By Andrea Menzies
Happy Super Bowl weekend to all. It has become as much of a holiday as Thanksgiving or Halloween by this point. I don’t follow sports very much, but I do like the half-time show and funny commercials.
Category: Holiday News
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Why Road-trip
By Andrea Menzies
People often ask me why I buy so many books on road-trips. Here is an example of why I am trying to drive to escape Virginia. I text my daughter and mother many examples from the years I had to get rape therapy after I was in the military, and how military wife teachers torture me daily when I am working at my teaching job. I found a new school I have to put on-block this week due to a co-worker constantly screaming.
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Work Back
By Andrea Menzies
I am so glad they are giving me more teaching work to do tomorrow. Snow days are fun at first, but the snowman company loses charms really fast after the first couple days. I am starting to understand why many really scary films have people being trapped in the snow as part of the plot.
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Happy Groundhog Day
By Andrea Menzies
Groundhog Day is February 2nd so Happy Groundhog Day to all! According to legend the groundhog runs from a shadow if there is going to be a long bad winter, and with the storms we just had here it is clear he will need Olympic grade running shoes for his shadow this year. Maybe a tiny racing motorcycle to escape the monster shadow.
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Facebook Done
By Andrea Menzies
My Facebook is now deleted. The real page for me at https://www.facebook.com/PoedaughterFH7/ is now on delete. I may reactivate it years from now if a friend dies, and I want to post RIP before deactivating it again. Facebook thinks the “real names” policy makes it easier for school friends to stay in touch, but if you ever had military men pointlessly try to abuse and harass you to death like I have it makes it SUPER easy for men who want to stalk and abuse women find them online and harass them. People who want to commit identity fraud can easily find your work, home, and school information, and use it to impersonate you. Going on vacation? Facebook helps people who want to rob you know when you will not be home to guard your stuff. Facebook used to claim it would be spam free, but now wants to sell expensive things every two seconds on marketplace and expensive and useless online dating. It is a shower of advertisements. Worst of all the Facebook founder Zucker-jerk is totally dumping funding into terrible politics. I have to at least try to lower the content that is driving the spam Olympics of Facebook. Many other people are so fed up with social media funding jerks that Livejournal has actually been getting traffic again, and there is a new social media refugee group on there. In addition Bluesky has dedicated itself to social media that protests the agenda of mainstream social media. People wonder where the money is coming from to fund the evil actions shown daily on TV, and every Facebook click creates user traffic that funds expensive advertising.
P.S. I know Instagram and X are just as bad in many ways, and I am cutting back on using them as well. Tumblr, BlueSky, Live journal, and WordPress are the only places I will post from now on if I have an update.
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Artic Bummer
By Andrea Menzies
This Artic Blast is now officially a bummer. All schools, airports, and work things are closed. Yet fun and social activities are also not-do-able for the week as well.
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No Speaker
By Andrea Menzies
Everyone keeps trying to get me to work in Spanish speaking jobs this week. I do not speak Spanish. Any person in my family speaking Spanish learned it from a book. My parents worked travel jobs in France and Germany when I was a kid. They were both U.S. citizens born in the USA, and I was born on US soil. My passport says I am a US citizen. I mentioned to a few people I spoke other languages as a kid at lunch one day, and I am from Texas. The other languages were German and French as my dad worked in Germany. It is a seriously prejudice and disturbing trend I see in Virginia that they think all Texas people are originally from Mexico. You put me in a class filled with kids from Mexico they may get killed with me not understanding them at all in an emergency.
This is why I am leaving Facebook: A conversation someone said to me on there. Ronaldo AquinoIsn’t there an app or two for that? I saw this old Chinese woman using it with a nurse. Ronaldo Aquino Andrea Menzies It is slow as a nightmare to whip that out in class. Also students use slang that is not programed into apps so that is not a real option for teachers at all. I tried it and students misbehave like garbage ever second a teacher tries to use Google translate. Thank you for being an example of why I am quitting Facebook. Everyone criticizes me and gives me NOTHING but STUPID answers to my every statement.
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Good Grades
By Andrea Menzies
I made all passing grades at university night school class this semester. Today has had bad ups and downs, but it had the good news of passing grades for the semester in night school. I even got an A grade. I transferred out of the first grad school program I was in due to cost issues. The new school has been far better with prices and schedules. It gives me hope that more positive changes in my life are on the horizon after the cold and dark of Virginia’s disgusting nightmare experiences are over. I have only felt disappointments and agony in the truly horrible location of Virginia.
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Trip Cancelled
By Andrea Menzies
I told many people I was going to Maryland for a concert this weekend by train. Then a huge snow storm moved in, and I had to cancel. There is a big difference between trying to go somewhere on a sunny 40 degree weather day and traveling in a snow nightmare. This is reason number one million that I need a travel RV van for road trips as trains and hotels charge huge fees for cancellations. I hate Virginia with all my soul, and the dream of getting away from the nightmare place for a weekend was my only joy. Why did weather reports not show this storm sooner?
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Prize Won
By Andrea Menzies
I won three prizes for the SunnyFit app gold metal New Year’s Resolutions contest this week! They really send awards won with fitness points on the free app! I have asthma and a heart murmur so I must do fitness very slowly like one mile per hour. Yet slow and steady win the race. The little bracelet I was not surprised they sent me for free, but the bike cadence sensor was really nice and also free! My podcast review is this is the best fitness app on the Internet. #Winforfree
Free SunnyFit towels. 
Free SunnyFit bracelet. 
Asthma medications are what I must take before workouts.
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