Superbowl Sunday and I have to write a blog
Superbowl Sunday and I have to write a Blog …
Well here I sit, in between writing and revising chapters in my book.. it is Sunday and I need to write a blog. Usually, they just come to me but not lately. My real life has been interfering with my time to myself. This is probably because of the new man in my life, well not new, we are into our second year already. A Valentine’s dinner and dance last night and Mardi Gras in Old Town Yuma Friday evening and shoot… where is the time disappearing to?
I’m retired and not young anymore but this man of mine is still working and is younger than me. I guess I should be grateful and I am because he works the graveyard shift, I can sleep in any morning I want. I love sleeping in, and my naps, and that’s a problem. He is ready to emerge at 1:00 pm and that is my naptime! If he needs to be out later in the evening like last night then he needs to sleep in the afternoon as well. Enough of that I guess, we will work it out eventually. Old people’s problems lol.
What’s bugging me though is not this relationship, which is still a joy, it’s my feelings about what’s going on here in this adopted country I’m living in. I am loathe to talk about politics here in the southern part of the states for obvious reasons, but it is just so intense. Everyone has guns here and that bothers me a lot as well. I feel relatively safe but I’m not gonna lie, this presidential election coming up is very heated and dividing, and omg.. How can I not be worried?
It doesn’t help that Putin is still trying to kill everyone in Ukraine or that Israel is at war. I think that’s what is stressing me the most. As a mom and a nana, I worry so much about what is going to happen in the very near future and my being here doesn’t help. I know it is stupid and there’s nothing I can do but… but why can’t I shake it off? If something happens (and sorry, but I’m thinking of another world war) I want to die in my own country!
Omg… look what appeared outta nowhere! This must have been percolating in the back of my mind all this time because here it is… out on my page. I wonder if anyone else is feeling this way. Is this because I’m down here away from home and missing my kids? The drama between the ex-president and the current one is real here, and I gotta tell ya, if that ex-president gets back in, that little nuclear button may be our downfall. I wish I was kidding but I’m not. I’m loathe to write about this but I have to.
I don’t think our world is safe anymore and NATO coming together and exercising the biggest show of military exercises ever, in the North Atlantic and Europe is not very reassuring. Thank God for NATO though, at least our forefathers had the foresight to draw like-minded countries together to ally against those countries wanting to kill our freedom and keep dictatorships alive.
We all know Russia is the largest country in the world by a long shot, and yet they are not satisfied with what they have. We (Canada) are the second largest country in the world, will we be on Russia’s wish list next? They are just over the north pole from us and have re-enforced and equipped their northernmost outposts in recent years.
We need strong leadership in North America if we are going to survive and live in peace. That’s a fact and maybe I needed to spit that fact out. I’m hoping for the best but I know if this election goes the wrong way… I can’t even imagine what that will be like. Good versus evil… I need to have faith. There is nothing I can do and that is maybe why I feel so helpless.
We need to envision the whole world and how one country can make or break it!
There I spit that out and I feel better already. Going forward I’m going to make an effort to be positive that my adopted country will make the right decision. We need to come together to live in peace and fight evil wherever it rears its ugly head. We need to remember that helping other countries like ourselves keep evil at bay is for the good of us all. But we also need to be aware of evil in our own leaders… remember the story of the wolf in sheep’s clothing…
That is all from me, sorry for the doom and gloom.
February 12th 2024
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Happy Superbowl