😎 The Year of Laughter

What’s in your “Go Bag”? The bag you fill with stuff when running out of your home to flee a disaster. Watching the news, everyone losing their homes, losing everything, you can’t help but think, what would I take? Paperwork regarding the mortgage and bills, pictures, jewelry, my sheets, some clothes and paintings. That’s it!

After my dad passed, and we moved my mom to assisted living, we were left with an entire house to clean out. And once you’ve been through that, you come to the realization you don't need so much stuff! A billion photo albums, boxes of photos, closets full of clothes, coats, endless furniture, china, bric-a-brac. My three siblings and I wanted almost nothing. We all have our own places already filled with our own stuff! So, I grabbed some art. Now when I look at the paintings, it reminds me of my folks, my childhood. It's enough. I have enough!

That’s why I’ve never really understood huge houses? Not judging, just never been able to relate. Large spaces you don't need? Filled with stuff you don't need. But I can relate to loving your home more than anything. I love mine so much that I never want to leave it. I don't love it because of the way it looks, or how grand it is, or even the tiny details, I love it because it's mine and makes me feel safe. I’m so sorry to all those who’ve lost their safe spaces.

Speaking of useless stuff, there’s so many useless thoughts stuffing my brain that we need to discuss.

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Useless Thoughts

Blake, Angelina Amber, Meghan! Believe women! Of course, I believe women! But do I believe all women? Hell no! Just like I don't hate all men. It depends on the person. If the person shows up to be a psycho, I’m not going to believe them and take their side, just because they’re a woman. That makes zero sense. So, people saying believe BLAKE LIVELY because she’s a woman is the dumbest argument I’ve ever heard. Marjorie Taylor Green’s a woman too. Should I believe her? Blake using sexual harassment as her go to, to take down Justin Baldoni is gross and just ruins it for women who are truly harassed at work. Blake selling her cancer-causing poison to promote her movie about domestic abuse is shameful and disgusting. Having a billion dollars wasn’t enough for Blake and Ryan, so they BOTH launched alcohol brands? Alcohol which is now linked to cancer and yes, abuse! It’d be like Taylor Swift selling her own brand of cigarettes. That would be weird don't you think? Wake up! It's the same damn thing!

Speaking of not believing everything you read, a WOMAN IN FRANCE was scammed out of her life savings, catfished, after being duped into believing BRAD PITT was in love with her and they were in a romantic relationship while continuously hitting her up for money. He’d send the most pathetically bad photoshopped pictures of Brad in a hospital bed! See here. Bless her heart! So sad! Poor woman. Well now really poor woman.😢

This is a perfect time to discuss critical thinking. WE MUST ALL be aware that everything you see and read is not necessarily true. That’s why it’s very important to put your critical thinking cap on at all times. Keep this cap close. Have it handy, nearby always. I’m not suggesting that you live your life paranoid, or be a conspiracy theorist, actually, just the opposite! Use the tiny computer that’s stuck to your hand to not just read headlines from your algorithm but also read news from all sources. Fact check your thoughts and views. I do it every day. It’s very freeing.

When Brad Pitt texts you, ask yourself why is Brad Pitt texting ME? Find out more! When The New York Times published their hit piece on Justin Buldoni, at first I was like, wow, he sucks! The journalist who wrote the article, Megan Twohey had previously won a Pulitzer prize for her breaking Harvey Weinstein #MeToo article, which she researched and worked on for YEARS before publishing, with endless interviews, research, fact checking. Exactly what you’d expect from a New York Times article. But the Blake article, by the same journalist, the same paper, had edited misinformation and facts unchecked, and was thrown together in a hurry and printed. I put my critical thinking cap on and asked, In what world does The New York Times post a one-sided gossip story you’d see on the cover of the Enquirer? This new one! This new world we live in where truth is up for grabs for clicks! UGH!!!! So disappointed in The New York Times for forcing my hand, having to add them to the list of feeds I need to second guess, like they’re the friggin Daily Mail! And I get it, who wants to go through all this to just know the truth? For me, it's easy, I was born a fact checker, it's part of me. I can do it for you, if needed. Let me know!

Jessicas dropping their breakups to the press while Los Angeles is on fire. JESSICA SIMPSON and JESSICA ALBA are both getting divorced, putting it all out there while no one is paying attention. Smart move! Hollywood is so Hollywood, even when on fire!

There’s literally nothing funny about the fires except knowing that JENNIFER LOPEZ donated clothes and shoes from her closet to victims and sorry, but picturing our old family friend, who lost her home 😞 and is in her 80s, puttering around in JLO’s clear stiletto hooker heels…

You guys the next time you get my newsletter TRUMP will be President! Wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! 😭 Isn't that so weird to think?! After everything he did on January 6th, all the court cases, the sexual abuse case, encouraging the hanging of Mike Pence, lying about cats and dogs, lying about almost everything, hes our POTUS again?! I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I won't be watching the news for the next four years. During the Los Angeles fires, I couldn't turn the news off. I was obsessed. I needed updates every second, but the minute the news would turn to Trump, I’d change the channel. I don't want to hear any of it. I’ll get my news from Jimmy Kimmel’s monologues and Real Time with Bill Maher. That’s it. No critical thinking cap! Truth doesn't matter to this administration, so why look for it? I’m not sitting through more “impeachments.” I don't need to see the pain and suffering of innocent people and innocent animals that I’m sure will be occurring endlessly over the next four years.

Which reminds me of a quote often attributed to Benjamin Franklin:

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

— Benjamin Fanklin

So I’m going to work really hard on being stupid and avoiding reality!

You won't see me attending Trump’s Inauguration with Mark, Elon, Jeff etc., but you totally know there’ll be a shit ton of funny memes about it. Those I’ll look at and laugh. I’m going with laughter! I choose laughter. 2025 the year of laughter…. I can’t! 🙈

Until next time folks!

And…Sorry you can’t unread this!

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