Seems may be the word onto which we hang our hope. Certainly Evil wants Good to feel hopeless and nothing can be done. I don't think things will be better anytime soon but there was enough shared experience this weekend people know they are not alone.
If you comment anonymously, it'd be nice to have a name to go with the comment. It helps me string other people's comments and therefore their experiences together.
The shit show since January 20th has been a big reason for my reclusiveness the last few weeks. Let the comments fly. Create a crisis. Lie that you resolved it. Get your sycophants to suck it all up. Rinse. Repeat...for four F' ing years. Oh, and let's shout, "but her emails" while a foreign oligarch is raiding our private personal data with his hoard of teenagers. Let's pardon January 6th criminals, several of which immediately committed additional crimes. I said it was going to be my only political post election post but man, it's even worse than I could have imagined.
Twice Friday I was notified of cancellations. First, my original flight to Athens in March was cancelled and they rescheduled...two days later!What for the sake of Pete is that crappy rescheduling? Sure, I want to fly and sit in layovers for 17 hours just to lose two days of my vacation. I rejected that reschedule obviously my. Lots of back and forth with options presented with multiple four+ hour layovers, and eventually landed on one that diggers by about four hours total from the original, but is a 2-stop. I kept reminding myself the journey is part of the opportunity and round trip tickets to Greece from Minnesota for $600 are about as low as a person can find. This was why I bought my Kindle as to do more and frequent travel, I'll have to exchange time, lots of layover time, for money. Then, several hours later, as I'm checking for updates on the flight, I got notification of another cancellation. This one was for that bloggers c...
For Friday Fiscal Wellness Check, I copy the previous week, delete the old and updated as I go along the week as a way even when busy and not in a blogging mindset, I'm accountable to myself. Here's my recap of Friday, August 15 to Thursday, August 21. I just sort of list things as they come up, then edit before publishing. Avoiding Spending/ Saving on Needs Still on target to reduce my monthly HHG budget by $75. I'm trying to do this for a couple months before a big stock up again in late October before I leave Here's a biggy and a WHY DO THEY MAKE IT SO HARD savings. I really pushed for an evaluation of my car and homeowners insurance. Voila, a cummulative $1800+ annual savings because I got a competitive quote. My husband always did this stuff and I feel like I've been taken advantage of ...
Same.
ReplyDeleteTruly awful.
ReplyDeleteIt’s just horrific. 😢
ReplyDeleteSo sad :(
ReplyDelete:( :(
ReplyDeleteHave no words ☹️
ReplyDeleteLiz in CA
So terrible
ReplyDeleteI'm fearful that it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better.
ReplyDeleteSo so sad :(
ReplyDeleteIt makes me so sad and furious at the same time.
ReplyDeleteNo words.
ReplyDeleteYes ma'am. No Kings!!!!
ReplyDeleteHorrible. The fact that it happened in the "safety" of their own homes makes it a million times worse.
ReplyDeleteHorrifying and completely unacceptable
ReplyDeleteJoAnn
My heart hurts.
ReplyDeleteOne Minnesota.
ReplyDeleteI’m Solidarity,
-Meg B.
*in*, but I’m works too in this case.
DeleteDreadful news. Sending love. xxx
ReplyDeleteSeems may be the word onto which we hang our hope. Certainly Evil wants Good to feel hopeless and nothing can be done. I don't think things will be better anytime soon but there was enough shared experience this weekend people know they are not alone.
ReplyDeleteSo sad. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your community.
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