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1. I got a package of clothes from [personal profile] executrix! And I had very successful shopping trip (even shoes!) so I am all set for back to school! <3 <3

2. Fiona's hair is so cute. Her little blue ombre at the bottom of her bob is just adorable. Hair-dorable, even.

3. I have purchased a pedometer. It does nothing but pedominate,no phone or internet connection required. I always lusted after fitness watches only to discover they weren't compatible with my phone. As the salesperson said to me derisively, "You want this one? This is a phone for a child." My child's phone came with the Samsung Health app which was fine except of course it only counted the steps taken while holding the phone. About a year ago, it started asking me to connect my phone number or something like that, and I just refused, so it wouldn't let me open the app, but I could still see my step count in the notification bar. Which, fine. That's all I ever really used it for anyway. This app would ask me like three times a day to agree to the new terms, and I would refuse every single time. Well, on my clothes shopping trip, I went to check how many steps we'd walked, and there was no step count in the notification bar. The app had deleted itself! I had actually tried to delete the app when I first got the phone, and it was one of those I couldn't delete. I have been rejected by a proprietary app! So, I got this pedometer for 25 bucks and it is awesome and doing its job in motivating me to be more physically active.

4. The girls just watched Centaurworld on Netflix which is an extremely silly cartoon with lots of singing that also turns out to have one of the best twists I've ever seen in any show. Wow. Highly recommend.

5.

Let Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season: Selected PoemsLet Us Believe in the Beginning of the Cold Season: Selected Poems by Forough Farrokhzad

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Absolutely fantastic. Farrokhzad writes explicitly about sex and desire and adultery in a time and culture in which that is verboten, and she does so using religious imagery and metaphors which make doing so doubly verboten (see "Border Walls" for a good example of her doing this). In addition to "Border Walls," I think "I Pity the Garden" is my other favorite poem from the collection.



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Turtle PicturesTurtle Pictures by Ray Gonzalez

My rating: 1 of 5 stars


I did not like this book at all. It's full of lines like this one: "it was imagination forested in a cup of onions crying to sing." I found it largely incomprehensible except for some interspersed prose pieces and a section about illegal immigration across the Rio Grande. That section is powerful and affecting (and comprehensible!) and alas only about four pages or so long.



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Date: 2022-07-28 02:39 pm (UTC)
minoanmiss: A detail of the Ladies in Blue fresco (Default)
From: [personal profile] minoanmiss
that was a rude app. I'm glad you have a pedometer which pedometers.

Sex and desire in poetry! ooh!

Date: 2022-07-28 03:42 pm (UTC)
gloss: lovely older woman dancing with delight (AE: Mrs Howard delight)
From: [personal profile] gloss
Honestly, good on you for driving that app to self-delete!

F's hair sounds *amazingly* cute, wow.

Date: 2022-07-28 05:47 pm (UTC)
spikedluv: (summer: sunflowers by candi)
From: [personal profile] spikedluv
Yay for successful shopping and otherwise acquiring of clothing and shoes!

Fiona's hair does sound hair-dorable! *g*

I only use the step-counter on mine, too. Well, except for how I haven't been trusting this one, lol! Aside from that. Which is why I got the cheaper fitness trackers both times. (VeryFitPro) It's about $35. And comes in purple, which was the main selling point, hahaha, joking (not joking).

Date: 2022-07-29 12:21 pm (UTC)
spikedluv: (summer: sunflowers by candi)
From: [personal profile] spikedluv
*fist bump*

I'm glad you have your purple motivator!

Date: 2022-07-28 05:51 pm (UTC)
independence1776: Drawing of Maglor with a harp on right, words "sing of honor lost" and "Noldolantë" on the left and bottom, respectively (Default)
From: [personal profile] independence1776
I'm glad you got a pedometer! I flat-out refuse to use any app that wants personal information, do not see the need to have everything under the sun internet-enabled, and I also do not carry my phone with me everywhere, so I'm curious what you bought.

Congrats on the clothes and shoes!

Date: 2022-07-29 09:44 pm (UTC)
independence1776: Drawing of Maglor with a harp on right, words "sing of honor lost" and "Noldolantë" on the left and bottom, respectively (Default)
From: [personal profile] independence1776
Thank you!

Date: 2022-07-28 06:28 pm (UTC)
chelseagirl: Alice -- Tenniel (Default)
From: [personal profile] chelseagirl
ooh! Tell about clothes -- Executrix's and otherwise.

Date: 2022-07-29 11:12 am (UTC)
chelseagirl: Alice -- Tenniel (Default)
From: [personal profile] chelseagirl
10 tops in one store -- I cannot even imagine the triumph!

I actually went a little OTT ordering things from my 2 favorite brands over lockdown; this week I have been selling on FB "Buy Sell Trade" groups specific to each brand. I've been doing very well, but it's also brought home to me exactly how far off the rails I went.

Date: 2022-07-29 09:42 pm (UTC)
chelseagirl: Alice -- Tenniel (Default)
From: [personal profile] chelseagirl
Not so much anymore.

Date: 2022-07-29 10:00 pm (UTC)
chelseagirl: Alice -- Tenniel (Default)
From: [personal profile] chelseagirl
Christy Dawn and Doen. I've gone a bit more romantic lately. Or possibly cottagecore.

Date: 2022-07-30 04:37 pm (UTC)
chelseagirl: Alice -- Tenniel (Default)
From: [personal profile] chelseagirl
Admittedly pricey, but I'll be wearing them forever. I just have to stop buying new ones, which after awhile is easier than you might think -- I now look at the new offerings and say "Cute, but I have one that's similar.)

Date: 2022-07-28 08:28 pm (UTC)
zulu: Carson Shaw looking up at Greta Gill (Default)
From: [personal profile] zulu
Aww cute hair!

I keep saying I need to read more poetry. Your reviews are always so interesting to read! That one sentence, man, I feel like I could teach that in a "how not to" class.

Date: 2022-07-29 11:42 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] amejisuto
Yay for makeovers! I bet all of you look wonderful!

Date: 2022-07-31 02:35 am (UTC)
china_shop: Close-up of Zhao Yunlan grinning (Default)
From: [personal profile] china_shop
Fiona's hair is so cute. Her little blue ombre at the bottom of her bob is just adorable. Hair-dorable, even.

Aww! <333

Date: 2022-07-31 05:59 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] archersangel
And I had very successful shopping trip (even shoes!) so I am all set for back to school!

excellent!

i hate shopping for clothes. shoes even more so. i'm a woman with size 9, wide feet with a high instep. so, finding something that i like and fits well is a PITA.

Date: 2022-08-01 07:41 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] timespirt
I bought a Chrono-Max Smartwatch. It was 40 dollars. Works with my Galaxy S7. Does steps, heart rate, BP, Sleep, Weather, oxygen level, Stop watch, 3 alarms you can set up and plays music though I haven't tried that yet. You can even customize the watch face. It's not a fit bit and not tech heavy but it works.

"HUGS"

PS: You don't need the phone with you or hold it for most of the stuff to work.
Edited Date: 2022-08-01 07:44 am (UTC)

Date: 2022-08-03 09:40 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] timespirt
"HUGS"

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