I turned off the Mardi Gras at *that* point. To find out later that not only did *she* walk, but the force in the March was surrounded by police in uniform and clearly personal security. The problem with the world is not the people. We could handle the people, if the people in charge of the people, actually CARED about the people that they’re supposed to care about. If the politicians cared, if the media cared.
What frustrates me a lot, is that we used to have GREAT journalists. I’ve been thinking about this a lot, maybe it’s the journalist of today who are just so…quiet frankly…are crap. I saw one of the younger journalists try to take on one of the oldest and it was fantastic! This “younger” journalist just could not wind up the “older” journalist. It was brilliant! She kept asking about Hamas, and this other journalist was NOT taking her bait.
I am not really looking forward to this week. The only good thing about working part time, is that when you’re sick like I was last week, still kind of am. When you’re sick and you work part time, if you take a couple/few days off, you can make up for it on other days. I could also take the leave, but we only have only a little over a month left on this contract.
Luckily, I thought that on the Friday I had to get my root canal finished off, but that’s next Friday. If I knew that the contract was continuing, longer than just over a month I would have taken another day to recuperate.
So, I was a bit quiet over this weekend, still have the sniffles. Since it’s becoming Winter here, if I don’t have to go out into the cold when I’m sick, I don’t wanna, lol.
Which meant that I spent a lot of time of the computer…and reading of course!
I don’t get how people actually function these days. There was some good news that KJK has been temporarily banned, I was clearly happy about this. When I wrote about it a TERF replied to me “Darling it ain’t going to last, and you know why. We never lose.” But what are transphobes winning at?
Abortions rights are being lost, left, right and center
There’s a video that went viral of a cis woman being chucked out of the women’s, by male police officers. Reported by a transphobes for not looking like a man. Happened in Texas, of course.
The hate toward the entire gay community is rising. The gay community that includes women.
During COVID, domestic violence rose, which most, if not all transphobes never once mentioned. There’s no indication that it’s settled.
Book Banning. Which seems to be affecting women mostly, because women are mostly Librarians.
The trans gener banning in sports is now starting to affect cis women of colour (as is usual).
The irony is KJK actually said she thought it’d be a good idea if men were in women’s bathrooms, with guns. That is really the only “thing” they’ve “won” at. Since that’s what happened.
I’ve spent the last couple of days, going through Wedding stuff and the garden. We have a few people coming in to spend a couple of days mid January, and the backyard is a mess! A jungle of weeds, and I am a little annoyed at my partner, he’s had since mid-December to do something. We’re the only house with a bad looking garden, during Summer.
We look like total bogans!
bogan1
/ˈbəʊɡ(ə)n/
noun
DEROGATORY•INFORMAL
an uncouth or unsophisticated person regarded as being of low social status.”some bogans yelled at us from their cars”
I put up some plain white lights during Christmas, on the three large shrubbery’s that we don’t have to do much too, lol. I love to Garden, honestly. But I can never get right into it, because I work, lol. I told my partner when he bought this house, you can choose the big fancy house, I am not cleaning it, we will share in the cleaning.
I think he’s done it once in nearly three years. He needs to do the garden, show some pride in his own house that he wanted so much. I can’t complain that much, because he is the bread winner, but still.
I will, lol.
I am already over TERFs and wedding planning. I don’t think the TERFS took a day off on Christmas or New years. What a bunch of losers!
I am also starting to completely understand why some people turn into Bridezillas. I’ve only really “gotten into it” this week, and I am over it. I want it to be fun, but everyone is like annoying me, lol. My Dads still telling me who to invite, I have no control over what I want for a dress. We haven’t even spent a cent yet and my partners complaining about money already. I’ve only just written up my list of who I need to invite. Not all I want to even be there.
I am feeling very much like…
On top of which we have a new kitten, we haven’t even had him for a week yet! He is the cutest little sweetest thing, and I miss him while I’m at work. But he is a kitten. He’s only two and bit months, and so far he has chewed through my partners earphones. Although that my partners own fault, I kept telling him that he was chewing on them and he didn’t move them. I don’t know what he thought might happen.
I just wanted to have fun, honestly with the wedding preparation. I am planning on making a lot of the “stuff” myself. I am not feeling very “fun” at the moment. I am almost at the point where I am actually talking to my therapist about talking to people. I’m trying to figure out with them how to best to approach people.
People are literally texting me while I’m at work “h, have you invited these people”. I have written the list, and so far not making any adjustments. I’ve already had to include people I don’t want too inlue of people I want too. My partner only wants one groomsman, which is fine. But everyone’s like “What are YOU going to do Lauren”. What do you mean, what am I going to do? And my partner is not helping with “What if she doesn’t accept it”.
Isn’t life an odd thing? I was feeling really bad about something recently…Then when I starting to feel really bad about it, I was reminded why I didn’t. When I had cut that person off, and it was like “Oh, that’s right”.
There were so many things that we didn’t agree on, but when they took something of mine, it was a positive trans post and without even asking me, took my post and made into transphobia trash, That was it for me. When I heard something bad had happened to them, I felt initially bad for them. Then funnily enough, someone wrote something that reminded…Oh wait, yeah, they were trash.
I guess because, there were some aspects of them were alright. But ultimately, nope. And I guess because others did like them, I thought MAYBE something had changed, but then I saw what this person wrote and “NOPE”.
Oh my god, not all of us, obviously. We are completely getting stupider.
I am not going to go into too much information. But in Western Australia they decided to do the disastrously done task of sending juvenile offenders to stay with adults offenders. It’s been a disaster, obviously.
However, the article that I saw, I ended up creating an account just so I could report a lot of the comments on there. If being a heartless, soulless sociopath was arrestable. All of them, would have been. Anyways, I am not here to talk about that article and the truly terrible comments.
The comment that caught my eye and made me really LOL said and I quote “Well at least they can’t harm the tax payers anymore”.
What a bunch of idiots.
I’ve been keeping an eye on this story, because I find it utterly reprehensible that anyone would think it’s a good idea. You can only begin to imagine how bad it would be. On top of which, we don’t actually know what the juveniles even did. They were transferred because they wrecked their cells. Which I don’t get why they couldn’t just go and share with another juvenile offender. We don’t know though what their crimes are. And because they’re Indigenous juveniles too, they need to be handled differently.
What made me laugh about that comment though was. Do these people not understand, we still pay for jails and the people in them. These kids *warning here* have been trying to commit suicide. Whether or not you feel compassion for these juveniles, the tax payer is paying for their medical treatments, they might even possibly be getting therapy. Who do these people think pay for that? The Jail Fairy?
Which is why they also needs to be a bigger focus on rehab in prisons/jail. So people can be rehabbed, come back into society and THEN help “pay back” what they owe.
The one from this list that really caught my eye, was number 31 and the one that I wish to talk about today.
Life is a mystery and you are not alone.7 billion people are living it without a clue about what happens next.
It reminded me that even with all my own stuff, there are other people out there, probably feeling very similar to how I am feeling right now. That we are just trying to muddle through, in our own ways. Some being more toxic than others, and then some trying help more than others.
Honestly, it makes me feel better than not everyone has got it together. Sometimes I feel like I do and that I do not. It feels weirdly comforting that we don’t all have it together. Some days we do and some days we don’t. I now know even people who don’t like me, do not have their stuff together. I signed onto LinkedIn the other day, after not being on it for months, I was bored during COVID. I discovered that my ex-best friend had looked at my profile, only three days prior.
That was funny. One that she couldn’t help her (she blocked me on FB) but also LinkedIn is a professional/working website. So it’s not an Insta or FB. The most exciting thing that’s on there, is…well, not much honestly. It’s a professional website, I’m not going to be putting my petty dramas on there, lol. I am not going to put if I’m married, or have children. I didn’t go and look at hers, because I don’t need too. It was just funny you know? lol
Harvey Weinstein lost 0 awards after he was arrested and jailed
Roman Polanski had to accept his last award from a different country. He has fled America, after a warrant is out for his arrest, for raping a minor.
In November 2017, Louis CK confirmed that a series of sexual misconduct allegations against him were true. He recently won a Grammy.
What a weekend! So many emotions right now. But this is how it started. With the “Academy” banning Will Smith for 10 years. I get what Will Smith did was wrong (despite my little glee about someone FINALLY getting what was coming). Violence is wrong.
You know what I find “funny”, the Hollywood Awards, the Governments, the mainstream media. They REALLY just don’t know the people.
One of the things that I REALLY love about Christmas is how much more people are willingly to donate or help others out. So I thought that I would post about a couple I’ve heard about or have donated too. This year and definitely more than other years, I’ve been donating. $5 dollars can make a lot of difference, especially if a lot of people do!
The first is for the animals, because who doesn’t love the animals.
The next is for the Rape Crisis Centers in Scotland. Now normally, I wouldn’t speak about just one rape crisis center. The way though the Centre was run OFF of social media by so called “concerned women”. It literally made me want to throw up. Especially when these “women” accused the Rape Centers of being on the wrong side of History. After though, people donated to them like you wouldn’t believe!
One for the children. This was actually really hard to find, because a lot of charities that support children, have come under scrutiny for not supporting anyone who doesn’t fit their “criteria”.
I’ve gone with UNICEF, mainly because I don’t *think* I’ve heard of them being bad. How terrible is that? You might need to look at your local charities for the kids. In my state, in Australia, a lot of retail stores do what is called a “Christmas Wishing Tree”. Where you can either give a gift (has to be new or not ruined), donate money, or you can donate money to buy a gift to be put under the tree.
How can someone win a gold star (i.e. win your approval and/or admiration) with you?
Honestly, just being kind, and having some common sense these days. I have a post scheduled later today and I write about the insane day I just had. Kindness and Common sense just seem like such easy things to do, but they seem so difficult for a lot of people.
If you didn’t have to sleep, what would you do with the extra time?
To be honest, I might end up wasting it. I’m probably taking this to out of the box. If we all didn’t have to sleep, would there would places you could go at night? Kind of like New York, my town there’s not much to do at night.
Do you have a favourite type of exercise?
I love to dance. I try to do it as often as I can these days, mainly around the house. But still dancing.
Do you sleep with a top sheet? Why or why not?
Even during Summer sometimes I will sleep with a top sheet. I think that my body doesn’t regulate too well. A lot of the times in Australia a lot of people will either leave their air-conditioning, or they will put the fans on. I cannot begin to tell you how many times, IN SUMMER. I have had to put winter pjs on because it’s so cold! It’s ridiculous! I still think it’s how you get summer colds, going from one extreme temperature to another.
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