Ahhhrg. Yesterday, got stormed out of my swim, today, pool is closed cause chemicals out of whack. And city pool isn't open weekdays yet.

I keep reminding myself that her stubbornness will likely serve her well later in life.

"Executive leadership skills" is my daily mantra.

My fear is that Trump will have done so much damage by the time something finally catches up to him that we won't ever be able to heal. My fear is this has already happened and we won't realize it until after 2020.

Jesse, some Good News for you:

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I've never watched the show, but this kinda tempts me.

Ooh. I am intrigued by moving to the Netherlands. Even though I've never been there. And am not an entrepreneur. ...really I don't want to move, but maybe New Zealand? Or Canada, but Vancouver is crazy these days. Hmm.

Timelies all!

Sigh...my family has been here long enough that I don't qualify for dual citizenship. (Except Israel, which..no)

Of course, there were good reasons my ancestors left for America.(Russia, Poland, Hungary, Austria and Lithuania. So much no)

Canada is definitely on the table for us, but M wants to finish getting his citizenship here first, plus my parents are moving closer to us. But it's still in my head.

... so I stained furniture. Damnit, better not storm tomorrow.

Gina Rodriquez is so awesome. The show is good, too.

My mom recently got back in in touch via genealogy with a cousin who lived in Canada for a while and is now in Mexico and is trying to get his Italian citizenship through their mutual grandmother, so I asked my mom if that meant she could get Italian citizenship. She isn't interested. Alas. The closest I'll probably get is my grandfather pointing to part of a map on a paper restaurant place mat and saying "that's where our family is from".

I just keep facilitating between outrage fatigue and outrage. I can't right the good fight on facebook, because I become enraged and hate myself. The way I get things done by getting both sides to agree to a small essential truth (ok, we might not like immigration, but can we all agree that babies shouldn't be in cages) doesn't work when you can't even rely on that essential truth I can almost always see both sides of where any argument is coming from because in previous experience, most people except sociopaths are coming from a good place people are not coming from a good place, and I can't with it, but I don't have the mental acuity to argue facts, I am good at arguing feelings. But if no one can be self reflective or self questioning it is impossible to argue facts of feelings.

I literally had an argument at work with a Trump supported (not about politics) where she insisted that the Sanatorium Department was in charge of approved caterers. despite proof of what the word sanatorium means, and despite being shown the sanitation department website. And she is a nice lady, and she is the only competent member of her family, and she has had to take care of them all, but she is also sort of a rascist piece of shit. And my tolerance was low, so I used to do things like ask brightly how she knew Obama was a muskim, and then say I found his membership in whatever church, but I can't do it anymore. Also her BFF at work is a black lady! I can't.

That would be vacillating