Mike checked the Qatar Airlines app this morning and our flight on the 7th was gone, cancelled – no notification, when trying to ‘rebook’ in the app, nothing was happening. The live chat was not up and said because of the volume of requests – we’d need to call. We tried a couple of numbers and none of them were going through. That was a bummer, I was planning to go to Walgreens and get the rest of my vaccines… but since he’d been following the Reddit thread he knew that we could call other countries to see if they answer and could rebook us. We figured out how to call India and the call went through – we were able to rebook the same itinerary but leaving two days sooner on the 5th. We took it, Mike had been regretting not having a couple of days on either end of the trip to account for travel and give us 10 days of vacation. Off I went to get my Typhoid and pneumonia vaccines! We’ll see what happens. I am fighting being depressed about the state of the world and the state of the US. I can’t remember if I mentioned that we voted on Monday, too. I’m going to be joining my friends on Saturday after work for a No Kings protest. I’ll make a sign, I’ll wear my RESIST flag, peace begins with me but that doesn’t mean that I can’t be pissed off that not everyone is peaceful or thinks about how their actions impact other people. I’m not even talking about politics, just people who are jerks in general, who don’t care that their words hurt people, that their actions ruin other peoples lives. That parents can ruin children’s lives, by bringing shitty people into their kids lives. I am listening to Christina Applegate’s autobiography when I’m driving – she is the one reading it, too. Love her.
I did tackle my office, it needs to be in some kind of shape before we leave for our trip so that our house/pet sitter can work up there and not be in the middle of my mess. I love a deadline as you can tell by my previous blog posts. I have just a little more to do, I found a frame that I wanted to repurpose and I found an old 8×12 print from my poppy series that was interesting so I cut it up and framed one of the flowers and put a Caroline Q Murphy card from one of her shows next to it. I love the way it looks. Maybe I should just print all my poppies and frame them in interesting ways. Is it just me or are those color blobs in the back so cool? That’s almost what I love more than the in focus flowers. I know Jillie regrets painting her room white, (from a raspberry pink) but the more artwork and photos I find that I want to put up, the happier I am that there is a white background for the colors to jump off of.
Was a little too chilly to work outside (in my opinion) I did get some of the leaves from last week off of the driveway and added bird feed to the bird buddy. I need to fill all the feeders up this week. I do need to get some wildflower seed and put that down in the yard in the two places I’d like to fill in. I want to help the pollinators to have wildflower access. Be peaceful, bye for now.
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