I have been a widow for 22 years now. This has always been a hard day for me since becoming single again. A few years ago I decided to buy myself 💐 flowers. That helped. I deserve them. This year I did not due to leaving on a trip soon which would make it prior to them wilting.
Going skydiving is on my bucket list. Everyone thinks I’m nuts but I’ve always wanted to fly in the sky. I was the wild one in college. Some things I didn’t do but I watched others. Brings back lots of college memories.
Happy V Day, all – especially OG! I got 12 on that quiz because I didn’t count the one and only cigarette my grandma made me smoke when I was 9 to convince me never to try it again. It worked!
Gotta love the Obamas!
Count that smoke Girl! There were no qualifiers on the quiz. Think back I bet you find two more that you did but don’t wanna admit. It’s ok. No shame for living here!😉
Barack Obama was back in Chicago on Friday for NBA All-Star Weekend, and Bulls center Wendell Carter Jr. got some face time with him. https://t.co/7EGqvtfiuo
Trump insisted no troops were seriously injured in Iraq, but a Philly vet’s final words show the true cost of war | Helen Ubiñas https://t.co/yYnVswGsQj via @phillyinquirer
It’s a big day in Chicago as @NBAAllStar returns to our city for the first time since 1988. But before tipoff we’re kicking things off with a day of service for neighborhood kids at @ChiPubSchools with @BarackObama and the @NBA Rising Stars. pic.twitter.com/RtSei0FSsj
Pelicans’ Zion Williamson on his meeting with President Barack Obama: “He said I was playing great. I kind of zoned out after that. That’s all I needed to hear, to be honest.” pic.twitter.com/EbJMGrw3K0
Just because I know you’ll like it, one of my fave early Victorian watercolours (Black Charley, the Norwich shoeseller by John Dempsey) pic.twitter.com/uHEsAdWSkX
This just made me laugh, and I thought I’d share. Goodnight, TODville!
if you ask me, what's wrong with kids today is that they spend too much time on their phones and not enough time running away from home to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and working with eccentric elderly ladies to confirm the provenance of Renaissance-era sculptures
💖💞 Sending a vortertine card to my TOD Fam. Inside my vortertine: use your power & empower everyone around you to vote.
Never surrender your power. Everyone! Eff iQ45 en masse!
(Eff MSM & their constant spewage of “gotta beat iQ45”. Let’s give him back his bone spurs. Side question, random thought: if bone spurs gets one out of enlisting, shouldn’t those same bone spurs disqualify one from being CIC? 😳😏 😂)
An hour ago I had never heard of this Democrat @HillaryMueri in my life. Republicans are trying to switboat her because they know she is a Navy Combat Veteran that can flip a seat in November. Follow her. I will do all I can to help her win. https://t.co/kFcKSOoQV9
I heard a little more barking than normal from the puppy corral, so I went to check it out. It was Rocky, letting me know that his brother Ryman… might need a little help. pic.twitter.com/iu605vulW7
Ha! When I was in college, one of my roommates made the mistake of going into a nearby pet store around Easter. She walked out with a cute little duckling that quickly grew into a big ass duck…. like this one! 4 girls, one duck. Hilarity ensued. We used to walk it on a leash around campus:) I swear that’s how one of my roommates got her dates. Not me though… I was busy getting all but 5 on that damn list:)
30 years ago, this image was taken by @NASAVoyager before its cameras were shut off to save power. A newly-processed version of the “Pale Blue Dot” image shows Earth 4+ billion miles (6.4 million km) away. https://t.co/lG2u1fQVSipic.twitter.com/6z4YFlD5ut
🌖 🚀 A budget for a new era of space exploration 👩🚀 👨🚀 Do you have what it takes to #BeAnAstronaut? 👩🚀 🌎 Now home on Earth, @Astro_Christina reflects on her record-setting mission
Our country’s history is one where land was stolen, where Native communities were massacred, where Native children and babies were stripped of their heritage. We must reckon with the reality of our history. pic.twitter.com/NblxyODqk9
Earlier this week, I questioned the Census Director about fake census forms that are actually RNC mailers. Since then, people have been contacting my office sharing their experience, including someone who received this text today from the Trump campaign! (mini-thread) pic.twitter.com/gMcyC7YI5Z
Perfect!! Glad that someone said that so succinctly! I’m with Roland Martin. I’ve turned all the yapping off. All of it. I don’t even watch RM or LOD any more. So done with all the doom and gloom. For what?? Two lily white states with no people? Click
Though I love RM and LOD, I just couldn’t watch anymore. To tell you the truth either I’m on twitter or I’m here reading and interacting with people that I want to follow. The dumbing down of American is well underway.
As the first woman to chair the House Oversight and Reform Committee, @RepMaloney’s leadership on this is an inspiring reminder that recognition is empowering. Women’s history is American history. I was proud to vote for her Women’s History Museum Bill. https://t.co/ZQgfdStxQl
jazziz– thanks for this lovely visual. Have you found that seriously tracking your plastic is a shocker..
Am buying in bulk where possible and the diet is low carbon, fresh veggies, but everything = everything is touched by plastic big and small and very small. There are compostable bags for veggies now, but plastic is so inescapable. A fab variety of organic greens for salads but they’re in plastic boxes! Something gotta be done. Eventually there will be a way to weigh whatever you put in your OWN container at the checkout, for use along with your own bags and baskets of course. Must shut down the PRODUCTION of plastic,
that was seen as the magical answer to everything when it was invented. Now it is strangling us.
America the bully is adamantly dumping on smaller nations despite their objections. Our town does not even recycle it. A massively obscene situation when whales are beaching due to plastic, and we are all eating at least a credit card amount of plastic every week. If we want to, we can fix it. We can halt and reverse climate crisis too if we want our species to continue (apparently some don’t)….small rant…
–have a good weekend!
1️⃣9️⃣ White House claim of imminent attack on 4 embassies revealed to be lie. 2️⃣0️⃣ Revelation: Trump attempted second assassination on 1/7—of Iranian only threatening to UAE ally Saudi Arabia. 2️⃣1️⃣ WH report on Soleimani strike makes no mention of imminent threat.
2️⃣5️⃣ Conclusion: Trump cost U.S. 109 casualties (and counting), and nearly drew America into war, to aid UAE and Saudi Arabia geopolitically, aid Netanyahu politically, and help himself escape impeachment. Then he lied about intelligence and intent to all America.
this is my prayer. We have to talk to people we know to remember WHO has always been there for us and who will be there for us when the election is over.
Sens. Warren, Van Hollen, Hirono and Markey have unveiled legislation that would prohibit individuals appointed by the President to positions at DOJ from participating in matters relating to the President, his family, or his campaign associates. https://t.co/hycAXS7TW5
Thanks to all that wished me a Happy Valentines Day back yesterday! ❤️ & 💐 to all of you. Happy Monday coming as out Presidents Day 🎉 celebration. May we celebrate all prior, not current President.
In order to win the future for our children, imo we must do what THEY see clearly as necessary.
We must accept why young people want to move forward. And accept that they WILL vote against so-called moderates—who are actually Nixon Republicans.
Two Tweets that show what a s***show the Dem Primary is becoming….smdh
Bloomberg talking about selecting Hillary Clinton as his VP……..as if Hillary wants to be a VP…let alone Bloomberg’s VP………….smh again……………..and Bernie Sanders talking about selecting Tulsi Gabbard as his VP…..INCREDIBLE….i wonder what Nina Turner thinks about Sanders’ choice…i wonder if she had her eye on that spot…
GIVE ME A BREAK!!!!
Come onnnnnnnnnn Biden..deliver us from this travesty…show the voters that you are the candidate that is capable…and needed
Great Thoughts Alycee…but there is a a thing called justifiable anger…as long as it does not paralyze you…to tell you the truth i am more Astonished than angry…it is incredible where we are today…
I say impeach his sorry fat ass AGAIN, and maybe some senators will have learned THEIR lessons!!
"If a president attempted to misuse the Justice Dept. and its criminal justice power for private ends, that's an abuse of power that is potentially impeachable," Bruce Green, a law professor at Fordham said. "We can guess in 2020 how that would play out." https://t.co/tA29pUt9Dk
Is anyone going to explain to the American people why our secretary of state was secretly meeting with the Russian foreign minister in Munich yesterday, and we learned about the meeting yet again from Russia-state media?
Awwww, HELL NO!!!!!! Remember a couple weeks ago when I mentioned that these candidates should tell us who their VP pick would be so that we could get the WHOLE picture?? Well, it goes fucking DOUBLE for this guy!!
Important story on Bernie's potential Veep choice: as I've been saying, Tulsi Gabbard very much in play. (The other possibility is Nina Turner, according to this piece). Given his age and health, a crucial potential choice. https://t.co/6hYnxzUh9x
This is much needed given the increasingly emboldened Trump administration that has no intention of stopping it's corrupt and criminal activity. Thank you #NancyPelosihttps://t.co/iHnYwFbWqf
The Obama Diary 
Hope everyone had a Happy Valentines Day!
I have been a widow for 22 years now. This has always been a hard day for me since becoming single again. A few years ago I decided to buy myself 💐 flowers. That helped. I deserve them. This year I did not due to leaving on a trip soon which would make it prior to them wilting.
Happy Valentine’s Day Obama Grandmama.
❤️Happy Valentine’s Day, OG:) You deserve lots of whatever brings you joy. I wish you joy.
Happy Valentines Day! Since you’ll be in the DC area, would you like to meet for lunch towards the end of your visit?
💐🌹🌷🌺🌸🌼🌻💐😘
5. That’s what I said. Wut? 😜
Shit. I got 5😂😂😂😂
🤣😂😆 [clink] 🥂
Girl:) that’s the truth!!
15
Happy Valentine’s Day {{{{{{{TOD}}}}}}}!!!!!
Roberto! 15? Dude, you been living in a cave or what?🙃
😂😂😂😂 The good doctor is respectable. No matter, Bobfr… living in a cave or not, we love you! Happy Valentine’s Day❤️
Love Our Dr. Bob! And he needs to get out and live a little! 😉😘😘😘
Love my cave!! and all of you!!!! 😀 😀 😀 😀
😘
Happy Valentine’s Day! 😘
9
I lie, it’s actually 11, missed a couple, ha ha.
Girl! Somebody’s gotta get out more! 😆
Wait, wait. Are you saying there are 11 things you have done or haven’t done? Note: The score is for stuff you *haven’t* done.
Are we sisters? Did you get 5 too??
5 Sister DF! 🙌🏾
And 4 of ‘em I’m thinking of adding to the bucket list 😉 But I ain’t NE-VAH gon’ willingly jump out of nobody’s plane just for “fun.”
Why would anyone jump out of a perfectly good airplane!!?? That’s ridiculous!😂😂
Thank you! Okay?
Going skydiving is on my bucket list. Everyone thinks I’m nuts but I’ve always wanted to fly in the sky. I was the wild one in college. Some things I didn’t do but I watched others. Brings back lots of college memories.
Good luck!
11 for what I haven’t done, ha ha
Bless your heart
Betsy, Betsy, Betsy:)
12 for me! 😉😘😂.
Good gravy. You need to get out more too!!
Tell her, Girl! 😆
https://giphy.com/gifs/stoner-sees-isopropyl-xSM46ernAUN3y
12
Girl!
I got four. What can I say…
Much respect! ✊🏾
https://giphy.com/gifs/tips-cap-jeter-bs1DvNUbTU1G
I thought Dudette and I were the beasts of TOD:) Nope!! ❤️❤️
Alycee ain’t playin’ but have you met Dianne Wing, Mistress of Mischief? Scroll down! 😃
We worship at your shrine!
8
You under double-digits, we can hang out. 😜
I got 3. NO QUESTIONS!
Alright Queen! 👑
I bow! 😁
Whoa!!! Somebody been REAL busy!!!❤️❤️
Ha! Wouldn’t THAT be great. 🙂
😃🙌🏾
I got 8. That’s an interesting poll.
👍🏾
17 for haven’t done, I should definitely hold my head in shame
😎
13! Geez. It’s a great Bucket List tho.
😇
Goes to the previous conversation
Happy V Day, all – especially OG! I got 12 on that quiz because I didn’t count the one and only cigarette my grandma made me smoke when I was 9 to convince me never to try it again. It worked!
Gotta love the Obamas!
Count that smoke Girl! There were no qualifiers on the quiz. Think back I bet you find two more that you did but don’t wanna admit. It’s ok. No shame for living here!😉
HA HA! OK – I skipped a class in college once, too so I’m down to 10.
[Gasp!] You scamp you! 😁
😂😂😂
PBO ever the baller!
“President Barack Obama”, not former. Yup I noticed! 😂😇
Forevah!
Coolest there ever was and ever WILL be!
He’s almost annoyingly cool. I mean who could be that cool! Ha.
Goodnight, sweetie pie.
President Barack Hussein Obama II
That’s who! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
‘Night Darling!
Oh da memories! ❤️
They are awestruck. Who could blame them? 😍❤️👏🏾
I love seeing the love and respect for our forever President. Thanks for sharing😊
Ha!
OMG this looks amazing!
Holy Crap Dev is having a great 2020!
Indeed…
This just made me laugh, and I thought I’d share. Goodnight, TODville!
Yay! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
It’s like cand-ayyyy!
I scrolled right on down to Dudette & Can-day! I sure needed that smile! 😘 Got my fix. Now scrolling right back up to visit my TOD fam. 💞😘
😘❤️❤️❤️
Am just waiting for Dis- Barr to get no Valentine just deserts. 😜
Amen to that
🐿😆
😆😆😆
😆🤣😂😆🤣😂
I rock ruff n stuff with my afro puffs! Aye!
I peed a little:) That was hilarious 😂😂😂
😁
💖💞 Sending a vortertine card to my TOD Fam. Inside my vortertine: use your power & empower everyone around you to vote.
Never surrender your power. Everyone! Eff iQ45 en masse!
(Eff MSM & their constant spewage of “gotta beat iQ45”. Let’s give him back his bone spurs. Side question, random thought: if bone spurs gets one out of enlisting, shouldn’t those same bone spurs disqualify one from being CIC? 😳😏 😂)
Hallelujah! 😁
If you’re on Twitter…
Goooood Morning! ❤️🐶❤️
Quack!
Ha! When I was in college, one of my roommates made the mistake of going into a nearby pet store around Easter. She walked out with a cute little duckling that quickly grew into a big ass duck…. like this one! 4 girls, one duck. Hilarity ensued. We used to walk it on a leash around campus:) I swear that’s how one of my roommates got her dates. Not me though… I was busy getting all but 5 on that damn list:)
LOL! 😆
We named our duck Atlantis. He had all our bad habits
❤️❤️😍❤️❤️
😳
One letter makes all the difference. 🤓
Space Dragon! 🤓
She will be a great President someday.
You can not pay a bill and get away with it, but a reckoning, reckonings always get paid one way or another.
Truth
Beware more Republican dirty tricks!
A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.
Test you?? WTH
Savage!
Martial law declared in 6-7 months.
Perfect!! Glad that someone said that so succinctly! I’m with Roland Martin. I’ve turned all the yapping off. All of it. I don’t even watch RM or LOD any more. So done with all the doom and gloom. For what?? Two lily white states with no people? Click
Though I love RM and LOD, I just couldn’t watch anymore. To tell you the truth either I’m on twitter or I’m here reading and interacting with people that I want to follow. The dumbing down of American is well underway.
Right beside you:)
Awesome! 👏🏾
I may write the WH ( can we still do that?) and tell him he’s not a king… unless we’re talking about King Jackass, in which case, ok
I do not believe “the King” wrote this. No way! He does not read and would not quote Ralph Waldo Emerson. It must be an aide who wrote it.
I think he was repeating what Peter Baker wrote in the New York Times.
But I thought we were friends’ now!!
A charge of Hacking or a pretense to go to war with North Korea?
Nah… no war. Made a deal for them to hack and then King Don will look the other way while they bulk up their nuclear weapons.
He’ll take the hacked info and use it.
Is their anyone that this guy isn’t in bed with?
Well there’s that also.
Yup
What happened to State’s Rights??? They used to LOVE those!!
https://mobile.twitter.com/no_plasticwaste/status/1228318285168508928/photo/1
❤️ thanks! As always:)
jazziz– thanks for this lovely visual. Have you found that seriously tracking your plastic is a shocker..
Am buying in bulk where possible and the diet is low carbon, fresh veggies, but everything = everything is touched by plastic big and small and very small. There are compostable bags for veggies now, but plastic is so inescapable. A fab variety of organic greens for salads but they’re in plastic boxes! Something gotta be done. Eventually there will be a way to weigh whatever you put in your OWN container at the checkout, for use along with your own bags and baskets of course. Must shut down the PRODUCTION of plastic,
that was seen as the magical answer to everything when it was invented. Now it is strangling us.
America the bully is adamantly dumping on smaller nations despite their objections. Our town does not even recycle it. A massively obscene situation when whales are beaching due to plastic, and we are all eating at least a credit card amount of plastic every week. If we want to, we can fix it. We can halt and reverse climate crisis too if we want our species to continue (apparently some don’t)….small rant…
–have a good weekend!
Look at this munchkin! 😍
The DEM Presidential primary is a mess…full of unintended Consequences….
there is a so called Socialist running as a Democrat…and now there is a Republican running a Democrat….
neither one mean black and brown people any good….
i hope that Biden proves the naysayers wrong…and is able to win in Nevada and South Carolina…
Yes “so called” is correct! Democratic Socialism is the actual descriptor.
And it describes the successful European system as well as Canada.
this is my prayer. We have to talk to people we know to remember WHO has always been there for us and who will be there for us when the election is over.
Totally agree shelia. Every time I see Bloomberg’s ad using PBO it angers me.
Seems like a good idea
Thanks to all that wished me a Happy Valentines Day back yesterday! ❤️ & 💐 to all of you. Happy Monday coming as out Presidents Day 🎉 celebration. May we celebrate all prior, not current President.
In order to win the future for our children, imo we must do what THEY see clearly as necessary.
We must accept why young people want to move forward. And accept that they WILL vote against so-called moderates—who are actually Nixon Republicans.
Meaning…closer to the Nixon Republican position.
Dems have moved right.
While the Warren-Bernie position is dead center in Europe.
Two Tweets that show what a s***show the Dem Primary is becoming….smdh
Bloomberg talking about selecting Hillary Clinton as his VP……..as if Hillary wants to be a VP…let alone Bloomberg’s VP………….smh again……………..and Bernie Sanders talking about selecting Tulsi Gabbard as his VP…..INCREDIBLE….i wonder what Nina Turner thinks about Sanders’ choice…i wonder if she had her eye on that spot…
GIVE ME A BREAK!!!!
Come onnnnnnnnnn Biden..deliver us from this travesty…show the voters that you are the candidate that is capable…and needed
Whoever is nominee, clearly there must be a non-white in the P-VP line up.
Great Thoughts Alycee…but there is a a thing called justifiable anger…as long as it does not paralyze you…to tell you the truth i am more Astonished than angry…it is incredible where we are today…
This
False asssumptions like “capitalism is unalterable” and “democracy is inevitable” are crushing us.
–we must be able to discuss stuff.
I say impeach his sorry fat ass AGAIN, and maybe some senators will have learned THEIR lessons!!
Young people know that the moderate approach will not save them. Or the planet.
Awwww, HELL NO!!!!!! Remember a couple weeks ago when I mentioned that these candidates should tell us who their VP pick would be so that we could get the WHOLE picture?? Well, it goes fucking DOUBLE for this guy!!
Don’t buy it.
STACEY would be great actually, if it happened.
Understand:
The corporations will try and crush whoever stands in their way to an O & G future = No future.
Who wins?
Not us
Our kids know they are the ones, not us.
They get to say who they think will help them to survive the death knell.
New post
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2020/02/15/great-example-of-citizenship/
OMG…This is how its done