Days 14 & 15: We Were Past Halfway, Then We Weren’t Anymore, and Then it was Good Friday.

My previous pets control post has reached many people according to FB, but the stats on WordPress paint a different picture. I’m not complaining, merely stating a fact. Everyone that took part in the challenge – thank you! Your pets not only touched my heart, but those of many of my readers. Charles from work read the post, and sent this pic of his wannabee-lockdown-escapee, Tash, to me. I told him I’d include her in my next post, so here she is, in all her attempted-breakout glory.

COVID-19: Fears Hiding Behind the Funnies

I often used to be one that had an egg to lay about current events. Once I relapsed I stopped listening to the news on the radio and well, I don’t watch mainstream TV often. The only time I ever watch the evening news is if I’m with The Toppie and The Bean, and that isn’t often. I spend some of my lunch times with them, or stop by for a cup of tea after work, but I’m home by the time the sun sets because I have work to do.

The #CoronaVirus has hit the world hard, and as much as we’d like to deny it, everyone is scared. Sure, the memes going around are funny, but the fact remains, this is a pandemic. The first since the Spanish Flu a hundred years ago, the cholera outbreak a century before that, and the plague a century before that. Whatever Higher Power you believe in, there’s a mass clean-up-cyclone happening, and we’re in the eye of the storm

2020 is Here

New year, new decade…no resolutions, just goals:

Blog more and grow my blog and Facebook following.  My dream is to establish Reflections of a Misfit as a brand of sorts.

Drink more water and get some sun, because according to some memes, I’m nothing more than a houseplant with complicated emotions.

I’ve already decided what the theme for my birthday, which is nine months and twenty days away, is going to be.  I would love to say that it came to me in a dream, but the truth is that a friend shared something on WhatsApp that spurned the wheels of creativity.

Survival of the (Un)Fittest

I survived last night’s personal training with Steve.  Barely!  I am stiff in places I’ve never had places before.  I am grateful that we only did upper body last night, because if we’d done legs as well, my gait would have surely rivalled that of John Wayne.

Food wise, I still not hungry. And I’m still craving cake. And freshly brewed rooibos tea – which I’d make if I could lift the kettle!  On Thursday evening I shall detach my legs from the rest of my body and send them to the gym on their own.

Seriously, if I don’t have a banging hot body after the ten sessions I’ve paid for, I’m going to eat an entire New York baked cheesecake in a single sitting.

A Little Fun for the Weekend…

Many moons ago I blogged on a different platform, where this “challenge” was doing the rounds. I thought I would give the answers true to me, using lyrics snippets that are applicable (to both me and the questions…) If you feel like doing it on your blog – feel free…drop a comment and I’ll pop by to visit 😀

I am:

What I am, I don’t want praise, I don’t want pity…

(Gloria Gaynor ~ I am What I am)

I have:

Faith, I gotta have faith

(George Michael ~ Faith)

I know:

That too much love will kill you, just as sure as none at all.

(Queen ~ Too Much Love will Kill You)

I think:

I am too lost in you, lost in you

(Sugababes ~ Lost in You)

I don’t think:

Life is a Rollercoaster, you’ve just got to ride it.

(Ronan Keating ~ Life is a Rollercoaster)

I want:

It all, and I want it now

(Queen ~ I Want it All)

I have:

Sugar Pie, Honeybunch

(The Temptations ~ Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch )

I like:

The way you move

(The Bodyrockers ~ I Like the Way You Move )

I dislike:

The shark, babe, has such teeth dear

(Bobby Darin ~ Mack the Knife)

I hate:

Your girlfriend, no way, no way, I think you need a new one

(Girlfriend ~ Avril Lavigne)

I dream:

It’s so damn easy making love to you

(Bryan Adams ~ Run to You)

I fear:

A heartache, nothing but a heartache

(Bonnie Tyler ~ (It’s a) Heartache)

I am annoyed:

By the cold North wind they call “La Bise”

(Chris de Burgh ~ Lonely Sky)

I crave:

The Highlands, with its wonderful serenity, where the stars glow and the brooks flow, that’s my way of life

(Nanne Gronwall (One More Time) ~ Highland)

I usually:

Do the Walk of Life

(Dire Straits ~ Walk of Life)

I search:

For someone who understands the concept of:

Baby when it’s love if it’s not rough, it isn’t fun.

(Lady GaGa ~ Pokerface)

I hide:

Behind Blue Eyes

(Limp Bizkit ~ Behind Blue Eyes)

I wonder:

How many times you’ve been had and I wonder how many plans have gone bad

(Rodriguez ~ I Wonder)

Or

Wat van jou geword het, jy wat nog so by my spook

(Lochner de Kock & Richard van der Westhuizen ~ Tussen Treine)

I know:

I didn’t lose my mind, it was mine to give away

(Robbie Williams ~ No Regrets)

I just can’t help:

Believin’ when I slip my hand in his hand, and it feels so small and helpless, and his fingers fold around it like a glove…

(Elvis Presley ~ I Just can’t Help Believin’)

I regret:

Crying over You

(Roy Orbison ~ Crying)

I love:

Rock ‘n roll, put another dime in the jukebox baby

(Joan Jett & The Blackhearts – I Love Rock ‘n Roll)

I can’t live without:

Another cup of coffee, as I contemplate the stain across the wall

(Mike & The Mechanics ~ Another Cup of Coffee)

I try to:
Hide it, it’s clear – my world crumbles when you are not near

(Macy Gray ~ I try)

I enjoy:

Red, Red Wine

(Red, Red Wine ~ UB40)

I don’t care:

If Mama don’t dance and your Daddy don’t rock ‘n roll

(Kenny Loggins ~ Your Daddy don’t Rock ‘n Roll)

I always:

Hope for a kiss in the moonlight, on the rooftop under the sky

(Faith Hill ~ This Kiss)

I never want to:

Say goodbye, cause I never want to see you cry

(Westlife ~ Swear It Again)

I rely on:

Love. Love will keep us together.

(Captain & Teneille ~ Love will keep us together)

I believe:

For every drop of rain that falls, a flower grows

(Frank Sinatra ~ I Believe)

I dance:

To your beauty with a burning violin

(Leonard Cohen ~ Dance Me to the End of Love)

I sing:

A Song for the Lonely, can you hear me tonight

(Cher ~ Song for the Lonely)

I argue:

“What planet are you from? Accuse me of things I never done.”

(Rachel Stevens ~ Sweet Dreams my LAX)

I write:

The songs that make the whole world sing

(Barry Manilow ~ I Write the Songs)

I win:

Again, I win, here you stand again, the loser.

(Hot Chocolate ~ So You Win Again)

I wish:

Those days would come back once more

(Stevie Wonder ~ I Wish)

I listen:

To the rhythm of the pouring rain, telling me just what a fool I’ve been

(The Cascades ~ Rhythm of the Pouring Rain )

I don’t understand:

Why some guys have all the luck, some guys have all the pain, some guys have all the breaks, some guys do nothing but complain

(Rod Stewart ~ Some Guys have all the Luck)

I’m scared of:

Your lips (are venomous poison)

(Alice Cooper ~ Poison)

I forget:

I’m broke, but I’m happy, I’m poor but I’m kind

(Alanis Morrisette ~ Hand in my Pocket)

I am happy:

When I’m singing in the rain, just singing in the rain

(Frank Sinatra ~ Singing in the Rain)