The Holy Spirit can't deny.

Sheryl, best of luck the medication.

With luck, I'll be signing a lease to the new apartment today.

I'd always skipped HS reunions on the premise that most of my best friends (whom I'd kept in touch with) were in the class ahead of us, and there was some unpleasant drama at one years and years ago. But I went to my 30th a couple of years back and it was really fun!

I alternate between being aghast and bewildered that I am considered middle aged and an adult, and feeling very old.

I have been perfectly comfortable with my age since I was 35. I looked MUCH younger than my age when I was younger and generally lied about my age to make it match my made up resume. I was convinced that 35 was going to be the magic age when people would start taking me seriously. It pretty much ended up working out that way. Since that time I have felt my age appropriate for my life experience. I get one year for each age. 65 is awesome. Senior discounts for movies! Medicare! I am delighted to slip into a matriarch role. Yeah, I could do without the need for glasses and unhappy joints, but it is an okay trade for the confidence and wisdom that wasn't there in youth.

I skipped any reunions there may have been. I don't know anyone I went to school with as I was a school skipping hippie who didn't hang with anyone there anyway. If I hadn't moved away immediately after high school I may have had greater ties to the area. I'll see if they have a 50th because it would be interesting to see if I knew any names.

I feel okay getting old, I don't really fear death.

This last weekend was busy taking apart my car's dash and fixing the ventilation system and doing carpet shampooing. My vent was stuck in defrost position which sort of sucked for using A/C. Being able to blow A/C directly on myself is awesome! This happened before several years ago and I took it to a mechanic to the tune of $1,500. This time doing it myself was about $80.

This weekend will be more shampooing and installing new speakers in my son's car. He just got his driver's license so he's fully mobile now. I already installed a new Pioneer head unit, but the sound is mushy. If it's like my car, the paper cones in the factory speakers are probably falling apart.

I also need to change the oil in my car as it is nearly 3000 miles overdue now. However, I use full-synthetic and a premium filter so I can go 5000 miles overdue and still be okay. It's got 263,000 miles on it now. I want to make it last to 300,000, maybe 325,000. By then my wife's car should be paid off and I'd like to get a nice car for myself. I've had an old Ford Tempo, an old completely base Honda Civic hatchback, and a pretty well used Ford Focus (it had 95,000 miles when I got it) that, admittedly, was a big step up. I'd really like to get something only lightly used or maybe even new. Seems petty, but there it is.

Is anyone else being driven nuts by news shows and people in general talking about the Amazon being the 'lungs of the Earth'? The oceans are the lungs of the Earth. This 20% of the oxygen thing is pure myth. I mean, there are plenty of reasons the fires in the Amazon are bad, but the lungs thing just isn't true.

I'm not a hardcore environmentalist, but I'm definitely more on that side of the politics, and it really bothers me when my side uses false information.

OMG Becky, look at her lack of original sin

Never been to a HS reunion. I was never popular there and I'm pretty sure the people I knew in HS wouldn't be going either so there doesn't seem much point. Not that HS was a hellscape or anything, overall it was fine. I was a nerd, but I was a tough nerd so I didn't get bullied. I mean, you don't want to bully a nerd who could make you look bad.

I wouldn't mind seeing the people I went to high school with - it was a small school so I had at least a nodding acquaintance with everyone in my class. I really just want to spend about half an hour or so hearing how everyone's doing and be done with it for the next ten years, and it would be along trip for that. If I even heard about a reunion to go, which I have not. Seeing those of my classmates I see on Facebook (and haven't blocked) will have to satisfy that particular yen.

Non-electric heating pads: you really can't top a hot water 'bottle', the rubber kind, for nice heating, as well that it cools off as you do, which makes it great for my cold cold feet. OTOH, they're not so great for forehead type use.