Memes
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Meme Monday
The attempted coup last week was in no way funny. However, I am going to post a bunch of memes/cartoons that I saw online anyway. What I really want to say, however, is screw these assholes. I would add, “And the horse they rode in on” but I like horses, so I will omit that part of the phrase. I have some Republican friends that I love and adore. Thoughtful people who know better and do condemn the President, and do not think it was an Antifa hoax. This post is not about them. I have some Republican acquaintances, people I went to school with or worked with at some…
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Meme Monday – Birthday and Politics
I hope you all had a lovely New Year. We did…I had a four day weekend, to celebrate my birthday on Thursday, and then the New Year on Friday. Thursday, Ted and Maya both had asked for the day off but could not get the day off. She had to work in the morning, and he had to work in the afternoon. So in the morning, Ted and I went for a nice walk with Mulder, then we came home and took showers and so on, and he started work. Maya only had to work a half day, so once she was finished we went to our outdoor mall and…
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Wordless Wednesday
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Meme Monday – New Year Version
I’ve been saving this one, and I know in some ways it may feel true. Especially the first few months are bound to be desperate ones as far as this damn virus is concerned. I do hope that things get better as the year goes on, as the vaccine comes available, as we have a more sane administration, as hopefully people can behave after the surge that is bound to happen after Christmas and New Year celebrations. Here’s another meme, while we are bidding farewell to the year that has almost ended. Such a year. From it, I hope that we have learned a few things. Wash your hands Black…
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Meme Monday – COVID Christmas Edition
Merry Christmas to everyone, and let’s just hope that 2021 brings us an end to the Pandemic, and an end to the stupidity of Trump and his evil minions. I know things won’t change on January 1st, but I will say that the world already feels lighter and more hopeful, and has to me since the election in November turned out well, and since the announcements of (hopefully) safe and effective vaccines. I’m sleeping better at least. We’ve never spent Christmas just us before. It’s going to feel weird. But we will see some of Ted’s family on Christmas Eve, outside with masks. California is a shit storm right now,…
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Meme Monday – Rudolf and Santa
This is the year when it all comes out, I guess, when we finally get to talk about what jerks Santa and the other reindeer are in the TV show, and to a somewhat lesser extent, the song. I saw Nance discuss it on her blog, in a discussion with her husband. I’ve seen it on Facebook several times. And now there’s a meme. Well, actually, I’ve seen a couple of memes about it. Just like #Metoo and #BlackLivesMatter, though, isn’t the reality that it has NEVER BEEN OK? NEVER? Hasn’t it always been shitty how poor Rudolph was treated? Hasn’t it always been shitty that every woman you know…
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Meme Monday – Back to Lockdown
I posted this meme on Facebook last year after reading Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk, which is a great novel that I really enjoyed, about an 85 year old woman meandering her way to a party in New York on New Year’s Eve, 1984. Ms. Boxfish was a very talented ad woman for Macy’s in the 1930s, and the character is based on the real-life ad woman, Margaret Fishback. Facebook likes to remind you of things you posted on this day in history, so this popped up, and I decided it’s a meme, and it sums up the whole feel of Shelter in Place (SIP) so perfectly. Speaking of Shelter…
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Meme Monday
Sorry for that meme, but yeah, we all feel that way sometimes, right? I saved it for you awhile ago, and was reminded of it while out running errands with Ted the other day, when cut off by someone who then stopped short to turn into a driveway, of course without signaling. Sigh. I hope you all had a lovely Thanksgiving. We did. We went out to Ted’s parents house, just us 3, his parents, and his brother. We worked on being safe and socially distanced, and hopefully none of us had anything to pass around. We’ll see in a few weeks whether that worked or not. Other than the…
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Meme Monday
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Meme Monday
Mostly just the meme today, since I told you everything that I was going to do over the weekend, and now it’s Monday and I have to work and get things under control there. A few notes… In Stockton yesterday, we stopped to get BLTs for lunch with my Great Aunt, and there was some kind of Christmas festival going on in the shopping center. So we saw some sheriffs deputies on horse back, and Santa on a firetruck. I looked it up later and there were also reindeer to pet, and a snow machine (it was 70 degrees) for the kids. Seems like a really bad idea in the…
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Meme Monday – Weird Junk Food Version
I can’t even with the election tomorrow, I’m afraid I will grind through my mouth guard if I get any more stressed out about it. So I’m taking a deep breath and showing you some food products that I have seen (mostly) at the grocery store. I was at the drugstore the other day, and I spotted these very strange Apple Pie flavored KitKats. I don’t really like white chocolate, and the entire idea of this makes me want to throw up a bit, so no. But I took a picture for Ted, who loved KitKats back when his body still tolerated such things, especially the ones from England. Then…
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Meme Monday
I guess we’re not in quarantine anymore, based on the fact that my daughter is going in to the office, and restaurants are open (25% capacity for indoor dining), so likely I waited too long to use this meme. However, who knows, at the rate we’re going, perhaps we’re going to be shut down again. This time it’s the Midwest that’s under attack from the virus, where both of my readers live, so gosh you NE Ohio people, keep being careful! I don’t actually worry about you too much, I know you’re both very sensible. I don’t know what else to say other than why can’t we get our act…
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Meme Monday – Miscellany
We’ve all done this around here…the worst was the time I got all of the way to the grocery store and then had to come home and get my mask. The store isn’t too far from my house, but still, I was on my lunch hour, so it was annoying. As disposable masks became more available, we got smart and started keeping some in the car and in my purse. I’m hopeful that this will be a light flu season, as so many people are washing hands better and wearing masks and not congregating and so on. We got our flu shots, just in case. We’re not getting new cabinets,…
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Meme Monday
I’ll probably dive down into the depths of the shit storm of 2020 next week, but for now, wanted to lighten up a bit. So, here it is… We had a lovely weekend. Saturday was errands, including Bed Bath and Beyond, because our electric kettle broke. Ted got a new cookbook, Indian-ish, and made us a delicious dinner. He’s been watching the author’s videos on YouTube, and really likes her. She worked for Bon Appetit for awhile, and made some videos of recipes for them. She mostly seems to credit her mother’s recipes, which as a mother, I like. It’s Indian fusion, and so far really good. We’ve had a…
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Meme Monday – COVID Edition
“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby Frankly, I’m surprised that it took this long for Trump and his cronies to catch COVID. How did they prevent him from getting it for so long? I can only assume that there are some people in the White House that actually believe in science and have done their best to force him to be safe. Eventually his bravado and jack-assary got the better…