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bitchlog · 5 months

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Unhoused

I remember it like it was yesterday. My kids were at a tennis clinic at one of the local clubs. They had played there for years; and while we never joined as members, the club was making a cool $650 a month from us in lessons, clinics, and other fees, spread out between my two, oldest kids. Two, older gentlemen walked out of the clubhouse, and found a seat to watch their grandkids play in the…

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bitchlog · 8 months

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I'm Running For Office Again. It's Going About How You'd Expect.

I’m just kidding. Or maybe I’m not, I don’t know. Everywhere you look, for years now, you see people calling on the public to run for office. Something! Anything! There’s even an organization called “Run for Something,” and a lot of others that are variations of it. The idea is that people can, and should, be a part of the change they want to see in their communities. And to be clear: I totally…

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#county #Democrats #election #election 2024 #government #lifestyle #mom #Mom Life #politician #politics #public administration #Republicans #run for office #Ventura County

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bitchlog · 11 months

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I Feel Like I Have Something Profound To Say...

… except, I don’t. Look. I’m sure that I am incredibly late to the game on this revelation. But I’m going through a midlife crisis, and as such I have been reflecting a lot on exactly what I’m doing with my own life. Where am I? What’s next? What have I missed out on? The truth is that I have missed out on a lot. Maybe there’s still time for those things, maybe not. But that’s not what I’ve…

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#blogging #fit in #Internet #life #lifestyle #midlife crisis #Mom Life #random thoughts #satire #school #social commentary #social medai #social media #vlog #vlogging #writing

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bitchlog · 1 year

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Mama Always Said 'Moving Three Times Is Like Surviving a House Fire'

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bitchlog · 1 year

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The Only Way Out Of This Is Within

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, blissfully unaware of your surroundings and current events, you know the tenuousness in the air right now. It doesn’t matter if you live in the Midwest, the East Coast, or in a coastal city in California, like I do: everyone feels it. The world is, for lack of a more eloquent phrase, on edge. It could be the escalating tensions across the world surrounding…

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#book #book blog #book review #collection of essays #coming soon #essays #existential thirst trap #humor #life #lifestyle #literary review #literature #parenting #robert dean #satire #social commentary

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bitchlog · 1 year

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2022: The Year of the Slumlord

Those of you that have been following along for this entire year know that my family has gone through some… well, insecure housing. I will sum it up here, but will also link back to the other posts, in case you want to do a deep dive. The insecurity is of no fault of our own – my husband has a good job, and a side gig; we are responsible, pay our bills on time. We do not make unreasonable…

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#California #class war #home #housing #housing crisis #landlords #law #legal #life #lifestyle #middle class #parenting #renters #renters rights #renting #slumlords #social commentary #tenants #tenants rights

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bitchlog · 2 years

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The Newsletter: Issue #17

Ugh. Around the World The Queen died! I get it: everyone has a different relationship with the tabloid family. The memes, of course, have been amazing and on point. The British were colonizers, I think we all need to remember that. But I also can accept that a lot of people have a complex relationship with GB, and also many family that way so… if you’re sad, I’m sorry. If you’re glad, well…

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bitchlog · 2 years

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The Newsletter: Issue #16: We Need To Get Our Heads On Straight Here, Folks

I don’t typically title my newsletters, but for some reason this one felt necessary. For the last several days, the news cycle, and my own interactions with regards to it, have been a complete de-evolution into absurdism. Yes, I’m talking about Biden. Yes, I’m talking about Trump. Yes, I’m talking about the ongoing pandemicS. Yes, I’m talking about all of it. We need to get our heads on…

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bitchlog · 2 years

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Today Was An Absolute Dumpster Fire. In A Succession of Dumpster Fire Days.

Last Sunday, my kids and I went to get ice cream and the ice cream had been broken down for the night at three local ice cream spots. I quipped that the week was going to be bad, and I could just feel it. We then proceeded to have 9 successive dumpster fire days with one problem after another. Last week I wrote about how it all started with my dad falling at Home Depot, to be clear Home Depot’s…

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#dark satire #life #random thoughts #random update #social commentary #update

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bitchlog · 2 years

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The Newsletter: Issue #15

A week ago, a friend messaged me late on Friday. She said “we made it through to the weekend!” And I was like “I mean yeah except those pesky kids and all their bullshit.” Well folks, here we are on a Friday: you made it. You made it through the week. That is if you aren’t a parent, or you aren’t working odd jobs, odd hours, or multiple jobs. But nevertheless… you made it. So let’s get to this…

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bitchlog · 2 years

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I Am Not a Caretaker

For those of you that have been around for a while, you know that my 79 year old father lives in our home. There is often a misperception that this means I am his caretaker; and oftentimes, that misperception comes from him or what he presents to others, in particular his doctors. In reality: he expected to live far less time than he has, his corporate retirement package from Sears was…

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bitchlog · 2 years

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The Newsletter: Issue #14

This has been a weird week, for me personally and for the world. If you don’t think it’s weird, you are likely in the position of being both simultaneously privileged and unknowingly oppressed. Welcome to Capitalism. Around the World So how about that Trump raid? I’m still weeding through all the details on why Mar-a-Lago was raided, and what the potential or definitive consequences of it will…

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bitchlog · 2 years

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This Is Living With COVID

A few days ago, I had an acute allergic reaction to either something I ate, or something blowing in the back window of our house. Many of you all remember, we recently moved from a mold-infested hell hole, so my body is still recovering and attempting to reduce the level of extreme inflammation that comes of living under those types of conditions. So… a bad allergic reaction was bound to…

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#biden administration #covid #COVID 19 #dark satire #disability #get vaccinated #government #life #lifestyle #living with covid #long covid #pandemic #politics #public health #public policy #random thoughts #social commentary

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bitchlog · 2 years

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The Newsletter: Issue #13

Welp, it isn’t Friday the 13th, but it’s Friday and this is newsletter issue #13, and I also am pretty sure I saw a ghost yesterday, so let’s call this all a sign. A sign of what though? Not sure. We’ll get to the ghost in a minute… Around the World So … monkeypox, huh? Monkeypox has largely taken the stage, while COVID and its variants continue to absolutely ravage the world. The United…

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bitchlog · 2 years

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Get Your Germs Away From My Ass

<CONTENT WARNING: THIS ONE IS SWEARY> We’re at the find out portion of the fuck around era, and I am not here for any of it. Get your germs away from my ass, both figuratively and literally. I thought we were getting to higher ground with the pandemic. Sure, things are kind of a still a shit show, but there is literally nothing left for the anti-COVID idiots to complain about, what with…

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bitchlog · 2 years

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And Just Like That, I'm Back Home

And Just Like That, I’m Back Home

I haven’t posted on here in well over a month – not a matter of writer’s block or dearth of content, but the fact that we moved. Back home. Not to the home from which our landlords cruelly and callously terminated our lease at the beginning of the year (after years of dutifully paying rent monthly in full and on time, and taking prodigious care of their home as if it were our own). But a few…

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#dark satire #family #housing #housing crisis #life #lifestyle #morality #moving #philosophy #politics #renting #satire #social commentary

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bitchlog · 2 years

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I May As Well Live In a Garbage Dump At This Point

I don’t know, things are getting a little harried around here. We basically live in a dumpster. All we need is a fire, and it’ll be just peachy: a metaphorical and literally version of my life since that fateful day, back in January, when our landlord terminated our lease to give the place we had lovingly called home for years, to a friend. I’ve provided you guys with plenty of updates, the most…

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#California #capitalism #dark satire #habitability #housing #housing crisis #housing market #landlords #life #lifestyle #real estate #rental #renting #slumlords #social commentary

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