I wish eggs in the US weren't washed, it's so much easier to just leave them outside and not have to worry about keeping them cool
I'm staying at Jackson hole for 2 nights and I'm currently thinking about hitting the trail tomorrow, but I'm not sure if there will be too much snow or if the conditions are hazardous since I don't have too much experience hiking in said conditions
I was doing some budgeting since I will probably have to drop a rack for an unexpected dental expense and just realized that, since January, I'm somehow spending $1400 a month
That left me in shock to see that since my job offers free housing and have stayed in countless weekends ever since the gas price hikes hit
I know I do treat myself sometimes, but I didn't know I treated myself enough to rack up $1.4k
I usually spend $150-200 in groceries which last me about 2 weeks; I buy in bulk to save gas since the nearest store is about 40 mi away
My monthly bills are:
- $277 for car insurance
- $45 for phone plan
- $15 for monthly subscriptions (Spotify, Google one)
Last time I paid for gas, I spent about $45 for half a tank (hence why I haven't gone anywhere these days)
I occasionally send about $75-100 to my mom living abroad and sometimes set aside the same amount of cash to deposit into my savings account
I'm very likely not listing random goodies I don't remember about, but genuinely the last I got for myself was a pair of binoculars ($200) I got with my tax refund, some camping equipment (about $150 total) and a handful of steam games that were 75-90% off (~$30) throughout the course of the year
Is there anything I can do? I'm currently looking into schedueling an oppointment next week for a temporary crown since I'm going to be moving to another state this following weekend
I literally had just applied for health/dental insurance last night, ohh my luck sometimes I guess
I'd appreciate it a lot if they were affordable, my crown got loose and I swallowed it on accident
I had just applied for health/dental insurance last night, ohh my luck sometimes
I'm a Mexican who was born in LA but raised both there and in Mexico
I've been living in rural Idaho since January because of work and will soon be moving to Nevada for the same reasons
Being out here feels so alienating; like I don't mind living in rural areas, it's pretty much something that comes with my line of work - hell, I once spent a month and a half in a remote island and I had the time of my life
Moving/traveling all over the place is nothing new to me, but this is the first time I've left California/Baja Peninsula for any significant period of time; I was pretty lucky to find plenty of volunteer and work opportunities around that area and I would make it a priority to stay there, but the budget cuts and government shutdown last year turned that plan upside down
More than anything, I just miss West Coast culture and being around fellow latinos to the point where I often find myself just watching videos of LA and "Mexicans being Mexicans" to put it in anyway for hours
I love this newfound independence I've had and I finally feel like I'm living the life I've wanted to live for years, but sometimes it comes at a price
- Was a white man who was extremely handsome in youth and was born in a well-off family - he could've easily lived off being a nepobaby, but still rejected the opportunity
- Probably the most interesting and charismatic figure in modern history
- Was protesting for worker's rights even before becoming a revolutionary
- Over 3/4 of his men died in a firefight when landing on Cuban shores, had to scurry to the mountains, and still managed to take over the country somehow
- Led a national liberation movement on an island right next to what's arguably the biggest imperial superpower in history
- Despite the cheer brutalization the Cuban population had to endure through its decades living under colonial rule, the M-26-7 was extremely merciful towards its oppressors and held multiple public trails against those who were accused of being Batista's men
- The very second he took power, Fidel started building social welfare infrastructure and quality of life skyrocketed
- The only times Fidel deployed soldiers outside of Cuba was to aid other national liberation movements around the globe, at the expense of Cuba, merely because he saw it as his ideological duty to do so
- Survived over 600 assassination attempts that we know of and even fucked that one chick who the CIA sent to kill him; hell, even himself knew that many wanted him dead and didn't even wear protection when he visited the US
- Has sent doctors worldwide in humanitarian missions without expecting anything in return - even offered to send in doctors to the US when hurricane Katrina hit despite the fact that they're the single biggest existential threat to Cuba
- Was one of the first world leaders to openly recognize the existential threat of climate change and advocate for ecological conservation
- The whole diary arc
- While he did have homophobic policies at first, he deeply regretted this and not only publicly apologized, but also outlawed prosecution of LGBTQ people, had state sponsored gender-affirming surgeries since the late 80s and set up Cuba to have the single most progressive family code in the world
- The dude was so forward thinking and was already talking about in-house computer production to aid in hospitals when they were just barely being developed (as heard from one of the recent Cuba episodes)
- Up until recently, they provided the highest childhood quality of life in Latin America according to UNICEF; even then, iirc their birth mortality rate is still lower than some US states
I might be hella glazing Fidel, but he's such an inspiration to me and, as a Mexican, gives me so much hope for a unified socialist Latin America. Thinking about all of this brings a tear to my eye.