FreezeDance of Celeste
Jan. 24th, 2022 09:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ismoThis morning I looked out onto the front porch to see how much it was snowing, and there were half-obscured footprints leading up to--a BOX. I quickly dragged it inside, and realized it was the box of oranges that my sister Queenie said she was sending from Florida. I was afraid they might have frozen before I spotted them there, so I opened up the box and peeled one. The aroma was heavenly. Inside, they were sweet and juicy, not frostbitten at all.
Another thing that came in the mail today: my new Fitbit. Some years ago--I can't remember how many now--I thought I'd try this tracker thing. I'd been taking lots of walks, and I came up, quite independently, with the idea of "walking to Vancouver." I never saw Vancouver, and it sounded pretty, so I thought I could take all those steps and add them up, and imagine I was walking to Vancouver. I thought the Fitbit could help me keep track of how many steps I had. Then I found out that Fitbit gave out its own badges for various distances! At this point, I've walked much farther than Vancouver. The last time I got a notification, I had received the Trans-Siberian Railway badge, for a total of 5,772 miles. Anyway, at some point in the last couple of years, my Fitbit screen stopped responding, so I couldn't see anything on it. But it still reported to the app on my phone, so I could look up my progress there. Eh, who needs another screen, I thought. So I just continued wearing the little black brick on my wrist and never looking at it. Then it stopped buzzing me to remind me it was time to get up and move around. I ignored that too. I continued to use the most nonfunctional device ever out of pure cussedness. No sir, they can't make ME buy a new gadget! Well, then the wrist strap started falling off. I finally gave up and let the Sparrowhawk order me a new one--the Inspire 2, because it's about the cheapest and has the fewest bells and whistles. He ordered it yesterday snd told me it would come today. "How in the name of God is that possible?" I wondered. "The magic of Amazon," he replied. I don't like it! It's black magic! But it came, and I put it on. It does have a working wrist strap.
Other things that came in the mail: a magical 3-D card with a unicorn in it from Tron, and a sparkly card with planets on it and a very nice note from the Duchess. It was a great birthday extension.
I shoveled the walk and the driveway so the Sparrowhawk could go to the library and pick up some books he ordered. Then it started snowing again with a certain amount of determination, so I may have to do it again tomorrow. Seventy-one and still shoveling! That's my new t-shirt slogan.
Another thing that came in the mail today: my new Fitbit. Some years ago--I can't remember how many now--I thought I'd try this tracker thing. I'd been taking lots of walks, and I came up, quite independently, with the idea of "walking to Vancouver." I never saw Vancouver, and it sounded pretty, so I thought I could take all those steps and add them up, and imagine I was walking to Vancouver. I thought the Fitbit could help me keep track of how many steps I had. Then I found out that Fitbit gave out its own badges for various distances! At this point, I've walked much farther than Vancouver. The last time I got a notification, I had received the Trans-Siberian Railway badge, for a total of 5,772 miles. Anyway, at some point in the last couple of years, my Fitbit screen stopped responding, so I couldn't see anything on it. But it still reported to the app on my phone, so I could look up my progress there. Eh, who needs another screen, I thought. So I just continued wearing the little black brick on my wrist and never looking at it. Then it stopped buzzing me to remind me it was time to get up and move around. I ignored that too. I continued to use the most nonfunctional device ever out of pure cussedness. No sir, they can't make ME buy a new gadget! Well, then the wrist strap started falling off. I finally gave up and let the Sparrowhawk order me a new one--the Inspire 2, because it's about the cheapest and has the fewest bells and whistles. He ordered it yesterday snd told me it would come today. "How in the name of God is that possible?" I wondered. "The magic of Amazon," he replied. I don't like it! It's black magic! But it came, and I put it on. It does have a working wrist strap.
Other things that came in the mail: a magical 3-D card with a unicorn in it from Tron, and a sparkly card with planets on it and a very nice note from the Duchess. It was a great birthday extension.
I shoveled the walk and the driveway so the Sparrowhawk could go to the library and pick up some books he ordered. Then it started snowing again with a certain amount of determination, so I may have to do it again tomorrow. Seventy-one and still shoveling! That's my new t-shirt slogan.
you rock very, very hard
Date: 2022-01-25 08:02 am (UTC)