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Death Comes In Threes

There are times in your life when everything seems to go to shit. I will confess, right now is one of those times for me.

A few days ago, my uncle died after a battle with cancer. We knew he was on the way out, but it does not make it any easier. On the same day, the decision was made to take his ex-wife off life support. My cousin and his brother will lose both their mother and their father on the same day.

And back in January, my brother died. He had pneumonia, but he was sacrificed on the altar of the almighty dollar so the hospital he was originally admitted to could make a buck. They delayed transferring him to a facility that could provide him with the care he needed, and as a result, he died.

Perhaps there is some truth to the old Appalachian wives’ tale about how death will always come in threes. I hope it is–I don’t want to lose any more people.

I feel almost as if I have entered a time of great trouble–well, my whole family really. First, Trump was elected. Then my brother died.

After this, my friend at work got fired for making a stupid mistake, and another employee in my department quit–making my job much, much harder due to the increased workload, especially since the company has said they will not replace either of them.

Next, my sister had a stroke which nearly killed her–and she may never fully regain her eyesight. So I will have to take care of her. After this, I fell and broke my ankle.

And now, I have lost an uncle and a woman I still consider an aunt.

I am exhausted by all of this. I want it to stop.

If anybody reads this, thanks for giving me a space to get this off my chest.

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Gee, I thought buying votes was illegal–why is Musk walking free right now?

If you have not already heard, Elon Musk wants voters in Wisconsin to sign an online petition against “activist judges” and then go out and vote against the Democratic candidate in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race—and in exchange, he offered to hand out million dollar checks to two random people who signed the petition.

Isn’t illegal to buy or sell votes? The state’s Attorney General, Josh Kaul states that it is, and has filed a lawsuit against the billionaire in order to put a stop to his brazenly illegal shenanigans. Musk deserves to be in jail right now.

How shameful that our country has fallen so far that such blatant corruption is tolerated by so many.

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Healing Purrs

Meet my little buddy Mr. Stripey. Ever since I broke my ankle this week, he has stayed right by my side. According to the doctors, it’s not a bad break–but it sure hurts like hell and I can’t stand to put any weight on it at all, even wearing the air cast I was given at the orthopedist’s office. Work will be interesting on Monday morning–I work in a medical office, and while I can mostly do administrative work while my foot heals, it’s a long way to the bathroom, and much farther to the breakroom. Not that I was actually getting a lunch break most days anyway.

I have realized that now that Republicans have taken over, and this is a red state, employers probably feel like they can treat their employees any way they want, and face few, if any consequences. The fact that many employees don’t get breaks is kind of overlooked. You’re damned if you complain about it and dammed if you don’t. Watch for labor law enforcement in red states to go straight down the toilet over the next four years.

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Well, here goes….

I have been trying to get a blog going for the last year or so but never seemed to find time to do it–as a person who works multiple jobs in order to support my family, time to do anything but work is a precious commodity. But last week, I fell and broke my ankle, so now it looks like I am going to be off work at my weekend job for several weeks–if the job is still even there once I am healed up enough to go back to it. And to be truthful, I would rather spend my weekends helping other people by sharing some of the things I have learned over the years that will hopefully help some people survive the hardships many people are going to face now that Trump and his unelected co-president are taking a wrecking ball to the country.

Their actions are almost certain to cause a recession, if not an outright depression. Life is about to get a lot more expensive due to tariffs, deportations of migrant workers, and many other actions, such as angering our allies and trading partners such as Canada. The billionaire class will hardly notice if the cost of food, clothing and shelter increases–people like us will be the ones left holding the bag. And if programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are severely cut or even eliminated, millions of vulnerable elderly and disabled people will lose the income and medical services they need in order to survive–not to mention the impact taking this money out of the economy will have on nearly every business in the United States, and the employees who work for them.

Anyway, I hope the information I share on topics such as gardening, food preservation, cooking on a budget, and other poverty survival skills will be helpful to my readers.

Buckle up, folks. We are in for a rough ride.