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lakeeffectgirl) wrote2025-03-20 12:29 pm
lakeeffectgirl) wrote2025-03-20 12:29 pm
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Winter has been somewhat a struggle - America, etc., plus the weather has been unsteady for months. One day it's freezing and the next day it's fifty degrees, and my body just does not handle the rapid changes well. I have been using a rollator when I go most places, more often than not. If other people are with me I can usually get by with just the cane, or if it's the sort of space where there are close walls, but I can't cross open spaces (like from a parking lot to a shop door) by myself without something bigger than a cane to steady me. Which is really annoying when the place I am trying to go doesn't have a handicap door. Thankfully I can still lift the rollator in and out of my car alone, but there's a lighter three-wheeled option that I will probably buy sooner rather than later and leave the heavier one as a backup.
I daydream about designing some sort of mobility device that I can hook around me like a little cage that will balance me when I need it and stop me from tripping but that I don't have to hold in my hands or lean on.
Speaking of buying things: I am struggling with where to shop for life necessities again these days. I don't want to use Amazon unless there's no other alternative, and I don't want to shop at Target now that they've reversed their DEI policies, and Wal-Mart/Sam's Club has always been terrible so I haven't shopped there in years. Menards is owned by a super MAGA white man so that's out, and we no longer have a Shopko or a KMart here. Apparently Meijer sucks too re: political donations... ugh. Ugh! In general.
And as always, winter writer's block. So I have read five books already this month instead - mostly mystery/thrillers, and the "new" Michael Crichton that James Patterson finished, which had a decent catastrophe plot but was very thin in making the characters feel like actual people.
Ugh! In general.
I daydream about designing some sort of mobility device that I can hook around me like a little cage that will balance me when I need it and stop me from tripping but that I don't have to hold in my hands or lean on.
Speaking of buying things: I am struggling with where to shop for life necessities again these days. I don't want to use Amazon unless there's no other alternative, and I don't want to shop at Target now that they've reversed their DEI policies, and Wal-Mart/Sam's Club has always been terrible so I haven't shopped there in years. Menards is owned by a super MAGA white man so that's out, and we no longer have a Shopko or a KMart here. Apparently Meijer sucks too re: political donations... ugh. Ugh! In general.
And as always, winter writer's block. So I have read five books already this month instead - mostly mystery/thrillers, and the "new" Michael Crichton that James Patterson finished, which had a decent catastrophe plot but was very thin in making the characters feel like actual people.
Ugh! In general.