KY Deplorable

I'm a Mom/Mimi. Free spirited and an optimist! I love God, my family and my country! 🇺🇸

[KY Deplorable @mimi_rigazio]

Lee, I don’t know how you managed to keep your composure while informing us of what happened. Thank God Velveteen is back with you. I will never understand how another human being could ever be so cruel. I truly feel “human being” misrepresents what they are, “demonic” doesn’t even do IT justice. I’m praying for the sweet girl and for you and your team. 🙏❤️

[𝕮 @XCzsnx]

My son called me from college and said he needed to drop out.

Not because of grades.

Not because of money.

Because he couldn't do laundry.

Me: You're nineteen.

Him: I know how old I am.

Me: Then explain the laundry crisis.

Him: I tried. Three times. Everything came out gray or pink or smelling like chemicals.

Me: Did you read the instructions on the machine?

Him: I read a lot of things. Didn't help.

Me: What did you wash together?

Him: Everything?

Me: Whites, colors, darks, all together?

Him: You're supposed to separate them?

I sat down.

Me: What have you been wearing?

Him: The gray-pink stuff. It's fine if I don't look too close.

Me: Your roommate didn't say anything?

Him: My roommate is worse. He just Febrezes everything.

Me: I raised you better than this.

Him: You raised me with a mother who did laundry.

He had a point there.

His mom had passed when he was fourteen. I'd learned to cook. Learned to talk about feelings. Did not, apparently, teach him how to separate laundry.

Me: You're not dropping out over laundry.

Him: It's not just laundry. I also can't fold a fitted sheet.

Me: Nobody can fold a fitted sheet.

Him: Mom could.

That stopped both of us for a second.

Him: I just feel like I'm missing the manual everyone else got.

Me: You're not missing it. You just didn't get certain chapters.

Him: The important ones.

Me: The learnable ones.

I drove four hours the next weekend with a laundry basket, detergent, and a list I'd written at 2am on hotel stationery because I couldn't sleep thinking about what else I hadn't taught him.

We spent Saturday in the dorm laundry room.

Showed him whites separate, colors separate, how much soap, what temperature, how to actually clean the lint trap which he didn't know existed.

His roommate joined us halfway through.

Roommate: Are we having a laundry tutorial?

Me: Yes.

Roommate: Can I stay?

Me: Do you know how to do laundry?

Roommate: I Febreze everything.

Me: Sit down.

By the end, three other kids from the floor had joined.

I taught a laundry seminar to five nineteen-year-olds in a basement that smelled like fake spring meadow and regret.

One kid took notes.

Before I left, my son walked me to the car.

Him: Thanks, Dad.

Me: You're still not dropping out.

Him: I know.

Me: And you're going to call me when you can't do something.

Him: Like what?

Me: Anything. I don't care. Cooking, taxes, oil changes, asking someone out. Whatever you think you need a manual for.

Him: You don't know how to ask someone out.

Me: I married your mother, didn't I?

Him: That was thirty years ago.

Me: Principles haven't changed.

He hugged me longer than usual.

Him: I miss her.

Me: Me too.

Him: Think she'd be mad I almost dropped out over laundry?

Me: No. But she'd have driven up here faster than I did.

He laughed.

I got a text from him two weeks later.

"Successfully washed towels. They're white again. Roommate cried."

[KY Deplorable @mimi_rigazio]

@TheFigen_ Shows you how most people react before they get the whole story!

[CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil @CBSEveningNews]

A 4-year-old boy’s simple habit of waving to his neighbors transformed an entire neighborhood, and helped him find the community he needed. @SteveHartmanCBS is On the Road in North Carolina.

[KY Deplorable @mimi_rigazio]

@CPCIO @LeahRain77 I think “EVIL” should be capitalized as well!

[Michelle Maxwell ™ @MichelleMaxwell]

FYI My Friends ❤️

I have attended CPR classes over the years, but was never told this particular scenario. I was told that when your body starts sweating profusely for no apparent reason followed by what feels like a spasm at the end of your esophagus, that is your body’s warning sign.

When you are alone and have a heart attack, what are you gonna do? A really good post that can't be shared often enough:

1. Take a 2 minute break and read this:
Let's say it's 5:25 pm and you're driving home after an unusually hard day's work.

2. You are really tired and frustrated.
All of a sudden you experience chest pains. They are starting to radiate in the arm and jaw. It feels like being stabbed in the chest and heart. You're only a few miles away from the nearest hospital or home.

3. Unfortunately you don't know if you can make it..

4. Maybe you've taken CPR training, but the person running the course hasn't told you how to help yourself.

5. How do you survive a heart attack when you're alone when it happens? A person who is feeling weak and whose heart is beating hard has only about 10 seconds before losing consciousness.

6. But you can help yourself by coughing repeatedly and very strongly! Deep breaths before every cough. Coughing should be repeated every second until you arrive at the hospital or until your heart starts to beat normally.

7. Deep breathing gives oxygen to your lungs and coughing movements boost the heart and blood circulation. Heart pressure also helps to restore a normal heartbeat. That’s how cardiac arrest victims can make it to the hospital for the right treatment.

8. Cardiologists say if someone gets this message and passes it on to 10 people, we can expect to save at least one life.

9. FOR WOMEN: You should know that women have additional and different symptoms. Rarely have crushing chest pain or pain in the arms. Often have indigestion and tightness across the back at the bra line plus sudden fatigue.

❤️Sharing this could help SAVE a life 🙏

[KY Deplorable @mimi_rigazio]

@Fascinate_Hist Hi from Louisville, KY and thank you for sharing!

[KY Deplorable @mimi_rigazio]

@LionelMedia Thank you, Lionel!🎶❤️

[KY Deplorable @mimi_rigazio]

My gut feeling was right, again. I love it when the”principal” is with child! Honor the PREGO!

[Freddy🇩🇪 @FreddyLA7]

Driving through Ohio. Towns like this are why we’re trying to avoid the interstates and take the slower roads instead. These are the kinds of places we want to see. This feels like peak America.🇺🇸

[KY Deplorable @mimi_rigazio]

@tracy_torr51708 @realericmoutsos @HouseGOP @SenateGOP That sentiment sounds good, but unfortunately there’s a lot of American born citizens that were born here by illegal immigrants. And raised with those immigrants values from their home countries. It’s a scary time!

[Tracy Torres @tracy_torr51708]

@realericmoutsos @HouseGOP @SenateGOP You Have The House Congress White House go back and Amend The Law where you have to be American Citizens To Run For Office Which Means You Have To Be Born In America

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

I learned something new today. 🐶

[C3 @C_3C_3]

Never Forget…

Deborah Birx lied to President Trump and manipulated data about guidelines, lockdowns and vaccines.

Anthony Fauci made Remdesivir and ventilators hospital protocol even though he knew it was killing patients.

They must pay for their crimes.

Pure Evil. No Mercy!

[Sean Feucht @seanfeucht]

Generation cycles of fatherlessness are being broken.

This is what we need to celebrate this weekend in America.

Fathers of freedom are rising up. 🙏🏽

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

If you like the dogs I share and they cheer you up daily, I’d love you to watch this one video.

I only do this once a year and never ask any other time.

You can support here and if you can’t sharing this video helps 🙏 https://t.co/Roftrb3ZWW

[KY Deplorable @mimi_rigazio]

@AsherHouseORG Can we get Sweet Tilly Tuesdays and Thursdays? PLEEEEEZ!?!?❤️🫶

[Rodney Smith Jr @iamrodneysmith]

Dear @WhiteHouse, my name is Rodney Smith Jr., founder of Raising Men & Women Lawn Care Service in Huntsville, Alabama. Through our 50 Yard Challenge, over 6,000 kids across the country have signed up to mow free lawns for the elderly, disabled, veterans, active-duty military, first responders, and single parents. With America celebrating its 250th birthday this year and me also being born on July 4th, I wanted to humbly ask if a few kids from our program and myself could travel to Washington, D.C. to help mow the White House lawn for this historic celebration.

More than anything, I want these kids to see how a simple act of service something as ordinary as mowing a lawn for someone in need can lead to extraordinary places. What better lesson in community service than showing them that helping others can take them all the way to our nation’s capital? I’d also love to bring my American flag-themed mower in hopes that the President might sign it, so I can later auction it off and donate 100% of the proceeds to a nonprofit supporting veterans. It would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to highlight the importance of service, patriotism, and the impact young people can have when they choose to make a difference. 🇺🇸

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

A man wrote a letter to a small hotel in a Midwest town he planned to visit on his vacation. He wrote, “I would very much like to bring my dog with me. He is well groomed and very well behaved. Would you be willing to permit me to keep him in my room with me at night?”

An immediate reply came from the hotel owner, who said, “I’ve been operating this hotel for many years. In all that time, I’ve never had a dog steal towels, bedclothes, silverware, or pictures off the walls. I’ve never had to evict a dog in the middle of the night for being drunk and disorderly. And I’ve never had a dog run out on a hotel bill. Yes, indeed, your dog is welcome at my hotel. And if your dog will vouch for you, you’re welcome to stay here too.”

[KY Deplorable @mimi_rigazio]

@ScarikaKirk @RealCandaceO When I was 5 my 2 yr old brother put my miniature poodle, Coco, in the bassinet with our newborn brother and said, “Eat ‘em!” I’m 65 now and both brothers are still alive.😂