The End of Staycation

Well today is the wrap of staycation 2024.  Grateful for the time off.  I'll have more time in early November and the occasional day off here and there.  Of course I got a little bit of the Sunday morning scaries about things I may have forgotten but eh, I do my best.  Ready to go forward and keep moving.

Sleeping beauty next to me will be grateful to have me home and typing away while she snoozes.  It seems like when there is a meeting, she'll flit around me and sometimes people probably wonder why is there a cat on our Teams call?  Occasionally I pull her up and show her on the screen to see if anyone notices and I'll see someone getting that squinty look because of my background, they're not sure if they're seeing things.  Kind of funny.

I watched the opening of SNL.  Jim Gaffigan as Tim Walz is perfect.  I'll watch the rest later.  My sister and I would stay up late as kids and watch the early ones.  We had a TV, watching anything past our bedtime was a thrill for us even if we didn't understand the jokes and it was probably a good thing that we didn't.  

I have kind of a love hate relationship towards Bill Maher.  His show will play on CNN on Saturday nights and sometimes, it's funny.  Sometimes I'm mad.  Bill seems to hate anyone overweight.  I don't always agree with him.  Last night I felt like I could have slept through it.  It always depends on the guests.  James Carville will make it funny.  The two guys last night?  I don't remember who they were, in all honesty.  That's my wild Saturday night.  

I'll be glad to get these mailed letters out the door in the next few days.  Normally Vote Forward will have you mail on a Saturday, a few weeks before the election.  We can mail throughout the month of October.  That way I can make sure I'm not missing anything, I'll take a batch at a time and look through them.  I'll look through any dresser drawers to make sure there's none I put in there, thinking I would remember. I wouldn't.  I had that happen where I find like 10 letters that are stamped and I forgot to mail them.  Stamp money is like gold for me.  You just don't do that.  

I will take a break once the election is over.  My mom asked me about it and I said there's always something, whether it's a small election or a big election.  They all matter. I wrote letters for Judge Janet for the Wisconsin Supreme Court. I did a text bank for some city council race in Arizona last year.  2023 wasn't a big year for elections, but I wrote letters for Virginia's state legislature race, I believe they have a Democratic majority.  I wrote letters for Governor Beshear's re-election race in Kentucky.  There's always something and I'll be done for a couple of months.  If there's any I can write to or text bank? I won't take on too much. I feel like there's been so much at stake, I went overboard.  If the unthinkable happens, I really won't ever leave my house since the white supremacists will reign supreme.

I take nothing for granted with elections. I hope it's for the best, but worried about the worst like everyone else.  Anxious for it to be over, but worried about the outcome.  I think that was weighing on my mind yesterday afternoon.  I like the ideas that Kamala has to make it better for people not to worry about Christmas or be able to go on a vacation.  I would like to not worry about the holidays and maybe feel ok to go somewhere and not worry about the price of gas affecting my decisions.

It's tough.  So tough and I'm not sure if I'm tough.  

I'm hanging in there, even if it's by a thread.

Enjoy your Sunday, good humans.  I will do the same.  

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