Maybe I need a midlife crisis icon?
Nov. 12th, 2017 06:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thanateVia linkspam elsejournal, So Much This: The New Midlife Crisis. I'm not sure if it's nice to know that wanting to find a small space to crawl into and whimper is age appropriate, but apparently it's only supposed to be a decade or so? Um... Well, then.
Grauwulf began his new job and is already skeptical about many things, which leads back into endless depressing circular discussions, and the Megatherium finally deigned to get dressed this afternoon around 3 because I said I was going for a walk & wasn't inviting her b/c she was still in her nightgown. On the up side, I have a new hoodie which is warm & roomy & certified by REI to be fair wage assembled in the USA, even if it's still awful-manufacture cotton. (I have some genuinely recycled content ones bookmarked in case I decide I need another one, but wanted something I could go try on made by a company that generally seems to understand how arms work.)
I've been mostly substituting papercraft swaps for screaming, and have new dayglo gel pens and my first far-too-many rolls of washi tape. (There was a post-Hallowe'en sale bin.) But my sewing machine is on the blink (literally; I tried to turn it on and all the lights blinked at me) and I need to get that out to the shop to see if they can fix it. Wednesday morning the Megatherium & I went in for blood testing; as part of a physical in my case (they started pestering me about pap smears, so I figured I'd get all the wellness stuff done at once) & in her case to check if being anemic could explain her eating random crap. No such luck, but I am certified non-diabetic & otherwise ok for the next however-long. Meanwhile, grauwulf is convinced that the exchange is now too expensive & we need to give up on Kaiser for health insurance. (I waver on the first point, but am firmly against the second.)
I had a realization recently that I haven't really got a huge amount of new music since my mid-20s, brought on by putting on an old mix CD in the car which played me "See you when you're 40." The lyric doesn't quite have the same ring to it when you're 38, somehow... Is there a genre (or just albums, whatever) of melodic kinda-pop-y girly music with lyrics relevant to 40-somethings? I got a couple Above & Beyond albums since every time I asked Alexa what a song was on the trance radio station I was listening to while doing dishes it turned out to be off their Group Therapy album, but I think they go in the category of thing that I can only listen to sometimes or it'll give me a headache. Anyone have recs?
Grauwulf began his new job and is already skeptical about many things, which leads back into endless depressing circular discussions, and the Megatherium finally deigned to get dressed this afternoon around 3 because I said I was going for a walk & wasn't inviting her b/c she was still in her nightgown. On the up side, I have a new hoodie which is warm & roomy & certified by REI to be fair wage assembled in the USA, even if it's still awful-manufacture cotton. (I have some genuinely recycled content ones bookmarked in case I decide I need another one, but wanted something I could go try on made by a company that generally seems to understand how arms work.)
I've been mostly substituting papercraft swaps for screaming, and have new dayglo gel pens and my first far-too-many rolls of washi tape. (There was a post-Hallowe'en sale bin.) But my sewing machine is on the blink (literally; I tried to turn it on and all the lights blinked at me) and I need to get that out to the shop to see if they can fix it. Wednesday morning the Megatherium & I went in for blood testing; as part of a physical in my case (they started pestering me about pap smears, so I figured I'd get all the wellness stuff done at once) & in her case to check if being anemic could explain her eating random crap. No such luck, but I am certified non-diabetic & otherwise ok for the next however-long. Meanwhile, grauwulf is convinced that the exchange is now too expensive & we need to give up on Kaiser for health insurance. (I waver on the first point, but am firmly against the second.)
I had a realization recently that I haven't really got a huge amount of new music since my mid-20s, brought on by putting on an old mix CD in the car which played me "See you when you're 40." The lyric doesn't quite have the same ring to it when you're 38, somehow... Is there a genre (or just albums, whatever) of melodic kinda-pop-y girly music with lyrics relevant to 40-somethings? I got a couple Above & Beyond albums since every time I asked Alexa what a song was on the trance radio station I was listening to while doing dishes it turned out to be off their Group Therapy album, but I think they go in the category of thing that I can only listen to sometimes or it'll give me a headache. Anyone have recs?
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Date: 2017-11-13 02:33 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2017-11-15 03:03 am (UTC)The lyrics on Stay Gold are the thing I needed to hear all last year. First Aid Kit are... kinda folk, I guess? Stay Gold is a lovely and melodic song.
Chvrches are... maybe electronica? Maybe alt-rock? I suck at genre. The album the song is from, Every Open Eye, was my favorite thing all through last winter.
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Date: 2017-11-16 04:43 pm (UTC)Stay Gold starts out a little nasal but smoothed out by the first chorus; I think I will be buying the Chvrches album also. :) I don't know what they think their genre is either, but it's entirely the sort of thing I had in mind.
(bonus points for recommending things I could ask Alexa for!)
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Date: 2017-11-18 04:03 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2017-11-16 04:40 pm (UTC)I did a thing...a decade ago now, eep, where a friend hosted a "CD swap party" where everyone compiled a CD of music they loved to trade out, & they got sent in a big bundle of anonymous but beloved music. Copyright issues aside, it was pretty great. Possibly a post with "link to 3 favorite songs on youtube/bandcamp/wherever" would be worth doing?
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Date: 2017-11-17 08:35 pm (UTC)no subject
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