The Days and Nights of Catherine Evermore

This is Florida. This is hurricane season.

I’ve lived this life for nearly my entire life.

As we wait for updates about Elsa, predicted to hit this area on Wednesday, I’m remembering 2004.

That was the year we were hit by two hurricanes and two tropical storms. There wasn’t one place in the entire state of Florida that didn’t get pounced on that year.

It was during a tropical storm and a hurricane that my father passed away.

A tree fell on Dad’s house shortly after he had passed away. It took out the power and phone lines.

Dad’s passing took the life out of our family.

Had it not been for the kindness of friends and a few strangers, I don’t know how we would have survived that year.

As we entered September, more storms hit Florida. It seemed never-ending.

Today, I worry about flooding. The river has been known to rise so high that it spills over into the streets and neighborhoods. I’ve seen it. I’ve heard about neighbors being rescued by boat just a few blocks over.

God help us all. God protect us all.

P.S. The good news is that I got to cancel my dreaded doctor’s appointment set for tomorrow.

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“I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.”
― Anne Lamott

I’ve been up since 3:30 a.m. Waited for the sun to come up so I could go to the “vampire” lab and get blood work done for one of the three doctors who want my blood tested every 3 or 4 or 6 months.

My veins are small. They collapse. It’s a pain for me and the person drawing my blood. This morning, the nurse had to draw blood from both arms.

I’m sick of this crap!

Next week, when I see my doctor, we are going to have a “come to Jesus meeting” about all these freakin’ office visits and lab work.

If these doctors would share with one another then we could cut the crap. But, they don’t share.

I’m telling you, this old broad is at the end of her rope.

It’s not just this lab work stuff that has me going. Other stuff, too.

Never thought I would say this, but the day I have my doctor’s appointment is the same day we might get hit by a tropical storm.

I’m pulling for the storm!

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There was a time when I watched all of the Sunday morning political shows. My favorite was Tim Russert’s show ‘Meet the Press.’ Sadly, it was taken over by the nutjob whatshisname after Tim Russert passed away. I’ve not watched ‘Meet the Press’ since then.

This morning, I decided to watch Chris Wallace on Fox. Oh my! That was one huge mistake.

One of the things I have noticed about Chris Wallace is that he’s soft when interviewing Democrats, but he’s combative when interviewing Republicans. After 15 minutes of his nonsense, I turned off the TV. It’s just not worth it anymore.

Defund the police is always in the news. The Democrats want to cut back on police funding and hire more social workers. Really?

If I’m being robbed or attacked, the last person I want to call is a social worker. I want a badass police officer coming to my rescue. Since I don’t have a gun, I want a badass police officer to shoot the criminal if that’s the only way to stop the criminal.

As a survivor of a violent crime that put three men in prison, I don’t care about talking a criminal out of committing a crime. I want a criminal dealt with swiftly and harshly. Shooting the criminal would be my first choice.

With Democrats refusing to prosecute the criminals of last summer, I’ve lost faith in our justice system in Democrat controlled cities. Just look at Chicago, home of Obama. How did that work out for the good people of Chicago? Not very well.

Fortunately for me, I live in a red city in a red state. We are safe for now. That could all change next year if Republicans kowtow to the mob.

Somehow, I don’t think that is going to happen.

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One of the nice things about owning my own website is that I get to bitch about whatever my little heart desires. If people don’t like it, too bad.

Move on!

I read Breitbart News on a daily basis. Some of the articles are of great interest while others are just headlines that I pass over.

Move on!

This one, for instance, has pissed me off. Truth is that anything about Creepy Joe Biden pisses me off, but this one is just plain batshit crazy.

“Tracy Stone-Manning, President Joe Biden’s nominee to be director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), described American children as an “environmental hazard” while advocating for slowing U.S. population growth in her 1992 graduate thesis.”

It’s a bit hard to move on from that kind of headline, but that’s exactly what I did because it scared the crap out of me. Anyone who believes that American children are an “environmental hazard” needs to be locked up in an insane asylum.

Joe Biden needs to retract this nominee. However, we all know Joe isn’t in his right frame of mind these days and probably doesn’t know he nominated this insane woman.

I’m not moving on from calling out crazy Joe Biden.

No siree!

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