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Just a general pop in thread
Carter-Orange:
An extra day off for the weather sounds good. We never get it as bad as you do over there. We rarely get snow, so when it does snow the whole country goes into a panic and can't handle it.
I'm going to have to watch some of these things you're recommending. Although I know they are tragic stories and what happened was terrible, I think it's important to remember so that things like that never happen again. When I went to Amsterdam I went to Anne Frank's house and the museum and it was just so sad to think they had to live like that and ended up losing their lives because of some evil dictator and his idiot beliefs. If I ever went to Poland or Germany I'd try to visit places just because we should never forget what happened. My kids went to Auschwitz-Birkenau when they went to Krakow a few years ago, as they are both into history. They said it's the kind of place you have to visit but it was incredibly sad.
And Trump stopping benefits for autistic and disabled people is wrong. I know a lot of disabled people do work, but doesn't mean everyone can and should.
mare:
The US is currently a hellscape where everyday something terrible happens, but that's okay because today Kieran Culkin became an Oscar nominee! A Real Pain missed for best picture which bums me out, but Jesse is up for best original screenplay. Jeremy, Kieran's Succession big brother is also nominated in the same category. I wonder of that is a first time in history thing that a year after a show ends two costars get nominated for the same category at the same time?
RokofAges75:
Just from what I've seen online while trying my best to avoid the actual news, it seems like Trump is getting right to work implementing Project 2025, which he claimed to know nothing about. I wonder what it will take to get his supporters to turn on him. Just how bad does it have to get? I know most of them don't care about immigrants, people who aren't white, people who aren't straight and cisgender, people who aren't Christian, and people with disabilities, but they do care about the cost of stuff, like groceries, gas, and medications. I pray that the political pendulum will swing the other way in a couple years when they realize that he hasn't magically improved their lives the way he promised.
That's good to know that We Were the Lucky Ones has a happy ending! That makes me more likely to watch it.
Steph, that's so cool that you got to visit the Anne Frank house. I don't know if I'll ever make it to Amsterdam, but that would definitely be on my list of places to visit if I did.
I did have work today and yesterday, but I could get used to the three-day work week! LOL The temperature warmed up to the 20s, which actually felt pretty good compared to the negative 20 windchills. But now we're back to snow. We haven't gotten a lot, thankfully, just enough to cover the ground.
Congrats on Kieran's Oscar nomination! That is cool that he and Jeremy are both nominated in the same category. Sibling rivalry!
mare:
Trump has wasted no time in taking away as many rights as he can. He's reversed pretty much every civil rights law he could. Taking away equal rights in the workplace etc. One of my friends, a professor at Berklee, just lost his position in the coast guard because he was in charge of diversity and inclusion. He was relieved of his duties effective immediately. He has been a member for over 25 years. You know how people make reaction videos for everything from getting into college to seeing award nominations? I wish there were some for the people who voted for this guy and are now seeing that his policies are actually affecting them. Like taking away the cap on insulin and drugs in general. Seeing the price of fuel rise because of the tariffs. Seeing them lose the people they pay to clean their houses and mow their lawn disappear because they're being deported. It's a real shit show and every day I wake up angry. If it weren't for Kieran to distract me, I'd lose my mind. This is when it really pays to be hyper fixated on something. Baseball will be coming around soon too.
This weather is all over the place! The kids actually had school for two days in a row. Even though we got about 8 inches last night into today. In Allentown they would get 2 days off for that much probably. Or at least one day off and a two hour delay.
Steph, I hope you don't get hit with unexpected weather. Florida got 8 inches of snow as did New Orleans. These places are always warm. The world is ending.
RokofAges75:
I hope you had a nice birthday yesterday, Mare!
How has it only been twelve days since he took office? 😫 So much damage done in such a short time! I've started watching the news again in small doses, but it's so depressing and scary.
My distraction this week was binge-watching a whole season of Survivor. It was the Second Chance season, which I hadn't rewatched since it aired, and I really enjoyed watching it again! I couldn't even remember for sure who won until I got to the final episode, and I resisted the urge to look it up, so it was almost like watching it for the first time LOL. I finished it earlier today, and now I want to watch another one while I wait for the new season. Apparently reality TV is the kind of mindless entertainment I need right now.
It actually felt like spring here this week! It was in the 40s and rainy most of the week, so the snow that's been on the ground since the second week of January finally had a chance to melt. Now it's all brown and gross-looking, but at least it's not so cold. 40 feels warm compared to 0!
I had ordered some earrings from an Etsy seller in Louisiana, and they were super delayed by the crazy weather they got down there! They finally arrived today after being stuck in Louisiana for almost two weeks.
On another positive note, I'm excited that the Boys are performing for the SNL 50th anniversary concert! Now I have plans for Valentine's Day evening LOL. Like you with Kieran, I'll take whatever glimmer of happiness I can get right now.
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