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Simple Gratitude

I talked to him again!Hearing his voice sounding almost normal and saying "I love you!" was such a gift.I'll see him tomorrow and talk to him.I want to thank everyone here for the support. It has...

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I Need A Screaming Room

One Simple Rule: If you can't be kind , begone. This is an extremely tense of upsetting situation.  it so much better than I am (especially from people who have never in this situation, let alone dealt...

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Friday Update: Domn't Talrke OIt Perdonally

HOUSE RULE" If you can't be kind, begone. If you don't think this is a suitable topic for a diary, feel free not to read it.  If you think I am behaving like the perfect wife, completely in control,...

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Five Days Post-Surgery--Still No Info on Dishcarge

HOUSE RULESIt's pretty simple: If you can't be kind, begone or at least don't post.I am carrying enough stress right now and don't need any lectures on how I should handle everything, and how you would...

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More Bad News

HOUSE RULESIf you can't be kind, begone.Practical advice on how to deal with his recovery is appreciated.  In don't need lectures on how you'd be handling all of this so much better than I without ever...

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Update: Tomorrow I Am Demanding Answers, and I Won't Take No For An Answer

HOUSE RUESI f you can't be kind begone.This means no lectures, no condescending  lectures on how you'd handle this oh so much better than I.  You don't know HOW you would handle this situation until...

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I No Longer Have Much Faith in the Staff At This Hospital

HOUSE RULESKISS Principle; If you can't be kind or helpful, STFU. I've tried the more polite phrasing of "If you can't be kind, begone" but a handful of people don't seem to understand the gentler...

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He Might Be Home Friday or Saturday

If you can't be kind, begone. I am dealing with enough  crap that Valium barely makes a dent in it. It's not just my husband's recovery from quintuple bypass, with bad news every time we turn around,...

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Home At Last

Thank you all for watching my back.  For helping me not buckle under the burden of fear.  It's been a long journey from that day in the ER through the surgery past a blood clot in the leg--and...

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Best. Valentine. Ever.

Today marks the second week my husband's been out of the hospital.  Saturday was a really big day, because MiL played chauffeur (makes her happy; keeps her out of my hiar and things go more smoothly...

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UPDATE: Really Good News and an Awesome Community Quilt

I am sorry not to have updated DKos sooner but the last couple of weeks have been hectic. Ben ended up with bronchitis again and my sinus infection returned.  MY GP put us on the same meds and we've...

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Update: Bad News And a Bit of Good

I am gonna be offline for an indefinite period of time. We being evicted, and if we're lucky, we'll have until Friday. I won't go into the details but the words "predatory lending" come to mind. So I...

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FURTHER UPDATE: The Cats Are Safe.

The bad news is we have a temp place to live with MiL.  The good news is she will grit her teeth and allow us to bring the cats with us since we are praying we'll find a place to stay soon. So THAT...

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We're Moving

This is not a GBCW diary.  Tomorrow, the cats and I move to MiL's. The Packhorse, true to his name, will be packing up furniture for storage.Tomorrow we pack the kitchen (Goddess I do NOT look forward...

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There Is Life After Eviction

I'll keep this short and sweet.As of May 12, we moved in with MiL. 99.9% of our stuff is in storage in the rented unit or her garage.  We both want to pare down the amount of stuff we have...

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No White Person Can Ever Truly Know But We better Try

No white person can ever truly know what it means to be a person of color. Our white skin protects us from the indignities even Black celebrities face on a daily basis—an empty cab driving by without...

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Status Update: We're Finally Going Home to New England

You know the old curse about living in interesting times? It's been the story of my life since January 2014. First there was the Packhorse's heart surgery (he's doing really well, the cardiologist...

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Some Forevers Are Shorter Than Others

This diary has nothing to with our move, or my MiL (though she's out of the cleaning frenzy, she's driving us both nuts but this too shall pass eventually). Its about the hard lessons I learned 31...

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A Huge Thank You To Kossacks

If gratitude can be infinite, ours is. I want to thank every single Kossack who used PayPal or sent us checks or money orders. You rock. And you reminded me that some people actually practice the...

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Still here

I will keep this brief. I am typing on my husbands tablet. We are living in ware. The apt. Is tiny but rent is low and includes utilities. Ben had a job but was laid off until he gets his7d license to...

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I Finally Have A Computer

It  has been three years since we moved to Massachusetts from Georgia, and our lives are so much better for the move. It has been a long time since I’ve been able to post. Someday I will tell you all...

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Books to Look For

Some of you were kind enough to keep an eye out for books and magazines with my stories in them. There weren’t many. I found it hard to write when stressed and for several years I had Bosses From Hell,...

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Rest in Peace, D'Artagnan the kitty

Nine years ago, and once  upon a time, a kitten was born  in Gwinnett County GA. He and his two brothers and their mother were left at the office of a cranky vet who votes Republican but had a real...

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Don't Regard Boomers As A Monolithic

I have noticed a trend here condemning Boomers as a Republican monolith.We aren't. We never were.I was born in 1949, one of the earliest age groups. I lived through the 60s while I was in high school...

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Divided We Fall

Note: I am writing this on a Kindle Fire, which makes typing difficult since I am using the built-in keyboard. I apologize in advance for the inevitable typos. At the best of times I suck at typing,...

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Living Paycheck to Paycheck: Irishwitch's Terrible Horrible Awful No Good Day

I  am going to cease commenting for a bit, most likely until next week. I can either deal with politics or Real Life, and right now Real Life is demanding precedence.Before I go further, let me give...

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The Car Lives! Irishwitch's Kinda Sorta Not Delighted Sigh of Relief

If you read my last diary, you know that our 2010 Camry started making grinding noises 10 days ago, limped home, and refused to start again after it was parked. We tried a local mechanic who couldn't...

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Why Women Take Cabs or Uber, Like AOC

This may come as a surprise to some men, but taking cabs or car service (the predecessor to Uber) or Uber and its brothers, makes sense for women traveling alone. Especially at night. Especially if it...

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Antivaxxers Have a New Tactic: Attacking Mothers Who Have Lost Children

I have gotten used to anti-vaxxers spouting a lot bullcrap about vaccinations. That they cause autism. That "natural immunity"gained by your kids getting the measles, mumps and rubella is better than...

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Thirty-five Years of Loss and Love

Thirty-five years ago today, my first husband died. It was completely unexpected,  an undiagnosed heart condition. I had to deal with the police because of the odd circumstances, and then I had to...

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The Self-Righteous You Have Alway With You: Trump's New Conscience Regs Will...

Yesterday,  Fearless Leader, shamelessly pandering to his evangelical base, announced new regulations to  protect the conscience  rights of of physicians, nurses, pharmacists, teachers, students,...

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Boycott Dragoncon: Hit Atlanta Where It Hurts--In the Wallet

Since GA passed the Heartbeat Bill criminalizing abortion, which has been described in horrific detail in several diaries so I am skipping that part, some actors and producers have called for a boycott...

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9 Days on Twitter: Misogyny And Why I Am So Done

In what I can only call a moment of remarkable stupidity, I opened a Twitter account. I knew it was a cesspool, rivaled only by Gab, Reddit, 4 chan and 8 chan, but I did it anyway. There is a reason I...

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Judge Tells Daily Stormer Founder Andrew Anglin to Return And Face the Music

Today, in Montana,  a judge told Andrew Anglin to get stuffed.If you don't know who Andrew Anglin is, you are fortunate, but allow me fill you in. A white supremacist and neo-Nazi, he is the founder of...

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I Believe E. Jean Carroll: Here's Why

I firmly believe E. Jean Carroll was sexually assaulted 2 and 1/2 decades ago. Trump claims he never met her, and even if he did (he did; there's a photo), she wasn't his type.  His type seems to have...

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Why I Cried Today

When I was 8, I lived with my parents in South Miami, attended a Catholic school and played with the kids in my neighborhood. I wasn't exactly a modest kid despite the nun's brainwashing grme into...

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Takin' A Short Break

I do not do heat.I just don't.It has been close to 100 here in the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts, with 90% humidity, so I have stayed indoors for days with the A/C  running full blast. There is...

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Rape Myths That Need to Die Part One: Who, What, When and Where

On September 5th,I will have been a Kossack for 14 years. Counting this one, I have written 252 diaries and nearly 40,000 comments. Many of those diaries have been on so-called women's issues, but...

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Simple Goodness: The Carpenter and the Crosses

Every morning I have a routine. I make coffee and I read today's edition of What Has President Dumbass Done Today. I visit CNN and Huffpost and the Maddow Blog. Most mornings I growl between gritted...

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Timeout: Glinda AKA Submerged in a Sea of Pink!

I will.be taking a few weeks off. I have procrastinated long enough. I am in the process of creating a replica of Billie Burke's infamous costume as Gilnda the Good Witch for Halloween. I am currently...

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If Women's Bodies ( and Clothing) Are Public Property, So Are Men's

* *************** ""NOTE: I am sick as a dog with something that renders me stuffy-nosed, headachy, coughing up lots of nasty gunk, exhausted and generally feeling like Trump's dirty Depends, not...

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Irishwitch's Not Very Happy Week: Can't Even Blame Trump For It

Some of you may recall that in the spring, we had to shell out 5 grand to replace the engine in our 10 year-old Camry.  It took our entire tax refund, my SS check, Mr. W's pension and part of his pay,...

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The Car Is Dead, Jim.

After the mechanics looked at the car, it became clear that between the cost of fixing it and the very real possibility of more problems as it ages, so we decided it was time for a trade-in. We had a...

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Hanging In There

Been away a while. Things just got a tad busy here in Western Massachusetts. There is Covid19 the next county over, but the streets are very empty. Everything is closed per order of our Republican...

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Love in the Time of Covid 19: A Report From the Trenches

NOTE: I am on my last nerve here, so if you are tempted to tell me how I should feel or behave, I have a piece of advice : DON'T. Please, just don't. Many of you don't know me, but I ran into "helpful"...

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We Are Fine

Just dropping in to let folks I have known here for years that I am.gone until.The inauguration. I was here for 2008 and 2012 and 2016, so I know that a, lot of people didn't get their chosen candidate...

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My Husband Is In The Hospital

My husband Ben has been admitted to.The nearest hospital. He is diabetic. It appears to be high blood sugar and low blood pressure. I think it was,a norovirus, and after vomiting non-stop for days, he...

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My Husband Is Coming Home Tomorrow

Good news: Ben comes home tomorrow. Our doctor was trying to have him control his diabetes by diet. It didn't work. The norovirus kept him from eating, and that caused the sky-high blood sugar and low...

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Charlie Baker, Do Your Darned* Job

Governor Charlie Baker of Massachusetts is not seeking a third term.Thank God.He has mismanaged the current outbreaks by steadfastly refusing to reinstate the mask mandate. The smarter, better heeled...

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Robert Cheeley Isn't Obscure in GA

I was a tad amused when I read the list of indictments by Fans Willis because they included a name I was,familiar with during my 12 years in hell, er, GA. The name that that might have been written in...

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