I recently returned from a trip and took transit in from Pearson Airport in Toronto to the heart of the city where I live.


It was crowded and noisy and people were so impatient and crabby and obnoxious and unhappy.


It made me realize that I live in a sort of personal island downtown. I rarely take transit anywhere and as a retired person I'm able to do most errands on weekday mornings.   There is such a difference in the world after noon.


I also no longer go to public events like movies, theatre, the symphony, galleries etc.  This has been a gradual pulling away from the public world and the people in it.   I fill my time with books and video content that I can access at home.


I don't think I could live in this city anymore if I still worked and had to deal with transit and busy crabby people day after day.  If I weren't able to maintain my personal bubble I would have to move away.

It's so annoying when someone asks you a question about yourself and then interrupts your answer and you realize that the only reason they asked was so that they could talk about something about themselves.

Ah extroverts, spending their lives walking all over introverts and in their sublime self-satisfaction never even noticing.

In movies and TV shows when someone is kidnapped and tied up for hours and days they never seem to need to go to the bathroom.


How realistic is that?

This morning when I was getting ready to go out I was trying to match a sweater to the shirt I was wearing and it occurred to me that if you have light coloured shirts it helps to have dark coloured sweaters.  It just simplifies the whole process.


Why has it taken me so long to clue in to this?

Lately I've come to really hate food preparation and cooking.


I spent quite a bit of time today looking online for simple easy healthy recipes for one person.


I don't know how these people define "easy" or "simple" but nothing anyone has produced on a website matches my definition by a long shot.


I try to avoid prepared frozen entrees because they tend to be full of salt and fat and they also, even the "healthy" ones, invariably include things like peppers and onions and garlic and unspecified "spices" all of which tear apart my digestive tract.

If you're frustrated because there's no solution:


become part of the problem.