LeendaDLL (aka: The Bus To Sorry)

Well, the “night market” / UbeFest was laaaaame. There were a variety of food vendors but I saw only 1 ube vendor. There were a bunch of really shitty artists trying to sell their works… like, worse-than-me shitty artists… plus ONE beer vendor, a dj spinning, and a freakshow of humans.

The live mural artists were good & entertaining.

I bought a small piece from a guy who’s work I previously admired at SmogCity Brewing. His larger pieces are waaaaay out of my affordability. The small one was too, but I bought it anyway due to regret over prior skipped art purchases.

I tipped heavily for a free haiku.

I brought the rollator, and it was a good move... dammnit (I don’t wanna be this handicapped!).

I was in line ahead of one of the major muralists, Huntz Liu, who showed me pics of the geometric mural he did on the Terrace Theater. I’ll have to drive by his live work asap. I bought him a beer.

The Haiku:

cute murder machines

why do you have such sharp claws?

I want to hug you

LOUD coyote howling in the intersection. I screamed at them from my front door. They didn’t care.

I grabbed a couple cans of cat food and headed out – wearing nothing but a tank top – yelling at the coyotes to LEAVE!!!

One went down the street. The 2nd ran a bit when I threw a can, but mostly stayed where it was. A cat darted out and the coyote followed, till I threw another can at it.

No neighbors came out to see WTF I was yelling about. Granted, the howls surely woke everyone and they knew it was coyotes… but, if it were me, I’d still double-check on my screaming neighbor!

I had a really nice time at the show. Perfect a/c temp on a humid night, SUPER nice artist, good crowd, FREE BEER, and entertaining to watch. I arrived late but got one of the few chairs and stayed till the end.

I asked Bruce how he started this and he said he decided to “challenge” his painting methods. He started with basketballs… straight on, from below, then dropping from a ladder. That caused him to think of trampolining and..  POOF, purpose found!

Bruce’s second painting of the night… I said it’s a Drag Queen Flamingo:

Last painting of the night – portrait of a couple who attended:

This painting makes me think of a self portrait that I’d create:

My Blink system died last night. I ordered a new Sync module with Fri delivery. At checkout, it said Fri was unavail and I had 8min to checkout with Sun delivery. At the final checkout screen, it updated to Mon delivery. VERY annoying!! I may cancel and wait for the Summer Sale, June 23rd??, cause they’ll surely be included… but can I go a month (assuming slow delivery again) without a porch cam?

When I put cat food out front, none of the outdoor cats were there. VERY odd. Everything has been odd for the last 24hrs (I was really worried there’d be a quake overnight), so I hope it’s just strange juju and not cats becoming coyote snacks.

My platelet donation, Mon, went GREAT!! I’m thrilled!! They did a single-arm process and I was able to move my arm a bit and my wiggle my fingers on that hand – a great thing since the process takes nearly 3 hours. Plus the other arm was free to adjust the headphone volume, adjust blankets, etc. The recliner chair was also super comfy for my back. I would have slept but donation requires squeezing a ball during the blood draws, so sleeping isn’t an option.

Given everything going on with me, I’ll be thrilled if donating platelets becomes a routine thing for me… a purpose. Not every week, but maybe every couple few weeks.

Akua graduated out of her playpen this week and now free-roams the house. She like to nap/sleep against me, which I obviously love (despite fearing that I’ll roll on top of her).

The platelet donation left me wiped out yesterday – I literally did nothing but deal with cats and nap. Today, I need to move trash/litter to the outdoor bins. Then, with luck, I’ll go watch a guy who paints murals while trampolining… part of the annual LB Murals week.

On Thu evening, there’s a bike tour of the murals. I want to participate but already know that fatigue will prevent it.

Fri is a night market & “annual Ube Fest”, also part of the mural events. I might go to that… dunno yet.

This Sat is a meeting of the LB Crazy Cat Ladies (not the official name). I dread it, but need to make an appearance for the sake of networking.

Minus night-time humidity, the weather has been beautiful… but I’ve mostly been inside, thanks to increased chronic pain. As near as I can tell, the epidural is blocking pain where it was injected, but nowhere else. Now I get intense sciatica pains from the bottom of my tailbone to down in my legs. My back gets sore, but different than before – more like weakness. Pretty much any outing that requires more than 10min standing, total, leaves me crying in my car. I know I need to start bringing a rollator (chair/walker on wheels) with me, but it feels like defeat.

But, hey, my shoulder is better! And my knees mostly only hurt when my whole body gets inflammed (newest issue).

I should go eat something, make some appts before I forget again, and deal with the trash if I want to get to that tramp event tonight.

Only 1 more day of school traffic before summer break! Yaaaaay!!

Happy Whatever… start of the World Cup?

Well, probably the same coyote and just another visit

For three days my brain has been singing:

“I’m just havin fun
At the Pink Pony Club…” (Chappell Roan)

That’s it… just that line, over & over & over, for threeeeeee freakin days! I googled and it’s not even correct lyrics, but the correct ones are not in my head.

It reminds me of this comedy set by Emily Heller (lets see whether YT-embed has been fixed):

It works again (I used the Video block)!! Here’s the Pink Pony vid, correct lyrics and all (ps: Happy WeHo Gay Pride weekend!!):

Apparently not – the vids show in Preview mode (but now aren’t), so the codecs still exist somewhere but aren’t being applied to published posts. GRRRRRRRR!! FIX THE YOUTUBE SUPPORT!!!

“God, what have you done?
You’re a pink pony girl, and you dance at the club, ” oh mama
I’m just having fun
On the stage in my heels,

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Daaaamn, Akua’s teefs & nails are strong! No doubt influenced by Darth attacking her (you can watch Darth and see how Akua’s hyperactivity triggers his prey instinct), she’s been in a bitey phase for a couple of weeks now. It stepped up a lot today when broke skin on my arm. Now I have to watch out for an infection. So far, Akua appears immune to discipline (too f-ing hyper!!).

My doc appt went well… I got all my desired refill scrips. I tried to go pick them up at 10:30pm, but there was still a line at Walgreens drive through, so I just drove right back home. Try, try again.

I didn’t vote today. I’m a bad ‘Mericun (actually, that makes more of an average american since so few people vote). I didn’t care about a single race/measure. I’ll vote in the non-primaries in Nov.

I think iphone’s new RCS text format has officially ended a couple of my online friendships. I’m on android and the samsung msg app doesn’t support RCS. I tried google msgs but it doesn’t have any of my required features (categories/groups and marking msgs so they can’t be accidentally deleted). Since samsung messages will be discontinued on July 6, I’ll have to keep looking for a new app. The ‘friendships’ were already shaky, then their iphones stopped getting some of my messages. Now, it looks like I’m not getting their messages either – or they’re not sending any. I don’t know which situation is accurate, there’s been no attempt to contact by email or phone, and I’m frustrated to the point that I’ve quit caring.

I don’t know what’s going on with my back epidural. As of today, my back seems… better (???), but intense sciatica pain suddenly returned and is shooting down my butt and legs… just not in my lower back. It’s weird. It sucks. I’m still severely disabled and upset. I haven’t seen the approval notice, but I was supposedly approved for PT, so I need to schedule that and see if I can start improving and maaaaybe finally regain some mobility.

Getting the cats in at night has become a nightmare, thanks to a total of 7 baby skunks (between three mothers) that hang out on the porch all evening and night, but the babies are damn cute!!

I’ve got nothing else… here’s stuff:

My body seems to be trying to find out!! I don’t know if I got E. Coli from something (it got worse over three days, so I don’t think it’s food poisoning, but it might be from fruit [which I have now dumped outside for the possums]), or if it’s early phase rapid dumping syndrome*, or if it’s just my body being my body. I am dying today… in the bathroom roughly every thirty minutes. I’m completely out of lomitil (imodium isn’t strong enough) till at least tomorrow (doc appt for med renewals) so it might be a long night.

*Early phase (10–30 minutes after eating): The rushed, undigested food draws excess fluid out of the bloodstream and into the small intestine. This rapid fluid shift causes the intestine to swell and triggers symptoms like nausea, diarrhea, cramping, and a drop in blood pressure. (Mayo Clinic)

I’m have an appointment for my third attempt to donating platelets on Wednesday, but will have to reschedule (again) if this poopfest doesn’t calm down.