40 things for Friday #152 (Kitty chronicles, current events, and the headache that just won’t quit.)

1.  It’s Thursday afternoon when I’m starting this and I’m on the upward swing.

2.  Woke up with a wicked headache (as my Boston friends would say) but the body aches have passed.

3.  There’s a little exhaustion but it’s eons better than yesterday so I’ll take it.

4.  Pretty sure I’ll even be up for making dinner.

5.  Can I get a whoop whoop?

6.  I absolutely can hear all of you whoop whooping.

7.  Many enthusiastic thanks.

8.  And if you’re not whooping I still say thanks because your eyeballs are here looking over my 40 Things for the week.

9.  That’s a win.

10.  Seven is curled up on my hip while I’m writing.

11.  The cats divide the day with me.

12.  Mittens owns the daylight hours.

13.  She’ll come have coffee with me in the morning and curls up beside me for afternoon naps.

14.  She is a snoozy soul.

15.  Seven owns the nighttime.

16.  He’ll come curl up beside me after dinner, stretching and bathing as he sees fit.

17.  He’ll sleep in the most bizarre positions, sometimes curling around until he’s snoring away upside down and oblivious to the world.

18.  This is often when Mittens decides to slide over for an evening visit.

19.  The betrayal on her little face when she pops up on the chair and sees The Boy Cat in her spot…

20.  It would be funny if she didn’t look so stricken.

21.  Okay, it turns out I wasn’t really up for making dinner but I did eat something last night so big gains over Wednesday.

22.  I like food. Food is important.

23.  You know things are really bad when I don’t want the food.

24.  Wednesday was that kind of night.

25.  Major boo.

26.  Anyway, it’s nice to be on the more human realm with an actual appetite again.

27.  What else?

28.  My friend shared an extraordinary piece by Chris Armitage with me.

29.  It starts with this:

“In 1933, German conservatives thought they could control Hitler. Two years later, they were being executed in their own homes. I spent weeks researching this question, desperately looking for counter-examples, for hope, for any time in history where people successfully stopped fascists after they started winning elections.

Here’s what I found: Once fascists win power democratically, they have never been removed democratically. Not once. Ever.”

30.  You can check it out here.

31.  It’s not a light read but it’s a powerful one.

32.  Let’s find some visuals to round out the day.

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39.  Y’all, I do not know why this one rolls as soon as you open the post but it keeps going into related videos and for the life of me I can’t correct it. If you don’t see a woman with chicken on a wood cutting board just hit refresh on your browser and it should correct.

40.  Happy Friday, everyone. There’s a lot going on in the world. Find something that makes you smile today.