RainbowTrout of Simmer
Aug. 15th, 2018 10:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ismoI finally made it to my yearly pharmacy review today. I had two previous appointments with them that had to be canceled because something else came up, like taking my mother to the doctor. I enjoyed chatting with the friendly and competent pharmacy ladies. One was a trainee who practiced on me, and was charmingly serious. The good news is that I'm basically doing everything right with my prescriptions. The pharmacist also looked at my OTC supplements and said that my turmeric is actually effective, but I'd have to take three or four times as much fish oil for it to do me much good, and that I probably don't need calcium tablets, given my calcium-rich diet and my dense, healthy bones. So that's nice to know.
We saw "Christopher Robin" today (with popcorn). It was a lovely little movie. The toy characters were just right. It made the Sparrowhawk cry. It made me want to go home and play with my toys. Making up stories was originally a form of play for me. I didn't have a lot of toys as a kid, so I'd make up things and draw them as an alternative to acting them out with toys. When I was really little, on the mountain, I remember building little barns out of pebbles, provisioning them with pine needles for hay, and using twigs to be my horses. In Germany, I had a little block of wood that I named "Newcomer," after the head ranger at the ranger station in Idaho--a revered figure--and played out endless adventures with Newcomer as the hero. I know, I know--it sounds like the old "I had to play with a stick and a string!" routine. But you can actually have quite a lot of fun with sticks and strings. When the kids were little, we always played Pooh sticks when we came to a bridge, and I think everyone in the family including me liked to collect haycorns. I have a horse chestnut that I still keep in my jacket pocket to play with.
We saw "Christopher Robin" today (with popcorn). It was a lovely little movie. The toy characters were just right. It made the Sparrowhawk cry. It made me want to go home and play with my toys. Making up stories was originally a form of play for me. I didn't have a lot of toys as a kid, so I'd make up things and draw them as an alternative to acting them out with toys. When I was really little, on the mountain, I remember building little barns out of pebbles, provisioning them with pine needles for hay, and using twigs to be my horses. In Germany, I had a little block of wood that I named "Newcomer," after the head ranger at the ranger station in Idaho--a revered figure--and played out endless adventures with Newcomer as the hero. I know, I know--it sounds like the old "I had to play with a stick and a string!" routine. But you can actually have quite a lot of fun with sticks and strings. When the kids were little, we always played Pooh sticks when we came to a bridge, and I think everyone in the family including me liked to collect haycorns. I have a horse chestnut that I still keep in my jacket pocket to play with.
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Date: 2018-08-16 12:33 pm (UTC)I mostly used toy horses for characters, at least when I was in later elementary and middle school and had accumulated some.
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Date: 2018-08-17 02:24 am (UTC)