@Renegade Sewist Hi thanks for asking! Hope all is well with you - though I know that's not completely possible right now.
Still at Mom&Dads, still depressed, still bored, as of 1/6 anxiety levels thru the roof - and out of Xanax.
Dr Appt on Monday, so its Pinot Grigio til then. Don't anyone worry - no more than 1 to 2 glasses per day and none yesterday. Last thing I need is NOT to be able to drink a glass when I need to! And the storm brewing right now.....probably need to pick up a bit extra when I'm out.
I was watching Youtube when the Riot started -unaware of the trouble. Woman I was watching was reporting a lawsuit of interest to me. Left youtube to fact check her (3-4 minutes?) and returned to watch her video again as the facts checked out. Her entire channel was deleted!
My "thoughts" are so middle of the road and firmly implanted in the Liberal Zone. Would love to see a certain person disappear from view - even though my selection went his way. But no matter what, our First Amendment rights are being obliterated! I informed my Dad of this Wednesday evening, and since the info was coming from me, I and It was stupid. I've also been telling him for months that major corporations are running the show - and he calls me a conspiracy theorist - this from a hard leaning right wing retired cop!
You should have seen his face Saturday evening when a professional, well known highly successful MALE journalist began discussing the current situation. With his eyes wide open, and his mouth hanging, Dad said, "My God, he's saying EVERYTHING you've been saying for months!"
I have tried to write this post as "a-politically" as I can while trying to explain how middle-of-the-road I am. I DO NOT want to start a political conversation here - TSP is a refuge for me and others. It is so impossible to find civility in this day and age.
Moderators please leave this post as is. Renegade Sewist and I have been here before - we watched as vitriol from both sides destroyed another sewing site.
Anyone wanting to make any comments - Please - PM me - NOTHING will hurt my feelings. If a few of us want to chat as a group we'll work something out somewhere else.
Terrorism, wars, covid, lost in the woods at night, drugged and assaulted - NOTHING has frightened me more than seeing our right to free speech taken away.
MSN has been dropping all right leaning emails into my spam folder for several months. I get it - though fundraising for a sitting President seemed like overreach IMO. BUT out of the blue -1 and only 1 email from a sewing group member was dumped there. I receive TONS of emails from this group. That seemed strange enough, but then to my surprise, for the first time ever, the TSP notification for RenSew's mention to me -went to spam. They've always gone to my box before. Could be coincidental timing and a fluke - OR - Am I not supposed to communicate across the pond?
I don't know.
Everyone stay safe and try to remain positive -even though I'm finding it hard to do with tears blurring my vision and rolling down my cheeks.