phreddd: (GKR)
My social circle keeps getting taken through changes in Trump's second chance to fck up these United States. One couple (including the woman who married my husband and me) who also had Canadian citizenship have moved full-time to Oshawa, Ontario as of last week for healthcare rea$on$ (and to tend to her aging parents). To make things really interesting, their two adult children (one a fresh college graduate) have moved up with them. I'm not actually mad at that, just hurt that they all felt no other good choice in the matter, and sad for the husband's two older children from his first marriage who had no such option because of having two U.S.-born parents.

On top of that, the Big Loaded Crackpipe (It sure ain't beautiful, and it's more ransom note than "bill" IMHO.) and the sledgehammer it took to nonprofit funding just cost two other friends their jobs at an organization I think highly of, as of last Friday. I found out when one of them changed their job status on FecesBorg to "Retired" over the weekend.

So, what's great?



phreddd: (real)
The presence of dementia makes you grieve for some people earlier than you're supposed to.

(BACKGROUND: My sister Magen called me last night, reporting that our mother is in the hospital with a not-insignificant infection - basically bedsores cleaned up to the extent that my sisters could do, but things got missed, and the odor was lingering. Magen also hinted that, although things don't appear necessarily grave, that I should consider an October trip to New York. I and my wallet both winced.)

I'm a little bummed (again, but this has been the 800-pound gorilla in my life for the last few years, so that's just par for the course.), needless to say.

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