And how are you feeling?

[GeorgiaMa'am]

I'm feeling very accomplished and secure. My pantry, fridge and freezer are straightened out, and I have bought groceries to fill in the gaps. I've got menu plans for the next week or so, and food for the next couple of weeks. My staples are full. My emergency backup shelf-stable food is full. There is plenty of chocolate in the house. All is well.

[easygoingfemme]

I'm feeling nostalgic. As I prepare to buy the house that my great great grandparents built, my mother found her father's diary of his upkeep of the house. I spent today spot sanding the floors and re-finishing them while thinking of all of my family who has walked those floors. Great Great Grandparents, Great grandparents, grandparents, my parents, my mother's cousins, my brother, my daughter, so many friends and extended family. I never met my maternal grandfather, he died young. But his diary of the house is... priceless. Every renovation, every purchase, down to every pound of nails, was detailed. He detailed every guest who came for any holiday, the day my mother moved from her nursery to her big room (she was 12!) It's a profound history to have. Nothing was taken for granted and everything was worked for, earned, paid off, and appreciated.

My Grandfather called my Grandmother "Spooky". We don't know why that was his pet name for her. I think it's because she was quiet and could easily "sneak up" on people when she was just being herself. I wish we knew the story for sure though.

The floors I'm finishing will never be perfect or pristine. I hope I never need to replace them. There's a lot of history in that wear and tear.

[GeorgiaMa'am]

Disheartened. There are so many repairs that need to be made around my house, and today there's a new one - the right side railing of my stairs broke. The left one was already broken. And I really need those rails to get up and down the stairs.

I have several other minor repairs that need to be done, too, and I just can't afford to keep up with them all right now. In my younger days, I could have done most of them myself, and what really gets to me is now I'll have to pay someone an arm and a leg to do them.

It's really depressing and kind of embarrassing that I can't take care of all this myself, right away. But at least over the next few months I should be able to get some things fixed, at least the most important things.

[Kätzchen]

Originally Posted by Orema

Not too good. Just heard that Carlos Santana is in agreement with Dave Chappelle when it comes to us.

I am so over these old-ass, tired-ass, not-as-good-as-they-think-they-are, used-to-be celebrities and their poisonous thoughts on us.

And there is NO ONE, not one single person out there to counter this thinking. It burns me up to no end.

I remember when the Bey-Hive made his ass apologize. We ain't even got a bey-hive to rely on.

I'm tossing out any music I own by him. I just got rid of the MP3s and next will be any albums.

When Elton John was recorded in the press as saying he didn’t support legalization of weed (or its cousin, hemp), I did the same thing: I’m enraged by his stupidity, his gross sense of royal ass entitlement, etc. Brother Elton wouldn’t be the rich fucker that he is, if those of us who partake of these products had never ever bought his albums of music, etc.

Carlos & Elton, and those just like them, will never be admired by me, ever again, nor will their music touch my ears.