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I've been thinking about the coming holidays, and for Christmas I'm going to ask for a subscription to Babble or Rosetta Stone. Something to finally teach me Spanish. I grew up not speaking it save for when we would go see my great-grandmother, so what little I did know has pretty much left me completely. I can speak very little, no real complete sentences, but I know some words, and I can understand more than I can speak, but I think it's finally time to learn to speak it properly. As someone of Mexican/Spanish heritage, I should know it. People have always looked at me, or noticed my name, and spoke to me in Spanish first, and I'd have to be like, nope, I may be brown, but I'm so white inside. I blame my father, he has never embraced the Hispanic side of him, so my brother and I didn't grow up hearing Spanish at home. Therefore, I never picked up much outside of the very little I had to learn to talk to my great-grandmother before she passed away. So yeah, I think I should actually start learning it. And, with Logan and I moving to Texas, which like California has a very strong Hispanic culture, it would be good to just know it.

The overwhelming win for the Democrats in today's elections across the nation has really given me hope that I haven't had since before last November. The fact that people are voting out the MAGA morons and the GOP idiots really makes me happy. Also, fuck yeah to my own state, California. We passed proposition 50, which is the redistricting of the state. I don't agree with gerrymandering, but Trump and Texas started it, and so we have to fight fire with fire, which is what Californians overwhelmingly voted to do. It makes me smile. It gives me real hope that come next year with the midterms, the GOP will not have its hold on every branch of the government for much longer. The people have spoken, and we say fuck Donald Trump. Count your days, Diaper Donnie.

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend, regardless if you celebrate Halloween or not. Logan and I didn't do much for Halloween. We were invited to Willow's for a Halloween party, but parking and driving in the Hollywood Hills on Halloween didn't sound all that appealing to me. Plus, we didn't have costumes. So, instead, we did a little shopping when he got off work, and then went to the Spot for a few hours to smoke hookah, then went home and spent the evening with Masque, watching Stranger Things. It was a nice, quiet night.

Saturday we hit up Spirit Halloween for half priced decor. He got me a Hocus Pocus blanket, a really pretty spell jar, and a lantern, we also got Mina a Harry Potter mug. Fun little things at a nice discount. We also went to the cemetery in LA that some of my family is buried at. He officially got to "meet" my great grandfather, great grandmother, great uncle, and my grandfather. Well, technically step-grandfather, but the only real grandfather I've ever known. I'm glad he could visit with me. And, as it was Día de los Muertos, the cemetery was so busy and a sea of orange, and yellow marigolds. I love to see it.

Sunday was just a rest day. Masque has been a bit of a monster at night, so sleep is hard to come by sometimes. So, having a whole day to pretty much just relax is much needed. I did want to go to the Nite concert at the Roxy, but I decided against it in the end, seeing how tired Logan was. I didn't want to keep him out late when he had work and has to be awake and alert. So, maybe when we move, as they're a Texas based band, we can see them there.

All-in-all, it's been a lovely weekend, as they always are. And now that the time has changed, and it's dark at 5, I am totally in my element. I love autumn and winter, give me all the darkness! I know I'm in the minority with that, but I'll never change. It just makes me so happy when it gets dark early.