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Yes! They did have that burger and it was really good! It was so good to see the family! Here is a picture of Haley and I. She has dyed her hair yet again!
The Coffee House-Come & Chat With Us! (June 2020)
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Yes! They did have that burger and it was really good! It was so good to see the family! Here is a picture of Haley and I. She has dyed her hair yet again!
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So we're in a stretch of 8pm curfews and we're starting to re-open on Monday.
I remain involved in food distribution because it can be done relatively safely and it does a lot of good. I helped provide free food and masks to nearly 300 people today. That was great.
A lot of the people I worked with today were going to vigils or protests later on. I'm there in spirit. But I'm still playing it safe. I need to be here for my dog and my projects and the other ways in which I'm working to make a positive difference in the world.
I remain involved in food distribution because it can be done relatively safely and it does a lot of good. I helped provide free food and masks to nearly 300 people today. That was great.
A lot of the people I worked with today were going to vigils or protests later on. I'm there in spirit. But I'm still playing it safe. I need to be here for my dog and my projects and the other ways in which I'm working to make a positive difference in the world.
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i always wanted curly dark brown or black hair but my hair is fine, with some light wave, mostly straight, and a medium brown.. i guess we are all fated to want another hair type
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I love the pic of Chryssie and Haley. I know Chryssie said she needs a trim but I think she pulls off the length just fine. I like it! But I understand that ends get split and need to be removed.
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Morning/afternoon y'all! Thanks for the kind words about the picture! It is another rainy day today with no relief in sight! It is because of that tropical storm in the gulf which is headed to New Orleans but sending tons of rain to Florida as well. I am working as a cashier today 10:15 to 3:15. I don't know why she does that 15 minute thing. It is confusing! We are still limiting our capacity to 107 people until corporate tells us otherwise despite the phase two opening order by the governor. Our hours are still reduced as well. And our stock is so low that I had to explain to many customers that NO we are not closing! People don't realize how complicated it is to stock stores after the whole company being shut down for 6 weeks! One very important thing that no one thinks about, is that the buyers have not been out and about finding the merchandise to stock the stores with!
We have been talking about moving house next year and I was saying I would love to move to the US as I feel like I have more friends on here than I do in London! I met up with three of my vegan friends last year (I hadn't seen them in years) and two of them were leaving London and the other one has moved even further away from me.
I think I will have to join meet-up groups when I move to the coast as I need more friends!
I think I will have to join meet-up groups when I move to the coast as I need more friends!
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I typed a whole tirade of hair woes then decided not to post haha.
I typed a whole tirade of hair woes then decided not to post haha.
It’s good that you want friends. I just moved and I miss my work friends so much. I have no desire to get out there and meet new people though. It’s kind of sad. But I hate starting all over again. I think I’m just too socially awkward. I would like to find some type of volunteer work. If I meet someone and it happens naturally that we click, that would probably be a good thing. But I won’t be seeking it out.
We’ve had several really nice run ins with the new neighbors. Several have come to welcome us when we were working outside. That felt nice. One guy even offered his lawn mower before we were able to buy one. He told my son that it was in his backyard and to go get it anytime. Pretty neighborly. What I don’t want is to have anyone knock on my door and want to come in for coffee. Oh Hell no. Lol. Been there done that and it was great when I was raising my kids. I think I just cherish my alone time now.
If it were family it would be a different story. Like if my cousins lived nearby. I also love being with my daughters. Once everything opens up again I will see my daughter with the grandkids. And my older daughter has come up twice. So that fills in the gap I think.
I received a surprise call from someone with whom I went to grammar school. I’ve been to her house several times with two other grammar school friends for a long weekend. It was nice chatting with her and she knows how anxious I get about traveling so she said once things open up they are going to come to me and stay at a bed and breakfast. I’m looking forward to that.
Oh my gosh...daughter just sent me video from her security camera...a ground hog was strolling along in the yard when he stood up on his hind legs and paused. All of a sudden you see the resident fox come into view. He walked right on by, several feet away, seeming to not notice the groundhog. I don’t know how that groundhog got so lucky but I’m glad.
Yes, when this virus situation is over I am going to volunteer as well. My psychologist gave me a local number to call as the organisation can help you with volunteering and also meeting people for social activities.
It's weird as until about 2013 I had a big group of vegan friends in London but all have moved away or out of the country. Nobody meets up anymore. It's sad. I stopped going out when my husband was ill and now there isn't the network of people I used to know anymore.
My friend said that all the people that go to London vegan meetups now are very young and I feel weird going to meet them now I'm 44.
I ordered me a rainbow bracelet today, from Amnesty International. It's Pride month after all!
There was demonstration yesterday in Oslo cause of the Gerorge Floyd case. 15.000 had showed up in Oslo. So now several of my white Facebook friends are angry, as they have sacrified more important things during the latest months. So they think it's "sick". It's easy to be white, born in one of the riches countries in the world and really not have felt more harm in life, than have to stay at home some weeks... A demonstration is probably not the best thing thiese days, but sometimes I guess it's worth the risk too. As some things are important to stand up for.
We don't have the police violence in Norway as the US have, but we also have a standard 3 year education all police have to finnish before working in the police. So it's the same in the entire country. They don't carry firearms as standard (but they want to...), but we have also less crime here too (not that it justify sitting at someones neck at all...). But our police is not free from racism or other not so nice attitudes against minority groups. As white with a Norwegian passport it's easy. It's a lot of things I never will experience just because of my skin color (but others I will because I belong to the LGBTQ+ community...).
Edit. The 15.000 was a very uncorrect number. It was way less people there...
There was demonstration yesterday in Oslo cause of the Gerorge Floyd case. 15.000 had showed up in Oslo. So now several of my white Facebook friends are angry, as they have sacrified more important things during the latest months. So they think it's "sick". It's easy to be white, born in one of the riches countries in the world and really not have felt more harm in life, than have to stay at home some weeks... A demonstration is probably not the best thing thiese days, but sometimes I guess it's worth the risk too. As some things are important to stand up for.
We don't have the police violence in Norway as the US have, but we also have a standard 3 year education all police have to finnish before working in the police. So it's the same in the entire country. They don't carry firearms as standard (but they want to...), but we have also less crime here too (not that it justify sitting at someones neck at all...). But our police is not free from racism or other not so nice attitudes against minority groups. As white with a Norwegian passport it's easy. It's a lot of things I never will experience just because of my skin color (but others I will because I belong to the LGBTQ+ community...).
Edit. The 15.000 was a very uncorrect number. It was way less people there...
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Raven said:
I would not feel weird about it! I routinely do things that attract an age group different from my own. The younger people are generally very welcoming, and often interested in meeting someone older who shares their views and interests. That can be rare. Many don't even assume I'm a particular age until it comes up in conversation.
Also, you might meet some people your age there, or get invited to other events with people of different ages attending.
I know that here, we have vegan non-profits you can volunteer with, such as Chilis On Wheels. They provide free vegan meals to people, with a focus on those who are most in need of food.
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I found a source of free wooden vegetable crates. I grabbed one and I'm turning it into a planter box - painting it and lining it.
Why? A surprise watermelon plant sprung up overnight!
I repurposed the dirt from a bunch of seeds that I planted back in March. I assumed most wouldn't germinate and if any did, it would be a nice surprise. So I got a watermelon in one of the basil containers this morning.
Most of my garden isn't edible yet, but that's starting to change. I harvested some spinach the other day. It was amazing.
I'm continuing to get more involved in local volunteer work. It's good to be getting out and exploring the city again, meeting new people, doing new things.
Why? A surprise watermelon plant sprung up overnight!
I repurposed the dirt from a bunch of seeds that I planted back in March. I assumed most wouldn't germinate and if any did, it would be a nice surprise. So I got a watermelon in one of the basil containers this morning.
Most of my garden isn't edible yet, but that's starting to change. I harvested some spinach the other day. It was amazing.
I'm continuing to get more involved in local volunteer work. It's good to be getting out and exploring the city again, meeting new people, doing new things.
Hmm, I don't know. I have still got one friend in London and she said about going to a meet-up for me to see a few friends she met there. Before all this happened, obviously.
Too p'ssd off to find the gripe thread,
Anyone know about lawn mowers? Just took mine apart. Wouldn't start, checked the carb. now leaking by the air filter--still won't start, but now worse
Anyone know about lawn mowers? Just took mine apart. Wouldn't start, checked the carb. now leaking by the air filter--still won't start, but now worse
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@Mikkel
Kind of in response to what you wrote:
I'm a white American. I also have some physical differences that are misunderstood and stigmatized to an extent. I routinely deal prejudice related to this. It's been that way my whole life. I've been through some really bad stuff because of it. It's very much an overlooked issue.
So I really support what's going on right now. It's also stirring up a lot of stuff for me - I connect with it but via other -isms. So I'm saving that for later. I don't want to use my white privilege to step in and dominate and derail. That can happen.
At the same time, all forms of prejudice are related, so it is relevant, and I think the right time to talk about it will come.
I'm just stepping back and letting people directly affected by racism have the spotlight right now. And being supportive.
I haven't met anyone who thought that quarantine was worse than what happened to George Floyd. But I haven't been getting out much. I think the people in the US who think that way mostly ignored the rules and didn't quarantine. But yeah..... I do see a lot of, "OMG I BROKE A NAIL," from straight white dudes who shrug when I talk about, ya know, more serious issues.
Kind of in response to what you wrote:
I'm a white American. I also have some physical differences that are misunderstood and stigmatized to an extent. I routinely deal prejudice related to this. It's been that way my whole life. I've been through some really bad stuff because of it. It's very much an overlooked issue.
So I really support what's going on right now. It's also stirring up a lot of stuff for me - I connect with it but via other -isms. So I'm saving that for later. I don't want to use my white privilege to step in and dominate and derail. That can happen.
At the same time, all forms of prejudice are related, so it is relevant, and I think the right time to talk about it will come.
I'm just stepping back and letting people directly affected by racism have the spotlight right now. And being supportive.
I haven't met anyone who thought that quarantine was worse than what happened to George Floyd. But I haven't been getting out much. I think the people in the US who think that way mostly ignored the rules and didn't quarantine. But yeah..... I do see a lot of, "OMG I BROKE A NAIL," from straight white dudes who shrug when I talk about, ya know, more serious issues.
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Yeah. I do support them too, and I really understand why they demonstrate now. How many more lifes should be lost because of police voilence while we wait for the pandemic to end? I saw someone writing on Facebook that they work close to the demonstration yesterday, and had to pass those people on the way home. People had kept their distances and everything... It has been more crowded on the beaches during the Pentecost, without people reacting... And you see that a lot of people wear masks etc too.
I have several posting on my Facebook feed about what they sacrified the latest months now, and to be honest. None of them have even lost their jobs. They have even gotten money to save their jobs. So they have stayed indoors, can't go on hollidays and some activites have been cancelled for a shorter time... I get a bit ashamed on their behalf when I read it. But. In the other hand. I know what several of them vote when we have an election... They share a print screen with text and a photo, with no source or anything. And when that happens, I wonder if they are "useful idiots" again and just share things that right wing people are spreading...
After I wrote my post, I read an article in one of the Norwegian newspapers about racial profiling. That the police in Norway denied that they do that. So that's why POC get more stoped by the police? That white people can pass a knife controll without getting checked, while all the black people get checked? Why a black man can't change his girlfriend's tyre on the car without the police asking her three times if everything is okey? The list is endless here too, even though we have few murders because of racism in Norway (but we have had those too).
My ex girlfriend is adopted from Colombia. More or less every time she has been outside of Norway with airplane, she is stoped in the custom and have to unpack her luggage. She's used to it, and take it with a good mood luckly. But it's not a coincident. When I was younger, I travelled a lot with the train. And experienced that the muslim family across the aisle had their ID paper checked, not the white people...
Yeah. I do support them too, and I really understand why they demonstrate now. How many more lifes should be lost because of police voilence while we wait for the pandemic to end? I saw someone writing on Facebook that they work close to the demonstration yesterday, and had to pass those people on the way home. People had kept their distances and everything... It has been more crowded on the beaches during the Pentecost, without people reacting... And you see that a lot of people wear masks etc too.
I have several posting on my Facebook feed about what they sacrified the latest months now, and to be honest. None of them have even lost their jobs. They have even gotten money to save their jobs. So they have stayed indoors, can't go on hollidays and some activites have been cancelled for a shorter time... I get a bit ashamed on their behalf when I read it. But. In the other hand. I know what several of them vote when we have an election... They share a print screen with text and a photo, with no source or anything. And when that happens, I wonder if they are "useful idiots" again and just share things that right wing people are spreading...
After I wrote my post, I read an article in one of the Norwegian newspapers about racial profiling. That the police in Norway denied that they do that. So that's why POC get more stoped by the police? That white people can pass a knife controll without getting checked, while all the black people get checked? Why a black man can't change his girlfriend's tyre on the car without the police asking her three times if everything is okey? The list is endless here too, even though we have few murders because of racism in Norway (but we have had those too).
My ex girlfriend is adopted from Colombia. More or less every time she has been outside of Norway with airplane, she is stoped in the custom and have to unpack her luggage. She's used to it, and take it with a good mood luckly. But it's not a coincident. When I was younger, I travelled a lot with the train. And experienced that the muslim family across the aisle had their ID paper checked, not the white people...
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Racism is really obvious in the US. It's everywhere. Our TV shows and movies are full of stereotypes. Go out in public, anywhere, and you'll see people being racist, and people reacting to racism. It doesn't matter where you are; it's impossible to escape.
So I'm glad that there is so much outrage right now. Maybe we can dethrone the idealized white male and get closer to real life equality. Living as people, not trapped by so much superficial nonsense.
So I'm glad that there is so much outrage right now. Maybe we can dethrone the idealized white male and get closer to real life equality. Living as people, not trapped by so much superficial nonsense.
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