Lot of little things on the horizon rn

Aunt Dottie starting to get riled up again, emailed me and called me and left a VERY long text message

Sergio's mom acting like nothing is wrong!!! ever!!! why don't I want to reach out to her for a hug on my birthday?????

Talking with Sergio a bit about finances, things like that. We're in a very good position to weather a lot of things (barring anything that would cause a freeze in bank accounts but we've started pulling a little cash at a time)

And I was talking with him about maybe putting a fund together for people we know who might need stuff in the future (you guys for rent/meds/food, my cousins who have green cards, friends who are LGBT+, have interracial marriages, etc., etc)

Fun times on the SSRI front with Kennedy going like "Yeah we're gonna make it so if anyone wants to get off SSRIs, they can go to a 'wellness camp'"

Somebody took the 'concentration camp' meme far too seriously. I'm not TOO worried about running out of anti-depressants because I think Big Pharma is gonna pull funding and they'll backtrack

Serg and me talk daily, checking in about how each other feels. We're in this for the long haul

I go down research rabbit holes a lot out of curiosity's sake and laughed when I saw "hey if we were THEORETICALLY (never going to happen, we have a house and my older mom and a kid and pets and friends and relatives, and and and) going to move countries, where might we go?"

I could theoretically get on a digital nomad visa but Sergio couldn't because his job requires him to work on roads in the US. Sergio could get to Italy but I couldn't. I could get to Israel (...yay) but he couldn't. Kid couldn't do shit. Mom I guess is here forever.

Anyway. It wasn't a serious thing, it just made me giggle.

I'm falling back also on humor a lot

Here's one that made me giggle;

Why won't the republicans impeach Trump?

They believe on carrying a baby to full term

Anyway I looked at Sergio going like "....I don't want to leave this country. I'm american. I think all I'll ever be is american. good, bad ugly. I can't imagine going anywhere else."

And he agreed and we hugged it out

you two are very excellent, and I'm sorry we all have to live through this hellscape

you know, it's weird, all my life I've felt like an American, first and last, I've never really felt like a Californian, even though I was born here and lived here my entire life, but the last few years I've been so insanely happy to live here. That Californian pride has been late blooming, but it sure is a thing

Yeah, exactly. I’ve just been an American always. Lately I’ve been hearing “New Englander” more often to encompass the north east and that makes me happy too

Same with Washington, like. We did so good keeping our state the way we want it this election and I am proud of us a little that we denied a bunch of bullshit this election.

yes, good

so long as too many more crazies don't move to eastern Washington you're fairly good there too

Eastern washington is basically idaho, we don't go there

yeeeeah

there are some good people there, I know some of them /waves at komikbookgeek but not enough of them

ahaha you know i've been Minnesotan first in my head for a long time. american only when i talk about my native roots but mostly just Iron range minnesotan.

I've always known a lot of people really identify with their states, but I absolutely never did until recently

I've moved states too much to identify with a state. But my Sis and I had a talk about how we feel American and this is our home and we don't really want to leave. (Sis is in the process of getting a UK passport because we're eligible through our father and she wants it for Just-In-Case but doesn't really want to leave.)

(...Plus the UK is going through it's own things.)

yeeeah

I need to see about getting a Canadian passport, for just in case, though it'll be a lot of hoops to jump through

yeah, I feel extremely fortunate to live in Massachusetts, but also, it should be safe to be queer ANYWHERE in this damn country.

I also think MA is going to be better off than most states if health insurance law gets fucked with

the ACA was based in part on Massachusetts state insurance

I need to get back on a better budget so I'll also have some emergency funds to offer

grateful massholes unite

look into local survival centers too. both for resources and to volunteer your time

California keeps talking about going single payer, so I have some hope