Binge Watching

ill we rise up...

Or just go off to work and mind our own business?  Meaning if there is anything Weird about our election process.  Im eager to hear what Nancy Pelosi has to say to DeJoy tomorrow...he basically said he is not rolling back the changes he made but putting further change on hold...excuse me, but wth??  How can removing sorting machines be more cost effective?? Even a 5th grader with a lemonade stand knows better, OH lets take knives we normally slice the lemon with out of process and see if we can make it faster...not hardly! I do believe the GOP are either stupid or they think we are!

I placed my fruit trees around the yard in the buckets to see how they do in those spots they each need 6 hrs of sunlight...I will let them acclimate  a couple days see  how it goes then in the ground.  I may have to make a couple changes a few ft one way or the other.  I'm pretty up there in years so it may not be me who eats of this fruit but hopefully someone will! Once it's in the ground I can say I have an orchard!! Pretty big claim eh?  This is not the first try at having fruit trees...it is however my last try!

I also put the broccoli and cabbage plants in pots hope they will give me a little veg to eat along with the carrot and lettuce that is sprouted already.  The carrot grows slowww so If I get any it will be in 2021 OMG that sounds like a sci-fi movie title...to someone who has been marking the calendar since 1953!

I felt stronger today but not superwoman just kinda like miss piggy strong ...but in the end the humidity drove me in and now Im done with all chores.  I watched a couple movies on Tubi last night.  I always like Tom Berringer so I had added a movie he did long ago and somehow I missed it mainly it was Cuba Gooding Jr. starring and Tom was supporting.  I like Gooding's work but he sure messed up his private life kinda seems. 

The movie was a Murder of Crows.  A good drama/thriller...If you haven't seen it you can stream it right off of Tubi.  Like I say I don't know how I missed this movie but actually there's lots of movies I missed even some I watched I missed...lol Have you ever fallen asleep in a movie theater?  I have and I used to do it about every Saturday in Sheepshead Bay at the Regal Cinema on Shore Parkway right off the Belt Parkway. 
 I had a TV but no cable, or antenna, I would go to this diner that used to be right in the same area get a veggie melt and fries with iced tea and then a go to a matinee.  Even then a matinee was $10.  It was cool and quiet and they had those soft rocking type seats...sometimes by the time the feature film rolled I'd be snoring...LOL
It happened so many times I decided I was wasting my money joined the Blockbuster Video in Bensonhurst on 86th St instead...I would rent 2 movies with my membership for $4...and take home a deli sandwich...and before you know it I was getting Netflix delivered to my mailbox...for $8 a month and ended the Blockbuster trips!
But when I was so poor that I couldn't do any of that my sister used to tape episodes of CSI and send them to me on a VHS tape.  She would fill an entire tape with episodes...I can recall it so well.  I was a binge watcher before the phrase was ever created. 

I lived in a big rambling 4 story house that once belonged to some wealthy person but had been purchased by a couple as their retirement income maker...and they had sectioned it off into apartments...they had 3 basement apartments the first floor had 2 apartments, once of which was theirs, the 2nd floor had 2 and the 3rd floor had 3 apartments.
AND they had one detached studio apartment...so they easily covered their mortgage.  This house was located in Sea Gate off the edge of Coney Island the only gated community in Brooklyn, and right on the Beach.  

I had one of the Basement Studios and my own entrance.  The mailboxes were located by the front door on the main floor hall then a stairway led down into the laundry room and I could also get to my apartment by going thru the house down those stairs into the laundry room then out an exterior door that ended up right by my entrance door. 

So on Friday night when my work week was done I had 4 awesome days off.  It was the most exciting thing in the world to come in check the mailboxes and see my video sitting on top cause it wouldn't fit in the little letter box for #12. 
There would be like 6 or 8 episodes of CSI on there...depending on whether she took out the commercials which she sometimes did...I would go to the grocery on Saturday and before I got my little Mercury car, I rode my bike back n forth to shops and the train...I'd come home with handlebars loaded down with bags of stuff...I was so poor at that time and trying to pay off a huge debt I had created "long story" and so my food budget was $25 a week. 

 I ate out 3 days a week while at work...Bagel with butter and coffee for breakfast $1.75, lunch would be a tin plate  of take out rice n beans for $3.75 and that was also dinner because it was a huge 3 inch deep tin...and when I got home I'd usually have a snack of some kind before bed a banana normally about 11 pm.  

So my grocery buy was the same thing every single time this way I knew exactly what I was buying. A cucumber, a head of romaine lettuce, a bunch of bananas, a bag of roasted pnuts in the shell, a cauliflower head, Some canned beans, a loaf of bread, some sliced cheese, a box of microwave popcorn, an onion, and a frozen pizza! One stick of butter and 6 eggs.  

I kept is so simple and I ate the same thing on my 4 days at home...the pizza would last me 2 days with a salad, the canned beans with a cheese sandwich, The cauliflower I would mix with onion stir fry it with turmeric and butter and more salad.

The popcorn  and pnuts was to go with my CSI binge watch.  What wonderful times that was for me, because I learned how to really survive on a shoe string.  When I hear the theme song to CSI, the original one Who Are You..I get this little excited feeling of butterflies of and of feeling so safe and comfortable in my little studio by the sea away from the crazy world just outside my door.

Later on in 2003 I started to eat a strict vegan diet...and so my shopping changed I had my little car by then and I was doing better financially so I purchased a little bit more food.  I still lived a spartan lifestyle because I paid off a $25,000 debt in about 2 yrs.  and Paid $6,000 tuition for Paramedic School too. 
I went into debt to move to NYC and worked my way out of it to get out of NYC...lol all a huge learning curve for me, and quite an experience in humanity, humility, and the human struggle.  

one area of my studio. Even tho it was a basement I had excellent light and lots of plants.