I don’t look very Jewish, or so the girl at the table said, so guess I’m lucky there?

Later on (years later) had a fundamentalist Christian at work tell me it was good I’m Jewish because we need to go to Israel to finish the book. (This was awhile ago and exact wording didn’t stick as I was busy working)

She didn’t like it when I said I’m never moving there. Guess it fucks with gods plans if my stupid ass stays in America my entire life.

Maybe They should have planned around that lmao

When I was in high school, I sat down at the lunch table with entirely new people. We get to taking and learning about one another. Topic turns to religion. I’m Jewish. I say as such.

One of the girls looks at me, thoughtfully.

“You don’t have horns like they said you would”

I’m baffled. I’m almost 14 and had only read about people thinking jews had horns in like, old storybooks.

The test of the lunch table fucking goes off on her.

She’s still thinking. “Guess they lied about jews drinking babies blood then?”

I’m stunned. Blood libel? In 2001???

She was a good kid though. Realized it was lies and changed her world view right then. But still. It’s just. Still happening? It sucks.

My stepfather does this irl and it always pisses me off, it’s so rude!

Luckily my cat has realized she does not need to be loud to get attention.

Just flop on the ground and poof! Humans fawn over her.

Just far away! Don’t think it’s changed with any of the patches. I remember it being quite some distance, but my memory is poor.

It sounds very tasty, as cheese and chili are both delicious!

The sound inside my very loving but very slow cats head is the gentle hum of a space heater. Or maybe a soft spring breeze.

I sent an email thanking them for making Sid Meier’s Pirates! and they sent an email back thanking me for my interest and that no new game was planned. Which…wasn’t my email, but still very sad!

He can get married. To another “adult disabled since childhood” which I’m not. Otherwise he loses ssdi and medicare/medicaid. I’d have to support him yes, which I can’t right now.

Something similar happened to my husband about 20 years ago. He has ssdi, and can only work a certain amount of hours a month. He tried one month to see if he could do full time work. Nope, impossible.

And so gets kicked off ssdi, and had to fight to get back on it. And they charged him for being on it…by deducting the money he now ‘owed’ them from the new ssdi. It was stupid.

The laws in place are also why my husband is husband in name only. If we ever actually got married, goodbye everything keeping him alive! It sucks.

Soda or another liquid that is bad for me. For food, I was generally in charge of food so if I made food, it was themed! I have the Song of Ice and Fire cookbook, and when we played that system I made food from there.

I’m so happy there is a chickenpox vaccine! I was at the edge of that, getting it before it was available. It was hell.

It was more hell for my mother who had never gotten chickenpox as a child. So had it as an adult. Agony! And have to deal with sick twins!

I wasn’t looking directly at him and had fogged eyeglasses (major drawback of masks, how dare they and glasses do that) so it was overall weird!

I like wearing a mask, I don’t get told to smile anymore

Wait no

One guy did tell me to smile more when I had a mask on. I stared at him. Baffled. He seemed to realize he was being stupid and just fucking booked it.

Loved reading that subreddit when it first appeared, it was interesting to see it sometimes just hit the mark with whatever nonsense it came up with.

We certainly weren’t expecting it to be delivered in person! Amazingly the letter also covered the next year if he had had to go back to the hospital (I think in case there were complications, which insect bites generally don’t have, but this was meant to cover a lot in case)

Most hospitals will remove the cost entirely if you are uninsured and make under a certain amount.

Example. My husband recently (…okay, 2 years ago, but the passage of time hurts) had to go to the hospital, and be admitted for, an infected insect bite. No cost on admittance. Had to stay a few days to be on ivs.

Over the course of the next few months we get the bills. Which we can’t pay. But we have the number for the part of the hospital that can lower the costs.

We give them all the information, then wait.

One day a lady drives up to our place, hands my husband a piece of paper saying he owes the hospital nothing, then leaves. It was surreal.

I’m very lucky chubby cat accepts all her fates with quiet confusion, including being placed into a carrier and being at the vet.

Her brain just lags so much by the time she’s processed the indignity she’s onto something else she must now process quietly.

Seems bad for me, being a twin.

Or bad for my twin

I forget which of us is evil currently

The best game for it! Widescreen honking at its finest! Really feel you are in that village, being chased by a horrible goose!

Honk honk honk honk!