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Just finished listening to the audio book version of Prairie Fires by Caroline Fraser. Absolutely excellent, I see why this won a Pulitzer Prize. I loved learning about the more realistic and historical details of Laura’s life. I read all the Little Prairie books when I was younger and this past year I finally got to watch the tv series. For an immigrant like myself, it’s easy to believe the polished fictionalized world of the books and show. Everything is just so pretty and romanticized, like a cottage core fantasy.

It sounded like a tough life. But I admire the Ingalls for their obvious love and devotion to each other. It was also interesting to learn that they joined the Freemason society. And Rose was quite obviously troubled for most of her life. The trauma of their house burning down really stayed with them. Also admired the relationship between Laura & Almanzo. They went through hell together but stuck it out, tirelessly working side by side till the end.

Weird that Macbride ended up with the estate in the end. That seems like a shame. I think the estate should have passed on to the Mansfield library.

I love Harrisburg Family House, the Original Tryon House Restaurant, and Louis’ Grille (Harrisburg) so far. Willing to travel for the best though!

So I ordered myself a tasty breakfast from my favorite local diner to wake up to as a weekend treat. Corned beef hash with biscuits and gravy, plus a meatloaf entree to snack on later. Love this place, best diner in the city in my opinion. Anyway, turns out they don’t have meatloaf on the weekends and the staff there didn’t know how to cancel the item so I had to cancel it through Ubereats. Fine, I love this diner like my second cousin so I went through the process.

An automated robot tells me I’ll get $6 refunded in the chat. I think, wait a minute I know that entree cost way more than $6. Then I went to check the refund again, and it stated that there was only $4 being refunded.

What the fudge basket ??? So I chatted with customer service and got nothing. Had to dispute the charge on my Amex and I got an instant credit back for the entire order.

Canceled my uber one subscription and will stick to DoorDash. Too much crap like this with ubereats. Love the drivers though, y’all are the salt of the earth.

We’re Korean. My dad was living with his older sister in Los Angeles during the 80’s when he met my mom. His family was Catholic.

They became Jehovah’s Witness when she was pregnant with me. What a curse.

She converted the rest of her family into Jehovah’s Witnesses. My brother, cousins, and I all grew up in this nonsensical religion. Wasted so much time.

This false religion truly preys upon those with the sin of pride. It’s bad, r/exjw has a lot to say about it.

Anyway, I’ve been listening to the Bible in a Year podcast. Starting praying more. Prayed for a miracle after hearing a podcast from Father Josh Johnson, asking for a shooting star. So I thought, let me throw a Hail Mary at God and ask him to convert my family. If he can make shooting stars happen, let’s just go big.

And then I just remembered today. They’re Catholic, my dad’s family. I’ve only met them a couple times in my life, so I forgot. It seems hopeless now. Why would they ever convert if they already rejected Jesus so long ago? I remember my mom once telling me something about how ridiculous it was to recite the same prayer over and over. It was when I was very young. They had already rejected Catholicism so long ago.

It seems pointless to pray for it now. I found so much peace lately but this just hit me today and I feel sad.

I want to show my appreciation to my mechanic for restoring my car to driving condition. I was thinking of dropping off some sodas and snacks at the garage since I have to stop by there anyway. Can y’all recommend anything? I was just thinking of bringing some cold coca colas and two xl pizzas from Papa John’s (pepperoni & sausage)