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Country Before Party

Photo found on the web is from Atlanta Journal-Constitution  I hope they don't mind I'm using it in this post.   Okay, I admit it, I have been pretty angry the last couple of months.  Not with my immediate family, or with life in general. Don't get me wrong 2020 was an exhausting, trying year but I haven't been depressed, I promise.  Just fed up with all the lies & deliberate misinformation coming from the White House, the Trump Administration,  his GOP supporters, & the millions of manipulated & misled Trump supporters, in the general public, via social media. This includes members of our extended family & friends. I still do not understand the cult of Trump.  I do not understand why his followers treat him as if he is their savior. He's just a man.  And an incredibly bad man at that.  An excellent con-artist but that's it. And he was a terrible leader/example of the free world, democracy, & our republic.   Technically, intellectually, I get

Its not us it's you 2020

  Who enjoyed saying goodbye to 2020 as much as I did?!?!  Who actually thinks anything is any different in 2021, so far? Yeah me either.  It is a nice thought though.  So from here on in this post will be happy! Do you hear me?!?!?  HAPPY!!!  (Big breath in ... & ... out) Now don't you feel better?  Pssst...work with me here, okay?  We rang out the old & in with the new very laid back this year.  Just CA, the kids & I.  And the dogs & cats of course.  Liam & I watched Doctor Who all night long so that we could be ready for the New Year's Day special episode.  Good times.  The kids played video games as did CA & of course we had our standard fare of 7 layer dip, chips, cheese & crackers & soda.  We could hear fireworks going off in the neighborhood by 11 & they continued until just after midnight.  As soon as we were done toasting in the new year we all went to bed.  We really know how to live it up, don't we?  Yesterday, we spent the day