Last night, somebody who never got my vote lied about voting problems in an election he lost.
In November, I hope everyone will be voting their conscience and getting rid of everyone who supports and enables this toxic narcissist.
If you were voting for your favorite image from today’s blog post, what would it be?
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Here’s what I find when I look for “voting” on YouTube:
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Thanks to everyone who is here for this voting post, including YOU!
My husband Michael uses the word “dissettled,” which I never heard before I met him.
Here’s what I find when I search for “dissettled.”
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Dissettled is not considered obsolete or nonstandard in this household, perhaps because the world is so dissettling these days (and unsettling seems like too mild a world). Indeed, I feel like we have to make up new words to describe the unprecedented chaos created by a U.S. President.
Are you dissettled by any of my images for today?
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Here’s what I find when I search for “dissettled” on YouTube:
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How dissettled are you, here and now?
Thanks to all who helped me create this dissettled post, including YOU!
I’m counting down the days to the USA presidential election.
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Counting down, there are 13 days until the USA election, and I am trying my best not to go crazy on this National Crazy Day
Here’s what I find when I search for “counting down” on YouTube:
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I hope this isn’t the final countdown.
Thanks to all who are counting down with me, including YOU!
Harley is very charming when he overcomes his usual fear of people.
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My charming husband Michael prefers the word “compelling” for Harley. “Charming” is the word Michael used for my latest original song.
I think that could be more charming and I’m working on that.
People on Twitter were very charming when I shared that video with them yesterday.
Do you find the rest of my images for today charming?
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Wouldn’t it be charming to believe that everything you do is right?
Thanks to all the charming creatures in my life, including YOU!
Is anyone here experiencing disorientation?
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I often feel disorientation when I listen to the news, so I’ve written yet another verse for my disorientingly long song “I Don’t Wanna Be Late (Don’t Wanna Be Early Either).”
I don’t wanna watch the news,
Don’t wanna be out of touch either.
It’s confusing what to choose
When you’re trying too hard to do neither.
What’s so bad about watching the news?
Even if the news is cherry-picked to give us the blues?
What’s the crime being out of touch?
Although apathetic ignorance can be a crutch.
©️Ann Koplow, 2023
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If you’re used to criticism, compliments can be a source of disorientation, so getting a compliment about my songs from Jon Burr, an incredible musician whom I greatly respect, (“you’re like a friendly Bob Dylan”) recently disoriented me in a very nice way.
Oh, no! I feel another verse coming on!
I don’t wanna critic.
Don’t wanna big compliments either.
It’s hard to make things stick
When you’re trying too hard to do neither.
What’s so bad about a critic?
So harsh critics bring on shame and make us feel like ick?
What’s the crime in believing compliments?
Even if the big ones feel like they’re complete nonsense?
©️Ann Koplow 2023
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Besides the news and getting unexpected compliments, my disorientation has been exacerbated by weird INR results and my son Aaron moving to Halifax. Yesterday, a long conversation with Aaron helped orient me again, and gave me some useful ideas about what to do about my way-too-long song.
Do you see disorientation in any of my images for today?
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On National Punctuation Day, how about some disorientation punctuation???!!!?!!?
Here’s what I find when I search for “disorientation” on YouTube:
… and here are two orienting videos from my old friend Jon Burr.
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Thanks to Jon, Aaron, Katie Mack, kind and creative people on Twitter, Rubato HK Cafe, our cat Joan, the birds that hang around our South Shore home, and (of course!) YOU, for orienting me again.
On this Independence Day, I’m thinking that independence might be overrated, since we need to depend on each other in order to thrive and survive.
I depend on you to tell me if you see independence or interdependence in my images for today.
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Here’s what I find when I search for “independence” on YouTube.
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Thanks to all those I depend on this Independence Day, including YOU.
“Nice!” I just said to myself when I woke up with plenty of time to blog and get to the hospital for my first day of work after a week-long group therapy conference, where several people told me I was nice. When people tell me I’m nice, it’s often after I’ve given them a sincere compliment and I usually respond, “I’m not nice, I’m authentic.”
Yesterday, when my nice husband Michael and I went food shopping, I saw another nice little yellow Honda Fit in the parking lot, so I pulled into the space next to it and took a picture.
Nice!
Later, I noticed that somebody had left a note on my windshield and Michael and I speculated on what it might say. My guess was that the note said “nice car!” Here’s the note:
That’s so nice and here are my other images for today (which include several images shared by a nice guy on Twitter):
It IS nice to believe in yourself. Here’s the first thing I find on YouTube when I search for “nice”:
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Nice!
Thanks to all the nice people who read this daily blog, including YOU!
Today’s Daily Bitch has a different ending for “out of the frying pan into the fire.”
It still means the same thing: going to a worse situation when trying to better your current one.
No matter how we phrase it, that’s a fear that can worry us or even paralyze us about taking action — maybe I should stay in this frying pan because if I move, it might get worse!
For example, we stayed with a malfunctioning dishwasher for months (Michael had to bail out the non-draining water every day!) and now that we finally got a new one (delivered yesterday), I’m thinking we were afraid we might be going out of the frying pan into the fire, imagining things like “What if the new one doesn’t work?” “What if the installation people scare Harley so much he gets sick?” and other fire-y thoughts. Instead, now our frying pans can go into a dishwasher that was installed easily and works great. And Harley, as you can see, is neither in a frying pan nor a fire.
Now it’s time to move out of the frying pan …
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Because we’re focusing on frying pans and fires today, you might think that “Burns Supper” means something other than this:
Happy Burns Supper Day and because it’s also National Opposite Day, maybe I’ll assume that I’m going out of the frying pan into BETTER situations today.
Here’s what I find when I search for “out of the frying pan” on YouTube.
Thanks to all who accompany me as I go out of the frying pan into other places every day, including YOU!
Last night, I overused words to ask this question on Twitter:
One of the first answers to that question was “love and hugs” and several of us used words to express our feelings that those words could never be overused.
Do you see any overused (or underused) words in today’s blog post?
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Compliments may include overused words but I still recommend them.
Here’s what I find on YouTube when I look for “overused words.”
I also find this …
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I love that I introduced that video by Ann Chirisu with the first overused word on her list (“this”).
Can “thank you” ever be overused?
I’m assuming I’ve written about assumptions before. That’s because so many people assume and if you’ve heard the joke about people who assume and asses and you and me, you could assume that assumptions can get us into trouble.
Do you have any assumptions about why I’m writing about this today?
Somebody posted that on Twitter yesterday and I assume this is relevant, here and now, because assumptions are everywhere. I assume that if I look at the news, I’ll find assumptions wreaking havoc all around the world.
Now I’m checking my assumption that there are some great quotes about assumptions.
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Do you have any assumptions about the rest of my images for today?
I have no assumptions about why March 30 is such an action-packed National Day. My assumption is that I could take a walk in the park on National Virtual Vacation Day because I’m working virtually from home and I’m off on Wednesday afternoons. However, because assumptions often don’t come true (which I assume you’ve gleaned from this post), I may not be in control on National I Am in Control Day.
If you looked at all of my images above, I assume that this song might be going through your head:
I don’t have any assumptions about what kinds of comments I’m going to get about this “assumptions” post.
Regular readers of this blog probably have assumptions about my ending this post with gratitude, and they’re right!
