how is this week almost over?

[lunabee34]

1. I got a package of clothes from 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 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 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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Comments

[minoanmiss]

that was a rude app. I'm glad you have a pedometer which pedometers.

Sex and desire in poetry! ooh!

[lunabee34]

Ha, ha! It was rude; I'm glad it flounced.

It's a really good collection. I think you'd like it.

[gloss]

Honestly, good on you for driving that app to self-delete!

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

[lunabee34]

I drove it to flounce. Terrible behavior in fandom but well worth it in this instance.

It is super cute. And she is so proud of it. She feels very grown up.

[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).

[lunabee34]

Mine is purple, too! *twins fistbump* I feel like mine is pretty accurate. Not that I've extensively tested it, just counted out my steps a couple of times and then looked at it and it jived with my count. *shrugs* Good enough for me. Honestly, I don't really care if it's super accurate. I just need it to motivate me to walk more than I have been. And since I have been walking zero, any walking is good. LOL

[spikedluv]

*fist bump*

I'm glad you have your purple motivator!

[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!

[lunabee34]

Thank you!

I got this one:

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B09KY65MF1?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

I clip it to the waist band of my pants. I've been super happy with it thus far.

[independence1776]

Thank you!

[chelseagirl]

ooh! Tell about clothes -- Executrix's and otherwise.

[lunabee34]

Well, I got a basic grey cardigan at Ross; it's a discount store. I don't know if y'all have them up there, but they're wonderful. Then I got a three quarter length sleeve top from Kohl's. But the mother lode was from JC Penny, all Liz Claiborne. I got about 10 tops there.

Exec sent me some wonderful jackets and cozy tops for winter, highlight being a very cozy red sweater that I can't even contemplate wearing at this moment but which I know is going to be lovely when it's cold again. LOL

[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.

[lunabee34]

I did feel quite triumphant. :)

Hey, I did the same thing but with notebooks in pens which I needed more of like I needed a hole in the head. Regret nothing!

I'm glad you're having luck selling what you no longer need.

Let me see if I can guess your brands. One is Eileen Fisher, right?

[chelseagirl]

Not so much anymore.

[lunabee34]

Well, shoot. I guessed wrong. What are they, then?

[chelseagirl]

Christy Dawn and Doen. I've gone a bit more romantic lately. Or possibly cottagecore.

[lunabee34]

Oh man. Those Christy Dawn dresses. *swoons*

[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.)

[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.

[lunabee34]

Awwww. *blushes* Thank you. I enjoy writing them. I feel like my reading is so eclectic and all over the place. I always wonder if people subscribe to me expecting one thing and then are all, What now? LOL

The author of that book is a big deal poet; the book won a prize. I don't know if I'm just too stupid to get it (and I do think that ignorance is part of it; he's clearly elaborating on mythology from his Mexican ancestry in ways that I'm not getting). But also, I don't think it's entirely me being too stupid. IDK. I do not like it. At all. LOL

[amejisuto]

Yay for makeovers! I bet all of you look wonderful!

[lunabee34]

*preens*

We are quite gorgeous. Even Josh will be after haircut on Tuesday. LOL

[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

[lunabee34]

I am a cool mom. LOL

[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.

[lunabee34]

Oh lord, I hear you on shoes. Also, a 9 with wide feet and a bunion but only one foot so of course they don't match. LOL Such a pain to shop for shoes.

[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.

[lunabee34]

Ooooh thank you for telling me about that. If I want to upgrade, I'll keep that in mind. <3

[timespirt]

"HUGS"