Nicest Surprise of this season

I was baffled by this. I thought the kid hated me, what do I know? Intention makes it through the lion love after all T.T
 

1st Thanksgiving in the U.S.A.

 And it was fucking great, with a pack of dogs and nice genuine people, small gathering, great food and first times!

Movie at the end was the cherry on the top.

I hope these memories will always be happy ones to warm my heart and reminisce over.

On point

 

Recently got into an altercation at work over my wages and the Christmas break. Ended it on a positive note but it showed me how shacky my stress management once financial instability shows up.

Manager has the ignorance to mention how he wants us to disconnect during the break and reset and recharge and ... and... and... 

Dude, that is an option when you don't have to worry about bills money, rent money, transport money. That's an option for you with your "fuck you" money, "fuck this" money, "fuck off" money.

I don't even have "oh, not paying me for two weeks? no problem. I have savings" money, let alone "I can afford a Christmas break trip" money or "let me self-actualize" money.

As usual, the analysis is on point and the issue at hand is blatant, but it feels fucking good to hear the challenges voiced out, validated and given concrete reality through words.

Vito for TEN DAYS

 I got Vito on pet sitting duty (though it's more of a perk and treat than a duty with him :3) during the Thanksgiving period.

He just turned 8 years old and to top it off, being away from the big dog has resulted in him getting back to his soft and cuddly character, which I so can't get enough of, and end up going to work just on time because I don't want to leave him >.<

He is the most precious kitty and he deserves all the goodness possible and I love him so much and wish I could keep him and Sonny to myself and stuff T.T

The French Dispatch

 This one overdid itself in several fronts. A whole ass cake made out of frosting. I wasn't expecting to be hit by some memories from my first age either, but goddamn!

Je voudrais que la rose

Fut encore au rosier

Et que mon doux ami

Fut encore a m'aimer

Il y'a longtemps que je t'aime, jamais je ne t'oublierai.

Last Night in Soho

 

“Dehumanization, which marks not only those whose humanity has been stolen, but also (though in a different way) those who have stolen it, is a distortion of the vocation of becoming more fully human. This distortion occurs within history; but it is not an historical vocation. Indeed, to admit of dehumanization as an historical vocation would lead either to cynicism or total despair. The struggle for humanization, for the emancipation of labor, for the overcoming of alienation, for the affirmation of men and women as persons would be meaningless. This struggle is possible only because dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors, which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed.

Because it is a distortion of being more fully human, sooner or later being less human leads the oppressed to struggle against those who made them so. In order for this struggle to have meaning, the oppressed must not, in seeking to regain their humanity (which is a way to create it), become in turn oppressors of oppressors, but rather restorers of the humanity of both.

This, then, is the greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves and their oppressors as well.”

― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Palate Cleanser of a Night