the fruit phone (iPhone 11 [basic]).

My mother saw these and started getting the creeping willies because I had hooked my phone up to the TV (via Apple Lightning to Digital AV Adapter). She said "it looks like one of those murder hornets!! Get it off the screen!! I can't look!!" and kept shielding her eyes. The couple seconds she did manage to look, she said that the pictures "belong in a nature magazine" because I got semi decent pictures of this wasp. 

I would have gotten better and more, if I had my Canon camera... but beggars can't be choosers and all I had was my phone. I'm not proud. 

Look up "murder hornet". It was a thing a couple months ago. And no, this is not one of them. 

The other thing I captured was a frog. 

Yet another "frog friend!!!" as Emi calls them. This guy was two floors up, not near anything that he could have possibly jumped on to get here (like a tree or something similar). He must have taken some lessons from a certain spider and scaled the walls or something because I honestly don't know how he attached himself to the outside window of one of the rooms I was eating my lunch in. 

Again, WYSIWYG and taken on the phone.

My mother didn't have any major squimishness with this one, but she didn't like seeing it all the same. 

*Shrugs*

Instead of singing Rod the Mod the other day, I got a different mod in my head. From the end of the 1960's...a song David Bowie recorded, called "Let Me Sleep Beside You". 

I honestly don't know why it popped in my head. I was driving my golf cart down the road and the tinny guitar and "dirtle dirtle dirtle dum. Dirtle dum" kept rotating around my brain. I know that "dirtle" is wrong. I can't write it out. It's my poor hearing, which is getting far worse these days (what else is new?! Between my ears failing and my eyes failing, I'm falling apart).

And... after watching several Bowie music videos on the streaming video service... I've lost the last 20 minutes because I got distracted. Squirrel moments happen a lot for me when I start multitasking certain themes. 

Did you know there are "official" videos for the songs from Labyrinth? Yeah, I didn't and think you should seek them out. I just stumbled on them when I found the Let Me Sleep Beside You video. 

Go watch them... I'm peaching out. ☮

Cheers;

It slices, it dices...

... but it won't eat for you.

My mom bought one of those 3-in-1 Avocado Slicer thingies. Surprisingly, it works well. 

Too well.

It's quite possible that it's one of those tools where you need to pay attention to what you're doing, but not pay attention 100% because there's no sharp knife that'll cut your hand off, the second a kid is running through the kitchen with flames coming from their clothes. 

It's just too bad my mom bought the slicer before seeing what else is available because there's a 5-in-1 Multifunction Avocado Slicer available. I told her about it, and she said that we basically have all the pieces except the smasher. We have (now) the slicer, we have the holder... we really don't need the smasher because we eat sliced avocados more than we would make dip. 

Fair enough. 

I meant to write this all the other day and totally forgot.

We've used it for about a month already and it's really working out great... my mom tells all her friends about it because a lot of people we know are big into avocados. Ask Emi about her avocado on toast... something I never knew about until I met her. Crazy kids these days!  

I used to hate eating avocados. I once had a pizza in the North End (of Boston) that had toppings I'd never dream of putting on my pie - avocado, olives and artichoke. It had to be the most disgusting pizza slice I have ever eaten. I was unfortunately eating with people from work (they invited me), and one of the women ordered the food. I was being nice and gave it a try. Never again. I don't like olives as it is, and I'll stay away from artichokes. But I've learned within the last decade to eat avocados. I don't love them, but I won't not eat them. I'm picky. 

*shrugs* 

That's about it for now. 

Cheers;

Ear worms of the brain, unite!

And play some music.

Well.. we went out yesterday and got some new toothbrushes. For about $100, we got the Philips Sonicare 4300 at the local wholesale dealership. I don't know why Amazon doesn't carry it (but they have a whole line of others, plus what seems to be a 💩 ton of replacement heads), but I guess it's all in a day's trip to the retail giant in the area. 

While it has two functions (sensitive and normal), it's allegedly quieter than other mouth vibrators. I've tried it twice today on normal. My teeth are shiny and less gritty, but the sound is loud as all heck in my head. It may be quiet for those with a full house of humans, but in my head, it feels like it's gonna knock my facial bones around. 

Which some people might like....! 

I'll have to try the sensitive function in the morning. 

As this was a two pack, each tooth brush has a hard shell travel case, a toothbrush head, the tooth brush, a charger and only 1 tongue cleaner. If you're going to sell a two pack, throw in 2 tongue cleaners... because sharing one is gross. 🙍

The problem is, while I was brushing my teeth, good old Rod the Mod popped in my head this morning. What else is new - this song fancies its own separate station in my brain. What is it? (Find A) Reason to Believe. It's not the first time the song has had a go, and I know it won't be the last time. 

Much like the other week when I ended up singing Young Turks two days straight... outside... on my golf cart... at work. I was starting to think I was nuts.

Cutting it short because it's all I got (for now).

Until next time!

Cheers;