This was quite a trigger week

[Siwsan]

First, I watched the movie 'Bombshell'. My brother, who used to be a film researcher in the library at the 20th Century Fox movie studio and had numerous chances to meet and observe both Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch, highly recommended the movie. It was excellent but pulled off some emotional memory scabs I'd hoped were long healed.

THEN almost immediately after watching the film, came this whole verbal slap in the face from trump* about veterans. So, two things stored in the trench of experiences in my past managed to coincided - work place sexual harassment, the worst of which occurred during, but wasn't limited to my time as an voluntary active duty member of the United States Navy.

After watching the film, I started to tremble. It was so weird. I took a good dose of CBD, walked around for a while, and the trembling subsided. Then heard about and read the Atlantic article and I swear that steam started coming out of my ears. Not just because I, as a veteran, took it as a slap in the face, but that it was a massive slap against the continuous generations of my family who have honorably served the nation, going back to the nation's founding.

There are days when I seriously wonder how I'll make it through the coming months but I am determined that I will, and that I will end up on the winning side.

Now I'm going to make some Italian sausage with peppers (fresh picked from my garden), open a bottle of something red, toast some garlic bread and live as if all is good. For now, anyway.

[Walleye]

1. Yes, do something nice for yourself. Don't let these assholes win

[BKDem]

3. Excellent advice, but almost four years too late...

[Nevilledog]

2. ...

[634-5789]

4. 58 days...

...and counting. Less than 2 months to toss that lying sack of unknown orange shit out for good.

[sure why not]

9. Do NOT forget the TEN WEEKS

between Election Day & Inauguration Day. Win, Lose or fight it out, Trump will unleash Holy Hell upon us, the likes of which, we have never seen.

I'm thinking of pulling the covers over my head & sucking my thumb until this nightmare is over.

[CanonRay]

5. My dinner of choice

Great comfort food when your head (or heart) are messed up.

[stillcool]

6. trigger here, trigger there...

but to end up with sausage and peppers, and something red? You've got it going on.

[Laffy Kat]

7. You're not alone, Siwsan.

I had so much to do today and I feel paralyzed.


On edit: This posted twice and I don't know why. My computer is doing weird things.

[Wawannabe]

10. Hear ya, feel ya

Many vets in my immediate family.
Have had other triggers too.

Actually have been crying a lot.
I cook when I am down or frustrated.

Last night I made cauliflower steaks with a beef bone broth mushroom gravy and fried corn. Comforting. Had the leftovers for lunch a little while ago. But I cried while I was eating because I got a sad text from my son who is feeling depressed. I am 2200 miles away and can't hug.

🙁🙁🙁😢

[erronis]

11. I'll raise a toast to your garlic bread also (red cheap italian.) The best was from Original Joes in

SJ.

My recipe is:
- Good italian bread (not too holey) split in half length-ways, very lightly toasted.
- 10+ heads (not cloves, heads) of garlic, peeled, lightly mashed (side of knife or whatever)
- Lightly saute the garlic in a small pan with half butter and half EVOO.
- Spread the garlic/butter liberally on the two open halves of the bread
- Per preference, add parmesan (peccorino or regiano). Maybe a bit of salt and pepper flakes.

[Siwsan]

12. I'll have to try that. And I can use my own, home grown garlic!

I harvested a pretty good crop, this year.

[JudyM]

13. That's a lot of triggering, for sure.

Even beyond the fact that our resilience is being broken down on a daily basis by previously inconceivable travesties of justice on multiple fronts.

Hang in there, Siwsan we’re gonna get through this.

[Pluvious]

14. I'm finding this long handwringing wait for November election results to be...

... much like awaiting the lab report on a potentially life ending pancreatic tumor.

I just can't comprehend the future of another four years with it still in power.

The fact this race is even close I find depressing af.