Caffeine

About ten years ago maybe longer but I can’t remember if it was before or after Mike died my doctor who by the way isn’t my doctor anymore ordered me off caffeine due to my blood pressure so until recently when I saw news of some new study that said coffee is good for older women but not decaffeinated coffee just the real stuff I hadn’t had any caffeinated coffee in a long time but I brewed myself a pot the other day and WOW it made such a difference I mean I felt or I should say feel so perky and energetic compared to days when I just drink the decaf stuff and I feel sharper and you wouldn’t believe how much stuff I’m getting done including stuff that’s been on my to do list for a really long time but I guess I should check my blood pressure just in case even though I’m feeling really really good except coffee of either kind the juiced up stuff or the stuff that’s had most of the life sucked out of it upsets my stomach if I drink too much but I guess that’s a good thing because that way I’ll notice I’m not feeling so great and that’s a signal that maybe I’ve had enough coffee for the day but so far today I’m feeling fine even though it’s supposed to be really really hot today and ordinarily hot weather makes me want to just wilt into a chair and moan but today a little earlier before the sun was all the way up I pulled out some lettuce that was getting kind of tired and planted another round of green beans and I noticed the zucchini I planted about 5 days ago is already coming up strong and I’ll probably have some summer squash soon too although I don’t know how the chard is coming along I’ve had trouble with that over the past few years don’t know why but who knows my luck could always change this year and in the meantime it looks like my tomatoes are doing great that is once they start producing actual tomatoes they should do great and did I mention I started rereading my favorite books the Patrick O’Brian novels about the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic wars again there’s 20 of them and this is the seventh time I’ve read them and I started what I’d say about a week ago and I’m on number 11 no wait maybe it’s 12 let me go check yep it’s 12 and I’ve been noticed SO much stuff I didn’t remember from before even typos and places where the author has reused descriptions and stuff but it just makes me love them more but I have noticed that every time I sit down to take up my book again I think of something I could be up and doing like adding a little more foam insulation around tiny gaps near the edges of our bedroom air conditioners so I did that and I think it does make a little bit of difference and also emptying and refilling the bird bath I can’t believe how fast the birds splash most of the water out of there and get what’s left so unbelievable dirty but it’s fun to hear them singing and chirping to each other to announce there’s a fresh bowl and then they come and splash it all away again oh well it’s good exercise I guess like using dumbbells to lift two full 2 gallon or is it 5 gallon I’m not sure watering cans not cans really because it’s plastic but anyway to lift it up full twice and empty it into the bowl of the birdbath after I’ve used the hose to spray the old dirty water out and to spray out the remnants of bird poop don’t worry I hold my breath and sometimes I even wear a mask so I won’t breathe any of that shit HA shit literally in and I feel fine really I do and speaking of birds there’s been a little baby male goldfinch hanging around I found him clinging to the screen in what used to be Mike’s man cave room oh who am I kidding his separate bedroom but now it’s a guest bedroom although we call it Angelic Daughter’s “office” because she wanted a place to take a break if she wakes up at night and there’s a desk in there but no laptop anymore because she never used it and it was a piece of shit anyway so cheap she really only uses her phone anymore not even her fancy-ass iPad but where was I oh yes the goldfinch well this morning he came right up to the kitchen window and turned his head sideways to look at me and he kept opening his mouth as if he was asking me to feed him so I began to wonder if maybe he got out of the nest too early and lost his mother or something but he had no trouble flying and then I though well maybe this is Mike stopping by to say hello and reminding me about how he used to joke that Angelic daughter was like a baby bird chasing its mother around the yard constantly with its mouth open FEED ME FEED ME begging for food but that was a robin not a goldfinch but whatever I’m going to choose to believe it was Mike saying hello and I hope you had or are having I should say a good Fourth of July weekend for those of you in the US who celebrate it I know folks from elsewhere don’t care about it I mean why should you the way those sadistic evil hypocritical asshole Republicans who claim to be Christians and who obviously have never read the Bible or have only read it selectively to back up their cruel self-righteous horrendous actions oh I just can’t bear it let’s change the subject except just one more thing there’s this guy on Facebook called Pastor Brandon who calls them out consistently by quoting scripture and there’s another guy he follows called Benjamin Cremer if you’re ever in need of some really powerful scriptural clapback like Isaiah 10:1-2 in addition to Matthew 25:35-45 or so for someone claiming they’re doing God’s work when they’re acting more like the antichrist than like Jesus but anyway where was I oh yes the Fourth well we skipped the parade as usual I mean after 65 of them it’s not that big a thrill anymore and it poured all morning until just before anyway instead we had our usual picnic out by Mike’s grave site and there was one other guy sitting by what must have been his wife’s grave but I was fussing at Angelic Daughter to help me with the tarp and the chairs and as usual being much too loud and he got up and left and I felt really bad so I’m sorry whoever you were I should have told you we’d quiet down as soon as we or more accurately I got settled for our picnic but I missed my chance but anyway we got a nice break in the rain and there was a nice breeze as there always is there and it was very peaceful and we had a really nice picnic but then in the evening we were supposed to watch A Capitol Fourth on PBS but for reasons unknown the TV in the basement wouldn’t let us watch PBS live even though both of the other TVs in the house would but it was nice and cool in the basement and I don’t have any place in my bedroom for another person to sit and watch TV with me so that didn’t work out and there was way too much of me bitching and yelling at the TV so Angelic Daughter watched for a minute upstairs but as soon as I came back up defeated she just changed the channel to one of those YouTube videos of AI generated pictures that play music but she watches it with the sound off but it was really pretty with a lovely porch and swimming pool and a bonfire and fireworks going off in the background and I apologized to her for shouting so much and we had a nice quiet sit and this morning I made blueberry muffins and they were very light and fluffy and really good and tonight or tomorrow I’m going to make strawberry shortcake with whipped cream even though Angelic Daughter doesn’t like whipped cream but she ate it enthusiastically last year so I think it will be OK and I’m singing at church tomorrow so that should be good and then thank God this holiday weekend will be over and there won’t be any more excuses for eating too much and eating stuff we should never eat at all much less too much of it I’m talking chips and ice cream and fries blecccch but actually yum but I’ve been avoiding weighing myself or even taking my blood pressure for that matter so hang on a sec I’ll take it now HA 129 over 76 just inside the blue zone whaddya know holy shit this piece is twice as long as it ever should be so if you made it all the way through to here you’re amazing and maybe I’ll have decaf tomorrow and try to write something a little more concise but until then I remain

your hyped-up caffeinated run-on blabbermouth

Ridiculouswoman