There's a part of me that keeps looking for things to add to my wardrobe. But every time I start looking at the usual sites, I find it harder and harder to find something worthwhile to add to my wardrobe. It's not just because I will need to find room for new garments. But it is also because I have nothing much to do, and am looking for something to occupy my mind. I'll bet it was this feeling that tempted my late wife too much, causing her to give in and buy clothes she did not need.
Luckily, I seem to have gotten my fill of actually buying clothes. It helps that the stores I would go to no longer have a brick and mortar presence. Otherwise, I'd still be buying new dresses for my closet. Even so, I will need to replace my wardrobe piece by piece as I lose weight. If I'm lucky, and maintain some sort of discipline, I may get back to wearing a size 18W dress again.
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On other matters....
As has become a habit with me lately, I didn't get much sleep last night. So I figured I'd check to see if a problem I was having renewing one of my prescriptions could be resolved online. Unfortunately, what I feared happening happened - my health insurance was not properly renewed. So I had to spend the better part of an hour, first thing in the morning, to get the problem resolved with the insurance company. Of course, this problem can not be resolved by snapping one's fingers, or by a single keystroke. Instead, I'll have to wait another 24-48 hours for the paperwork to make it through the pipeline. So I'll now have to wait for a call before I can make next month's payment.
While killing time (I had a co-op board meeting to attend in the evening, I scanned some emails from my inboxes. There were several indoor meetups being held by the Fun Time Friends group - and I will be passing on them until after I've been vaccinated for Covid. But there were two outdoor meetups that I am considering attending: (1) at the Poughkeepsie Bridge Across the Hudson, and (2) at Muscoot Farm. Both involve a little bit of walking, but I can always skip out on that if I want if I'm getting a little tired. If I had my criticisms about my ex's favorite dinner group and the virus, I have more regarding this group. But I don't have to attend any indoor activities, and these outdoor activities will be in "my" neck of the woods.
Of course, I've been trying to keep up to date with the women I've been chatting with on the dating sites. There are two that I might get along with, but have special needs adult offspring. I'm not sure if I could deal with those issues, given my personality traits. However, there are two that things seem to be clicking. One lives in Manhattan, and the other in New Jersey. It doesn't make that much sense for me to do anything other than talk, with the infection rate spiking around here. This morning, I read an alarming statistic regarding infection rates on Long Island, and it implies things are worse than we are being led to believe. No, it's not something one can worry about in itself. It's because our government has decided that it can't get away with another lock down, and is trying to muddle through until vaccinations start bringing the infection rate down. (Contact tracing may be of help, but the statistics imply that we may be beyond the point where tracing may be an effective tool to stop the spread.) However, there is also some good news. From my conversations with one of these women, the NYC subway is virtually empty during many rush ours as of late, and it might make sense to do a museum run before things get worse.
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