Teddy bear loves cassava cake. I bought one today for 40 pesos because my friend Ana was coming over. I ate half of it before she got here. I put the rest on her chair and then when I went down to answer the door, something mysteriously happened to her cassava cake. When we got upstairs, it was gone. Any idea what happened to it? 🤣
I think tomorrow, teddy bear will be shitting cassava cake🥴
My late friend Linda, I considered my sister, had no use of her arms, but it didn’t change our relationship. She was fiercely independent, mopped the floors with a washcloth underfoot, drove a car with her feet, painted with her mouth, flushed the toilet using her foot, and loved people with her whole heart. When I was ran out of the church we both attended together because I was found out to be gay, she was furious at the church, didn’t blink an eye about discovering I was gay, and continued being one of my best friends. Can you guess what I remember her most for? It wasn’t for her disability or phenomenal adaptability—it was for her heart.
A movie everyone should watch. My biggest takeaway—no exaggeration—was that criminal actions are oftentimes a byproduct of drinking and/or drug use.
I’ve rarely been a fan of a sitting president. I was a young teenager when Jimmy Carter became president. I loved him and even had my parents take me to see his peanut farm in Georgia because why not? This is a man who deserved to be president.
I personally live a much nicer, relaxed, richer, safer, and cheaper life here in the Philippines than I was living or could ever live in the US.
I first came here in 1986 at the age of 20 and spent about four months in Olongapo, Subic Bay. I had a premonition way back then when I saw how nice foreign retirees had it here, that I might return here someday to retire.
I moved here back in 2018 at the age of 55 to set myself up for a nice retirement lifestyle on a SS pension. Looking ahead, I knew if I stayed in the US that I was going to retire in poverty.
My first year here in the Philippines was the most challenging because of all of the differences I wasn’t used to. Eventually, I came to realize that when one moves to a foreign country, one is trading their own country’s mixed bag of negatives and positives with another country’s.
Some people can do that with great skill and adapt to a foreign country no problem and some can’t. It totally depends on the individual, not necessarily the country.
Adapting to a foreign country doesn’t mean surrendering to all of the negatives either. Adapting successfully depends on how you deal with, interact, and react to all of the negatives you encounter. The saying that you can’t change others, but you can change yourself, couldn’t be more truer than when you move to a foreign country and are adapting to your new reality.
Since some people don’t find changing or modifying their personal behavior easy or possible to do, they find adapting to a foreign country difficult or impossible to do.
Once I got through the process of changing, growing, and adapting to the Philippines, I came to love living here much more than living in the U.S. That’s right, I’ll take the mixed bag here in the Philippines over the mixed bag in the US any day, especially as an American retiree on Social Security.
100% recommend watching this interview with Kamala Harris about the issues facing Americans, such as inflation, an anti-democratic regime, and how so many people are capitulating to Trump. (The meaning of capitulation is to surrender when involved in a power struggle.) She states that the anti-democratic issues facing Americans didn’t start with Trump, nor will they end when he’s gone. You might not like that, but I think she’s right, and it reminds me of a saying I often repeat—“What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.” The original quote being—"Out of life's school of war—what doesn't kill me, makes me stronger."
Like marjorie Taylor Greene said, the American people are more powerful than their elected officials, however, they are not “powerful enough” if they continue fighting amongst themselves. Until Americans realize their democratic powers and come together as a more united entity and use those powers collectively, people like Trump and Putin and other autocrats will have the upper hand.
This idiot should take a DNA test! I guarantee it will NOT come out that he is A 100% WHITE EUROPEAN MAN. How can people be this ignorant about their ancestory. It’s just like believing the Earth is flat. There was a time when that kind of thinking made perfect sense, but not now. Not in the modern world we live in where so much has been discovered that we know tons more than we used to. This man is only proving one thing and that is that hate is alive and well and that he has no problem spreading his white supremacy hate on land that originally belonged to native Americans, not white Europeans. Don’t get me started!
I thought I had a dead rat in my downstairs. It was stinking to high hell down there. I needed a young nose to come and sniff it out. Prince came over and kept sniffing like a good monkey till he found it— he found it in my frying pan. Seems I was making breakfast and forgot. I don’t know how many days ago. It was rotten fried eggs, although it could’ve been a dead rat, as it was unable to be identified. 🤣
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Teddy bear loves cassava cake. I bought one today for 40 pesos because my friend Ana was coming over. I ate half of it before she got here. I put the rest on her chair and then when I went down to answer the door, something mysteriously happened to her cassava cake. When we got upstairs, it was gone. Any idea what happened to it? 🤣
I think tomorrow, teddy bear will be shitting cassava cake🥴
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My late friend Linda, I considered my sister, had no use of her arms, but it didn’t change our relationship. She was fiercely independent, mopped the floors with a washcloth underfoot, drove a car with her feet, painted with her mouth, flushed the toilet using her foot, and loved people with her whole heart. When I was ran out of the church we both attended together because I was found out to be gay, she was furious at the church, didn’t blink an eye about discovering I was gay, and continued being one of my best friends. Can you guess what I remember her most for? It wasn’t for her disability or phenomenal adaptability—it was for her heart.
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A movie everyone should watch. My biggest takeaway—no exaggeration—was that criminal actions are oftentimes a byproduct of drinking and/or drug use.
https://youtu.be/gXRIR_Svgq4?si=SonK3...
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I’ve rarely been a fan of a sitting president. I was a young teenager when Jimmy Carter became president. I loved him and even had my parents take me to see his peanut farm in Georgia because why not? This is a man who deserved to be president.
www.facebook.com/share/p/1PVRvL3WUC/?mibextid=wwXI…
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I personally live a much nicer, relaxed, richer, safer, and cheaper life here in the Philippines than I was living or could ever live in the US.
I first came here in 1986 at the age of 20 and spent about four months in Olongapo, Subic Bay. I had a premonition way back then when I saw how nice foreign retirees had it here, that I might return here someday to retire.
I moved here back in 2018 at the age of 55 to set myself up for a nice retirement lifestyle on a SS pension. Looking ahead, I knew if I stayed in the US that I was going to retire in poverty.
My first year here in the Philippines was the most challenging because of all of the differences I wasn’t used to. Eventually, I came to realize that when one moves to a foreign country, one is trading their own country’s mixed bag of negatives and positives with another country’s.
Some people can do that with great skill and adapt to a foreign country no problem and some can’t. It totally depends on the individual, not necessarily the country.
Adapting to a foreign country doesn’t mean surrendering to all of the negatives either. Adapting successfully depends on how you deal with, interact, and react to all of the negatives you encounter. The saying that you can’t change others, but you can change yourself, couldn’t be more truer than when you move to a foreign country and are adapting to your new reality.
Since some people don’t find changing or modifying their personal behavior easy or possible to do, they find adapting to a foreign country difficult or impossible to do.
Once I got through the process of changing, growing, and adapting to the Philippines, I came to love living here much more than living in the U.S. That’s right, I’ll take the mixed bag here in the Philippines over the mixed bag in the US any day, especially as an American retiree on Social Security.
❤🤍💙💛
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100% recommend watching this interview with Kamala Harris about the issues facing Americans, such as inflation, an anti-democratic regime, and how so many people are capitulating to Trump. (The meaning of capitulation is to surrender when involved in a power struggle.) She states that the anti-democratic issues facing Americans didn’t start with Trump, nor will they end when he’s gone. You might not like that, but I think she’s right, and it reminds me of a saying I often repeat—“What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.” The original quote being—"Out of life's school of war—what doesn't kill me, makes me stronger."
https://youtu.be/p8OyMIen9d4?si=DELXs...
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Like marjorie Taylor Greene said, the American people are more powerful than their elected officials, however, they are not “powerful enough” if they continue fighting amongst themselves. Until Americans realize their democratic powers and come together as a more united entity and use those powers collectively, people like Trump and Putin and other autocrats will have the upper hand.
https://youtu.be/oOyt0TE3PTk?si=9MWPT...
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This idiot should take a DNA test! I guarantee it will NOT come out that he is A 100% WHITE EUROPEAN MAN. How can people be this ignorant about their ancestory. It’s just like believing the Earth is flat. There was a time when that kind of thinking made perfect sense, but not now. Not in the modern world we live in where so much has been discovered that we know tons more than we used to. This man is only proving one thing and that is that hate is alive and well and that he has no problem spreading his white supremacy hate on land that originally belonged to native Americans, not white Europeans. Don’t get me started!
youtube.com/shorts/4k_wMIx_jW...
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I thought I had a dead rat in my downstairs. It was stinking to high hell down there. I needed a young nose to come and sniff it out. Prince came over and kept sniffing like a good monkey till he found it— he found it in my frying pan. Seems I was making breakfast and forgot. I don’t know how many days ago. It was rotten fried eggs, although it could’ve been a dead rat, as it was unable to be identified. 🤣
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Teddy Bear looking so cute 🥰
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