Fri. March 6, 2026: The Slushy Muck Continues

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Friday, March 6, 2026

Waning Moon

Jupiter and Mercury Retrograde

Snowy and cold

Happy end of the week!

It’s just thing after thing after thing, isn’t it?

The government is trying to cover up how many people are being killed in this illegal war they launched. They admitted the first four, then six, and now aren’t releasing casualty numbers. Congress twiddles their thumbs. A veteran protested and a sitting Senator broke his arm. Why hasn’t that dude been censored, removed, or arrested? Congress is useless. Someone online mentioned how they’re like toddlers just discovering they have toes, and in my mind, they’re not even smart enough for that!

At least Noem is fired, although her replacement is just as bad or worse. And Dems in Congress won’t do what they can and should to block confirmation. Because our Congress is both useless and complicit.

And now RFK Jr. is fighting Dunkin pastry? The person responsible for health thinks they can defeat a Boston cream doughnut? In New England, where iced coffee all year round and doughnuts are practically a religion of their own? This is where our money goes, instead of toward universal healthcare and breakthroughs to fight disease? I am so confused. Could we have some qualified people running things, please? And get rid of the unqualified? Since WE are paying for them, on every level?

The rest of the books for the contest I judge arrived on Wednesday night. The bulk of them are digital this year, and that final deadline is today, so I can really dig in over the next few weeks and make the choices. I always enjoy working on this contest. It’s lovely to discover authors I might not have found on my own.

Meditation was good, and Charlotte was happy. I did way too much admin. I put in the Instacart order. My shopper was an absolute delight, efficient, quick, kind.

I got a little under what I hoped for the day’s quota on BETTING MAN, but at least I got in some work on it.

#FreelanceFriends was fun.

I had a good session on the ghostwriting, a really good session. I think, today, I will be where I wanted to be, and then on Monday, I can finish character profiles and do a polish, and get it out on time on Tuesday. Fingers crossed.

I nearly cried when I realized we spring forward with the clocks on Sunday. I hate springing forward. It throws me off for weeks.

We had snow again overnight. Not as much as predicted, but enough for the plows to be out, so I guess I’m doing more shoveling later on. Sigh. But the plow people have been wonderful, and I’m so grateful we have them. Such a big difference from when we were on Cape, and it was always a clusterfuck.

My back is still giving me problems. I’m grumpy. I’m still trying to get a damn appointment to get the car fixed (and yes, it has to be at that mechanic).

I’m really tired with all the “spiritual” (um, nope) “influencers” (bite me) trying to gaslight us about how “good” Mercury Retrograde actually is, so that they can sell things and profit from said gaslighting. Like we don’t get enough of that from our government. Mercury Retrograde sucks, period. It creates obstacles and makes everything harder than it needs to be. Its reputation is well-deserved. Not everything has a positive aspect. Sometimes, things just suck, and during Mercury Retrograde, they suck even more. It’s not a personal, spiritual failure to be honest when something sucks. And buying your system/cure/whatever for $49.99 is not going to fix it.

The Block button is my friend.

I’m certainly a Grumpypants to start the weekend, aren’t I? I better sing myself the little Grumpypants song I made up and get over myself. Hopefully, things will level out over the weekend.

I need to make an adjustment in my schedule, whether that starts today or I set Monday as the start. I’ve fallen into some bad habits, and need to go on a gentle course correction. But at least I figured out where I went off-path, and that’s a useful step. It’s nothing major, just going back to something that worked for a long time, then didn’t work for a bit, but I think will work again going forward. Until it doesn’t, and then I will adjust again.

The Glow Show opens at the gallery tonight, and a cohort member has a performance at another gallery. I’d like to go, but I honestly don’t know if my back will hold up, so I will see how I’m doing near the end of the workday, and make decisions from there.

Not sure what the weekend will bring. Housework, because there’s always housework. Maybe some planting. If the light is good, some sewing. If it ever stops snowing and we actually get a spring, I’ll have to turn over from the big, heavy sweaters to spring sweaters, and then, in a couple of months, turn over the closet to summer. This weekend will also, I hope, have lots of reading, for pleasure, for research, for reviews, and contest entries.

Have a good weekend, and we’ll catch up on the other side!

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