I think this is going to be the last one of these for the year. Maybe I’ll throw in another one if I’m feeling like it but with only 2 Fridays left (!), it might be time to finish these series off and figure out what to do for 2018. I like the idea of a weekly recap but I really hate the name. I’m open to any suggestions.
I actually don’t even know where this week went. It’s been batshit bananas in the news, Hanukkah started, and it was my daughter’s birthday (and my grandma’s is today and my future brother-in-law’s is tomorrow). The days have just bled into one insane long day that I’ve somehow managed to fill with some things.
Reading. My Absolute Darling. I picked up nothing from the library, requested nothing from NetGalley, and bought nothing. Thanks again to everyone who participated in Show Us Your Books and we have a special year end one on 12/26.
Watching. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. All the hype about this show? WORTH EVERY MINUTE YOU’LL SPEND WATCHING IT. This is probably the best show I’ve watched all year (or tied maybe with Godless, Ozark, and American Vandal) despite the fact that it didn’t make my list. To be fair, I wrote the list before I watched it.
Raging. Where to even start? With the unfit, deranged, sexually harassing piece of shit still occupying the Oval Office? Or the horse riding homophobic racist monster who won’t concede an election he legitimately lost? Or the FCC threatening the first amendment more than the aforementioned unfit deranged piece of shit? Or the fact that 5 years after Sandy Hook and the deaths of thousands more, we still have no decent gun control laws? Or the fact that CHIP still doesn’t have authorized funding? Or the tax bill that still might pass? My head is actually about to explode from frustration because I am flabbergasted that this country is devolving and people are starting to act like the frog in the water. I don’t understand how rational thinking people are okay with this sheer and utter bullshit. We deserve better. Our kids deserve better. Our country deserves better. Which actually leads me to…
Celebrating. Doug Jones’s victory in Alabama. To be fair, it’s bizarre that we were even at the point where an alleged pedophile who believes you can’t be sworn into office with anything other than a Christian bible and that the US hasn’t been good since slavery had a fighting chance but yet here we are. I was nervous as fuck watching the returns and never have I been so vested in an election where I didn’t vote. And Alabama had me nervous for awhile. But good sense and decency and morals prevailed thanks to black women and other common sense voters (but white women, we need to talk). And, just to add about the net neutrality, my representative (our first female black representative, whose election was one bright spot in the 2016 shit show) publicly denounced the vote and my state has joined a bunch of others to legally block the repeal. Delaware isn’t my first choice of places to live but I’m happy with the fact that our elected representatives (in the Senate and the House) are actually representing our best interests.
Loving. Speaking of Delaware, Joe Biden is everything. You saw that video of him consoling Meghan McCain, right? THAT represents everything we should be.
Laughing.
Hope you guys enjoy your weekend. Mine will be full of cheerleading (showcase night AND a practice!) and sitting on my couch avoiding the cold (and people) and NOT seeing Star Wars.
Agree on all of the rage. Vanity Fair magazine is always full of the lunacy that exists in our country. Graydon Carter has stunning editorials with perfect prose.
I need to get baking. We need to put our tree up. We are waiting for Baby Stephen. I’m only having a small dinner with my dad in Christmas Day and we are giving almost all money gifts. Everyone loves it. Easiest holiday time ever for me. So I’m lazy. I want to hibernate in the cold weather. Lol. Grateful for every big and little thing. Happy Holidays to all. Love , Steph’s Momma
OK, I know you don’t want to hear it but for real, WHAT IS UP WITH YOUR GOVERNMENT. The death of net neutrality is so ridiculous and such a blatant abuse of power 🙁 I really hope that there’s a group(s) out there trying to reverse this awfulness.
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I had a feeling you’d like that show. When you watch it do you think as I do, “this would make the most amazing broadway musical?” The production design, the costumes, the blocking and choreography they do on that show….all so incredibly well done! And Rachel Bresnahan is incredible!
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I am 100% with you on the raging recap.
I feel like politics have taken a shit on the holidays two years in a row now. I know last year I felt SO low right now. This year is rough, too.
I can’t spell Hanukkah. I give it my best shot, then use spell check. I do the same thing with Hallelujah so it’s just my approach to most religious words…
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I love Joe.
I’m fed up with a million people right now.
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I honestly don’t know how I can do three more years of this crap. But I’m hoping, praying, trusting that things will get better. I also feel like the dam is about to break in our favor. That people are starting to wake-up, slowly but are waking up, to the fact that what’s happening is not right. A candidate he gave his full backing too didn’t win in a state that he won a year ago by 30 points. Yes, Moore was a terrible candidate but Trump once famously said that he could shoot a guy and people wouldn’t care. They proved him wrong. White women evangelicals did vote for him but White non-evangelical women did not. They voted for Jones. Those are the women, along with full-on support of Black women who have seriously saved our asses multiple times and gone unrewarded for it, are who we need to focus on because evangelicals have drank the kool-aid. The tax scam bill and net neutrality make my head implode. And I do not understand why people think Trump is for working Americans. Neither of these bills help Americans. They help the rich and Corporations. You already know all this stuff but sometimes a gal has to vent. 😀
I need to watch The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel before I have to pay more to do so without it buffering. BURN! The video with Biden and Meghan was everything. It made me cry and hope it influenced McCain.
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I agree with all the raging and I feel like the frog — I want to do something but really feel helpless. I have the same social skills — also add in saying “you’re welcome” when someone says ‘Have a nice day’ instead of the presumed ‘thank you’. Whatever.
Watching the news is literally exhausting to me these days :/
Did you like Gilmore Girls? I watched one episode of Mrs. Maisel and it was cute and pretty to watch and something about it just rubbed me the wrong way. It was just loud maybe? Fast? Jumbled? I don’t know. It was clearly, to me, by the same person as GG and I’ve never been able to watch GG.
Yay! I keep recommending The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and people are always surprised when they watch it and like it. It’s SO good! I wouldn’t lie! Ha!
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