I write a humor blog mostly. Sometimes that’s a hard thing to do. There have been so many mass killings lately that it’s overwhelming. I worry that as a nation our empathy will get worn out. Or we will look at these things as sad rather than getting outraged. Only outrage will change anything.
After boasting about my new gym, I am recovering from an injury. (No good deed goes unpunished!) I don’t know how I did it exactly but my butt hurts. Yep, only I would get a sore butt from gym equipment.
Crazy mild weather continues and I’m loving every minute of it. Today is no coat Monday. I will long for this in January.
Got to go and figure out how to soothe my aching glutes! Have a wonderful day.
Yes, outrage is very much needed.
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Yes, lots more outrage.
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It is like living with a pile of rocks on our head anymore.
Hope your butt bounces back soon.
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Did limited gym this morning. No butt exercises!
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As the bumper sticker says: If you aren’t outraged, you aren’t paying attention. Sorry about your achy butt…
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Ohhh, I like that bumper sticker!
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I can only take so much news before I have to turn my attention elsewhere . . . if I don’t, my sense of humor takes a sabbatical and life becomes more of an uphill slog.
Hope you’re feeling better soon!
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That’s pretty much how I feel. Sometimes I have to recite the serenity prayer to calm down.
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Oh without a doubt we need heavier doses of humour—bet we should not abandon outrage altogether. And I’m glad to hear that your weather is holding up quite nicely—at least it’s not a pain in the butt. 😀
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I guess it’s all about balance.
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Well 50/40 anyway—darn that new math. 😀
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I know what you mean. All the mass tragedies are mind numbing and empathy draining.
You begin to wonder not IF humanity can be saved, but if humanity SHOULD be saved.
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Seriously. People are killing each other all over the world. Mind numbing is the right word.
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I think I’ve felt scattered since Sunday’s shootings. I’m just plain old troubled that we can’t even have a reasonable discussion about gun violence without extreme rhetoric and inflammatory accusations. It’s wearying to my soul. But we need to take care of ourselves, and your gym routine is one way you manage your own stress, so I do hope your “posterior” is less painful. 🙂
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Talking and negotiating for something middle of the road would be good.
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You managed to exercise the most difficult muscle!!! Brava! Well, get better. Let the kitties comfort you.
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Mollie is good at that. She always snuggles up when I need a nap.
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We need those cats. I needed a good cuddle last night and perry is always up for a cuddle ;). Last week he tried to get me to cuddle instead of serving him dinner!
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Mollie would do that. She’s not about the food. Then again, I had dry (her favorite) free-standing for her.
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Ooo…forgot to say Kate..we really need the humour blogs. The regular media saturate the airwaves with the horror stuff…they’ve got it covered – so there’s no need for the rest of us to add to it. So – thank you…and..as you were.
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Thanks. Normal programming will resume….
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Youchie, ouchie. Sorry you have suffered an injury, Miss Kate. Hope you heal quickly. Hugs.
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Doing much better now.
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As you often do, Kate, you took the words right out of my head. I’m trying to wrap my head around a post today that will avoid everything I’ve already said on the matter. It’s kind of hard when we’ve seemingly said or thought everything about rationality at this point. – Marty
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I know. I long for the days when people had fist fights instead of mass killings. It’s not clear that the shooter killed anyone that he was angry with. You do run out of words.
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I can’t do the gym any more. My brother still does, and he said he laughs when he watches out the window to the parking lot. A car will circle 4 or 5 times to find a space real close to the door. Then out steps a herculean weight lifter. Of all the people to be lazy and park close, then lift hundreds of pounds of weight this should not be one of them.
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That is funny. I am always surprised by the places you find handicapped parking. The gym is not a rehab or handicap friendly place but it has spaces. Always empty. I look at the walk as part of my workout!
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I agree. How can it be possible for people to get guns so easily? I’d love to think that voting matters but after the last election when the popular vote meant nothing, I’m beginning to lose faith. Rest that backside. I think I would have been too embarrassed to go to the urgent care to say “my butt hurts.”
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When you have pain, you are willing to how your butt to anyone!
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I don’t trust any blogger who has a humor blog and doesn’t occasionally get more serious. [My post today for instance.] I’m sorry that you got hurt and I understand all things aren’t always funny, but you wouldn’t be real to me if you pretended otherwise.
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Thanks. Sometimes I am humorless. I always hope those days fall on a Friday when I can write about my wonderful cats.
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It’s impressing to see how much muscles we have in our body… and how much pain-nerves ;o( I nearly killed myself once with a sit up bank from teleshop… i had to call a doc who had mercy and gave me a shot… that was the last thing I’ve ordered via tv…
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I could have used a shot. The best thing was ibuprofen and rest. Got me out of making dinner though.
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There’s nothing quite like an injury to make you acutely aware of a critical muscle you’ve never given any thought to before!! Hopefully it’s nothing serious that some rest, mild stretches, and ice packs can’t resolve.
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To be honest, this ache started over a month ago when I was doing yard and pond clean up. I’ve had trouble getting rid of it and have tried walking it out. There is one (maybe two) pieces of equipment I need to stay off at the gym. I could feel it strain while exercising on Friday but it took until Saturday night (always the weekend) to get critical.
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Good luck with it Kate. A good physiotherapist can make the world of difference.
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That’s the sad part, Kate. We’re not outraged anymore. We’ve become used to another day, another mass shooting. That seems to be who we’ve become as a nation. It really surprised/shocked me that change never happened after Sandy Hook. If the thought of innocent five and six year old children slaughtered in a closet classroom doesn’t generate outrage, I can’t see how anything will. And yet, we seem content, as a nation, to allow politics and greed to guide our lives. People being picked off enjoying a concert or worshipping at a church? Just another day. It’s outrageous.
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I so agree with you. Sandy Hook (and no changes afterward) stunned me. They were just about babies. Who can shoot babies and why do they have that equipment? I have given up believing I will see change in my life time unless someone truly high profile gets killed that way. There have been so many I can’t remember all of them. We also have a lot of homicides locally. Not mass shootings but stupid shootings (I know they are all stupid). Over the weekend a guy had an argument with his girlfriend so he killed her. He wasn’t young (52). What happened to splitting up or walking out? There needs to be more conflict management taught in our schools and a lot less guns out there.
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Couldn’t agree more.
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I suspect there are muscles in that area too. Maybe you have “muscle fever.” That is what they used to call aches and pains that come from working unused muscles….like the way you feel after gardening in the first days of spring.
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Well, muscle fever required a trip to the walk-in emergency center on Sunday! Ouch!
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Oooh! I hope nothing serious….
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There was a while when my hypochondria kicked in and I was sure I was gonna die. I did go to a walk-in center on Sunday to have it checked out. It hurt like hell.
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Butt muscles… don’t even think about going up any stairs. Owie.
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Any walking gets them all riled up!
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It’s really mild here this morning. The birds were singing as if it were spring. Unfortunately, it will come to an abrupt end tomorrow. Take care of that bum!
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The birds have been eating as if it were spring lately.
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I don’t know what the birds are thinking…but we had shoals of great tits, blue tits, pigeons, blackbirds, and green parakeets ALL at the same time at about 10am this morning. Along with a predatory tabby chasing 2 squirrels he was never gonna catch.
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I had a cat like that too. Always thought she could catch squirrels. Silly cat.
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Poor you Kate! If it makes you feel better I got a friction burn on my backside from one of those conveyor belt things. 🙂
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A friction burn has to be worse! Ouch! I remember those things. You never see them anymore. Maybe they burned themselves out. 🙂
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Not my fault, honest! 😀
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That’s what they all say!
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ha!
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