It’s almost birthday time and I typically get a bit depressed about it. This year is especially bad if you know the number I’m looking at. If you don’t, well, just know it’s HIGH.
This year has dragged on as we watch our country get closer and closer to fascism. We attended the No Kings protests a couple of weeks ago – my FIRST protest! – and it was heartening to see about a thousand people of all ages peacefully protesting the destruction of our country.
I’ve been reading a lot, I log my reading in my Book List posts, this year’s is pinned to the home page if you’re interested.
I’m just tired. Tired because I’m old, tired because I’m out of shape, tired because of the constant negativity of living in a country run by fascists and morons. I’ve zero motivation, hence the out of shape part. I just cannot gin up enough fucks to bother to exercise. I have GOT to get over it, and I’m working on it. It’s just slow and difficult.
When I was thinking about my future when I was young, I never thought to add worldwide pandemic and fighting off fascism. I guess this is what my grandparents felt when WWII happened. THEIR parents are pretty much where we are now: they endured the flu pandemic and WWI, then WWII on the heels of that. SHITTY, I tell you.
But here we are.
Nick and I still dream of having our own business, but we also know that it is not very likely to happen. We just do not have the resources and never will at this point. Hell, we’d just like to secure our fucking HOME FFS.
It’s been a rough year all round. I’m sure we’re not the only ones.
I am just going to put up the Xmess decor SUPER EARLY (like in the next coupla weeks since we didn’t do Halloween) and try to pretend things are normal.
We did get two new Trek ornaments: USS Titan (Picard) and the Star Trek Arcade game. We can stop any time we want. ;) I am going to post the list in another entry for your entertainment!