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Eh, occasionally?
I have to admit to paying more attention to it for a while when the Covid-19 pandemic first began because I needed a distraction from the traumatic ways it was affecting humanity in general as well as the lives of so many people I know (or knew) and love. Those were years I hope to never see repeated in any way.
There was one star who shall remain nameless here who kept having children with different women he wasn’t married or otherwise committed to (so far as I could tell, of course). As in, he was fathering multiple children per year for a while there. It was something I found so unusual that I did let my morbid curiosity get the best of me as yet another birth announcement was released every few months or so.
This was not a hobby I’m proud of, and I have gone back to avoiding celebrity news as much as humanly possible now.
Some of it always seems to leak through, though, even if I do something as simple as look up what new projects my favourite entertainers have coming out.
Those generally positive tidbits of information are something I may save for small talk when nothing else is working and I’m trying to guide the conversation away from topics I don’t want to discuss with a particular person or anyone at all. Most people like babies, weddings, and/or pets, for example, so talking about a celebrity who recently had a kid, got married, or adopted a pet from an animal shelter is something the average person will find neutral if not endearing.
(I generally ignore negative stories unless there’s a rare pressing need to do otherwise. Celebrities are fellow human beings, so I try to give them as much privacy as possible unless they’re, say, harming others with their bad choices or something. Everything else is none of my concern…but I still want to know when their next film, tv series, book, or album is coming out. Ha!)
Eating fresh, local produce. There are a limited number of options for Canadian produce between about November and April or May, and most of those involve apples, cabbage, or other root vegetables. Due to this, I relish all of the seasonal and often more delicate foods that are abundant the rest of the year. Yay for berries, stone fruit, tomatoes, and more!
I have cut way back on watching TV these past several years.
Hmm, let’s see….
Taking long, meandering photography walks
To be honest with all of you, the cold, dark days of winter are something I struggle with due to the winter blues.
“Clan of the Cave Bear” (Earth’s Children #1) by Jean M. Auel
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“Insulin: A Hundred-Year History” by Stuart Bradwel
My vivid imagination sometimes spills over into the dream world, and with this freebie post I finally get to talk about them today. Here are several books I’ve had dreams about over the years.
On damp, chilly days, I do things like:
I started working on this back in March and have been slowly adding to it as I find more examples of things that tickle my funny bone. Some posts work better if they’re allowed to percolate for a long time.
