Well…it was an okay day yesterday but the only thing I got done was the grocery run…and I think I’m getting a sore throat which will mean there is some kind of bug coming and that is a little disappointing…just got over one a week ago and that one lasted a month….slept okay last night but feel a little slow today and I’m not sure what I’m going to do today…probably some cleaning and I do have to cook today since there are no leftovers left…think I’ll make some venison tacos to have something different than the ham I’ve had for a week….and I’ll make some pork stir fry tomorrow….not much to do today…going to just ease into the day and then get a workout in to start….more later…..
One vote….
Well….not sure if you have been following the special elections that have been going on across the country that the dems have been overperforming in, but that is not what this is about…it is a good thing that we have been crushing it…especially in Virginia where we have flipped the legislature there from a 65-35 repub majority to a 50-50 tied one…but, the stunning thing I wanted to highlight here is that every frickin vote counts…that when we vote, we win…and that was shown yesterday when a dem won her recount by one vote! That’s right…one vote took the majority away from the repubs and split the legislature down the middle….and this, along with the pickup in Wisconsin from another progressive woman, shows how important it is for all of us to make sure we vote every time…and vote for our great progressive candidates who will put the people first…not the rich or corporations…it will be a long slog but we CAN make the repubs pay for this abomination of a tax fraud that throws 13 million people off their health insurance in the next year…people are going to die to give the country to the rich and we can fight back…but, we all need to vote…get out there and do it….
There are still good people…
Well…just a shorty on a video I just saw on twitter….a woman drove by a homeless man standing in the snow next to a street with no coat and then did a marvelous thing…she turned around, went to a store and bought the man a coat…..what a wonderful thing…it tells me there are still good people in the country and I have to hang onto that until next year….thank you Christina Calvo of Waterbury Conn.
December 20th
Well….running late today with already doing three errands….did get the grocery run in but had to stop and put gas in the car and then to FF for vermouth…I wonder why Meijer’s never has the stuff I like? Slept kind of okay last night and didn’t get up until almost 7 which put me scrambling since I like to get out to get the groceries by 7 am to beat the crowds…and I went today instead of Thursday just for that reason with the holiday coming up…I did get the car washed yesterday and I swung by the site of the old car wash and it’s gone as I expected….not sure if I like the one I used yesterday since the dollar bill slot wasn’t working but someone had left two dollar coins on the ground so it was free and that was cool…I did get some stuff done yesterday and today I should be able to continue that….more later….
Found my thermometer!
Well…not sure if I mentioned this or not, but a few weeks ago I lost my meat thermometer somehow…in a little place like mine, that is some doing…I had assumed that it had gotten caught up in some plastic grocery bags that I had thrown away. But, today, while I was fishing out some bags to recycle my newspapers, I found my thermometer stuck in the handle of a bag….that made my day not having to buy a new one…I know they’re not expensive but even at 10-12 bucks, I just didn’t want to spend the cash….little things can make me happy….
This is their defense?
Well…the atrocious tax bill that the repubs are jamming through congress without any hearings or even reading it is being defended in a really strange way…not really strange but revealing….repub senators know this bill that gives 83% of the tax benefits to the 1% is a piece of crap but their defense is that future congresses will repeal it….yeah, these idiots are so cynical and hungry for any kind of legislative win that they are justifying it and saying “hey, don’t worry about it, legislators in the future will clean up our mess”…..and guess who those legislators will be? Yep, it’s always the repubs screwing things up and it’s always the dems that have to come along and fix it…and the repubs really don’t care how bad they are screwing people…the end game for most of these repub idiots who will be voted out of office next year is to take care of their donors so they can then become lobbyists being paid 7 figure salaries by the same people they are handing the country to. How much longer will you idiots who vote for repubs take this crap? No tax cut and losing your health insurance….just frickin brilliant on your part…
December 19th
Well…running early today with getting up early and I’m just shrugging about that….have been sleeping okay lately but that ended last night with another up and down night….feel kinda crappy today and I think it’s the calorie restriction that is doing it….should be able to tell for sure later in the day….have been fighting cracks in my right heel and it is starting to hurt when I walk…this happens every winter and I am pretty tired of it….oh, I did win at pool yesterday and had a nice drive out and back….I still like that crude old car….didn’t get anything else done yesterday but today I will…going to wash the car and then clean a little around here but that is about it….more later…
Indian movies….
Well…as I talked about before, I am quite a big fan of movies from India and spent the nights this weekend watching a couple that popped up on the server….Baahubali 1&2….now, there is a wonderful strangeness to most of them, with most of the ones I’ve seen having lots of music and dancing…and that is even in the gangster movies that they make. Baahubali was no different….a huge, sprawling epic set of movies that reminded me of American movies from the 30’s in the way they were almost naive and simplistic in how they treated right and wrong. The only problem I had with the movies were the subtitles and the work it takes to read them that distracted from the visuals somewhat…and they were gorgeously shot movies…but, at 2 1/2 hours each….it took quite a bit of work to get through them….worthwhile, though to see the world through a different culture’s viewpoint…..
December 18th
Well…not running early or late today…hmmm..so I guess that means I’m on time? But, for what? I just realized I haven’t had a watch on for 15 years…I wonder if the one I have still works…probably not…oh, well…slept okay last night but it was another boring day yesterday that I really didn’t do anything….should have cleaned some but just couldn’t get motivated but I will have to do some things today with it being a pool day…and, I want to get my hair cut but that will be about it for the day….I do need to work out to try to stay in shape this winter….I think I’ll do that every day from now until March…don’t have a lot of energy today with the calorie restrictions that I have to do over the winter and I can tell it’s going to get pretty annoying trying to stay around 1,000 cals a day….but, I guess it’s just like the early start to the winter…I’ll just have to live with it….more later….
Now we know why….
Well….haven’t seen a lot about this on the news so I thought I’d talk about the reason none of the repubs are holding the idiot responsible for his destruction of our democracy….they know they are in it, too…in a long article in Newsweek yesterday, it was described how deeply Russian money has infiltrated the repub party…with Mitch McConnell’s PAC getting more than a million dollars from Russian billionaires that was laundered through American citizens to circumvent the ban on foreign money in our elections. And, this goes to one of the reasons that Paul Ryan is thinking about not running for re-election…he got money from the Russians that was then distributed to many, many other repubs for their campaigns. While not technically illegal since the money was run through Americans, it still came from Putin and his cronies and, while the ignorant idiots that vote for repubs won’t care, the rest of us do and they will be held responsible as the traitors they are…..impeach…