I’m just saying… I’ve got bubbly and non-alcoholic prosecco in the fridge ready to go. So if the recent news leads to what we are all hoping for, I am ready.

Now, I smoked for about thirteen years straight. But then finally quit and now only enjoy the occasional cigar or pipe tobacco.
Public smoking is obviously WAY down, so that likely help A LOT.
Still.
Damn, I sound like an ageist asshole. Trust me, I’m just a scared Gen X-er with vanity issues.

Perhaps a not-so-fun-fact: I am I am now several years older than Judy Garland when she died. But, damn, look at photos and that was a HARD 47 years old.
Sure, I have a fair share of vanity, but I-oof, smoking, imma right?!

In short, I am doing that thing where one looks back on an older person’s life and makes snap judgments and comparisons against other peers to determine if my stupid judgments are liable to land me with certain age-related issues sooner or later.

When it comes to longevity, there is truth to the fact that some factors are left to things that we have no control over (happenstance, accidents, genetics…)
But my brain is over here trying to connect dots and puzzle together if some choices could be judged to be negative contributors.

It’s likely because I am a person of a certain age, with an interest in biographies/history/health/medicine/et cetera… I cannot help but now start to pay note to certain folks and how they have seemingly aged well versus other celebs who maybe haven’t. Yes, genetics is a factor. Disease, too.

The way that I am looking forward to April 15th…

Getting the Band Back Together - Call of Cthulhu: RPG Review YouTube video by Seth Skorkowsky

I made a thing!
youtu.be/hus_yUnVb6k?...

So, spouse and I agreed to focus on one thing and one thing only and look at us! THIRTEEN DAYS! Our money has gotten close to this age, but I think this time, it’ll surpass it as we have a windfall headed our way that will stretch things further soon.

I’ve watched a few of the #YNAB YouTube shorts and videos and it was there I learned that my stupid idea of trying to do both radically pay down debt AND get a month ahead was failing us.

Last fall, though, I was pulling my tarot cards and they kept saying the same things so I was fed up and told spouse: even the tarot is screaming that we need to YNAB! So we’ve hunkered down and been back at it.
This time, I’ve actually tried to “do” the lessons.

Fell off the wagon for a long time when kid got old enough to really pull focus and the like. Spouse and I would try to go back to it, but life would get in the way. We’d be good for a few months then… 💥🔥

It isn’t YNAB’s fault. It’s all mine. First of all, I’ve been doing it off and on for years. Was dedicated to it back in late aughts. That’s how we saved enough to buy our home.

Incoming budgety nerd post:

My money is now 13 days old!! PHEW!!

I think I might hold the record at taking the longest to get to a month ahead in #YNAB, and I’m not even there yet.

If this is the canary in the coal mine, I’m going to need more booze in this house. #oscars

#DelroyWasRobbed

Better than Elordi and Lindo? My ass. #Oscars

Robbed.
#oscars

Factories are already being built and hiring under Biden’s CHIPS and IRA. Calling it a Trump boom is pure gaslighting. Republicans voted against the investment, the jobs, and the wages, then show up demanding credit once the paychecks arrive.

Heather Delaney Reese (@heatherdelaneyreese) Just after 6:30 p.m. tonight, the President of the United States stood before a room of governors at a formal White House dinner and opened his remarks by confessing that he believes his own Cabinet o...

25th. Now.

Now that it’s coming to light that for many it seems to get access to the girls it was pay to play with state secrets…

I 100% support the striking nurses, but it has made things interesting for me considering I am scheduled for surgery in less than a week…

Epstein files suggest acts that may amount to crimes against humanity, say UN experts — Guardian US Independent experts appointed by human rights council speak of ‘grave’ nature regarding scale of atrocities against women and girls

Yikes.

And yet here we are doing almost NOTHING about this.

ICE Is Legally Required to Issue Full Reports on Detainee Deaths. They've Completely Stopped Doing It. — Jezebel ICE is required to issue a full report to Congress on any detainee death within 90 days. They've skipped the last 8 deaths entirely.

ICE and DHS are breaking the law.

Catherine O'Hara, 'Schitt’s Creek' Star and Comedy Legend, Dies at 71 — People PEOPLE confirms that the Emmy-winning actress has died at 71

Just gutted.
Catherine O'Hara, 'Schitt’s Creek' Star and Comedy Legend, Dies at 71 - People

5 Calls Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

I just called my reps with @5calls.org, you should too: 5calls.org

Is SO important and yet you have also been vocal, too. Thank you, thank you, thank you!! You are doing the good work and the heavy lifting.

I’ll just try & show grace and be grateful that she is speaking out now. Being a survivor of abuse means that we do not often have the tools to know or read things like when is a good time to speak out. So I have NO place to be critical.

Mara: THANK YOU SO MUCH Being visible for survivors

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I won’t pretend to know what it was like to grow up as Paris. I’m sure she had some privileges I’ll never understand that also came with costs I’ll never want to fathom.
As a survivor of abuse though, I can wish she’d spoken up sooner but I can also understand why she might have been silent.

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When I say fuck this guy, and I mean FUCK THIS GUY—the level to which I say FUCK is this: