But that's true every November. I don't think I've spent more time than usual writing. In fact, I feel like I have less time for writing now as a full-time working person and that I probably had more time when I had been a student. I guess I just know how to use time better nowadays.

On the other hand, some sacrifices were made. Like not watching any shows/YT videos, no random visits to fun places on the weekends, waking up really early to write or staying up later to write.

My parents had always done it the traditional American way because they thought it was interesting. My aunt and uncle on my mom's side always does their Christmas dinners Hong Kong style plus whatever trendy health food thing my cousin is obsessed about that year.

Yeah, or the copy editor failed at their job and it should be the other way around. I’ve slept on the floor before and it feels like a bunch of rocks were dropped on my back the next day.

It’s not just holidays. It’s any gathering. I feel like drinkers are constantly trying to manipulate the situation to justify their own drinking habits. I’ve had people tell me to my face that they think I stay sober to get blackmail on them, but it’s BS.

My late mother was a stamp collector. I remember, as a kid, going with her to stamp clubs to look through stamps. However, I am more of a postcard person (specifically sent postcards, not "mint" ones).

Holy cow, the guy in front of me bought like almost $600 in groceries. Did he get the short straw this year to feed his entire extended family?

Yes, I know the "solution" is to grow your own food, but this is unreasonable. Everyone cannot be farmers. You need people filling all sorts of jobs in society and as a result, not everyone has the time or energy to grow food themselves.

And for someone like me who have lived in places were there were zero Asian grocery stores, that would mean that I could not buy any food at all and should have just starved to death because none of the food stores were owned by people of my ethnicity.

I also think she probably has some identity issues and trying to overcompensate, thinking that she wasn't Asian enough. But if you follow her reasoning, she shouldn't be at that grocery store either.

Specifically it was a half-white/half-Asian girl trying to intimidate white people out of an Asian grocery store because she thinks they don't belong there. This racist Karen behavior and I'm sure the grocery store owner did not appreciate her chasing his customers away.

Wow, that's the first time I'm hearing about that. I did not pay attention to those places so have no idea what goes on in there, but as someone who works in the blood transfusion industry where everyone is paranoid about infections, this unregulated stuff on the side is horrifying.