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Yesterday wasn't a fun one.
I started the morning checking to see whether my friend Kimberley Rector posted on Facebook since I hadn't seen her posts come up in a while and she usually posted daily. I know that Facebook is absolute shit at showing you what you actually want to see (which is why I don't go there as often) so I went directly to her page only to find out that at the end of February she was found unconscious on her front lawn and later passed away at the hospital. I don't think anyone on my current f-list was friends with researchgrrrl but she was a LJ user. I'm going to miss her. Although she honestly was the unluckiest person on Earth - no exaggeration - she'd tell funny stories about her ferrets that were her life and reminisced about goofy instances she had in her life.
My back has been ramping up for several days and yesterday my lower back felt like someone tied a anchor to it. It has a deep ache that pain meds and lidocaine are struggling to get to. I'm taking today off to rest more since I have a 3 hour online class tomorrow morning.
Then later in the day I foolishly decided to look at Facebook again - mostly to read the tributes that people are now posting for Kimberley. Not so long ago, I followed my aunt on there who I hadn't communicated with in many years and always found her to be cheerful and nice to talk to. Not anymore. She had been posting fringe anti-vax support videos which I'd block the source of those so I wouldn't have to see them. There's no point in trying to sway the opinion of anyone that posts them since they're in too deep at that point. Then yesterday was the straw. She posted a "funny" video by Jim Breuer with hateful rhetoric being nasty to liberals. I unfriended her and messaged my (fellow liberal) cousin to warn her. I had thought that maybe she went off the deep end when my Dad's brother died last year but evidently no, she's been like this for some years. Sad but I have enough stress in life not to have to interact with anyone that posts that nonsense. Thankfully I never gave her my email address.
I started the morning checking to see whether my friend Kimberley Rector posted on Facebook since I hadn't seen her posts come up in a while and she usually posted daily. I know that Facebook is absolute shit at showing you what you actually want to see (which is why I don't go there as often) so I went directly to her page only to find out that at the end of February she was found unconscious on her front lawn and later passed away at the hospital. I don't think anyone on my current f-list was friends with researchgrrrl but she was a LJ user. I'm going to miss her. Although she honestly was the unluckiest person on Earth - no exaggeration - she'd tell funny stories about her ferrets that were her life and reminisced about goofy instances she had in her life.
My back has been ramping up for several days and yesterday my lower back felt like someone tied a anchor to it. It has a deep ache that pain meds and lidocaine are struggling to get to. I'm taking today off to rest more since I have a 3 hour online class tomorrow morning.
Then later in the day I foolishly decided to look at Facebook again - mostly to read the tributes that people are now posting for Kimberley. Not so long ago, I followed my aunt on there who I hadn't communicated with in many years and always found her to be cheerful and nice to talk to. Not anymore. She had been posting fringe anti-vax support videos which I'd block the source of those so I wouldn't have to see them. There's no point in trying to sway the opinion of anyone that posts them since they're in too deep at that point. Then yesterday was the straw. She posted a "funny" video by Jim Breuer with hateful rhetoric being nasty to liberals. I unfriended her and messaged my (fellow liberal) cousin to warn her. I had thought that maybe she went off the deep end when my Dad's brother died last year but evidently no, she's been like this for some years. Sad but I have enough stress in life not to have to interact with anyone that posts that nonsense. Thankfully I never gave her my email address.