I bought a really nice urn for my dad on Etsy at the end of September. Now Etsy wants me to buy more urns.
"Oh we see you bought only one urn. You may also like THESE urns! Buy them! Buy all the urns! For all the people who are going to be dead any second now. Twenty of them!"
Algorithms are weird. Whether it is boots that I purchased, or Mrs. Meyers Hand Soap (radish is my favorite), I get continued ads and offers to buy more.
Or, more of the same thing from a different manufacturer. Oh no, you don't mean to be searching for flowers from the local florist! You want this CALIFORNIA BASED florist! Order from us!
No dude, no.
I'm getting to the point where I'm so done with shopping online. I don't want companies to know, grow, and monetize a "relationship" with me, I just want to wash my hands. I'll happily forgo the 20% discount to NOT give you my email address.
I don't need 20 urns.
Anyway. Kind of disgruntled that anytime I try to use social media all I'm getting are ads. Makes me want to quit the internet.
Today was a pretty good day. I didn't sleep well, I woke up exactly at the time that Doug would be (hopefully? probably?) getting into the car with his mom to get to the hospital for her surgery. I got up, went to the bathroom, sat on the bed, prayed for her. Prayed for her doctors.
Prayed for Doug. Prayed for his sister.
Then I could not fall back to sleep for 3 hours. When I did wake up, 2 minutes before my alarm was supposed to go off, I basically decided to take some sick hours, and start working at noon.
I have one thing I have to finish, but I am going to push it to tomorrow, and pray I get it done. Lots of praying it seems, eh?
I was going to go for a walk today around 4:30pm, but it started pouring, and got super cold. I'm kind of disappointed in the weather. This year will be the first "cold" halloween we've had. And no dog. And I don't think I'm going to put the bonfire in the front yard. I'm just going to open the gate, turn on the porch light, and hand out the candy.
Not feeling in the "spirit" of things as it were.
Anyway. I'm boring tonight. No picture due to the rain and all. digits, below.
digits
exercise: 12/12 hours of 250 steps. Dedicated 10 inside, and extra steps each hour.
blood glucose:
8:45am: 188
4:30pm: 164
9:30pm: 202 (too close to eating, should have had some distance between dinner and checking.
food:
coffee, water
noon: 2 egg omelet w/wilted greens & cheddar cheese. Metformin
4:30pm: trail mix
7:30pm: bowl of beef stew a la Geoff, with mushrooms, onions, carrots. Slice of garlic toast; metformin+jardiance
white wine
Caught up! Whoa, you've been through a lot. C told me about some of this so I knew I needed to come catch up. I figure some of what you're doing with your mom is in my future and I've been wondering how often I should go visit... I don't have a sister to share the job with -- I'm sure you are so grateful daily for a sister with whom you have a good relationship... So many people around me have siblings but then do NOT have a working relationship with them and so it's worse than just being an only child. Going to visit them tomorrow.
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