Thanks, Steph! I'm totally numb right now. I'm sure I'll get mad later but right now I'm just really disappointed in this country. We just elected a dictator. Totally unacceptable. I'm staying off all news stations and most social media today. This is insane! I'm just happy I don't have to go to school anymore. I don't think I would be able to mask my anger. I'm sorry you have to deal with it, Meg. Hopefully your kids won't be all cocky about it. That's what happened in my schools after Hillary lost. Their parents were all over the moon happy and as a result, they were too.

Oh my god Mare, that is so awful. Who would do such a thing to their own kids.  If she wanted to kill herself then just leave the kids out of it.  That must be so awful to deal with.

Another awful thing...I woke up this morning to see that Trump seems to have won!  I feel bad for you all

That's a bummer! You never know from one year to the next what's going to happen. two years ago we had a ton of kids come by and not enough candy so we had to shut our door and turn off the porch light so no one else would show and last year we loaded up on candy, but it rained so we barely had anyone. This year we bought a ton of candy, but because of the issue my sister has been dealing with all week, she didn't feel like dealing with trick or treaters, so we kept all our lights off and now we have way too much candy in the house.

I posted about this on twitter but not on FB, but my sister is head of a trauma response team for Niagara county which means when something really big or horrible happens concerning children like a death or suicide at a school or school shooting etc... Her and her team will go out and help the school community deal with the tragedy. This week a women brought her 4th grade boy and her five month old baby girl to Niagara Falls and first she pushed him in and then she jumped in there with the baby. Terrible! I mean you want to kill yourself, fine go ahead but to murder your own children is disgusting. I guess the father was in court trying to get full custody of both the kids. Everyone is still trying to figure out what the hell happened.   

We actually had loads of trick or treaters last night, the last couple of years we've had none.  Good job I'd bought a load of sweets and chocolates for them, but shame we didn't get to eat it all like usual lol

Not long to go, hopefully the vote goes the right way

I do ignore their posts. I scroll right passed them. Every so often when I make a political post, they come on and comment. What's funny is this guy never posts political stuff on his own page. You'd never know he was a MAGA. He even has a gay daughter. Why are you voting to take away your daughter's rights? it makes no sense! One more week!

I can understand you not wanting to get into political arguments online when you have to work with these people.  But I don't understand why anyone would even vote for him, it's quite scary really that he seems to have this cult following.  I'd probably just ignore their posts, or can you mute them?

I know, Kieran is the cutest when it comes to his family. All he wants to be is a stay at home dad, which is what I don't want him to be lol Jesse and Kieran are the best little duo. It's fun watching their interactions because they are so polar opposite. I have loved their chemistry. it plays extremely well on screen. They were meant to make a buddy movie. I've always liked Jesse, so I was excited to see that it was his movies Kieran was in. I am hopeful it'll move to streaming shortly after release.

Speaking of streaming, I'll DM you the info over on twitter as soon as I'm done posting here. There isn't a username and password like other streaming stuff, but I'll give you my apple ID info. I think that's probably what they use. It might not work, but it's worth a try. Aww you've really been waiting awhile then. I thought maybe he had released another movie since then.

It makes sense when it comes to your co-workers. I don't have that problem anymore. It's still weird to see people of color or anyone in the LGBTQ community that want to vote for Trump. It boggles my mind. That guy I was arguing with has a gay daughter. It's like he doesn't realize he is voting to take away her rights. Crazy! Same with women. Stupid!

Yes, this story is Succession. And it's clearly going to be a three parter. I'm almost done with the second part now. My plan is to post part one on Wednesday, part two on Halloween and then part three on Friday. I've also been reading a ton of suspense novels this month. I'm about to start my 8th book of this month. That's a lot even for me. They are just such fast paced reads. The last one I read, "We Used to Live Here." Took me a day and a half to finish. All of them have been really good. Incidents Around the House was legitimately scary. September House was funny and also jump scare scary. Those are the three new ones that everyone was talking about.

Yes, I agree about the Yankees and their fans. I'm sure they seem even more obnoxious when you're a fan of the other New York team. To me, the Yankees are the equivalent of the New England Patriots in football. I tend not to root for any team that wins too much (unless it's a Chicago team LOL, which is usually not a problem).  It looks like you might get your wish with a Dodgers win!

That's so cute about Kieran's Sunday dinners and that his show changed the whole schedule to accommodate his!  That would be fun to see him and Jesse Eisenberg do the late night talk show circuit together.  I'm sure the two of them doing interviews together is all kinds of cute quirkiness.

I love when you post political stuff and trigger the MAGA crowd!  The main reason I no longer post political stuff on FB is that I don't want to get in arguments with coworkers, who I then have to collaborate with at work.  It makes things awkward when it gets tense online.  In a normal election cycle with normal candidates, it wouldn't be a big deal, but ever since Trump came around, I feel like it's not just a difference in political opinions but a difference in morals.  I struggle to understand how fellow educators, who belong to a union and teach children of color, children of immigrants, and children of families who have more kids than they can afford, can hold some of the beliefs these people do.  It's beyond disappointing.  It's disgusting and frightening.  It just makes me angry, so I've built myself a bubble to avoid it in certain spaces.  But you're right - I think it does come down to selfishness and caring more about your own personal well-being, financial or otherwise, than anyone else's.  I don't understand how anyone could think we were better off four years ago either.  Before the pandemic, maybe, but of course it's going to take the economy and country as a whole a few years to recover from that.  Biden was handed a hot mess and has done his best to fix it in one term.  Not sure why these people seem to think that the president is single-handedly in charge of setting price... or that the vice president has any actual power to change policies.  Some of them need to go back to elementary school social studies and learn about the branches of government and our system of checks and balances.

Ooh, a Halloween story sounds fun!  Is that a Succession story too?  I had a decent writing day yesterday.  I'm still working on the damn ski trip chapter, but I made some good progress on it.  It's probably gonna be a long one by the time it's done.  I may have to break it into two chapters, but I'm hoping to keep it as one.  This story is long enough as it is with no end in sight yet.

I would take you up on your Apple TV offer.  Thanks!  Killers of the Flower Moon is the one I'm talking about.  Last I checked, the only other place it was available was Amazon, but only if you pay for it.  I've been on a horror movie kick, so I'm in no hurry to watch it now but would love to see it at some point.

Yeah, I'm pretty bummed about that too. I really do believe that if we had gotten there, we would've easily taken the whole thing this year. I like Anthony Rizzo as well. He's my favorite Yankee by far. But I adore Freddie Freeman. Neither have been Mets and both are Met killers in general (especially Freddie), but they are both the sweetest people. I am so happy for Freddie to have that kind of moment in the WS. I don't dislike any of the teams, but Yankee fans are overly obnoxious and always think they're better than the Mets. Even the former Yankees. Derek Jeter and A Rod who do the pre-game are the worst. I'm sure Jeter predicted the yanks would take the whole series in one game or something. They are so biased it's disgusting. They live in a world of delusion where they think they are the best baseball team in the universe even when they aren't doing well. They have been so super cocky insisting they are better than the dodgers or any other team so for that reason, I really want the Dodgers to win the whole thing! In 4 games just so we can say we at least won 2 versus them. lol

Aww yes, I just saw Leo endorsing Kamala and talking about climate change. I've been spoiled with Kieran. I've been so used to seeing him every week on Succession and since it's been so popular he was also a regular on talk shows etc...so now what he's just gone back to movies I'm going through major withdrawals. I really do think he'll be nominated for the movie. He's getting a lot or praise and Oscar buzz from everyone. These next two weeks, he should be pretty active promoting the movie since it's out in theaters on Friday. I'm hoping for a Colbert or at least one of the nighttime talk shows. He and Jesse (Eisenberg) have done a lot of Q and A's after the screenings, but I haven't seen much more than that. We need our men to be a little more extroverted. He's such a homebody, he only decided to do Broadway so he could still bring his kids to school every morning. They also reworked the schedule so he would have Sundays off and work Monday instead because he cooks Sunday dinner every night for his family and didn't want to stop that. They are freaking changing the schedule just for him. All shows are blacked out every Monday as a general rule, except for his now. That's pretty amazing! He's like my warm hug. I have needed him really badly these last few months and especially this month leading up to the election.

I know I should block all these people. It would probably make my life easier, but I just won't do it. For whatever reason, it just makes me feel better or proactive in some kind of way. Posting that stuff. Even though minds might not be changed, at least I know they are seeing and reading it, especially when they are angered enough to reply. That means I have triggered them in some way. My conscience is clear. I know we're on the right side of history on this. It has been hard and disappointing to see all the people I do know, who are going to vote for him for mainly selfish reasons. It's all about money. I'm not sure why they think things were so much better 4 years ago. 4 years ago, we were in the middle of a deadly pandemic and quarantining.

I have been doing double doses of writing this week because I decided to post a Halloween scary short this Thursday. It was originally going to be a one shot, but shocker, it's longer than I thought. Now it's going to be maybe two or three parts.

Going back to Leo for a second. I do have Apple TV. I'm not exactly sure how it works, but if you want, I'd be more than happy to give you my info. Because it's apple it might not be the same as regular streaming but let me know and I'd be happy to share. I wasn't even aware he had a new movie. I never did watch the other one he was in that was four hours long. The Flower Moon one.