The Daily: My Stupid Hip

Tuesday, March 23, 2022

4:59 am: Waking up with this aching hip. It's the right hip, not the correct one, but the one on the right side. I think it should get back in line with the rest of my body and act appropriately.

5:15 am: There is something happening a the gym. The short shorts are out and proud. They're not just short shorts, they are those new booty bicycle shorts that look like boy short underwear. Get it ladies!

6:06 am: Had an idea to make a short film about this strange green baby toy in my house. It's going to be one of those days that I spend most of it in my head, I can tell already.

6:15 am: Took a picture with my new iphone and it did this weird adjusting thing and then snapped the picture when it was good and ready to. It turned out kind of great, you are on to something with this camera iPhone.

6:58 am: Making coffee and googling how to make stop motion videos on my phone. Oh yah, kids up and in the shower already, looking good time wise.

7:59 am: Kid dropped at school (where I am sure he's going to pay attention and try his best...maybe), ready for breakfast and getting in some writing.

8:44 am: Just posted a short essay about that Tesla that launched into the air in Echo Park as a TikTok stunt and crashed poor innocent peoples parked cars, UGH...it's here: The News With No Sound.

 

9:15 am: Call my Grandmother in law while picking up junk in the kids bedroom. She's 89 years old and entertaining to talk to. I love to complain to her about stuff that's going on, she's great at commiserating.

10:01 am: Headed outside for fresh air and to water the plants, it is ridiculously warm here today and I am trying like hell to keep the pansies I bought from drying up and blowing away in the ever present wind.

10:56 am: Writing a piece about a North Carolina woman who got the vanity license plate, "FART", and someone complained about it. What a story, I am smiling right now thinking about it.

12:12 pm: Lunched early today. I would eat lunch at like 10 and dinner at 4:30 if it was up to me...again, old lady in the making. 

1:39 pm: Just made a TikTok video with the strange green baby toy in my house, it's at: TikTok user TheBabyGene (I may have a bit more time on my hands then I like to admit to, just saying).

2:25 pm: Dog walking in the school neighborhood, I saw a large Easter bunny and egg inflatable that looks questionable, who do these things bring joy to exactly?

3:30 pm: Back home, husband still sleeping which means we have to be so very quiet, like that's easy for me or the kid. 

5:07 pm: Making tomorrows school lunch for the kid, making two different dinners, and listening to Margaret Atwood's Master Class (she is so brilliant). I am so thankful for that Master Class subscription, it keeps me sane when I am standing in the kitchen forever.

6:46 pm: Yoga on the floor of the living room in an attempt to loosen up that damn right hip. The living room is a bad place for yoga, the husband is sitting on the couch complaining the whole time. 

7:43 pm: Sitting in the kids room babysitting him (a fourteen year old) to make sure he gets his homework done.  Another plus of being a parent...at least I can go to bed soon. 

9:03 pm: Time to hit the hay, it's a little late but whatever.