Am I Doing This Right?

Am I Doing This Right?

by MichelleMcHatton

Once again the holidays are upon us and once again I struggle with the thought that I’m just not doing them right.  By “doing them right” I mean, like my mother used to.  Because when she left us over twenty years ago, I took over the holiday duties.  And although I’ve made them my own, I always have to ask myself if I’m doing them right.

For instance, with Thanksgiving, I know there aren’t as many homemade foods as there would be with my mother in charge.  I don’t make pie crusts from scratch.  I also don’t make one of each kind of pie.  I make five pies and two of them are chocolate pudding pies.  We no longer eat butternut squash because, although we graduated to the frozen version, it just got too time consuming heating each package up in the microwave.  We don’t even use real potatoes, mainly because of time.  And because we prefer instant potatoes.

When I first took over twenty years ago I made the stuffing by hand, crumbling bread in a food processor.  I no longer have a food processor, as I only used it at Thanksgiving and it took up too much space in my already small kitchen.  I now use pre-made seasoned bread crumbs and saute onion and celery and add it to the mix, along with water or if I want to fancy it up a bit, chicken broth.  But that’s not how my mother used to make the stuffing.  The way I do Thanksgiving is nothing how she used to do it.

All these years later I should accept that this is the way we do Thanksgiving now.  Nobody has complained in the past twenty years and they keep coming to my house for dinner, so I must be doing something right.  But I still can’t stop asking myself if I’m missing something or if I’m doing everything right.

REVIEW: “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood”

REVIEW: “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood”

by MichelleMcHatton

As many have already done as well, I finally got to see this highly anticipated film.  I was not disappointed.

For a full review, take a gander at my “Been there, seen it, read it, heard it, done that” page.

 

What’s in a Christmas Song?

What’s in a Christmas Song?

by MichelleMcHatton

Once again the airwaves are filling up with the sounds of Christmas.  Which is fine with me, since I love Christmas and actually listen to the music all year long.

There is one song, however, that I have grown immensely tired of hearing.  No, it’s not Mariah’s song.  Yet.  It’s “Baby, It’s Cold Outside”.  Controversy aside, I’m simply bored with it.  I don’t care who sings it, I’m done with it.  And it has nothing to do with its “controversy”.

No disrespect to John Legend and Kelly Clarkson’s lyrical remake this year, which I won’t get into because that topic has grown tiresome also.  But whether you change the lyrics or not, it’s still a 70-year-old worn out song.  You can argue over the meaning of the lyrics until the end of time, it’s not going to change the fact that, in the end, it’s just another classic Christmas song.  One that has grown old with the ages.  Take it or leave it.

For me, “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” has gone out to pasture.

Why Would You Want To?

Why Would You Want To?

by MichelleMcHatton

Sean Doolittle should not second guess himself on his decision to not attend his team’s White House gathering.  It takes a lot to stand for what you believe in.  He should be proud of himself.  He’s part of a baseball team that won the World Series.  It shouldn’t matter if he visits the White House.  It’s not going to make him, or any other member of the Nationals, any more a winner whether they visit or not.  Doolittle has no issue with his teammates visiting and his teammates respect his wishes as well.  Which is cool.  That’s how it should be.

Yet there are many who are riled up about Doolittle refusing to visit the White House.  Some say he’s wrong because he’s not honoring the office of the “Presidency”.  Folks, Doolittle is a baseball player.  He won a baseball game.  The “host” at the White House got booed at a baseball game because he’s an asshole.  Doolittle doesn’t need to honor an asshole.  Nobody needs to.  If there’s anything Doolittle would honor, it’s the game of baseball.

I’m sure Doolittle would love to visit the White House itself.  After all, it’s just a house.  If the “host” were not present, Doolittle may not have an issue visiting the House.  But it’s who “resides” in the House, who will be “hosting” the visit (more than likely with hamberders and fries), that is the problem.  The “host”, as the world knows, is someone who is against inclusion, something Doolittle is very much in support of.  The “host” mocked a disabled reporter.  Doolittle has an autistic brother-in-law.  So anyone with half a brain should be able to understand why Doolittle does not want to visit the White House.  And if you can’t understand it, or refuse to, then you’re simply ignorant

Instead of people asking why Sean Doolittle won’t visit the White House, people should be asking why anyone would want to visit the White House.  Especially with its current inhabitant.

Doolittle said it best when he gave this explanation, which is all the explanation he needs to give, if any at all:

“People say you should go because it’s about respecting the office of the president.  And I think over the course of his time in office he’s done a lot of things that maybe don’t respect the office.”

What Are We Calling It?

What Are We Calling It?

by MichelleMcHatton

Tonight the alleged “Press Secretary” of the United States made a statement in rebuttal to today’s testimony by William Taylor, the former US Ambassador to Ukraine.  Her first sentence indicates that SHITHOLE has done nothing wrong.  And that’s just her first lie.  Because since he became “president”, SHITHOLE has yet to do anything right.  In fact, and it is a fact, if only he had been playing his “presidency” correctly and not wrongly, America would not be in the midst of an impeachment right now.  She goes on in her “statement” to mention all that is happening is a “smear campaign” (something her “boss” knows a lot about).  But just today SHITHOLE himself called it a “lynching”.  It’s also been called a “witch hunt” and “fake news”.  Christ, make up your minds.  Which is it?  She says that what is happening is “waging war on the Constitution” (there’s that document again…the one her “boss” knows nothing about).

She goes on to say there was “no quid pro quo”.  There’s that phrase once again.  It’s everywhere!  Because her “boss” has been doing lots of it.  Her statement continues on saying that “today was just more triple hearsay and selective leaks from the Democrats’ politically-motivated, closed door, secretive hearings”.  Hold it.  Does this bitch realize that only one person was testifying today (not three–and that’s not hearsay–he was really there, both today and then), that most of the leaks have come right from the White House and that in those closed door secretive meetings there were also Republicans?  Or is she as stupid as her “boss”?

She blabs on to say that “every day this nonsense continues more taxpayer time and money is wasted”.  Funny, most of America feels the same way when her “boss” goes golfing!  Which he has done for the majority of his “presidency”.  We’ve been keeping track.  Talk about wasting taxpayer money!

Now here’s the big laugh of her “statement”.  She claims SHITHOLE is “leading the way for the American people by delivering a safer, stronger and more secure country”.  Yes, all the members of ISIS that recently escaped from Syria, because SHITHOLE allowed them to, will certainly make America, and the rest of the world, much, much safer.  All the people he encourages at his pep rallies to entice violence on minorities are certainly doing their part in keeping America safer.  How’s that wall coming along?  You know the one that people have been recording themselves climbing over?  And how about that great gun reform you have going on.  Wow.  If anything this country has not become more safe, strong or secure.  It’s become more stupid, selfish and insecure.  Kind of just like the SHITHOLE who is “running” it.

She then finishes off her shitty statement by referring to the Democrats by her “boss'” favorite bully nickname:  the do-nothings.  No, if SHITHOLE was actually doing his “job” then they would be “do-nothings”.  Because then they wouldn’t have to do anything to protect the country from SHITHOLE.

Remember:  Mueller said that “if we had confidence the ‘president’ did not commit a crime, we would have said so”.  And they didn’t say so.  It still has not been proven that SHITHOLE has not committed a crime.  Until it is actually proven that SHITHOLE has not committed a crime, then all cards are on the table and it’s safe to say that he has committed a crime.  Or two.  Or three.  Or four.  Or more.  Just because someone says he hasn’t done anything wrong, doesn’t make it true.  Those are only words.  This “administration” and this SHITHOLE say a lot of things to make you believe things.  Because that’s what they want.  It’s called gaslighting.  And people that fall for it are victims.

All SHITHOLE has at this point in the game is his fading followers.  He will always have the fools.  They can’t help themselves.  What is unfortunate is that they are the ones who will be hurt the most when all is said and done.  Because SHITHOLE doesn’t care about them.  Because he can’t.  He can only care about himself.  It’s part of his disease.  He is a psychopathic narcissist.  He is the biggest two-face in Washington, DC (and there are a lot of two-faces in Washington, DC–many of them right in SHITHOLE’S own “administration”).

If you’re one of the fools who still support SHITHOLE and you wonder why this impeachment is happening to him, remember, you’re one of the fools who begged us to “give him a chance” and you should also remember (if you can think for yourself) that if he hadn’t done anything wrong, an impeachment wouldn’t be happening to him.  Because innocent “presidents” don’t get impeached.  It’s very simple:  you do something wrong, you get impeached.  You don’t do anything wrong, you don’t get impeached.  Get over it.