I'm so old I remember using an ancient encyclopedia to research space for a school project, where it had illustrations about what they thought colonies on Mars would look like in 1985.
Dinner parties need to make a comeback. Buying items on sale and cooking from scratch at home, I served four people a roast chicken, roasted potatoes and carrots, stuffing, and cheesecake for dessert, for a grand total of 16 dollars. Not 16 dollars each, 16 dollars total. And honestly what I cooked was better quality than what you would get at a mid level restaurant.
I'm half Jewish, so white, and able to fly under the radar very easily. I've always known there were evil and bigoted people in the world, but what is really knocking me down is watching my own damned family go down that rabbit hole. The non Jewish side are turning into hard core maple MAGA I'm sitting here thinking "What the fuck?? Were they always like this?? Were all the positive experiences with them growing up just an illusion??" These people would literally have turned me in to the Nazi regime in 1930s Germany. Realizing that half of everyone around me are like this just makes me want to quit living.
I have such mixed feelings. On the one hand I want them to fucking choke on the consequences of their actions, but on the other hand we are also all having the day they voted for.
Generally a young a beautiful free spirit (usually a woman) with an eccentric and quirky personality who "saves" the protagonist of a story by being fun and interesting and showing them life is worth living. Think Holly Go Lightly from Breakfast at Tiffany's.
Had severe chronic health problems starting from late teenagehood. When you are too sick to stand up for more than 10 minutes at a time, dating is out of the question. By the time my health turned around enough to where I was reliably semi functional I was just too old to start from scratch, and with age comes a certain level of just not giving a shit any more. I feel like I dodged a bullet honestly.
I'm so old I remember using an ancient encyclopedia to research space for a school project, where it had illustrations about what they thought colonies on Mars would look like in 1985.