Post by eponinepontmercy on Oct 11, 2017 11:40:06 GMT -5
My mom has never been into politics. She watches local news, but would avoid anything too negative. She is the one shutting down any hint of political talk at holidays because she doesn't like people arguing. (My brother and I were loudly agreeing once and she made us change the subject. LOL) I have no idea who she has even voted for, before this past election.
Trump's election has turned her into an angry liberal and I love it.
So she was at physical therapy the other day(shoulder replacement), and another patient came in, singing Pence's praises for the NFL stunt and going on about not watching football anymore. My mom and the physical therapist tear him apart a bit. Later, the same guy was talking to the therapist about the injury to Odell Beckham. From across the room, while lying on her table, my mom yells, "Don't tell him anything. He doesn't care about football anymore so he doesn't need to know."
I had to stop two therapy sessions today for a moment because I was coughing so badly. I took my NHS over the counter codeine cough medicine and it went away. I love the NHS!
I was able to lightly insert politics into a few conversations lately. Just touching on a couple issues, getting people clues in a bit without having them tune out or turning them off. I was pretty proud of myself.
Also, my bookclub met last night and a couple women were missing. It changed the group dynamic a bit and we ended up having a fantastic time. So much laughter. Not sure if it was the missing members or just a fun night.
Oh, and one of women had no clue who Jason Momoa was (and I swear to all that is holy if this place ruins him for me...) so we just had to bring up JM pics and clue her in.
I was able to lightly insert politics into a few conversations lately. Just touching on a couple issues, getting people clues in a bit without having them tune out or turning them off. I was pretty proud of myself.
Also, my bookclub met last night and a couple women were missing. It changed the group dynamic a bit and we ended up having a fantastic time. So much laughter. Not sure if it was the missing members or just a fun night.
Oh, and one of women had no clue who Jason Momoa was (and I swear to all that is holy if this place ruins him for me...) so we just had to bring up JM pics and clue her in.
DH's best friend has been friends with Jason since college. He's stayed at his place and hung with Lisa Bonet and everything. I hear they're both lovely and very down to earth.
Okay, I have to ask. What are we plays? I promise I googled to no avail.
No worries. The randoms is where I come to say random shit.
We plays are live streams of people playing video games. I, personally, stink at video games past Mario but I LOVE watching people play. My husbands tastes are limited to like five franchises (though he picked good ones). So now I can watch other games. Like Cuphead! I mean, how cute is he?!
Today is International Day of the Girl. Someday there won't be a need for one but today I was glad to change my profile pic to the grands and put a "Happy International Girls Day" frame around it. I don't normally do stuff like that (even though they're my avatar, I've never done a frame and the profile pic was about two years old.)
Their mom is in court-ordered drug rehab. Or at least she was. I got a FB message from her and we messaged back-and-forth. She was saying she needed to leave because it was too crowded and she was having anxiety and panic attacks and they weren't treating her for them, just the drugs. They only wanted to give her drugs for the anxiety and panic attacks and she didn't want to be a zombie. She was messaging from the library off-site. She claimed she had a mental health appointment and signed off. I haven't heard from her since. I left a message on the women's section of the rehab asking for her to call or contact so we know she's back in treatment. The girls are going to be devastated. And I'm not happy at all either. This was a HUGE opportunity to get her life on track. The girls were at risk and now I'm going to have to cut off contact between her and the girls completely since she's non-compliant. I can't let the girls remain in contact with her as long as she's living on the streets and doing drugs. She's likely going to have a bench-warrant and get arrested, sent back here and then sent to prison for a multi-year sentence based on the charges that were against her. Leaving the rehab is a breach of the plea agreement and she still had one set of charges pending, dependent on completing the program. Stay in DOSA and it's two years probation, don't stay and it's arrest and jail. I'm not putting the girls through that. It's hard enough for me to deal with, and I'm the grown-up.
Okay, I have to ask. What are we plays? I promise I googled to no avail.
No worries. The randoms is where I come to say random shit.
We plays are live streams of people playing video games. I, personally, stink at video games past Mario but I LOVE watching people play. My husbands tastes are limited to like five franchises (though he picked good ones). So now I can watch other games. Like Cuphead! I mean, how cute is he?!
Isn't that just Twitch?
I'm sitting in Ohare waiting for my flight home. Conference was awesome. My presentation went REALLY well. I had people stopping me all week to tell me how much they liked it, how much thru learned, how it changed the way they think about their work, etc. So that was really, really rewarding.
I was also asked to semi-peer mentor someone (she's trying to move into a technical leadership role). And an association board member came to ask me to submit a proposal in their technical tracks for next year because they're trying to get more women speaking in them.
The conference was hella inclusive and should be held up as a standard for others. They provided preferred pronoun stickers to put right on the nametag. They had gender neutral bathrooms set up. Food was a good variety, always with a vegetarian and gluten free option at every meal. And then they had several ASL interpreters, who got MAD props for being able to sign highly technical presentations on the fly. And more that I'm forgetting in my fatigue.
It is an INTENSE 4 days though. I cannot wait to get home.
No worries. The randoms is where I come to say random shit.
We plays are live streams of people playing video games. I, personally, stink at video games past Mario but I LOVE watching people play. My husbands tastes are limited to like five franchises (though he picked good ones). So now I can watch other games. Like Cuphead! I mean, how cute is he?!
Isn't that just Twitch?
Twitch does we plays, but it's more interactive live streaming on YouTube. Also YouTube does regularly bounce me.