MINNEAPOLIS of course

Good morning! ☕️❄️

*Please forgive the grammatical errors. 

Preach, my preacher. 🙏🏻

The last 5 months have been a big giant yawn actually.

AND 

(sigh)

It's pronounced: 

lon/gev/i/ty 

NOT long/gevity 

Tiktok.😆 That's why there's only one G. Longevity. Oh dear. I'm not going to think about what they're not teaching you in school.

According to my Ring cam notifications, the amount of people in Minneapolis who get their packages stolen, lose their pets, and get their cars broken into and/or stolen is all you really need to know about that city.

I was in Minnesota for almost five months. I had some family business and decided to hang out for a bit.

If you're coming to Minneapolis to visit stay in hotels in the North Loop and in the college towns. Support those local areas, restaurants, and businesses. 

Airbnb, especially in Minneapolis, are riddled with hostile extreme left wing white entitled politics, not to mention you don't know these people or what medications they're on for emotional/mental stability in addition to all the chaos. Staying at an airbnb is 100% at your own risk in this day and age entering the homes of complete political hostile strangers. My advice, support local hotels. Support local employment. Support local businesses. Keep businesses working, keep employees earning paychecks, not some dude who doesn't want to get a job and rents out his/her dumpy spare room.  

We Independent thinkers, Independent voters, know in our hearts how to keep America going forward regardless of political extremism. What's happening in Minneapolis right now is political extremism between the MAGA president/homeland security and extremist lefty "liberals" who are being egged on by Minneapolis politicians and Hollywood. Young Minneapolis protesters are doing it because they're young, they're afraid for their futures, they want to be involved in something they feel is bigger than themselves. Anyone over 35 years of age and protesting however are doing it because they don't want to see brown people deported. Who will clean their houses, serve them food, and raise their children? Don't forget, boys and girls, the KKK was started by these guys. 

If more people joined the Independent party we could make politicians on both sides of the isle work harder for our votes. Politicians need to work harder. This loyalty to party is sheep-logic. Be a Republican, be a Democrat, fine, but until both parties get it together, be Independent. Nothing scares politicians more than a party that swing votes. 

AND LOOK,  

I'm from Minnesota, a calm chill part of Minnesota back in the 70's and 80's. Who says you can't go home again. I had the resources to invest some time back in my childhood home. I guess I wanted to see what, if anything, I had missed out on by moving away in 1989. After 5 months, the answer is nothing. I missed out on absolutely nothing. I lived a hundred interesting lives on the west coast for the past thirty-five years. It made me a stronger better wiser woman than if I had stayed in Minnesota, clearly.

It's terrible what's going on in Minneapolis but don't think for a second the drama and heartache instantly arrived when ICE showed up. The instigators, the agitators, the riff-raff, have been growing in Minneapolis like a disease for many years to get to this point. I don't have a single problem with Somalis, Hispanics, or Hmong people, which is who ICE seems to be targeting. I have an issue with people who came from other American states to bully Minnesotans and take advantage of their kind nature for their own selfish needs. 

The only beautiful parts of Minnesota that's left is the country far (far!) away from the twin cities. Far away. It's time for travelers to go back to staying in hostels and hotels. Support local businesses. Support local restaurants. The problem Minneapolis is having is that too many airbnb residents who rely on the money of colored people. Don't believe me? Check out the airbnb app yourself. If white Minneapolis didn't rely on the money of colored people via airbnb and Uber, they wouldn't be on the streets right now protesting when it's barely 11 degrees out. Get a job! 

If ICE hangs around Minneapolis long enough these white left wing extremist would have to get actual jobs and work. They don't want to work because that's how extreme white privilege reckens the world to be. "I'm white. I shouldn't have to work." I don't know how Minneapolis got this way but as I've said before, growing up on the prairie we kept away from Minneapolis, away from the riff-raff, away from the drama. We had no reason to go into Minneapolis, and at 57 years of age I still have no reason to go into Minneapolis. There are other cities who simply mind their own business. I'll $upport those cities. Amen.

        

Sadly, no matter where I am there's a certain breed of white women that test my patience. Right off the bat, this is when white women annoy me to no end, when they're so into themselves they make you wait, and wait, and wait, for them to finish putting their coffees together at the coffee stand. They hover over the entire coffee stand, slowly adding cream to their coffee, then sipping at it, then adding more cream, then sipping the coffee, then adding more cream, then slowly stirring their coffee, then sipping it, then adding more cream, and they know you're standing there waiting for her to finish... it legit took every ounce of strength and God to not drop kick this woman like a football during the World Cup Championship. Finally I just reached over her and said, "Yeah I'm getting coffee also." To which she mumbled a wholly insincere, "Sorry" and shuffled off to the side. Don't be sorry, Karen, pay attention to your surroundings. You know this woman is just as annoying when she drives, and in the work place, and in her relationships, and with every dreaded conversation a person is forced to have with her. And to this day she has no idea why her husband left her for another woman. I don't know who it was but someone lied to her repeatedly by telling her she was special. This is why you don't tell women they're "Queens" because they actually start believing it. "I'm a Queen!" No, you're Karen from Hennepin County, now get off your cell phone and use your turn signal. This is why Trump is in office. Selfish white entitled woman voted for him. 

Every time I see a white woman at these Minneapolis protests for an issue so NOT about them, when they chant, "Ice out now!" All I hear is: 

"My house won't rent itself!"

"My house won't clean itself!"

"My laundry won't steam itself!"

"My food won't serve itself!"

I get why people of color are there, absolutely, of course, but why are white people protesting unless:

"My kids won't raise themselves!"

So to them I say, if you go to a protest and end up face to face with ICE agents resulting with getting bonked on the forehead by a can of teargas, stupid Karen is as stupid Karen does. Your actions have consequences. At this point, you already know ICE agents will shoot you in the face with the full support of homeland security and the White House, soooo unless you're prepared for the worst case scenario, I mean, they warned you, don't be surprised. They shot a white woman in the face. Protest now at your own risk. Actions have consequences FOR YOU, not for ICE. ICE agents have the full support by those in power. 

Here is why extreme lefty liberal protesters lose me every single time, y'all stormed a church where children were praying. Church is a sanctuary for everyone wanting to pray, repent, take communion, etc. When lefty extremists do things like storm churches you show your lack of respect for a humble house of worship. I leaned your way in the very beginning UNTIL among other things you guys stormed a church with children praying inside and while proudly disturbing people in hotels who were not ICE agents. You disturbed innocent weary travelers wanting to just relax and sleep. How dare you. I don't care if ICE agents in are in a church or a bathroom or a hotel, you protesters obviously have no respect for the rights of others, or children, you only care about yourselves. You can hate ICE agents for the same reason but eventually one of you is going to have to be the adult here.    

     

FYI, stop chanting "fascist". Protesters didn't stop WWII, joining military nations did. America has a wannabe dictator for a president, and America's protesters are wannabe soldiers. Note, I said "wannabe". If you want to fight the good fight so badly enlist in the military. 

Back in 1990-something, back in my 20's, I went somewhere via Greyhound and the bus was stopped in Utah, I think, and Immigration officers got on the bus and asked everyone for identification. When one of the agents got to me I showed him My ID and I asked him what this was all about and he replied, "It's not about you." And kept walking up the isle checking ID's. Less than ten minutes later no one was removed from the bus and we were back on our way to California. I think Clinton was president then. Where was your outrage then lefty liberals? Answer: Nowhere. You couldn't have cared less. Your guy was in office and I didn't have anything you wanted. I complied with officers and everyone went about their way. No one got hysterical and called the news channels.

Again, in 1990-something, coming back from San Diego going to Los Angeles my friends and I were stopped by immigration at the check point. They made us get out of the car while they checked our vehicle for stowaway illegals. They found nothing of course which made them mad enough to then search the car with a drug and/or bomb sniffing dog resulting again with nothing, of course. After an hour we were free to go. Where was your fury then, lefty liberals?! Answer: Nowhere. I had nothing you wanted and your cigar guy was still in the White House. Again, we complied with officers and everyone went about their way.

Minneapolis protesters over the age of 35 are there because chances are they make their living by renting real estate, or have businesses that rely on cheap illegal labor.    

      

I hate to break it to privileged white "liberals" of America out there protesting ICE to save their cheap brown labor, but if it were white people being arrested by ICE ain't no one darker than beige coming out in 11⁰ winter weather to protest for you. 😏

When President Newsom takes office he's going to spend the first year of term apologizing to everyone everywhere like a husband of the world. In the meantime protesters and ICE agents are doing nothing more than providing lip service to the media in 11 degree weather. It's 11 degrees out. What the heck are any of you doing outside? I grew up in the harshest of Minnesota winters and even I don't want to go outside to just get in the car. Some peoples flexes are weird y'all. Wow. 

I see people in Whole Foods running around in shorts, tank tops, crop tops, and I even saw some fat girl with no jacket, just a thin hoodie zip-up and "juicy" bedazzled on the butt of her yoga pants, and let me just say, dear fat girls, if your fat is oozing over your yoga pants, you need much, much bigger yoga pants, please and thank you. And then I saw her walking down the street, no hat, no jacket, nothing. 11 degrees out. Hooker? Maybe.  Allow me to be the mother you clearly never had, dear, dress reasonably. It's winter. It's below freezing. Don't pretend you're not cold. You're not a penguin. You're too fat and not cute enough to be a penguin. Don't act like 11 degrees is summertime. I sincerely think a person is mentally challenged when they run around in 11 degrees F in shorts and a tank top.

So like yeah. Enjoy your protests, I guess.

 

The only church you see getting involved in Minneapolis protests are like fourth-cousin-once-removed protestants. I'm a community lay minister (meaning I'm registered but not Ordained to one specific church) and I advise all Christians in Minneapolis to let God fight this one. Don't put yourself in harm's way. Let God's Will be done in Minneapolis and everywhere else ICE agents are. Let those in power duke this one out. If you want to draw a sword join the military otherwise let God's Will be done.

I was not going to even going to mention it but, I stayed in a place in Minneapolis where ICE agents happened to also be staying. They were there at least two nights that I know of. No drama. No protesters. No nothing. Thank goodness. They parked their vehicles on the side parking lot which happened to be just outside my window. They stayed on the same floor as me. One agent even held the front door open for me (the monster!) and we even saw each other at breakfast with no drama, no nothing, just common courtesy. That said, they are not trained police officers. I mean, are protesters trying to get shot in the face at this point? There's nothing honorable or heroic in it. Let God's Will be done.

I've left Minneapolis enroute to my next mission of service in a nearby state. It's a known historic red state but whatever. I go where the nonprofit work is regardless if it's a red or blue state. Unhoused people don't care where the help comes from. They just want someone to care about them. I serve the people, not the state. Serving the state is for politicians. A guy I worked with for three years in Los Angeles also returned to his Midwest home state and is working for a nonprofit. After some chats with him I decided to check out his home state and his work place. It's a nice out of the way small town, thank goodness. We'll see how it goes. May we all arrive safely in all our travels. Amen. 

I really do need a Saint Gertrude pendent. 

You're smarter than most, my dear Elmo.

AND ANOTHER THING

As if that orange tube donkey sitting in the white house was the first president to deport illegal immigrants. But now y'all made that orange orangutan so angry he's just going to start a civil war. Way to be thinkin', Minneapolis. Why aren't you pressuring Tim Walz or Jacob Frey. Go stand outside their houses with drums and whistles. Women in Los Angeles protested Trump in full numeric force after he was elected, yeah ok, but he's still in office you know. Soooo... What was the point?

     

A woman I've known in Minnesota since the sixth grade asked me why I now spend my life in service to Christ. I told her the simple honest truth. I spent my entire adult life praising false idols. It's time I praise the real one. Amen.      

If you're sick and tired of "mom" and "dad" politics, join the Independent party and make them sweat. Make them all sweat for your vote. Make them work harder for it. You owe them nothing. Regardless of your political leanings, regardless of your religion, race, creed, etc., you only owe it to yourself to live the best life for you and your loved ones. Join the Independent party and make "mom" and "dad" politics sweat it out for a while. 

Food costs, still high.

Health/dental Insurance, non existent.

Social security, who knows.

Fema, what's that again?

Nonetheless, our commander and chief has a new ballroom, a borrowed Peace prize, and wants to fight Denmark for Greenland, apparently. Lord help us.

Anyway

Has that guy learned how to do the Dougie yet? Last I saw it was day 23. Hang in there, guy. At this point you're a beacon of hope and inspiration more than you'll ever know.

Let's not forget our favorite eagles. The soft part of the nest is down. Could there be eggs soon?🤞🏼

I'm gonna hang in nearby Amish country for a while. Away from the stupidity.

 

Off to see a man about a horse. Life rolls on with or without you.

The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.

-- Exodus 14:14. 

OK bye!

MODEN DAY WHITE COLONIZERS

We, the people, who live and let live, who mind our own business, who refuse to be indoctrinated and colonized by the far left and the far right, we are the sensibility of our country. Not them.

Lefty liberal white privilege nation is equally as vile as white privileged MAGA nation. It's all white privilege. There's no difference between the two. Both are still trying to colonize people of color.

White liberal colonizers hate it when colored people choose God over them. They hate it. They're no different than Trump's MAGA. A white colonizer is a white colonizer. Full stop.

White colonizers aren't mad a woman named Renee Good got shot and killed by ICE agents, they're mad one of their own got shot and killed. If Renee Good was a Hispanic woman, the news wouldn't care as much and neither would the colonizers, if at all. When George Floyd got murdered it was black people who got mad rightfully so for an entirely different reason than Renee Good. If you can't see the difference you're a colonizer. 

"Look how great and wonderful I am. Praise me people of color for I make your cost of living affordable. Praise ME not God. You can thank me by voting for the liberal party." 

If you're not a member of the Independent party, are you a colonialist or an imperialist? Do you want to have power over just your immediate neighborhood or do you want the goodies of the world to want to be you and the baddies of the world to fear you? Colonialist or imperialist. FYI Trump is a (Palpatine) imperialist.

Hey good morning! ☕️❄️

*Please forgive the grammatical errors.

Happy New Y... Lord our father who art in Heaven... 2026 is already a dumpster fire one week in. 

Okay

Before I get into the obvious January political dumpster fire of 2026, of course I'm talking about "thee" shooting in Minneapolis, first a gentle reminder, I'm a Christian conservative, that's me, you do you. That said, this is my blog and you chose to come here. If you choose to come here just to be offended, welp, that's your choice and I'm certain to not disappoint you. The only one making life miserable for you is you. Life doesn't punish, it teaches. If you're unable to delegate a dumpster fire situation in your immediate neighborhood, or those intentionally unwilling to delegate a dumpster fire situation, that's on you. Weigh the pros and cons. If your opinion lacks both pros and cons then you are among those unwilling to delegate. No point even talking to you further, sense and sensibility has clearly left you. 

I had a very cool conversation with an Uber driver. A lovely black lady in her 30's who was able to buy a house when she was twenty-three years old, by herself, as an Uber driver. That's what we call hustle, ladies and gentlemen. That gal hustled. Good for her. She's a role model. Nothing but respect for a woman who can hustle herself into her own dang house at the age of twenty-three. Amen. She did most of the talking and I was happy to listen. I'm a good listener especially when the story is one of success. She and I were in agreement that Covid lasted waaay too unnecessarily long, George Floyd was murdered, and the woman in Minneapolis, Renee Nicole Good, would still be alive today had she taken into serious consideration that ICE officers are not trained policemen. Before you open your mouth to ICE agents, know they shoot first and ask questions never. This behavior is long backed up by Trump's WH administrations both 1 and 2. Did that ICE agent go trigger happy, absolutely, but you know this already. You knew this before you left the house. You know these ICE agents in particular are not good people. You already know this. I'm all for peaceful protest, don't get me wrong, I get wanting to be a part of something you believe in, but how many protests against the president's men are you going to go to before you realize he doesn't care about you one way or the other, live or die. You could all get run over by tanks, he doesn't care. Sure, all these protests will/have/has made international news but England can't help us. They hate us too right now FYI. Rightfully so I'm afraid. Our president just wants to go to war to stay in the White House. Anyone who thinks Trump won't purposely start a global war, civil war, or blow up Minneapolis just to stay in the white house is kidding themselves. He's a terrible human being. We know this. But these protests, all they do is make Trump send more UNTRAINED ICE AGENTS to Minneapolis. And you're going to do, what, clash with untrained trigger happy armed ICE agents?? Are you seriously going to get in their faces??

Let me present another picture of what not thinking first before you act looks like:

I'm a Christian conservative. I'm the 1985 Ronald Reagan Minnesota Lutheran conservative type. I was a republican voter for most of my adult life from 1987-2017. Thirty years. I never hid this fact. I decided to be a Lutheran at about seven years of age with my sainted grandma's guidance. My sainted church organ playing grandma. I became a registered republican at 18 years of age. I never hide these facts. By the time I turned eighteen years old my lifestyle choices aligned with Christian conservatism. That's just me as a person. When it comes to business i.e. buying groceries or renting a room, I don't like talking about my personal life. Business is business. Personal is personal. I usually tuck my cross into my shirt if I'm wearing a U-neck. I'm a Christian for me, not for you. If money is trading hands (this for that) we're not friends, you don't need to know that I'm a Christian conservative, we're not friends, it's business. We're conducting business, not having dinner together. But, after one bad experience renting from a guy in Minneapolis on airbnb last November, who just wanted to cheat on his wife and humiliate her by flirting with me, I felt compelled to now let people know I'm not that kind of gal who will help men cheat. Don't think you can mess around here fellas, I'm not interested. Now go be a man and take care of your house. It's my soul and I cherish having one. I left that rental nightmare. On my next airbnb rental pick on January 4th, I made it known I'm a Christian conservative. Look, be single, married, or divorced. Pick one. Pick ONE and be that. After the last Minneapolis airbnb experience, I chilled out elsewhere for a month and then decided to give airbnb another shot. I rented another place, a basement apartment from a couple who knew before renting to me that I'm a Christian conservative. FYI never rent basement apartments on airbnb, NEVER. You have zero privacy. Live and learn. Anyway, look, I mind my own business. You do you. This couple rented me the basement apartment for a month. I thought they understood as a solo female I'm not interested in whatever you got going on in your bedroom. Not interested. I imagined they wanted the $1,550 more than they wanted to be woke hysterical super lefty liberals. Awesome. Thundercats are go. But no, they rented the basement apartment to me just to mess me with me, who knows why, maybe they're friends with that cheater guy in the other airbnb house, their two houses are like a mile apart, but whatever, they accepted my rental request for this basement apartment, took my money and then harassed me to the point I moved out with three weeks left on our rental agreement. I contacted them to let them know I was moving out today but since I paid for the room until February 4th, who knows, maybe I'll need to still use it again before the 4th check out date as is my legal right. I didn't say anything other that. The couple (husband) who rented me the basement apartment tried to get me to cancel my reservation for the remaining three weeks I already paid for, so he could rent it to someone else. He said he'll "try to reimburse me" for the three weeks I didn't stay. Fine. Put it in writing on the app and I'll consider it. Make me a legit reimbursement offer. Put it in writing, bro. But no, he wanted to make an agreement off the app, just face to face, a verbal agreement. Yeah no. Are you serious, buddy? So now, he's stuck with me as a tenant until the 4th of February honoring our rental agreement even if I'm not there and even if I never come back. He and his wife took my money nine days ago and tried hustling me out of it. What were they thinking? Answer: They weren't thinking. They were too busy being hysterical white privileged liberals. And so I moved my stuff out of that rental unit, and they're stuck with me as tenant even if I'm not there, until February 4th. I wrote them a professional note on the airbnb app saying I moved my stuff out but who knows I might come back before my check out date. They can't re-rent the unit for another three weeks. And that my friends, is what happens when you don't think about the consequences of your actions. FAFO. It was so important to them to harass a Christian conservative, they ended up screwing themselves having succeeded doing nothing more than being white privileged harassing liberals. I can still come and go out of that rental unit any time I please until check out on February 4th. I moved on with my life and they're stuck with me as a tenant for three more weeks. Life doesn't punish, my friends, it teaches. Of course I took video of the unit on my last day there, and took a photo of their written tenant move-out demands, and I wrote them a professional note on the app, and now they're stuck with me for three more weeks. They did all this just because they wanted to mess with a Christian conservative. Mental illness? Not my first rodeo, boys and girls. I hope it was worth it for them. They should have just denied my rental request from the very beginning. It doesn't hurt my feelings if people don't want to rent to me for any reason. If you hate Asians, short people, or Christian conservatives, deny my rental request, easy-peazy. Which brings me to Renee Nicole Good and my conversation with the Uber driver who bought her own house at the age of twenty-three:

If you don't want to get run over, look both ways when near potential moving vehicles, and don't stand in front of, or behind a vehicle, especially a moving vehicle FFS how old are you. AND don't intentionally put yourself in front of idiot ICE agents because their guns are just as deadly if not deadli-ER than some other idiot with a loaded gun. 

I was raised a stoic. I'm a Christian conservative stoic. These are trigger words that upsets the far left white privilege colonial nation. If you don't like me, whatever. If you hate Christians, whatever. If you don't like Asians, whatever. If you hate short people (seek therapy) but whatever. Lefty liberal white privilege nation is just as equally vile as white privileged MAGA. It's all white privilege. There's no difference between the two. Lefty liberal white privilege want to colonize the world, MAGA wants to colonize the world. I was just minding my own business living my life the way I choose, and the last two white couples in Minneapolis I rented from harassed me because they think Christian conservatives are the "bad guys". No, boys and girls, they're the harassers, they're the bad guys. I'm not hurting anyone. Just living my life the way I choose. I follow the teachings of Buddha and John Lennon, boys and girls, live and let live. 

Why did I go back into Minneapolis after that ordeal with the airbnb guy last November who wanted to cheat and humiliate his wife? Because I'm legally blind and rely on metro. The city is where all the buses and shoveled bus stop are. I think I spent around 2K on Ubers last month. You're welcome Uber. 

Outsiders know it as the "twin cities" but when you're from Minnesota you know Minneapolis (aside of North Loop and U of M college towns which are all nice areas) the rest is horribly dodgy. Parts of St Paul are horribly dodgy too but most of Minneapolis is dodgy AF. Case in point what's going on there now. Growing up on the prairie we never went into the city, ever. The North Loop back then was still a functioning mill city. Now it's condos. 3M, Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing, doesn't mine anymore, just manufacture, things like post-its. 2026 if you don't live in the twin cities you still really have no reason to go there. A concert, maybe. A football or hockey game. I stayed in Woodbury last month and the Minneapolis (city) hate went on every single day. Smack talk from everyone, everywhere, all ages. The 'burbs blame Minneapolis residents for ICE being there to begin with. Much like Las Vegas, locals never go to the strip unless for a concert or sporting event. Never. Locals in Minnesota never go into the twin cities. What for? The food in Minneapolis has gotten better thanks to the immigrants who arrived in the last ten years, alas, white people still haven't figured out herbs. Just leave out salt, pepper, and sriracha, yo. We'll make do.  

 

AND ANOTHER THING      

I'm not a fan of protesting. Are you blocking traffic so emergency responders can't get through? Are you littering the streets with signs. I won't protest. I won't do it. I get it if you must do it ONCE for the experience, maybe twice max, just to say you protested Federal ICE or whatever your flex is, but after that, what are you accomplishing exactly? You hate our president, fine, I hate him too. Putting yourself in harm's way however, is about as smart as standing in front of a moving vehicle. ICE and Good done both F'd up. The winner of that fight however was the person who had a loaded gun. The loser of that fight was the person who left the scene in a body bag. Was it worth it? The protester is dead and the shooter is facing zero consequences. Was it worth it? And this Uber driver, the one who hustled a house at the age of twenty-three, is the only person I've met who openly agrees with me on the Minneapolis shooting. Both parties lost. Did that ICE agent murder Renee Good, you betcha. You can protest and cause civil unrest and civil disobedience, but what is it earning you in the end? What are you gaining out of it? A house? Is your protesting earning you a house? That Uber driver hustled, worked her butt off and got herself a house a twenty-three years of age. Talk about making good choices. She's my hero. I didn't get a house until after I was married in my mid thirties. 

And look, you can agree with me or not, I couldn't care less. Your drama is your drama. Me, I'm going to serve lunch to men who want to better themselves by working hard and minding their own business. I want to serve those people, not protesters. 

White liberal colonizers are the most irritating people in the world. They were white liberal colonizers back when they called themselves the KKK (Google it) and they're still white liberal colonizers in 2026. I don't know what white liberal colonizers hate more, the fact I read my Bible in peace, or that I'm Asian and desire an Asian American man, or that I would rather do mission work feeding the homeless instead of protesting and getting nothing accomplished other than selling news. That's all you protesters are doing now. You're just selling news. Everyone is making money off of your liberal white colonial privilege, but you. Congratulations. 

Hmm, interesting, I sounded a little like Candace Owens there for a sec.

We, the people who mind our own business, who refuse to be colonized by the far left and the far right, we are the sensibility of the country. Weigh your options, hustle and afford a house at the age of twenty-three, or risk being shot dead at a protest. Your choice. Actions have consequences, and yeah, that ICE dude needs to face a murder rap. Will he? Probably not. This shooting in Minneapolis is just the "new shiny thing" selling the news. How many days will go by until Renee Good will be forgotten. 

ANYWAY

Check out this youtube clip. I'm cool with it. I'm old enough to remember when there was an open border between Minnesota and Canada. I mean, there was a checkpoint letting you know you were entering Canada. A couple of Mounties in a booth inquiring a'boot your visit. A few Minnesota-nice exchanges and off we went into Canada for fishing, camping, a lower drinking age, and purchasing illegal fireworks. Good times.

  

AND THEN 

I spent $75 for groceries for four days. 

2 avocado

2 apple

1/2 pound green grapes

1 package plant based (4) apple sausage

3 yogurt

Tea

Creamer

1/4 pound Rice crackers (from the dispenser)

1 package rice cakes

1 English cucumber

1 small Package blueberries

$75 still seems like a lot to me. $45 - $50 seems more reasonable.

In my best Kelso voice, "BURN!"  

White colonial privilege is as white colonial privilege does.

There are a ton of pissed off 20-something Asian Americans on TikTok, my goodness do they hate white people. I don't hate white people, I'm just fed up with white colonial privilege. "Sick and tired!" Fed up. Why are white people over the age of thirty protesting in Minneapolis anyway unless it's to colonize the colored people in your neighborhood. It's not your fight, white people. Mind your privilege. White folks over the age of thirty don't have many colored people as friends, and you certainly hate colored women who think for themselves. Y'all proven that, Minneapolis.

White liberal colonizers hate it when colored people choose God over them. They hate it. They're no different than Trump. A white colonizer is a white colonizer. These are the same people who think Jesus looked like one of the Bee Gee's. 

Trump hates Christians for the same reason White liberal colonizers hate Christians, they don't want people, especially colored people, praising God instead of them. When white liberal men seek the praise of only a colored woman, that's colonization. He couldn't find a white woman to give him praise? It's not yellow fever, boys and girls, it's colonization. I married a Swede from Sweden because that's who I grew up with in Minnesota. I grew up with Swedes. He's Swedish. He reminded me of my childhood home. Are you telling me that white dude who also grew up in Minnesota married a Laotian immigrant because she reminded him of his childhood home? If this were San Francisco, Los Angeles, or New York, ok maybe, sure, but it's Minnesota eh, where the whitest people on earth are. I met my husband in Los Angeles, and married him in Las Vegas. I grew up in Minnesota. I was in my 50's before I even considered dating an Asian man and I'm part Asian. Call it white washing. Call it colonizing. You're just proving my point. This white dude who also grew up in Minnesota now married to a Laotian woman is suspect. And look, I'm not against IR (interracial relationships) I just have to wonder, if the relationship started after 2010, what the attraction is, and I am not alone on this.    

You can be offended by everything I just wrote but keep one thing in mind, back in Minnesota 1985 we were all cool. Republican president. No one gave a single F. We were all cool with each other. We had friends from all walks of life, democrat or republican, born in America or not, English our first language or not, we were all cool with each other. Live and let live. That's why the 80's were cool. We were cool. We made the 80's cool. 2026 is the way it is because the people are making 2026 the way it is. "Oh no, Lisa, that's not right!" Sure, it is. WE THE PEOPLE. That's not something that only applies on election day. That applies every day. If those two airbnb Minneapolis couples want to be a jerk to me because I'm a Christian conservative minding my own business, fine. You do you. It's your life, but I'm certainly not going to defend a city made up of that kind of behavior. Don't bring your bad Minneapolis attitude to my Saint Paul, is all's I'm saying. Stop your modern day colonizing. Rethink your life choices. Repent. Get on your knees and humble yourself before God. Ask God for forgiveness. You'll get it if you're sincere. What have y'all got to lose? 

God bless us all. 

For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

--Galatians 6:3

Okay Bye!

WINTER LIKE IT WAS 1975

Good morning. ☕️❄️

*Please forgive the grammatical errors. No fifty-seven year old should blog on her cell phone but here we are. As per usual I jump around a lot in these blogs. 

I just finished watching the 1947 film 'Bishop's Wife' with Carey Grant and Loretta Young. I would like to see this on the big screen some day. Ah Carey Grant, Archibald Alec Leach, a fellow Capricorn, if you believe in that kind of thing. He really is rather charming. Maybe later I'll watch An Affair to Remember.  

On a whim I decided to see (film) Hamnet, in the theater after all. I was going to stream the movie when it came out but tickets were only $8 (senior discount I suspect) so I made the journey crosstown in freezing temperature thinking no one would be in the theater Christmas day but no it was packed!

No matter, I much rather see films in the theater anyway. The only thing that bothers me about theaters these days is the popcorn. They switched the popcorn butter to a more healthy alternative butter which annoys me to no end. I'm an adult. Bring back the salty fake yellow butter drenched popcorn! Kids are young they can take it. They eat worse junk food at home. Finding movies I want to see in the theater is a rarity and a treat, bring back the fake yellow popcorn! Don't worry about my heart and blood pressure I take pills! Seriously. I miss that old school movie theater experience. 

I was an hour early. I walked around a bit. Got 3.6 miles in before the movie. This is my favorite part of the twin cities to walk around in. I'm old enough to remember when all the mills (photo below) were still operational. These days most of those buildings have been renovated into 6K a month condos. Seeing your neighbors exposed bathroom pipes hanging over your bed is chic, I guess. 

It was cold out on this day. I can take it down to 10⁰F but I rather not. It was like 24⁰ out that day but the windchill made it around 5⁰ to 10⁰ degrees. I miss California but I'm not young and adorable anymore. In California if you're not a wealthy widow by 57 years of age, it's time to go. My time was up. 

Can you feel the cold in that picture (above). During this cold snap the screen cover on my phone cracked. I must not have noticed it at first and just kept tapping on my phone until it cracked the length of the screen. Which gave me an idea for a knitted winter cell phone cozy that fits your hands and phone like those vintage hand muffs. Only with a knitted muff you can fold it up and put it in your coat when you're not using it, unlike those big bulky vintage muffs. 

I need my phone out. I'm a legally blind pedestrian who relies on public transport. I need times and station info at my fingertips and my metro pass is an app on my phone. Plus, I never want to miss a pretty shot of landscape. 

Did everyone have a happy Merry cheery Christmas? Everyone in the winter blast states still have all their fingers and toes? For years, when I resided in California and Nevada, childhood friends back home in Minnesota were telling me stories of how winters have been so tame. Hardly any snow, they said. Temps in the 40's. Lies! All lies! We are currently experiencing a legit 1975 winter here. MINUS nine (-9) degrees yesterday with a twenty below windchill! 59 MPH winds last night. I woke up at 3am to 59 MPH winds hitting the windows. And because it had been warm out the past two days, warm as in 30⁰ degrees F and partly sunny, it melted a thin top layer of snow on the ground but then froze back over last night to make a lovely new slick sheet of ice on the roads and sidewalks this morning. Yay.

All of my winter wear is Swiss made. It has to be if you're going to survive a 1975 winter like the one we're having now. I've been wanting to have breakfast at this place called Swede Hollow Cafe in St. Paul, all week, and this morning it looked like the planets were going to align. The cafe is only open until 2pm, closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays, so a lot of timing and luck went into going there this morning. My Swiss made hiking boots got the workout of a lifetime this morning! The treads were hanging on for dear life. There's darn good treads on my boots but still, grandma almost tumbled down three times on the sidewalk and once in the parking lot. Nonetheless, I can put a check mark next to Swede Hollow Cafe. It was a nice cozy breakfast. 

That's not pico de gallo in that cup, my friends. No, that's just unseasoned diced tomatoes. Minnesota, eh. 😁

I love places like The Hallow, pico de gallo be darned. It's a house, technically. A lot of businesses are still like that out here. A house turned into a business. Like the general store on (tv) Little house on the Prairie. Google it. I had breakfast on the second floor landing in a chair that no doubt once belonged in someone's proper sitting room while eating that beautiful breakfast quesadilla sans pico de gallo. God bless David Tran and his invention of Sriracha. According to daddy Google that dude is 80 years old now. I hope he's living mighty fine on Sriracha money. He earned it. Minnesota hasn't caught up to spices and flavor yet. White people. But at least now they leave salt/pepper and bottles of Sriracha out for their customers. The earliest immigrant settlers in Minnesota may have come from land ice and snow, from the midnight sun where the hot springs flow, alas none of them carried any salt or pepper. 

My dad was such a kid this time of year. From Halloween to Christmas the decorations always went up. It was among the rare times I saw the man for several days in a row. Even when my brothers and I had grown and were out of the house he still put the decorations up. I'm like that too but honestly I don't want to do the work of taking everything down. Which is why I appreciate the decorations in/on other peoples houses. This year however because of the current political climate it was being reported that people were vandalizing front yard nativity scenes. Oh dear. For (almost) 57 years I've been alive, front yard nativity scenes were just harmless Christmas decorations, but now people are seeing these harmless decorations as acts of war. War?! Be a Christian or don't be a Christian, I honestly do not care, but don't vandalize people's houses. If little plastic nativity scenes create such rage within you perhaps it's time for medication and therapy. Just a suggestion. Same goes for Halloween demons and ten foot skeletons. If those decorations make you go into some kind of fanatic rage in the name of Christ, you might want to consider therapy. 

I had an Uber driver yesterday who said he drives Uber just to talk to people and he had a clipboard with pages of notes about each passenger that got in his car. This dude. 😬

This is the second Uber driver I've seen with this kind of clipboard. Both drivers are white, around 55-65 years old, and they both instantly started talking war/politics when I got in the car. Yesterday's driver as soon as I got in the car told me about a passenger who said he was in WWII, fighting the Japanese, and he referred to the Japanese fighter pilots as "zeros". Like, huh? Why are you telling me this? The other clipboard Uber driver in 2020 wanted to know if I was voting for Trump. FYI: Nope. I didn't. I voted for him in 2016 and that was plenty. I steered that Uber driver away from her political talk by mentioning the nice weather we were having at the time. Such a Midwest move. P.S. All practicing faithful Christians ✝️ are in their hearts CO's conscientious objectors who oppose war. Let politicians fight their own battles. 

The only thing making everything about politics is us people. Christmas decorations and Uber drivers should just be Christmas decorations and Uber drivers without the political hysteria. More neighborhood meet and greets, less internet. Less Chads and Karens. Please and thank you.

No one is trying to steal your country and independence, ma'am. Talk to the people bending over for Putin. 

AND NOW...

It's officially winter. It became officially winter two week's beforehand when I banged up my left knee cap trudging over a three foot snowdrift. There are certain things little old ladies aren't supposed to be doing and risking a shortcut through snow covered hill and dale is one of those things! One day I'll learn. One day. 

Who thought it would be a good idea to visit the European Christmas Market on a Saturday? Answer: Me. I thought it would be a good idea. Its only 20⁰F out and there's a 15 MPH windchill. No one's going to be out here, I said to myself. Wrong! It was shoulder to shoulder packed. I left and unfortunately had terrible sushi nearby. I should have stayed at the Euro market and had a German sausage topped with homemade sauerkraut and mustard but the shoulder to shoulder crowd isn't how I like to eat. Some people can do it. I can't. I need a reasonable amount of elbow room and distance from other people when I eat.

My favorite place out here is called Kramarczuk's Sausage co. I don't think anyone mans their website anymore but this is my favorite lunch when I treat myself. Homemade sauerkraut is like homemade kimchi. You absolutely can taste/smell the difference. 

 

*No I didn't have the nose mole removed. Sometimes I cover it with pancake makeup when I go out. Although with this weather once I blow my nose a few times the makeup rubs off. Still, vanity. I cover the nose mole now before I leave the house.

I've had sushi three times since being back in Minnesota and none of them were actual sushi restaurants, not as we understand them to be in Los Angeles, or in New York, and only one of them had actual Asians working in it. Where do the Asians go? I see Asian people casually everywhere in Minnesota except where I expect to see them - they're not in sushi restaurants, not in Asian grocery stores, where do the Asians go? I'm not saying Chuck Norris couldn't beat Bruce Lee in a fight on occasion, I'm just saying it ain't a sushi restaurant if everyone in there looks like Chuck Norris. 

Anyway...

Is anyone surprised about this. I mean. Trump is as Trump does.

We all know honesty, integrity, education, experience, and law abiding is not what this WH administration is about. They're Godless people. Think Trump landed on Santa's naughty list this year? Next year? Every year? For all eternity in Hell? AG Pam Bondi is going to jail, no question,  as is Kristi Noem. As soon as Trump's term is finished they better flee the country. In fact, most of his senior WH staff better flee the country. People are keeping score of all the laws they've broken. "The Law & Order Administration" what a joke. Trump is smart in a way that he keeps these (Star Trek) red shirts in his administration to take the fall for him. Saying, "I was following orders" is not an excuse. They could have resigned and walked away like the first lady did with this marriage. Is that woman still alive? Has she been deported? Can someone check? They're divorce is 100% pending. If it wasn't for the threat of being deported along with all of her family Malania would have divorced him already. I think that's why Trump picks foreign woman. He can threaten them with deportation. 

Oh hey, PSA, you can run for president at 35 years of age. Sooooo can we stop with the old president geezers now. Sure, you can vote for a man in his 80's to run the country but just remember how much we HATE IT when they drive, or when they're in line ahead of us cashing out, or when they tell us about that one "funny" time they got lost in Ikea, or how much they hate brushing and flossing. And look, Biden or Trump, any man in his 80's, if we're not blood related I don't want to have to deal with you at all, ever. That's what YOUR FAMILY is for. If he's 80 years old and super cuddly-cute like a little harmless bunny, awwe, maybe we can have coffee twice a year, but still, it's HIS FAMILY's bunny. Dig? Women have a much longer mental shelf life than men these days it seems. 

I knit bootie slippers! 

It's not by choice I quit drinking & smoking. I beat my body up so badly in my youth it no longer functions properly on its own anymore. I now take a fistful of prescriptions every day if I want to continue living. (Sigh) I really enjoyed smoking, drinking red wine, and a well made margarita and/or martini. I miss it all very, very much.

I always loved knitting but now it's a compulsion that replaces smoking and drinking. 

I like square toe better than round. More wiggle room. Super comfy to wear in bed. They say warm feet helps you sleep better. True?

*Knitted from multi colored skeins of yarn. Socks won't match.

Knitting Oooohm. Knitting Oooohm. 

My favorite Youtube channel is Scenic Relaxation. They just posted a Christmas reel. So freaking beautiful. Whenever I need to relax this is my go-to channel. They've gotten better controlling their camera drones. In their early videos it was more like a landscape roller coaster ride. 

And then this happened: 

I lived with a mentally ill abusive woman back when I was a kid. In the 70's and 80's America swept mentally ill family members under the rug. I've read A LOT of psychology/philosophy books written by all different kinds of doctors and philosophers and just about everyone agrees the gateway to your line of thinking as an adult begins in childhood. Whatever trauma dump, whatever issues you have as an adult, all stem from childhood. I think, personally, all the hostility this woman has against the LGBTQ+ community stems from trauma she received in childhood, and as I've said here repeatedly in this blog, Nancy Mace does have a very masculine look to her, not that it's a bad thing, but I'm guessing this is where her bullying the LGBTQ+ community comes from, she was bullied or insulted by someone she deeply cared about, and/or she has been teased one time too many and snapped. Rather than clapping back at the people who gave her grief, she choose to submit to the bullies and become a bully herself. 

THEM: "You look like a man."

And her response should have been "I'm sorry you feel that way" and then moved on instead of letting it fester in her mind until becoming a Joker-like villain.

"I'm sorry you feel that way" is the most epic clap-back brush-off there is especially if you had a relationship with that person. 

AND

Oh dear. The Republican face-bake is making Kristi Noem look like Carl Tanzler's death mask. IFYKYK. Why ladies? Why do you do this to yourselves. This type of make-up never belongs on a 50+ year old face because you will always end up looking like this: 

I want women to do better. I want women to take responsibility for themselves, blame themselves for their own faults, learn from their faults, and then improve their lives. I'm so into women's liberation and independence because that's my childhood trauma dump. My dad married a useless woman because he got her pregnant. Thus, my take on life is: Life doesn't punish, it teaches. God provides. Only mankind destroys. It took me until my 50's to undo the nightmare of my marriage and remember my childhood lessons. 

AND

Yes! When did dads stop telling their sons women are expensive? Seriously. I heard my dad tell my brothers "Girls are expensive. You need a job, a car, and money if you want a girlfriend" back when they were like 16 years old. Men in society, like it or not, agree with it or not, are nonetheless judged by their careers, their houses/cars, and their wives. Top dog wannabes need to make top dog dollars to keep top shelf wives. Other men in society will judge if his wife is looking shabby he must not be doing so well. 

Don't get me wrong, I don't have a problem with working women but if she's young and her goal is marriage and children, and those men who are also looking for marriage and children, need to step up their game. Love is grand but it doesn't pay the bills. My ex-husband expected me to work a full time job and clean the house, do all the cooking, do all the laundry, but I said "no" to having children with him because I would be the one doing all that AND raising the kids. No. N.O. I married him because I fell in love. Love is grand but if he can't pay all the bills without complaining AND keep a wife looking good and refreshed every day, move on ladies. Fellas, if you want a wifey, you better start making that wifey money. 

I wish my grandma was alive. She would love this man so much. He jokes around a lot but I still hear my grandma talking sometimes watching his reels. "Or else we're not going to Bible study, ever." 😄

Its all about making better choices. Learn how to eat alone. Learn how to be alone. Take it from grandma, it's better to be alone working on yourself than dealing with someone you don't really want to be with just to not eat alone. Get a cat. 

AND

Here's my thing when it comes to voting for a president, if I never want to be seen in public with you for coffee, if I'm that embarrassed to be seen in public with you, I'm not voting for you. If both candidates make me want to scream and run out of the room with an added door slam, then I'm forced to vote for the person I hate the least. ONE DAY, there will be a candidate among the top two I actually like. Pete Buttigieg. Gavin Newsom. If Judge Judy ran for president I would campaign my heart out for her and she's 83. She's still got it. Last interview I saw of her she still had her wits about her, but if she ever got to the point where she can't say "China" in a normal tone of voice, she's out. 

My whole thing about being old is, since my split from my ex-husband in 2012, I've been single, no boyfriend, no nothing, thus I've been planning my decline and death as a single person. You have to. What other option is there, simply die and let someone else deal with you? 

Is there a chance I'll find husband #2, I don't know, maybe. It would be nice but I'm also not holding my breath. Unlike the first time, I know what I want now. Being able to say I'm fifty-something is second marriage material in this here part of the country (Minnesota). I think in California once a woman hits fifty-something and have not met spouse #2 they automatically sign you up for an episode of Snapped and just wait for your story to happen, then give your episode a title. 

ANYWAY...       

I'm 100% Janey-come-lately to (tv show) Mythical Kitchen. I haven't owned a television set since 2019. That's not a flex. Who flexes not owning a television set? Rooms I've rented since 2019 had smart TV's for streaming which is what I do on my phone and/or laptop anyway. I recently found Mythical Kitchen on Youtube and it's my new listen-to when knitting. The host, however, of Mythical Kitchen lacks a great deal of social grace it seems. He'll say things like, "So your father's dead and you keep going to In and Out Burger without him" like bro, you don't have to be Shakespeare but have a little more verbal elegance. Wow. "So your father's dead and..." ranks right up there with "calm down" and starting a sentence with "Look..."   

I was really into (youtube) Hot Ones for a while but then for a long stretch I had no idea who the younger generation guests were and stopped watching. 

AND THEN

In this episode of pretty people problems:   

Oh dear.

Miss Finland was stripped of her Miss Universe crown because of this photo. No fellas, I'm sure she's perfectly stable. Not the least bit Snapped. Just an adult adulting in 2025, but just in case she comes at you in the middle of the night with a chef's knife, what would you like your Snapped episode to be called? 

All that pretty people validation stripped away. I'm amazed at the amount of people who don't know what cameras do.

As you may or may not know, if you don't watch the Miss universe pageants, I don't, never have but this story kept popping up in my late night doom scrolls, it was reported that someone named Nawat Itsaragrisil, a Thai pageant official "reprimanded" Miss Mexico for not promoting the pageant on social media or something I really don't know the details but, it apparently caused a row with some ladies and Miss Finland got mad when... she... won... the crown. Wait, what? She won? Adulting is so hard sometimes.

She won. 

Sooooo, why she mad at Asian people? I really do need to stop trying to understand rando fits of... wait a minute! Is that her in the middle? No. Is it? No! That woman in the middle looks Asian! You know I just can't tell anymore with all the plastic surgery these days and ten layers of Asian eye-makeup. Hate the game, ladies, not the players! 

Because of this row among the pretty people, I looked up Sarah Dzafce last name origin story because I know a little something about that part of the continent, circa Finland and neighboring countries, my ex-husband is an Estonian Swede, plus I grew up in Minnesota with nothing but Germans and Norwegians, I'm familiar with last names in that part of the world and Dzafce is the least Finnish sounding name I ever heard, oh wait, that's because it's origin is, according to daddy Google:

Geographical Roots: Balkans (Bosnia, Albania, North Macedonia)

Ooooh. Ok. It all makes sense now. Maybe Dzafce received some childhood pushback from xenophobes in Finland much in the same way Swedish thoroughbreds know my ex-husband's last name is Estonian, and even though my ex's first language is Swedish, he was born and raised in Sweden, is therefor Swedish, still, thoroughbred Swede xenophobes continue to call him Estonian. They refuse to acknowledge he was born and raised in Sweden. It's always something in the childhood, eh Freud? Was Sarah Dzafce born in Finland? No matter really, xenophobes create Xenophobes. 

I never understood the whole slanty-eye thing. I'm Asian, Korean. I get mistaken the most for being Hispanic. Why the slanty-eye thing? People constantly came up to me speaking Spanish. I got that all the time in California. 30+ years on the west coast of people assuming I speak Spanish. A black lady metro driver here in Minnesota greeted me with "Hola!" just last week. Why didn't she just say "Hello" or "Hi" if she absolutely had to say something to me at all. Anyway, sorry, no habla Espanol, just the white man's version and poorly at that.

 

I'm not the type of Christian who lies who says, "I'll pray for her" meaning Sarah Dzafce, because I'm not going to pray for her. There are consequences to your actions whether you agree with those consequences or not. Life doesn't punish, my dears, it teaches.

And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbor; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him;

Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth:

as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be

done to him again.

-- Leviticus 24:19,20

Ok bye!