CUHRAAAAAZYYYYYY

As we race toward another week, the 9th week of 2025 to be exact, the daunting task we must face is how to navigate a new global landscape of being in a country that is rapidly losing favor in the world. Granted, the inner turmoil of this country is definitely on display and after all, would you want to be friends with a bully drama queen/king??? It's fucking exhausting. 

 I've spent the last year recovering from my last 8 years in DC. Georgia nature, front porch star gazing, music, aromatic tobacco smoke of hand rolled cigars, laughter where there were once constant tears have given me a reset that was necessary. Do I have the answer to the question  "What's next?" Nope. I actually took a year off from working and now that I'm ready to jump back in, the US is in shambles. It's a fucking mess. 

But let's talk about something a little different because I can't say how much one conversation about the state of this janky jackleg government can send my blood pressure soaring. Let's talk about animals. Not just any animals, a pitbull.  Not just any pitbull. This pitbull. 

She almost looks like a sweetly sleeping pup. 

DON'T FALL FOR IT! SHE IS DECEPTIVE!!!

 This is Buttercup (aka "B-Cup", aka "Cuppy Cup"). She is one of my roommates.  The one that pays not nary a bill. 

She looks younger than she is but getting to know her this last year has been interesting, funny, infuriating,  all the emotions. Smh 

And now, "Story Time with TRU & Cuppy Cup".

I won't tell the year-long story but I will tell the story of the shady ass pup that got me the other day. This lil girl was on my sister's bed after she left for work. She knows she's not supposed to be. I told her to get down and she jumped down and began limping. Since I never believe her other deceitful acts, I was like "Cuppy, get down and go in the living room." She starts walking with a limp. I've never seen her limp. So me, being hoodwinked, gave her a treat where she lay because I didn't want her to move farther. Later she moved to her bed and stayed there until dinner time in the evening. As time goes on, I know she needs to go outside to use the outdoor doggie facility  (aka the lawn for her peeing and pooping). I decide, out of the goodness of my stupid heart, to put her coat on and carry her outside, down the stairs, and to the lawn so she wouldn't hurt herself. THIS MOFO STARTED WALKING NORMALLY WITHOUT ISSUE! Lil jerk. 

I walked her around the yard and she started rolling around and trotting. I wish you could have seen my face. 😐😠. I then put her on the wire leash outside and this so-and-so took off running from one side of the yard to the other. I yelled "FAKER!!!" and went in the house. Today she was leaping up the stairs outside and zooming around the yard. She's worse than people. Lol THE MALARKEY!!!

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World.

What if...

I just watched the last (maybe) 7 minutes of the movie "Seeking a Friend for the End of the World" with Steve Carell and Keira Knightley and I think I have seen the movie before in its entirety and knew the sweet heartbreaking end was coming. In the end, as they lie in bed talking, trying to distract themselves from the eminent ending quickly approaching, Keira's character  Penny says "I'm scared" and "I wish we had more time". She is frightened but you can see she's trying not to panic. Steve's character, Dodge, is calm and asks her where did she grow up. The peace he has found with the knowledge of knowing it's the end allows for the Penny to come to the same understanding that she, too, appreciates sharing this last moment with the love of her life. Her smile as the meteor arrives, (oh, if you haven't seen the movie, SPOILER! A meteor hits the earth.) Leaves viewers with the final view of Dodge's life; the peaceful smile of the woman he loves. 

That into leads me to ask this question: with all the stress in this country right now, what if tomorrow held the moments of the last view if your life? What or who would you want staring back at you as the brightest light you've ever experienced envelopes your very being, ... 

Just got a tornado warning. Gonna go now. Later...🤞🏾

This reality.

This is such a wicked world. Finding joy feels fruitless.