#I had completely forgotten about Kojak the dog and really love that dog character in the stand

[millerflintstone]

Hi!

I don't know exactly why I've not been active on tumblr. Part of it is that I've been in my head a lot without really wanting / needing to write out what's in my head onto any type of medium and feeling kinda withdrawn in general. Part of it is that I know I will do other things to avoid doing the thing I need to do.

I also have been reading via audiobook a lot. I picked up Stephen King's Fairy Tale via Audible credit and decided to go through his books starting from the beginning. I'm not sure I'll touch Cujo though. That's one of his books I've actively avoided because when I got into him in middle school, I was very scared of dogs and didn't want that to get worse. I can't remember the title of another one of his I started but put down because I could tell there was a rape scene coming up at the beginning of the book and nope, no thank you.

But going through his books reminds me of my sister. Especially the early stuff because it was her copies of his books that I would borrow. I remember when IT came out she got it right away and it was sheer torture waiting for her to finish it so that I could read it.

And it also reminds me about how when I was younger I also wanted to write but never really worked on that other than getting an English lit degree. Is there a part of me that wants that still? Unemployed Marilyn is unsure.

I don't know. But those are the things rattling around in my brain I need to explore in some fashion.

Other things!

I am sick. Unfriendly's boss has been sick for a couple of weeks and hiding in his office mainly. Unfriendly started feeling down on Friday and I started feeling it on Saturday. It could have been his boss or GrammyC. She was feeling ill but I didn't find out about it until after the fact. We had hung out earlier in the week a couple of times last week.

Our rapid tests have expired and the one I tried only gave me the faintest control line, so I dragged my ass to an urgent care today and got tested. Rapid test is negative. Flu test is also negative. I'll find out about the PCR test in a couple of days. But it feels like a normal cold for me. I know it could still be a variant though.

And folks - re-reading The Stand while feeling like you're coming down with something in these Covid times was maybe not the best idea. That's such a bleak book overall. And it's really interesting re-reading it in 2022 vs 1987 (which I think is when I first read the 1978 version) vs 1990 (when the uncut version came out and was another book I had to wait for my sister to finish)

Gigabyte is good. I've incorporated some treadmill sessions with her. I'll have to share video of that. She's currently passed out on a heating pad.

So hello. Gonna check my @ s and reply and drink some Thera-Flu and maybe pass out while watching the new season of The Crown.