Annette Fix 📖✍🏼

This is a rhetorical question, right? We allll know it’s about the Epstein files.

@judithk6.bsky.social You’ll like this mod list. bsky.app/profile/did:...

“I think it's worth it. I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights."

Karma, poetic justice, and irony will be attending Kirk’s service. May he rest in the way he has earned. 🪦

San Diego, CA for the win! 🏆 🙌🏼

“Stringer noted that real officers do not wear ski masks.” 🤔 Maybe people should start shooting all of the “not real officers” that are kidnapping people…

“Stringer noted that real officers do not wear ski masks.” 🤔 Maybe people should start shooting all of the “not real officers” that are kidnapping people…

My Xmas favs: Die Hard, The Lemon Drop Kid, and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964 claymation). 🙂

Looking forward to checking it out. TY. 🫶🏼

It’s a horse race between MTG, Boebert, Loomer, and Leavitt to the stupid line. Somehow they’ve all out-dumbed Palin. I wonder if they can all see Putin from their backyard. 🧐

Soo…they shaved 100 lbs and 30 years off Shitler, and celebrate him burning democracy to the ground. This is the worst season of American Horror Story ever.

You know that voice. The one that shows up when you're scrolling through LinkedIn at 11pm, watching people half your age announce their promotions. The one that whispers when you look at your bank account, your relationship status, your career trajectory. “You should be further along.” I heard it again last Tuesday—that familiar punch to the gut. The math started immediately: if I had made different choices five years ago, if I hadn't gone travelling, if I'd been more strategic, more disciplined, more... something. But I have a sneaking suspicion about this particular mental terrorist: it's not really about being behind. It's about the myth that progress is linear. We've bought into this idea that life is a ladder everyone climbs at the same pace and there's some cosmic scoreboard keeping track. But life isn't linear. It's more like a spiral staircase in an old house—sometimes you're going up, sometimes you circle back to where you thought you'd already been, and sometimes you discover rooms you didn't know existed. The "further along" voice assumes there's one path, one timeline, one definition of success. It ignores everything you can't quantify: • the resilience you built during that difficult year • the compassion you developed through struggle • the boundaries you learned to set • the relationships that deepened when you stopped performing and started being real By society's standards, you may feel "behind.” Your timeline is not their timeline. Your ‘behind’ is not actually behind—it's exactly where you are. And where you are is the only place you can start from. The next time that voice shows up, instead of asking, "Where should I be?" ask "What am I learning right now?" Progress isn't always forward. Sometimes it's deeper. Sometimes it's wider. Sometimes it's just staying still long enough to see clearly. You're not behind. You're becoming. 💫

🛼 Day 1 🛼 I skated. Without my pup beside me, the joy I hoped I’d feel was colorless. 😔 #blackandwhite
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The Inner Conversation
"I Should Be Further Along"

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Thank you. 💝 There are no words to even describe how gutted I feel. 💔

Thank you. 💝

Thank you. 💝

Monday and Tuesday this week, Pal had 5 grand mal seizures. The last one Tuesday/Wednesday at 1am was the worst. That morning, he no longer knew his name or understood any of the words of our daily life. I don’t know if his whining breaths and restlessness were from disorientation or pain, or both. I promised him on our cancer journey over the last 8 years that I would never let him suffer. You may have seen a video I posted a couple of weeks ago of Pal doing zoomies at the beach and being his always-joyful self. I thought we were winning his mast cell cancer fight. Until we lost. 💔 Now, there’s a huge hole where my heart used to be. Since the start of the pandemic, Pal has been beside me 24/7 for the last 5 years. He’s been my everything everywhere all at once. If he couldn’t go somewhere, I didn’t go. I went on our downtown and beach walk late last night. It was familiar and comforting, and equally heartbreaking and pointless. And now, I’m not sure what to do with myself. I will make a tribute video of our wonderful life and all the joy Pal gave me with his whole heart and sweet spirit, but not yet. I just can’t. 💔

🌈 🐕 FINAL PUPDATE: This was our last pic together last Thursday. A peek into every morning, waking up with my sweet boy beside me for the last 9 years.

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#mypal #rainbowbridge #dogsofbluesky #dogsky #staffie #cancersucks

I’ve been a lacto-ovo pescatarian for 35 years, then cut out dairy and gluten 5 years ago, then fish last October. Then eggs in July. I’m WFPB now. Fortunately, I have a fabulous family-owned Middle Eastern market nearby, and they have great produce at fantastic prices. I’m there every week.

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I didn’t see Quigly. But loved Alan in Die Hard (yes, that’s a Christmas movie) and in Robin Hood. Another favorite villain is Heath Ledger as the Joker. *chef kiss*

“We begin by coveting what we see every day. Don't you feel eyes moving over your body, Clarice? And don't your eyes seek out the things you want?”

#filmsky 📽️🍿

Yes! Loved Alan in this role.

“Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas.”

I looked at the cinema line-up this morning, considered a last-show, solo viewing. This was the only movie that looked moderately interesting. (I didn’t go.) “Fantastic” is a pretty strong rec. What made it rate that high for you? Storyline? Mental/visceral effect? Or just the acting you mentioned?

There was jasmine rice and stir fry sauce out of frame. 🙂

Dinner is allllmost ready. 🍽️

#WFPB #foodsky #fitover50

YouTube video by ChumbawambaVEVO Chumbawamba - Tubthumping

#MusicChallenge
#WrongAnswersOnly
8/14 - 🚨 Alert 🚨
She was Tubthumping when it happened…

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Love this! Many years ago, I studied Kenpo, Taekwondo, Red Dragon Karate, and Shotokan. I loved sparring and weapons practice more than katas. I never wanted to advance in belt because I felt like I didn’t know enough. I’ve been wanting to try Krav Maga, but wasn’t sure 58 is a good age to start. 🙃

Try polyamory they said. It’ll be fun they said. 😂

YouTube video by Keith Sweat - Topic I Want Her

Starting Monday with a club line cha-cha flashback. IYKYK 🎶💃🏼

Dancing in the kitchen is my love language. 💞

#musicsky #keithsweat

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Exactly. That’s not even enough for a room rental, also not counting utilities.

He’s LOVES go-beach-play-friends. He met a lot of ball dogs today, but none wanted to run with him. So he made his own fun.

TY! 🥰 YES it does! It’s been quite a journey. Pal’s had mast cell cancer for almost 8 years (Nov 5, 2017). He has 7 tumors now: 1 cutaneous, 6 subcutaneous. (Fortunately, none on any organs!) I’ve been treating him holistically. The 3 keys I’ve found: diet, exercise, and CBD. 🙌🏼

Pal’s still got alllll the zoomies, even at 11 yo with mast cell cancer.

#crazydoglady #mypal #sundayfunday #staffie #dogsky #dogsofbluesky #rescuedogsrock #cancerstrong #huntingtonbeach