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user-inactivated  ·  2681 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: November 23, 2016

I'm cooking dinner for my family tomorrow, and my brother has decided to attend instead of flying down to Texas. I'm not too excited. It'll mean hours of listening to rants about Trump, and asking when I'm going back to college and leaving my job.

It's hard to put up with him brushing off my union won benefits as not being worth doing blue collar work (he's a green party member no less), and then having him turn around and complain about his health care costs.

Yes, I was stressing about dealing with my insurance from the dog bite a few weeks ago, but not because of the costs. I'm lucky in that regard, for most people it would have been a lot worse. I was pissed about how the city didn't communicate with me.

If I'm feeling sassy, I'll bring along the information pamphlet I have about how my plan breaks down.

On another note, my friends are doing a secret santa this year, and the website they chose has a wishlist section. I'm populating mine with links to donation pages: if you've got a favorite cause I'm open to suggestions.