{"id":3335,"date":"2021-06-16T20:09:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T00:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lunarivervoices.com\/staging\/?p=3335"},"modified":"2021-06-16T20:09:45","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T00:09:45","slug":"june-16-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lunarivervoices.com\/staging\/life-in-2021\/june-16-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"June 16, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Happy Bloomsday<\/a>. Though I\u2019ve never read James Joyce\u2019s \u201cUlysses,\u201d it\u2019s been on my to-read list. Maybe I\u2019ll make it a point to read the whole thing in one 24-hour period, starting at midnight on June 16. Raising a Guinness to the Irish and my Irish ancestors.<\/p>\n

Feeling a little beat up today between my ankle and my eye. The good news is that my chiropractor thought I wasn\u2019t as messed up structurally as he expected\u2014not like last week when he adjusted me for the first time since THE BOOT. I\u2019m paraphrasing, but basically that\u2019s how he put it. Apparently, my body is responding well to adjustments. He\u2019s the guy who finally put my back and hip right after years of suffering, so I\u2019ll take his assessment as a good sign.<\/p>\n

After Dr. Joe, I headed to the eye doc for a follow-up from ten days ago. My eye had been red, itchy, and weeping; plus, this sty thingy appeared overnight below my lower lid. It\u2019s happened before and then it disappeared. Then several weeks ago, it reappeared, along with the weepy, itchy. When, on my first visit, I told her about the odd growth appearing suddenly, she didn\u2019t believe that was possible. She claimed it would have to be growing steadily over time. Today, she witnessed it herself. When she examined me she saw a second sty thingy, which popped up next to the other one. I noticed it this morning too. Several minutes later, when she looked again, it had disappeared, like Whack-A-Mole. She admitted she didn\u2019t believe me but that now she did. \u201cI like to take my patients\u2019 word for things, but some things just seem too fantastical.\u201d Then she got out all her little instruments in preparation to remove it. It took her twenty minutes to set up just to excise a dang thingy from my eyelid. We laughed about how ridiculously complicated it was: scalpels, head loups, lights, sutures, swabs, gauze, needles, and various ointments. To deaden the pain, she stuck a needle filled with an anesthetic just below my eye (ouch). After she cut THINGY out, she sutured the lid with two stitches. Kind of a weird seeing her sew my lid up, such as I could. I wonder if I\u2019ll have a cool scar or just look like a scary old lady. If it does leave a noticeable scar, I\u2019ll have to come up with a good backstory.<\/p>\n

Went for another bike ride this afternoon, tracing yesterday\u2019s steps (pedals?). At one of the rest shelters along the bike trail some fool left a bunch of unwanted shirtzky scattered all over the picnic table and benches, including fresh food! There were signs posted, FREE. I have to admit I eyeballed some of the unopened food, like baby carrots, beets, and a bag of spinach, before realizing that it had probably been sitting in the sun all day. I called the local park authority to report it. I mean who dumps their unwanted junk in a public park, especially food, expecting people to take it? Rude.<\/p>\n

Speaking of rude, this female cardinal was having another go at the blueberry bush. I chased her off and picked the ripe ones. She chipped at me, so I pulled three dead branches off, which had ripened but withering berries, and set them on the boardwalk for her. She\u2019s not going for it. Okay, so she\u2019s not really rude, just doing what birds do. I shouldn\u2019t be so selfish.<\/p>\n

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Happy Bloomsday. Though I\u2019ve never read James Joyce\u2019s \u201cUlysses,\u201d it\u2019s been on my to-read list. Maybe I\u2019ll make it a point to read the whole thing in one 24-hour period, starting at midnight on June 16. Raising a Guinness to …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-in-2021"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lunarivervoices.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/6-16a-rotated.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lunarivervoices.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lunarivervoices.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lunarivervoices.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lunarivervoices.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lunarivervoices.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lunarivervoices.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3336,"href":"https:\/\/lunarivervoices.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3335\/revisions\/3336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lunarivervoices.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lunarivervoices.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lunarivervoices.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lunarivervoices.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}