I’m great in bed

they had a "community meeting" here and decided to do trick or treating this year. the date is yet to be announced, but it will probably be oct. 30 since if it is on a weekend, they usually go with the friday before.

i expect to year about a surge of COVID-19 cases a few weeks later.

it's mostly quiet here, except for the shrieking kids & the cars playing loud music. the past few years we didn't have any firectackers set off nearby, just kids with sparklers & those little things that get thrown on the ground and snap.

but this year is different. i don't know if it's because people can't really go anywhere for BBQs & stuff (although some do), but this year we've gotten big stuff every night this week. large M-80 like things being set off in the row behind us. people from the other end of the row setting off stuff & then coming down on our end to set off more.

i don't know what is wrong with people. i expected to hear something from from the owners about it, but we haven't yet.

where we live now is in a fairly rural area, with some woods on two sides of the housing complex & more woods across the road.

yesterday  afternoon (between 4-5) my brother heard a woman say something like: "you better get inside or the bear will get you." he didn't think much of it because this woman often yells at her little kids & he though this was her way of getting them inside the house. but then he heard someone else yell; "oh my god, bear!"

he looked out the window & sure enough, there was a bear. he ran to get me, i looked out the window to see this small-ish bear (maybe a year old) standing about 50-60 feet away near the kid's playground equipment. thankfully there were no children there at the time. it was the first time we've seen a bear in real life, despite living in rural areas all our lives.

my brother went to get the digital camera which wasn't that far away, but by that time the bear had wandered off into the side woods. he said; "now i know why people can't get a picture of bigfoot. by the time you get the camera, the damned thing has wandered off!"

so now we're worried about the possibility of bears being around the dumpsters. one of which is 10-15 feet from our house.

1. this is such a quite area. i've always lived in rural areas, usually far way from other house. but other than cars playing music loudly & kids screeching when play, it's so quiet.
the new neighbor is a single mother with 2 or 3 kids (another woman with 2 or 3 kids helped her move in & i don't know who's kids were who's) who spends 90% of the day yelling at them.

2. the presidential book reading project is going slow. 2 years & 20 books read. it helps that 1 guy was president twice, one book covered 3 guys i'm not reading anything on like 4 of them. but it's hard to find anything on booklender & they drop the ones i do find because they don't have enough of the title to justify keeping it. at this rate it will take me another 2 years to get through this.

3. flan is gross. i need to remember that.

4. panara bread got rid of a lot of stuff. their cinnamon roll, cheese danish, cobblestone & bear claw. now they have a different cinnamon roll with vanilla icing, cheese brittany, cherry brittany & some kind of chocolate sandwich cookie that are hard & not soft like a gob.
had the new cinnamon roll, cheese brittany and chocolate thing, hated all of them. basically the only good stuff they have is the bread & bagels.

5. in one of the last episodes of NCIS: NOLA agent khoury brought pride coffee in those paper to-go cups. he took it despite being a coffee snob who only drinks coffee he makes himself in early seasons. is this not in the show bible? and i hate when people pick up a cup on a TV show or in a move to drink something & it's obviously empty.

i never really had seasonal allergies before i moved here (maybe if the pollen count was very high) but last year & this year have been a bit rough.

my tear-ducts have started to itch & not just a little bit, but some deep down irradiation itching. my brother has that too & some sinus problems.

generic benadryl only cut it down by like 50%, so we got some generic claritin which cut it down by at least 95%.

we don't know if there's a different tree or flowers here that are causing the problems or what. we're just glad we got something that helps.

when we first moved here several people said that it was a quiet area. and it is, for the most part.

you have people yelling at their spouse/significant other.
the loud guy feuding with someone in the first or second row of houses.
people yelling at their kids.
kids that think screaming/screeching is part of playtime.
cars with something wrong that clunk or squeal.
cars that go around with music blaring, especially after "the quiet hours" time period has started.

regarding the third one; my brother heard this from one of the houses behind us last week; "[girl's name] where did you pee? [girl's name] where did you pee? damn it [girl's name], where did you f**king pee?!"

1. tried the new oreo Os last week. rather bleh, not the same without those little "cream" pieces that looked like marshmallow disks.

2. trying to find a new scent of deodorant with a half-stuffed nose is no fun. chose secret scent expressions coconut splash invisible solid.
considered boho berry; a kind of dusty berry scent. also considered chill ocean; kind of smells like the "fresh" or "powder" scents. the hawaii citrus smells like cheap vitamin c tablets. the classic coco butter kind of smells like some sort of hand lotion, but not quite.
hopefully it will work out, there is that troublesome thing called body chemistry after all.

3. there a guy here that complains every day about going outside to smoke. i'm like "dude, you knew this was a smoke-free place when you applied to be here."

4. i maybe be a much larger size in bras than i thought. it's going to be a major pain to find one that fits & that i like. the sides on the bigger once usually cut into my armpits. i swear whoever designs these thing never has to wear one.
i got these things from my mom, which she apologized for.
on the other end of the scale was my dad's mother who once said that when she was young hers were like half lemons, but became fried eggs when she got older.

as part of the disaster that took over my life not only did my brother & i loose the internet, but we had to move. it's a small place in a village, which means neighbors. something we've never really dealt with before. we've always lived out in the country where the closest neighbor was at least a half a football field (american football that is) lengthen away. now the closest one is a literal stone's throw away. we also have to pay rent, a new experience as well.
there's no smoking, drugs or loud parties (not that we did that anyway) & all kids under 18 have to be home by 10 pm. there are also "quiet hours" between 10 pm & 7 am. which puts some restriction on late-night wal-mart shopping.

we have internet, which is good & crap tv reception, which is bad. so i can't see my precious NCIS: new orleans "live" & have to catch it on cbs.com (which put the 3 i missed in jan. behind a paywall. bastards) & we were getting something called cozi tv which had quantum leap episodes (30-something scott bakula at his finest) but we're putting it on the netflix DVD list. they don't have it on streaming.