Another swim meet weekend. Warmups at 7:30am, first race start at 8:45am, second race at 10:55am and third at 12:20pm. Cooldown, byebyes, shakes and fries with friends at the St James means not gonna be home before 2pm. Repeat again tomorrow. Glad A is taking first half of it while I do second half.
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It’s been interesting to observe how completely out of news Pete Buttigieg has gone. There was a time where he was a regular on Fox News, and even after the election he seemed to be a strong voice against Trump – and then suddenly he seems to have gone away. I won’t blame him if he has decided its not worth raising red flags as a gay person but I wish he had the aggressiveness of Pritzker or Newsom coz he’s the one person who I think also has the charisma of Mamdani in conveying the same information. I won’t blame him if he feels this is not worth it but god I want to see more of Pete, and more aggressive Pete.
Yesterday I was missing my mom a lot in evening. I was by myself when A had taken her parents out to mall and R was at swim. I was eating a yummy dinner that my MIL cooked in afternoon and it stuck me suddenly that I don’t quite remember how my own mom’s home cooked food tasted like. I remember it in my brain but I just had that intense desire to feel that taste again in my mouth. And it just made me sad thinking about it – the last time I had mom’s cooking was in 2010, 6 months before she passed away. You never really get over grief of losing a parent.
It’s amazing how republicans are able to create hyper local targeted advertising while all democrats can do is trump trump trump. Today on YouTube the Republican attorney general candidate ad came on, which started with an abduction attempt at a local mall not more than 5 miles from my house and then explained why this AG is better choice on crime. This immediately followed by democrat AG video about how he will stand up to… Trump. We get it. That’s the bare minimum dude at this point, but you really ought to be negating the Republican with hyper local ad of your own.
Also, I think my dog is a republican. The planned parenthood lady wanted to pet him so I opened the door and asked him to come outside. The motherfucker instead stood at the door, and then started barking at her. Whatever the fuck? A golden retriever, a human fucking magnet decided to bark at the stranger.
Because we have no house-help unlike India we know how to optimize our utensils usage so by end of the when we run the dishwasher its not overflowing. Plus, less things to wash! But this is not something India folks are used to, including my in-laws since they have so much help with all of that. The result is that by mid-day our sink is already full of utensils ready to be washed. Its not uncommon for us to run the dishwasher twice daily now, and that is with my mother in laws hand washing some stuff herself (which we forbid her to – I mean, why else do we have a dishwasher in first place!).
My FIL is giving my backyard/sideyard/frontyard a make over that I would have spent thousands if not hundreds of dollars on. Grateful for it. It keeps him busy and brings the farmer in him out so he is entertained, and my yard is getting the makeover it really needs. Win-win for all!
What would I not give to watch Sangam 2 featuring Melania torn between two warmongers Trump and a Putin on each side of continent. This love triangle has makings of an all time blockbuster. Imagine Putin crooning “yeh mera prem patra padhkar” or Trump serenading “dost dost na raha….”. Oof take my money already!
I caught clips of the debate between Winsome (R) and Spanberger (D) for VA governor elections. My god Winsome was insanely annoying and basically created a ruckus. But Spanberger, OMG, I’d rather watch paint dry. Like bring SOME. FUCKING. FIRE to the room. When the other candidate has completely gone wild, not allowing you to speak a single word, nor anyone can understand a single word – its time for you to bring your aggressive side out and shut her up. Instead she looked like a school girl in distress being bullied nonstop and all she could do was just answer the question. And then fucking them too – like Jesus way to throw Jay Jones under the bus. Really? voters should make a call on whether to vote for Jones (D) as AG. You fucking realize that Miyares (R) the current AG is a fucking nightmare. The only reason Spanberger may even win this election is maybe because of some anti-Trump feelings, but my god she is terrible.
My manager and I had a long impromptu 1:1 talking about kids, right wing extremism and all the shit right now around us. It feels truly upsetting. He was talking about how just 30 miles from here he was in a bar last week and folks that you’d normally think as regular people were cheering about all the H1b and anti-immigration checks that Trump is doing. Back home, his own teenage son is somehow being dragged into mansosphere and he does not know where he is getting all his ideas from. His son thinks trans kids are a menace to society and nobody should hang around them. I shared about a lot of immigrant concerns I have but also told him about rise of right wing in India and anti-muslim sentiments even within Indians here. I don’t think our 1:1 was supposed to be this, but it was a nice chat with a white parent who is clearly concerned about what is going on here. We both agreed that this country is beyond the point of no return and we doesn’t see any hope anymore.