Jacqueline Gates

Good morning, sunshine.

And today, on CNN's front page, there is NOTHING about yesterday's protests.

It's like they are pretending they never happened.

I adore my kids and still, if I could go back and change my mind (and hormones), I would.

That would be bliss for me too.

Gosh, that's stunning!

I used to begin my day perusing the news while sipping my coffee.
Now I need two cups of coffee before I can even face it.
How I long for 'precedented' times.

Oh I hope so. We're popping in to Minneapolis in a couple of weeks and I'm going to take a nostalgic stroll through the skyways to see what's changed.

I'm determined to shift my default-to-FB habit. Here's to finding a sweet spot.

Hello, I'm new-ish here.

Where are my glam crones?
Where are my witchy wise ones?
Where are those who beautify and dazzle everything they touch?

There's so much politics in my feed but I don't know how to change the channel.

Who should I follow??

Help!

I loved living on the skyways. They were never the same after the pandemic though.

Amen!

I lived in an apartment block that had direct access to the skyways. It was wonderful. Before Covid, it was like a village up there, with so many small independent shops and restaurants.
Not many of them survived the pandemic but I keep hoping they'll come back.

Here's hoping.

That sounds amazing! How long did the trip take? And do you stop at every station??

4. Select "Send Feedback"
5. Click on "Gulf Of America" text.
6. Select "Inaccurate content".
7. Select "Incorrect" and type in whatever text you want such as "The correct name of this body of water is “Gulf of Mexico".
The more reports to Google the merrier…. 😉

(Thanks to Mary Dukes on Meta)

A quick resistance task: 😉
1. Google Gulf of Mexico.
2. “Gulf of America" will be at the head of Google’s answer.
3. Click on the three little dots to the right of “Gulf of America”.
*contd below

What scares me most is that they could gerrymander and change the rules so much that they make it impossible to vote them out in the midterms.

You are a gift to the world and I'm so very glad to know you. Hope this helps to bolster the joy.

Such an unusual Christmas - in a different country, no tree, no cooking, no presents.

I'm not sad - it's memorable, if nothing else - but I'm looking forward to returning to the States and having a proper Christmas next year.

Ex-pat life isn't all roses, y'all.

Ugh I'm sorry, hon. That sucks. Hope you get a chance to be excessively good to yourself over the weekend.

That moment when you're packing for your cruise and you realize your ball gowns take up a quarter of the case.

PS Cunard has gala nights which is why I only cruise with them. Because life should have more gala nights.

The twirly stick that opens/closes the blinds.

This is fascinating. I feel like I skim the surface of Social Media - just posting my stuff and blocking the obvious trolls.

I can't imagine what it's like to have to plumb these kind of depths of spite/stupidity/obliviousness daily.

I was thinking the same! I'm just over here in my own bubble, posting stuff.

I'll admit to defaulting to checking and posting on FB, to the benign neglect of this space.

What it's showing me is the power of habit and inertia, and my own rather surprising* resistance to change.

*Surprising because I am Aries Rising and have moved house 9 times in the past 12 years.

Ooh you had me at 'Nothing Scheduled' and silk taffeta!

Hi!

Yes, it did. Thanks so much

DO IIIITTTTT!!!

How do you select the list?