It’s been a while, yeah, yeah, I know. I have been busy learning a new photography editing program  and fighting off Mercury in Retrograde (Oh, I know you hate it when I get into “that stuff,” but I swear, I swear, strange things happen).

Mercury in Retrograde began October 31 and allegedly lasted until November 20, but from what I hear, because it is the end of the year, Mercury is taking longer to “go direct.”

Let’s get started:

1. I was taking care of my little Guatemalan airplants, which do need water and they get a weekly bath. As I was carrying them from the kitchen back to their window abode, one little one, and I mean this, completely disappeared from my hand. I looked high and low, it’s gone.
2. I had packed up my beloved kitty’s house, which was meant for outdoor Hèrmes, who shunned it last winter, but I was determined to try again. It was re-boxed and left in the basement. Gone. No where to be found.
3. I was talking to my friend about my ocular episodes and how I have a fluorescent light built in over my desk. I was thinking that this is not a good thing. I went to my desk and poof!! The ballast died leaving me in the dark.
4. Subsequent to that event, I contacted my electrician who brought me an inappropriate shop light and he hung it crooked from the hutch over my workspace. I ended up having to do endless research for a new fixture that would work in my studio space. Finally, all was fixed, but even with an LED fixture with adjustable light, I am sitting here with an ocular migraine. (I am back to square one with migraine, nothing seeming to work.)
5.  The place where I purchased the new fixture insisted that the cord would be white, so I ordered an additional black cord and wouldn’t you know it, it came with a black cord and now there are two.
6. Someone, likely someone with a lawn service has been dumping huge bags of leaves in front of our house for city pickup. A no-no.
7. Last Thursday, the recycling pickup, on its evening Winter schedule did me an injustice by throwing my entire, new, recycling bin into the truck. These might be the same nasties who stand in front of my house and curse if they think too much recycling has been put out.
8. Husband had a bout of muscle failure after going to PT and insisting we go to the supermarket. I was fearful of another brain-shunt failure. That doesn’t seem to be the issue. Thankfully. Still he has had PT sessions before with subsequent shopping and this didn’t happen.
9. I reserved a specific driver from a car service to go to a  medical appointment in Manhattan. They sent someone else. OK, that could happen. But I had made a reservation for pickup, for the driver to wait and do the return trip. They had no such reservation for the return; I had a confirmation text. Thankfully, all ended well.
10. My mother insisted she was dying. That was distressing. She had some kind of respiratory problem, bronchitis. When her foot felt funny (likely a circulatory thing) she figured THAT was it. She seems to be ready to go. But she is still here and pushing 102 years.
11. Mother calls crying that one of the “unreliable” aides broke her toilet seat and she couldn’t go to the bathroom. As it turned out, when the second aide of the day came in and checked, there was nothing wrong, it just needed to be adjusted slightly.
12. After two years of an issue over my mother’s rent, which was supposed to have been adjusted, I received next month’s statement rife with errors.
13. Fax and printer glitches. Miscommunications with people who work at my mother’s residence.
14. The readout on our alarm panel started displaying strange symbols.
15. And finally, last but not least, a young man hit on me in the theater lobby before a show. I shall make no comment, but I am entitled to a silent grin. Vote below in comments for your fave Mercury in Retrograde weirdness, or share your own tale.

11/26-hey, there’s more! Just got an alert that one of my emails was found in a data breach! Whoopie! Yup, this is a “prolonged” Retrograde!

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