poisonpoet

feeding him.

The lesson might be, don't feed strays? 😄 They follow you home?

Seriously, though.

I feed people.

The man in this post is a complete jackass.

chili-cheese nachos." Too worn out from it all to cook or think.

I usually kept my lunch in the fridge at work, not able to leave to get anything, & had a couple bowls of lamb stew in there I had made. I insisted he have one. I didn't even know him, then, really.

Twenty years later, still

My husband had just moved to the area (not even my bf yet) still unpacking his apt, gotten really sick, working 12s, 6 days straight. First day off, came into my work, had a bowl of chili we kept for chili, chili-cheese nachos, etc. The next day, came in, still under the weather, asked for "I guess

Ah. The days of video stores!

Absolutely. If I could change out the kitchen faucet for one with a longer spout without hassle, I would, but it is fairly new, & I know my husband & tasks like that. I hate the way water bounces off dishes & onto the back wall if I'm not super careful while doing dishes. It needs 2-3 more inches.

I replaced the mm thick toilet seat that was in the bathroom when I moved in & ordered a missing dairy door for the fridge that didn't affect the functionality, but pissed me off when my butter fell everytime I shut the door. You know I would happily do my own spackle & painting over tiny holes.

self "patch & paint" before you move, as well, since the specific color they use is proprietary.

That is almost the same color as the one used to paint all the apts the ones company that manages my apt uses. I thought it was odd they don't use white, like most apts, but they discourage you from hanging things on walls, so there is less to reno after you move, but it makes it more difficult to

This is like trying to pick a favorite cat from the ones I have had. I like soft, homemade molasses cookies, thick sugar cookies, especially frosted with buttercream, oatmeal raisin or chocolate chip, ma'amoul, a good shortbread, not too dry & crumbly, & anisette pizzelle ...

There was a large storage shed in my backyard in SC shaped like that. Under the left wing was a short brick retaining wall for what looked like a fire pit & above it, what I can only describe as a shallow wok. IDK what it had been used for. We joked it was for making moonshine.

My delight the first time I tried a tried a potato pierogi. Really? A tiny dumpling filled with potatoes & covered in butter? Why, yes!

Dark Winds.

We were trying to keep it to an episode a night, but it was like staring down the last chocolate in the candy box.

This was the closing song.

I hate being taken out of "places" once I am in them. There are so few I like to go. The kitchen starts to look like home.

Lots of searching just happened.

I never thought that critically about any of them. She brought them home. I tried not to fall asleep while reading subtitles, but mostly enjoyed them. Am sure something sunk in. 🙂

I had a roommate who spoke French & put me through endless films.

Jean de Florette. Manon des Sources. Cyrano. Etc

My favorite stories were the ones about her playing pachinko in Tokyo after the war & going out for drinks with Drs, or the ones about her family before the war. The dorayaki connection. The neighbors who made soy sauce. The auntie with the geisha house. The auntie who made frequent overseas trips.

The whole thing with the bottle recycling!

Blue is first, though.

Every once in a while, while watching it, we laugh really hard at something we probably shouldn't, look at each other & say, "We're going to hell."

Resident Alien is freakin hysterical

Classic

She has lost most of her memory at this point & barely recognizes her family. Ten years ago, she was better.

I am sure there are books, but I don't know where to point you.

That wasn't the worst. Marrying the American who abandoned her with 4 kids & a degree she couldn't use here ...

she lost all of her hair & for the rest of her life, besides glowing funny on some tests administered by Drs, she wears wigs, among other things.

Yes.

The upside is that there was more food there than at home where rations were oatmeal (what they normally fed horses) she would walk a long way to trade for a smaller amount of rice bc she hated oatmeal. The downside was at Nagasaki,

When I first moved to CA, I lived near Cal-Expo, but didn't know it or that they had concerts there. Standing outside my cousin's apt, smoking, swore I could hear this song, later, China Girl. Went back inside, shaking my head, thinking I was really high. Mentioned it. Yeah. Bowie up the street.

It's 1941. There is an almost 13-year-old Japanese girl on a boat. She finished her government-mandated nurse training in under 2 years. She doesn't know what she will be listening to in a couple days, huddled with the other nurses, over the radio, or that she will be one of the first into Nagasaki.

YouTube video by Neil Young - Topic Glimmer (Solo)

Shit. Watched the last two episodes tonight. Now what?

It's the same thing that drove residential schools, whitewashed, & led to the harassment of people seen as "other," a struggle against systems that devalue/dehumanize.

Justice isn't a single issue, but an interconnected one.

I never heard my Uncle speak Ojibwe. But I knew he could.

The erasure of Native people parallels the marginalization of specific European groups. The same colonial mindset works, just in different contexts.

It isn’t only about land theft. It's about erasing humanity.

She is good people. It was not a big effort on my part & putting in a load of laundry is still something I can manage.

I enjoyed getting to visit with her.

It is what we are supposed to be doing, I think?

Home, again. Home, again. Jiggiggty, jig.

Friend, resting on couch, with cup of tea & muffin, having had a few chapters of When Women Were Dragons read to her & enjoyed it, very much.

Promised I would return to do anything her family wouldn't, including a load of laundry or paint her toes.