three day weekend
May. 30th, 2023 01:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
evilePretty lazy weekend. Got a mammogram. Got red light therapy & signed up for a limited membership (4 visits/month for about $40), did a load of dishes, took the dogs to the dog park once, saw Guardians of the Galaxy 3--first time in a movie theatre since 2019 with the exception of going to see a classic movie with a friend and maybe 8 other people in a big theatre that he'd rented out for his bday...I think that was 2020 or 2021?. A friend had a book release party Saturday at a venue in Pflugerville, but by the time I remembered about it, I was exhausted and in Pjs. Another friend invited us to happy hour on Monday, but I didn't muster up the oomph to attend.
I had thought about maybe going to bull creek park or city park in San Marcos with the dogs but didn't do it. It was pretty lazy. Oh, and I swept and mopped the kitchen and dining room floors.
bad dreams over the weekend--alien invasion, end of the world, some other negative stuff I don't really remember. blecch.
Thax's office is moving at the end of June, they will be offering a big severance if he decides not to move us to Salt Lake City to continue working for them. (we aren't moving to SLC) I talked him into taking a couple of weeks off at the beginning of July to visit family in Oklahoma and Indiana. I am flailing on planning out how that's going to go, deciding where we're going to stay along the way, etc. I used to be very good at planning things and such but the pandemic just killed that part of me dead. .. I'm having a hard time reviving my planning-fu. And, I guess, part of it too is that I worry he might get a job that won't be cool with him travelling for 2 wks in July....meh. uncertainty messes me up.
I had thought about maybe going to bull creek park or city park in San Marcos with the dogs but didn't do it. It was pretty lazy. Oh, and I swept and mopped the kitchen and dining room floors.
bad dreams over the weekend--alien invasion, end of the world, some other negative stuff I don't really remember. blecch.
Thax's office is moving at the end of June, they will be offering a big severance if he decides not to move us to Salt Lake City to continue working for them. (we aren't moving to SLC) I talked him into taking a couple of weeks off at the beginning of July to visit family in Oklahoma and Indiana. I am flailing on planning out how that's going to go, deciding where we're going to stay along the way, etc. I used to be very good at planning things and such but the pandemic just killed that part of me dead. .. I'm having a hard time reviving my planning-fu. And, I guess, part of it too is that I worry he might get a job that won't be cool with him travelling for 2 wks in July....meh. uncertainty messes me up.
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Date: 2023-05-31 03:00 pm (UTC)Hugs for your hubby's job stuff. His quitting is less upheaval than moving y'all to SLC, but it is still upheaval that impacts you.
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Date: 2023-05-31 03:40 pm (UTC)And SLC is like Austin in that it's a blueberry in a sea of blood. And Utah may be marginally less bloodthirsty and evil than Texass. But, still, not ideal. We don't see much of local friends/relatives as it is, so SLC would make that even rarer. And it's nowhere near driving distance of a beach or cruise port, which is something I was surprised to find that Thax values.
I heard a thing on NPR this morning that I can't find again, an interview with a woman who runs some kind of homeless outreach think tank, about her opinion on a tech douchebro think tank piece that advocates rounding up homeless people into 'tent cities' or perhaps 'internment camps' aka 'concentration camps'..and of course the advocate lady was all like 'that's just a terrible idea'...but I've heard/read other pieces on how the 'homelesss problem' is basically a big front for various grifters to set up various agencies and skim off a ton of Government $$$ off the top for executive salaries, while paying their front-facing workers poverty wages and not actually doing much for actual homeless people. I don't know what the solution is. How do you fix greed/grift/human awfulness? Most institutions and agencies that are set up to 'help' the 'poor' just end up soaking up most of the money for administration/oversight/executive perks.
OK, that was a big side track, but when the country you live in starts doing concentration camps (they already did it to migrants and migrant kids)... maybe it's time to GET THE FUCK OUT. But I still can't convince my husband maybe we need to abandon this shithole place before some redneck motherfucker decides it's time to kill us. :/