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Can't begin to tell you how obsessed I am with Derry Girls right now. Told my friend Becky we gotta go to Ireland

I think I got grave shamed. This lady who is not a relative of mine but who is kind of a niece in law? anywho grew up with my niece and apparently always thought of my mom as her grandma. She sends me a picture of my mom's headstone and says one of the vases looks like it got smooshed so she'll replace it. I've been to my mom's grave 3 times in 32 years. I live 2200 miles away. I did actually see it last year (on my mom's birthday!) and wasn't going to replace the vase. My mother isnt in the hole. The hole has no meaning for me. Eventually I will put my sister there (ashes/urn) but can't do that until everybody is out of prison/rehab. Don't I always make everybody super happy to not be me? mission accomplished. Got a house sitting gig the week before christmas hopefully offset some of the hawaii debt. wheeeeeeee! Can't even make this up...my niece writes me "you know whose in here? I recognized her, she's got an accent and she was the one who trafficked those kids for the guy who killed himself" Ghislaine Maxwell?????? I thought she must be mistaken. Googled her, she is indeed in tallahassee. I said stay away. Far far away.

Friend of mine was making plans for thanksgiving. Going home to Iowa because her parents are 82 and daddy broke a hip this year and she hasn't been in a few years so in case she has no chance next year might as well go this year. So I texted my friend Marcy in New Mexico saying we should plan a trip...bam she says "hey we are going to hawaii for my sisters birthday, you should come". Now I do not invite myself on other people's trips. I do know her sister, she is 1 year younger than us and if you know anything about navajo people, they have no concept of "permission". They're rather utopian in the sense that your cousin is your sister and nobody owns anything, everything is kind of share and share alike. Much of this comes from being trapped on a reservation for such a long time that if your neighbor had food they shared, if your neighbor is going to town and they have a truck you are automatically invited to go. Things are changing somewhat but it was not uncommon to see a truck going down the road with 3-4 in the cab and then the back just full of kids and people. Obviously not so much legal anymore but basically if someone was going to town anybody could just jump in for the ride. no questions asked. but I did clear who was going (adults only, how many people) because I wanna make sure it's not 27 people going, trust me they do travel in large packs...so for the moment it's under 6 people, no kids so that can be 1 rental car and a condo/house rental that's doable. IT's really dumb dates but I dont get to choose that. Her birthday is in November and I think logic would dictate just choose it around thanksgiving because you already have built in days off...not so much Nov 15-22 which means I get home 1 day before taking 4 days off. Actually, for me, it becomes the 23rd because of times zones so I get home just in time for actual thanksgiving holidays. Which in my brain is stupid but I'm gonna be tired so just stfu and go and be tired and do your damn bucket list thing. I have purchased a ticket with insurance so if anything changes I can get my money back.

I had assumed you were in line already.

I think I’m going to Hawaii! EEEEEEEEEK cobbling a plan together now. Holy cow holy cow holy cow I booked it. Now I gotta breathe.

Those are good survival skills too! I'm amazed I made it anywhere on the subway sober in the middle of the day. I think by day 3 my legs locked up because we had been climbing the stairs in and out of the subway. I do not know where we were going but we went down like 7 sets of stairs. I took a cab over the brooklyn bridge.

I wish I was a member of the KISS army! Kids in Satan's Service.

Slapped by my mama's shoe branch.

Do we get to follow his casket through the streets? Are we allowed to wear our military uniforms?

I watched the first 2. didn't want to binge the whole thing. I still do not get the entire "biggest dojo in So-Cal" lust but as long as Johnny makes me laugh I'm good. I know one cameo I could take or leave, from KK3 I think We had a guy who was our trivia host who was from somewhere in England. Actually we debated because some were convinced he was australian. I believe he used to be in the music business back over the pond and for the life of me I could not tell you what kind of accent he had. As americans we can maybe pinpoint about 3, a posh accent, Geordie and Cockney. I know there are others, Scouse, Yorkshire etc. Any time he asked a british question we gave him hell. One day he said "Buckingham Palace" and took us 5 tries to get it because he was literally saying "Buck num" there were no 3 syllables so what accent is that? only clue I have. ha

I keep forgetting about the footballs! The people I called this weekend were all "don't bother me when football is on" so I make sure to call them back on football day again :D Watching Poldark I particularly despised the uncle and so I looked him up. I had declared in my head "good grief he must be the ugliest man on earth" and boom, he was Quasimodo in the 70's! Also a henchmen in "A Clockwork Orange" now I feel bad because I distinctly remember watching "Hunchback of Notre Dame" as a small child and having to be consoled that they killed him. I feel like it had to be his version because the cartoon wasn't out yet and it was not the 1930's version. And then the poor man actually died while filming Poldark. So I'm an a-hole.

Is he grandfathering? I fell down the Poldark rabbit hole. I only binged 1 season but please slap me with a shovel, I don't need more british tv to watch.

Do youse guys know what love bugs are? It’s a southern thing and I had certainly never heard of them before I came here. Little black winged bugs that come out in fall. They’re attracted to white. So a white wall or white car they would gravitate to. They have a tiny orange dot on their back. And they’re always in pairs. As in they are mid “doing the deed” when you see them. A whole wall full of bugs getting their groove on. Usually the females are bigger and the dude is just getting dragged around. I found it hilarious and spied my first pair yesterday. It’s weird yo!

I thought she was skippng Charles? I don't know why my grandma was so interested but I do know there were many conversations about Charles from way back and my grandma had the coin and stamp thing issued when Charles and Diana got married which I still have. I got a huge chuckle when I rewatched " An Officer and a Gentlemen" and the factory the girls worked at was making either plates or trays with Charles and Diana on them. heelarious.

IS THE QUEEN DEAD????????

The blonde wig was bad enough when it was just kaleesi now the whole group is inflicted with this wig. I'm getting used to Acorn tv. The police dramas are mini movies, they're 2 hours each so they take a lot to sit and watch. But they're good. I'm rewatching AbFab and I'm seriously loving it. I get more british jokes now. I love every single thing thats wrong about it. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/54-Navarre-Blvd-E-Thoreau-NM-87323/2077357973_zpid/ Check it out, I lived in this house in high school. somebody has seriously glammed it up. We had no hardwood floors, all those doors and cabinets are new. We had no shower doors just curtains. We did not have a kiva fireplace we just had a wood burning stove and I smelled like a campfire throughout high school. I think it was listed for $139,900 in 2020. My parents paid $65k in 1985.

You might be right. I wAnted dragon lady to die but damn they sure screwed that up. And there’s nobody in this cast that I love. I like paddy considine but they don’t let him have his Irish accent. There is no hound or other standout that grabbed me from the beginning.

Over the weekend I taste tested She-Hulk (I like Tatiana Maslany) it's meh. And Sandman. Yes also the damn dragons. At the moment I could take or leave any of them. Nothing grabbed me. I'll probably watch a few more just to see if it's worth sticking with.

oh no. NONONONONOOONONONOONONOOOOOOOOONO My niece was trying to get a hold of me last week and I figured it was news. this is prison niece. She finally got me Saturday...she's being moved. She was in Phoenix and she was calling from Oklahoma where she'll be for 2 weeks but her final destination is Tallahasee. 4 hours from me which is much much too close. I will visit her, I have no problem with that. But if she's out in 2 years I don't want her to come live with me. The plan better stay with her sponsor in New Mexico. I don't have a huge fear because she has her daughter in New Mexico but if the daughter gets locked up....NO. NO LIVING WITH ME. Go see your other crazy aunt in Texas.

When I worked at the deli we had the big ass tube of german baloney and people would come in and get it sliced half an inch thick and grill it. It was good baloney. Ate plenty of vienna sausages. My father grew up like that, near Shreveport. Fishing and hunting, caught their own crawdads and his version of "cornbread" was just cornmeal with hot water, slap it into a patty and fry it. It was a gd hockeypuck! He loved it. I didn't touch the stuff, if pressed, I'd tear it in half and scoop the stuff out of the middle but the outside would crack your teeth. He ate tripe and liver and frog legs I googled my mom's house where she grew up. zillow says it's worth $105,000. built 1916. Do not know if she lived there from the time she was born but I know she graduated high school and lived there in 1952. Mason City Iowa seems very affordable living-standard wise. Much cheaper houses there than here.

When my dad became a diabetic we all had to switch to sugar free drinks ice cream etc. it was like punishment. It all sucked back then. WHY DIDNT I THINK IF THAT WITH THE CHEESE TOAST PIZZA? How dumb was my mom with the baloney?????????

I know it became big in hawaii with ww2 and yes it does have shelf life of a gazillion years. If it was once affordable it's like $4 a pop now. Lots of navajos have no electricy or running water so it makes it ideal for them. I'm trying to think of other youthful foods. cheese toast, slap a slice of cheese on some bread and put it under the broiler. I loved when it made a bubble I'd pop the bubble off and eat it. One time my mom went on a diet and I'm guessing this was some kind of "no carb" thing. She made "egg" bread. which essentially was whipping egg whites and mixing with I don't know what and supposedly making bread. IT WAS NASTY! I recently saw something on tiktok which sounds similar "cloud bread" dunno if it's the same thing. and get this...this was a TREAT. My mother would give us baloney and ketchup and we made our own personal "pizzas" baloney was our crust, ketchup the sauce, cheese, olives, veggies, maybe pepperoni but I'm thinking whatever meat was in the fridge and this woman had the alldacity to call that pizza! I can't believe I didn't grow up to be a serial killer from that nonsense. Her favorite treat, and please sit down for this and possibly have a bucket ready. You have been warned. Peanut butter and mayo on a cracker. OH THE HUMANITY.

I wasn't given an option, no extracurriculars. Then as an adult I find out my parents did stuff with my eldest sister but were too tired by the time the second batch of kids came along. My mom was Sunday school teacher and brownie/girl scouts leader. My dad played basket ball with boys at some little league camp but he had never played with us. I never saw my dad play football etc. It still aint cheap and spam? SPAM. I tried that again after about 20 years and it was salty af. I remembered it as a child and remembered the key thing to get it open and recalling it was my job to "help" my dad with the key. Which I'm sure many children bled out due to the sharp edge. But I was protecting my dad. hahahahhaha and Hawaii and the navajo reservation are big on spam because, being remote, meat is sometimes hard to come by so they relied on it but I'm thinking how could they afford it?

I tried spaghettios as an adult. and chef boyardee ravioli. Let's just hope the apocalypse doesn't come to that. I can't imagine dinty moore being an affordable cub scout meal. however my absolute favorite cub scout story in the whole wide world...my friend becky's kid was massively into scouting. became an eagle scout like he's ride or die scouting. anywho on some solo quest they stick the scouts out there they have tasks they must complete such as catching their own dinner etc. I believe there is a lookout that watches them but it's a "silent" weekend, they can't talk and not supposed to get help. They give them breakfast which is usually like half a banana and a hard boiled egg or grapes, something like that. He was starving dunno if he didn't get his fish the night before but son shovels in his banana ....and ate the entire hard boiled egg, as in shell and all. He didn't know he had to peel it. he's all "well that was super crunchy and not pleasant" but it never occurred to him to stop! OMG makes me laugh every time. How did this kid get to 12-13 without peeling an egg? One of my cute memories in my baby book that my mom wrote down was that I was helping her peel eggs when I was 3 and I said "taking the tag off" the eggs. I also asked "how did god put the blood in us? with a spoon?" always referred to the "towel" of babel instead of tower and was utterly confused what they needed all them towels for. But I was 3 not 13

Any afficianados of "Dinty Moore Beef Stew?" it's changed. I know this in 2 ways, I distinctly remember you used to get a glob of grease and I used to scrape it off and I remember hating the meat because it was dry. As a child I spit the meat out. I was just so precious. Most of my adult life I've been eating imitation dinty moore (store brand) and I always knew the meat was the cost-cutting measure because it was more of a hamburger than a "steak" but I've recenty come into the genuine article and their meat is now like the store brand. As many westerns as my dad forced us to watch I was fascinated by how cowboys ate food. It was always a hearty stew or chili in those enamel blue speckled bowls or tin plates and they'd shovel that crap in. Just a "chomp, chomp, glorp" noises like it was the best thing ever. And I used to believe it was Dinty Moore beef stew. Meanwhile, I have a point, they're filming something behind us and just asked to rent our back parking lot for the weekends when we aren't here. I said 10% finders fee to me but I'm sure I'll get nothing. It's a series for apple+ about the assasination of Abraham Lincoln. old timey so I'm sure there's plenty of dinty moore beef stew on set. :D