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Squish comes out of her room every fucking night.

Someone please get this child to stay in bed before I lose my fucking mind.

Last night, she legitimately had a stomach ache. Tonight, she came out because I made her feel bad by asking her how she was feeling before she went to bed. Then, when she said she felt fine, I said good, then stay in bed.

I think after talking about there not being any reason for her to be afraid of her room, she felt a little better.

I’m done with Texas. I hate it here.

I added my Cash app info on my profile. It’s $rubyruerubyrue if anyone wants to pitch in to get us to Washington.

As we inch closer to Gibbie’s 13th birthday, I feel the house getting more tense and less sane.

Today, I’m a bad person for not telling her to put the jelly in the fridge instead of the pantry when she made her pb&j last week. Of course, I wasn’t in the room when she made it, nor did I even know she was making it. She’s all kinds of mad, though, because I told her it was no big deal, and I’ll just get another one when we get to the grocery store. Apparently, she takes that as me being upset about it.

asymmetricalbeefcurtains:

I couldn’t handle polyamory simply because I’d constantly be worried that they were both mad at me. One is enough for that kind of anxiety.

wilwheaton:

1.) Your Reagan-era “trickle-down economics” strategy of tax breaks for billionaires that you continue to employ to this day has widened the gap between rich and poor so much that most of them will never be able to own a home, much less earn a living wage.

2.) You refuse to increase the federal minimum wage, which is still $7.25 an hour (since 2009). Even if it had just kept up with inflation, it would be $27 now. You’re forcing people of all ages but especially young people to work multiple jobs just to afford basic necessities.

3.) You fundamentally oppose and want to kill democracy; have done everything in your power to restrict access to the ballot box, particularly in areas with demographics that tend to vote Democratic (like young people and POC). You staged a fucking coup the last time you lost.

4.) You have abused your disproportionate senate control over the last three decades to pack the courts with religious extremists and idealogues, including SCOTUS—which has rolled back rights for women in ways that do nothing but kill more women and children and expand poverty.

5.) You refuse to enact common sense gun control laws to curb mass shootings like universal background checks and banning assault weapons; subjecting their entire generation to school shootings and drills that are traumatizing in and of themselves. You are owned by the NRA.

6.) You are unequivocally against combatting climate change to the extent that it’s as if you’ve made it your personal mission to ensure they inherit a planet that is beyond the point of no return in terms of remaining habitable for the human race beyond the next few generations.

7.) You oppose all programs that provide assistance to those who need it most. Your governors refused to expand Medicaid even during A PANDEMIC. You are against free school lunches, despite it being the only meal that millions of children can count on to actually receive each day

8.) You are banning books, defunding libraries, barring subject matter, and whitewashing history even more in a fascistic attempt to keep them ignorant of the systemic racism that this nation was literally founded upon and continues to this day in every action your party takes.

9.) You oppose universal healthcare and are still trying to repeal the ACA and rip healthcare from tens of millions of Americans and replace it with nothing. You are against lowering the cost of insulin and prescription drugs that millions need simply to LIVE/FUNCTION in society.

10.) You embrace white nationalists, Neo-Nazis, and other groups that are defined by their intractable racism, xenophobia, bigotry, and intolerance. You conspired with these groups on January 6th to try to overthrow the U.S. government via domestic terrorism that KILLED PEOPLE.

11.) You oppose every bill aimed at making life better for our nation’s youth; from education to extracurricular and financial/nutritional assistance programs. You say you want to “protect the children” while you elect/nominate pedophiles and attack trans youth and drag queens.

12.) You pretend to be offended by “anti-semitism” while literally supporting, electing, and speaking at events organized by Nazis. You pretend to hate “cancel culture” despite the fact that you invented it and it’s basically all you do.

13.) Every word you utter is a lie. You are the party of treason, hypocrisy, crime, and authoritarianism. You want to entrench rule by your aging minority because you know that you have nothing to offer young voters and they will never support you for all these reasons and more.

14.) You’re so hostile to even the notion of helping us overcome the mountain of debt that millions of us are forced to take on just to pay for our post K-12 education that you are suing to try to prevent a small fraction of us from getting even $10,000 in loan forgiveness.

15.) You opened the floodgates of money into politics via Citizens United; allowing our entire system of government to become a cesspool of corruption, crime, and greed. You are supposed to represent the American people whose taxes pay your salary but instead cater to rich donors.

16.) You respond to elected representatives standing in solidarity with their constituents to protest the ONGOING SLAUGHTER of children in schools via shootings by EXPELLING THEM FROM OFFICE & respond to your lack of popularity among young people by trying to raise the voting age.

17.) You impeach Democratic presidents over lying about a BJ but refuse to impeach (then vote twice to acquit) a guy whose entire “administration” was an international crime syndicate being run out of the WH who incited an insurrection to have you killed.

18.) You steal Supreme Court seats from democrats to prevent the only black POTUS we’ve ever had from appointing one and invent fake precedents that you later ignore all to take fundamental rights from Americans; and even your “legitimate” appointments consist of people like THIS (sub-thread refuting CJ Roberts criticisms of people attacking SCOTUS’ legitimacy).

19.) You support mass incarceration even for innocuous offenses or execution by cop for POC while doing nothing but protect rich white criminals who engage in such things as tax fraud, money laundering, sex trafficking, rape/sexual assault, falsifying business records, etc.

20.) You are the reason we can’t pass:—Universal background checks—An assault weapons ban—The ‘For the People/Freedom to vote’ Act or John Lewis Voting Rights Act—The ERA & Equality Act—The Climate Action Now Act—The (Stopping) Violence Against Women Act—SCOTUS expansion.

21.) You do not seek office to govern, represent, or serve the American people. You seek power solely for its own sake so you can impose your narrow-minded puritanical will on others at the expense of their most fundamental rights and freedoms like voting and bodily autonomy.

22.) Ok, last one. You are trying to eliminate social security and Medicare that tens of millions of our parents rely on and paid into their entire lives. And you did everything to maximize preventable deaths from COVID leaving millions of us in mourning.

Source: https://imgur.com/gallery/e8DBZLH

(via wilwheaton)

Today marks one year since we realized we can’t stay in Texas. It started with the reversal of Roe v. Wade, but it’s gotten worse with bans on gender affirming care and parents trying to get books banned from my classroom. I want so badly to be out of here next summer, but I don’t know if we can afford it. I take that back, I know we can’t afford it.

dasenergi:

This should be spread around. I had a student take her own life on February 13, 2020. I still think of her every year on that date and her birthday as well as other random days. She would have been 19 this year. She was beautiful, funny, and so smart. I think of her three brothers and her parents a lot too and what they must have been feeling this last 3 years. I wonder what she would have thought about the lockdown that followed just a month after she left us. I wonder if she would have continued playing basketball on college.

I’m finally feeling better, which I’m so thankful for. I’m not going to lie, I am missing sex a lot right about now.

My love is out teaching his sword class. The girls and I are watching the live action Mulan. I love seeing them interact. The hubs and I both have pretty big age gaps between us and iur siblings; 12 years for him, 24 for me. We don’t know what it’s like to have a companion like our girls do.

Someone popped off a bunch of fireworks, and Gibbie’s reaction was heartbreaking. She has zero desire to go back to therapy, but she is obviously dealing with PTSD. Unfortunately, the only therapy experience she has had was negative. The therapist just wasn’t a good fit. I told her that sometimes it takes time to find the right therapist for you, but she’s not interested in trying again right now.

TMI post…

I have a yeast infection, and I am in a lot of pain. That’s the post. If anyone has any tips to be more comfortable I’ll gladly take them. I’m already on meds and been sitting on ice here and there.