Today I'm calling our dog by his nickname, Daken the Destroyer. I got him a new plushy. He tried to tear its head off today. I sewed it back together & he's having a hard time tearing my seam apart. My hand-sewing is stronger than the original stitches. I like that cute stuffed cat.

I was watching 9-1-1: Nashville for the first time & now the last time. I was working at the hospital the night Hurricane Hugo made a mess of Charlotte. The back-up generator blipped off & on. The medical staff didn't try to fix it, guys who knew what they were doing took care of it. 🙄

If a Democratic president had done something like this, Fox and the GOP would have turned Adriana Camberos into a household name à la Willie Horton or, yes, Hunter Biden. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/u...

I'm so proud of my Congresswoman!!!

Is anyone else having problems with opening #Yahoo? In Firefox I get an error screen & it wants me to unblock something that seems sketchy. I've never needed to allow the .com site that is in the "error-report. If I open Yahoo in Safari, it works fine.

The monks haven't gotten to my house yet, BUT there are a lot more people walking by the house than usual. Daken is going nuts!! I'll put him in his crate soon, because we have a 5pm appointment tonight.

To date, federal funding has covered only about 12% of the total damage Hurricane Helene caused, far less than after other major storms. It’s time for Congress to give western North Carolina its fair share.

A group of Buddhist Monks are doing a "Walk for Peace." They are entering Charlotte today. My daughter just let me know that the Monks will be spending the night at Marion Diehl Recreation Center. It's 2 blocks from my house. I wonder if they'll walk down the sidewalk in front of my house.

I was going to make dinner, but there is a 70 pound dog sleeping in my lap.

My credit card gives me 3% cash back & I MADE $230 IN 2025. That happened because I buy my groceries with my credit card & I PAY MY CREDIT CARD BALANCE EVERY MONTH. I don't pay any interest, since I don't carry a balance. $230 is more than 2 weeks worth of groceries. Maybe you can do it too.

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One of the meteorologists at my local NBC channel is named Majestic Storm. I wonder if that was her birth name, or if she changed it. I don't see her often, because she usually is on early morning news.

It will be inconvenient, but I'll find some local stores to use.

It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.

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Power outage started ~2 pm. Duke Energy's text estimated it would be out for ~4 hrs. 2 hrs later, power was back on. Daken took a nap, while I cooked (gas stove) & cleaned. I learned the joy of having a gas stove when Hurricane Hugo knocked out power for 6 days.

If you like horror movies (and this one has some funny moments in it), James Gunn's 1st movie, Slither, is available on Tubi during December. Nathan Fillion is the male lead of the movie. I'm not usually a horror movie fan, but this one is just funny enough to keep me happy.

There's a Measles epidemic in South Carolina. I'm in my 70s & I had measles, mumps & rubella. Vaccines weren't available for those diseases in the 1950s. In spite of my medical history, when I started my job in the ER lab in 2014 I was given the MMR vaccine. Now I'm glad I got that shot.

How is that comfortable?

Shutting down wind farms that are nearly complete makes absolutely no sense. This irrational hostility toward solar, wind, and battery storage is increasing already high electricity rates. We need more energy fueled by the cheapest sources to keep utility bills affordable.

It's WINTER! Christmas is in 2 days! Charlotte will have a record high on Christmas Eve of 75°F. Christmas Day is will also be ~75°F, but the record high for Christmas is 77°F. NO White Christmas for us. (I think there have only been 3 of those in the last 125 yrs) Hope y'all have a Merry!

If this doesn't motivate you to vote in the Midterms, nothing will.

Just watched Seth Myers from Friday. The part with 47's speech from Wednesday night was my 1st watch of that speech. 47 truly failed at math! You can't lower a price more than 100% 🙄 Seth clarified how far off 47's claims about the economy are. 47 is the LIAR-in-chief.

Anyone who wants to watch A Claymation Christmas, it's free on YouTube. If you don't know what that is, it's an animated Christmas special with HILARIOUS clay creatures singing. It's from 1987. The Carol of the Bells is especially funny.

I don't want to do Christmas. My brain can barely handle normal days. I'm going back to bed.

I hate AI constantly showing up while I'm online. It just isn't worth the money and electricity and the building data centers. Zuckerberg has billions of dollars, so he should foot the bill to build his own electric power generators to run his data centers if he has to have them.

Why does someone outfit their car with a bass speaker that is so LOUD that it actually makes things vibrate inside my house? Then Daken keeps all riled up and barks...... I didn't hear any music, just the bass vibrating. I hate some people.

Scam emails today: 1 Israel email `pretending to be Amazon. 1 from US pretending to be Bit Coin & it had a bill for >$600 for bitcoins. The "bill" included that my PayPal account would be charged. I don't have a PayPal account. 😁 Plus so many emails for giving Tuesday. Wish I had more $$ for that.

I am a BAD dog mom. I have a migraine & Daken's ball had a squeaker in it. When he brought it to me to play fetch, I took it in the kitchen & removed the squeaker. My head could NOT deal with that noise anymore. Sorry, Daken. His other ball's squeaker died a natural death. I wonder that ball is.

Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps. McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay. Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay. See the problem?

Governor Stein brought a check for >$2 million for Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina (that's the Charlotte area) to the Panthers Game. That is awesome!

Son, a chef, did most of the Holiday cooking. Mashed potatoes were unique, fancy, & delicious. Green beans had king oyster mushrooms mixed in. Turkey was perfect. All I had to do was the crescent rolls & dressing. He made chess cake for dessert. 😋 I'm doing clean-up. We have leftovers for days. 😁

Older stepdaughter texted me a picture of younger stepdaughter with the Cabbage Patch Baby she got for Xmas in 1984. Wish I could remember the name of the coworker who had Black Friday off & she bought 2 of those & sold me one. I had to work at the hospital that day.

Today I'm happy that I DO NOT have a paypal account. Got emails about paypal payments that I supposedly have been billed. The invoices listed 3 different guy's name as the person who owes the money. I just sent those emails to my spam folder.

I'm confused. I got a package from Chewy that contained dog food & a toy. I can't find a payment on either of my credit cards & there wasn't a gift note in the box. Daken loves the toy & I'm impressed with how well made the toy is. Daken usually tears them apart in a few minutes. 🤷‍♀️

The actions of the Border Patrol in communities across North Carolina are doing the opposite of keeping us safe.

Strange mail this week for my late hubby: He got mail from Nissan car dealer wondering if he wanted to sell them his Nissan Frontier. We sold it 12 years ago. Today he got a "check" for an "insurance refund" on a 2022 Ford Bronco. I just shredded that. Apparently scammers don't know he's dead.🙄

Son gave me a heads up that he'll be working overtime, because some of his coworkers aren't coming to work because of ICE being in town. Don't know if those guys are illegal, but even the legal Hispanic people are getting arrested by ICE. Son is chef, those coworkers are prep & dishwashers.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

According to local news, ICE broke the window in a guy's truck & dragged him out. He's a naturalized American Citizen. He has physical wounds & his truck needs repairs. This is NOT legal!

I stand in solidarity with the Starbucks workers on strike. When a corporation can pay $96 million to its CEO for just four months of work, it can afford to pay its workers a living wage and decent benefits.

D#MN! Border Control (ICE) is in Charlotte. The agents are in North Charlotte & I live in Southeast Charlotte. Even if they don't come to my area, it's going to cause problems here. Plus, I am NOT happy about the tRump Administration's actions. 🤬

Local Sheriff verified that Border Patrol is coming to Charlotte. My Congresswoman, Alma Adams, released a statement with advice about people's rights.🤞nothing tragic happens. tRump claimed on FOX that food prices are down & Dems are lying about prices. I doubt tRump has EVER bought groceries.

Just in case any of my followers live near a Food Lion grocery store, they have frozen turkeys on sale for $0.99 per pound. I have a chest freezer, so I bought one today. Saved >$20. 😋

I've been using Firefox as my browser for a while. I got fed up with AI being the default resource for searches, because what I got was ads instead of information. So I've gone back to Safari. So far, I'm glad I made the switch.

New Yorkers know how to hit Trump where it hurts: his real estate

Weather is weird!!! We're getting snow flurries❗ The temp is 34°F. The snow evaporates before it hits the ground. Lows tonight in the 20s, and highs on Tuesday in the 40s. BUT we'll be back to highs in the 70s by Friday and through the weekend. WEIRD!

I have a confession. I didn't vote on Tuesday. The 1st time I haven't voted in decades. My brain is fuzzy most of the time now & I forgot to vote. Fortunately, lots of people did vote & I'm happy that my city council district is now represented by a Democrat & there's only 1 GOP City Council member.

Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year. UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year. Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

Hey, Castle fans! Have you seen the announcement that Susan Sullivan is doing a web soap opera? It's on YouTube. Here's the article: daytimeconfidential.com/2025/10/28/f...