That’s I’ve been working 2 jobs for twenty years and am still married to this asshole who I am grey rocking so I can get through my 12 hour workdays.

I have no opinions on Israel vs Palestine except that it’s bad and I want it to stop because it’s hurting so many people. I don’t understand the conflict or why we should want one side to win over the other. I realize Israel is controversial but I don’t really know why.

It wasn’t like a sauce. It was like a foam whipped with bits of lobster. Like lobster flavoured foam, it definitely wasn’t an accompaniment. I’m not describing it right, but it wasn’t like a side. It’s been like twenty years.

Nabucco is a good way to begin with opera indeed! Very early Verdi and definitely not the quality of his later most famous works but still pretty amazing. The role of Abigaille is called a voice wrecker so it’s not often performed. Glad you liked.

I felt like that when we rented the townhouse. It was also pretty bare bones, but it was nice to have a house. Sadly the landlord evicted us so his kid could have his place, so I ended up in an apartment again, and now my rent is so much more as we lived in the townhouse for so long. I do have a washer and dryer and dishwasher though so at least that is nice and it’s beautifully renovated but it still sucks. We had this incredible patio garden.

I ate dinner in NYC at the penthouse fancy restaurant of some five star hotel. I could barely eat I was so intimidated. The food at that time was for some reason having a trend of “foams”, which is this weird thing where it was like lobster with a side of foamy stuff. I never understood how that was food, but the restaurant by itself was incredible.

Which opera did you see? I am an opera lover and I’ve seen people wearing tuxedos with flip-flops, and a dog wearing a rhinestone necklace.

Ontario it’s super easy.

I just mean people who are lazy about cutting their nails, it’s obvious when it’s someone working with their hands like you. Usually it’s gross old men with untrimmed hair and beards and these nasty ass fingernails and you know they’ve been on a bullshit disability claim since they were 50 and do nothing but watch TV.

She and my aunt, her sister, are very low contact because my mother is psychotically jealous of her and does all her BPD shit to her if they are more in touch. My aunt was discovered to have bowel cancer last month, which she wanted my mother not to know because she’d make it all about herself and create her emotional vampire drama over it. However my mother had gotten a whiff of the news due to a family friend running into my aunt at the surgeon’s office and called up demanding to know all. My aunt disengaged and told her nothing.

My aunt went for her bowel resection last week. My mother is a retired OR nurse at that hospital, and still has friends that work in the OR. My aunt was on the stretcher waiting to be rolled down to the OR, when suddenly my mother appeared and shoved her face into hers to yell hello. My aunt, startled, replied “What are you doing here?”, but before my mother could answer she was being rolled down the hall. The nurse who received her there smiled and told her she knew her sister.

So basically this nurse violated my aunt’s confidentiality and my mother showed up just to let her know that she knew. She did not show up afterwards to visit or call her or send her a card. It was not to support her. She just wanted her to know that she had found out and that she wasn’t getting away with not telling her.

That’s the level of violent disruptive dangerous bullshit she pulls. So I will never talk to her again.

What? They can’t make you do that.

Estrangement. My mother is a sociopath/BPD. What she did just last week to my aunt was absolutely insane.

Perfume and cologne. Makes me wheeze. Also long dirty fingernails, people who work with soil or grease or something excused from that.

Me too. I’ve been making my old one last, it’s a very sturdy computer, but it’s time.

The local Polish grocery store has a selection of eastern European herbal teas, herbs which I’d never heard of, and it’s such an interesting experience in tea. One is a type of moss and it makes such pale tea, it’s so unusual. I’m loving trying them all.

I also love lemongrass spearmint tea, and rooibos and honey bush teas from South Africa which a friend sends me.

Lemmy and Catodon and Pixelfed, in that order.

Oh it’ll be all of them. Eventually.

I think a lot of bad things will happen, but the biggest problem will be that all vaccination everywhere ends, so millions of children die, and it’ll be another pandemic crisis.

I have every social account attached to an email nobody has. It’s just a good habit really.

Omigod.

My SO was hospitalized 18 months ago and had to use one of those. He also has prostate hypertrophy so urinates slowly as it is, and also was in diabetic ketoacidosis so was on IV fluids and insulin, and basically he spent a lot of time holding his dick in a jug really having to pee but taking forever.