so... right
What the hell do you say?
Six people have died in Quebec while another eight are injured because of a shooting at a mosque. I'm not foolish enough to say something like, "I never thought that could happen here!" because it can and we have our own figures who wish to emulate Trump in the coming years. We have politicians trying to dig their feet into the ground on the platform of "Canadian Values" (read: no immigrants) and giving preference to people who are "old stock" (white generational Canadians).
I guess I didn't expect THIS. Something so violent and sudden and overtly echoing our southern neighbours. The sadness and anger I feel over everything that's happened (in ONE WEEK) has been tempered only slightly by knowing that I'm Canadian and my day-to-day isn't impacted directly by the dumpster fire currently blazing. It's still the only thing I see anywhere I look, just like everyone else.
I saw a tweet within the past few days where someone was like, "I told you all you'd be wishing for 2016 back!" And here we are.
In other news, Gracie has learned the pills I'm giving her don't taste good and so she's stopped eating them like a good girl. I tried to wrap the halves up in some cheese but apparently she doesn't like cheese. Smokey bacon chips? No problem! Cheese? NO! The sneak attack seems to work the best but I also have a towel to wrap her up in if I need it. I anticipate a lot of drawn blood and I have over a week left, LOL.
I've been feeling very uninspired to do anything creative these past couple weeks. I thought I just needed to get back into the swing of a routine and I'd be okay but I think I might have drained myself a bit with my advent calendar. I still have one fic left to write for it, among so many others. I made two icons today, though, which are the first I've made in about a month. I just need to catch the momentum to start writing again and I'll feel better.
I started listening to some other podcasts. I'm not a BIG podcast person and only started listening to one last year with Casefile, the murder podcast by that Australian dude I recommended. I met up with a friend last week (during my cheat meal of sushi!) and she put me on to a couple new ones, My Favorite Murder and Sword and Scale (I think). I've only listened to MFM so far but I LOVE IT. I'm already 10 episodes in and it's a hoot.
It's two ladies who I THINK are comedians/writers (at least one of them has mentioned working on the Ellen show, I believe) who both love discussing murders (all kinds, any kind) so much that they weird people out at parties so they started a podcast. Each week they both present a story they've researched (to a point, some are hit and miss) to be their "favorite murder". They end the episodes (so far, anyway) by presenting a brief story about a "hometown murder" that's either a tape recording of a friend retelling a story from where they're from or read something submitted from a listener.
This isn't a podcast where the hosts are taking themselves seriously; they just want to discuss fucked up situations with each other and laugh. It may seem like they're being disrespectful but they're just not filtering what they say and it made for a fun time, at least for me. They're basically D and I, so 20 minutes into the first episode I was texting K, who put me on to this, all, "THIS IS THE BEEEEEST".
I'm in the second week of the sugar control program and things are... okay. This week I decided I wasn't going to try to prep so much and I'm just gonna eat as simply as possible. I made a one-pan taco salad tonight with spinach, onions and tomatoes which was okay (could have used more seasoning but I went conservative with it because it's not the stuff that comes in the box and is a bit much for me at full strength) and I have rice for lunch tomorrow. Honey crisp apples were on sale so I've stocked up on them and will likely buy a fuckton more before Thursday. Those apples are $4.99/lb at another store but are on sale this week for only $1.99!
I think I'm going to keep this up as best I can when I'm done. I'll have a cheat day but then go a week or so at a time and try to eat as cleanly as possible. I think I found something to do with my leftover Greek yogurt, too, but it involves some honey so I'm going to wait until I'm done with this. I'm pretty proud of myself for keeping this up!
Six people have died in Quebec while another eight are injured because of a shooting at a mosque. I'm not foolish enough to say something like, "I never thought that could happen here!" because it can and we have our own figures who wish to emulate Trump in the coming years. We have politicians trying to dig their feet into the ground on the platform of "Canadian Values" (read: no immigrants) and giving preference to people who are "old stock" (white generational Canadians).
I guess I didn't expect THIS. Something so violent and sudden and overtly echoing our southern neighbours. The sadness and anger I feel over everything that's happened (in ONE WEEK) has been tempered only slightly by knowing that I'm Canadian and my day-to-day isn't impacted directly by the dumpster fire currently blazing. It's still the only thing I see anywhere I look, just like everyone else.
I saw a tweet within the past few days where someone was like, "I told you all you'd be wishing for 2016 back!" And here we are.
In other news, Gracie has learned the pills I'm giving her don't taste good and so she's stopped eating them like a good girl. I tried to wrap the halves up in some cheese but apparently she doesn't like cheese. Smokey bacon chips? No problem! Cheese? NO! The sneak attack seems to work the best but I also have a towel to wrap her up in if I need it. I anticipate a lot of drawn blood and I have over a week left, LOL.
I've been feeling very uninspired to do anything creative these past couple weeks. I thought I just needed to get back into the swing of a routine and I'd be okay but I think I might have drained myself a bit with my advent calendar. I still have one fic left to write for it, among so many others. I made two icons today, though, which are the first I've made in about a month. I just need to catch the momentum to start writing again and I'll feel better.
I started listening to some other podcasts. I'm not a BIG podcast person and only started listening to one last year with Casefile, the murder podcast by that Australian dude I recommended. I met up with a friend last week (during my cheat meal of sushi!) and she put me on to a couple new ones, My Favorite Murder and Sword and Scale (I think). I've only listened to MFM so far but I LOVE IT. I'm already 10 episodes in and it's a hoot.
It's two ladies who I THINK are comedians/writers (at least one of them has mentioned working on the Ellen show, I believe) who both love discussing murders (all kinds, any kind) so much that they weird people out at parties so they started a podcast. Each week they both present a story they've researched (to a point, some are hit and miss) to be their "favorite murder". They end the episodes (so far, anyway) by presenting a brief story about a "hometown murder" that's either a tape recording of a friend retelling a story from where they're from or read something submitted from a listener.
This isn't a podcast where the hosts are taking themselves seriously; they just want to discuss fucked up situations with each other and laugh. It may seem like they're being disrespectful but they're just not filtering what they say and it made for a fun time, at least for me. They're basically D and I, so 20 minutes into the first episode I was texting K, who put me on to this, all, "THIS IS THE BEEEEEST".
I'm in the second week of the sugar control program and things are... okay. This week I decided I wasn't going to try to prep so much and I'm just gonna eat as simply as possible. I made a one-pan taco salad tonight with spinach, onions and tomatoes which was okay (could have used more seasoning but I went conservative with it because it's not the stuff that comes in the box and is a bit much for me at full strength) and I have rice for lunch tomorrow. Honey crisp apples were on sale so I've stocked up on them and will likely buy a fuckton more before Thursday. Those apples are $4.99/lb at another store but are on sale this week for only $1.99!
I think I'm going to keep this up as best I can when I'm done. I'll have a cheat day but then go a week or so at a time and try to eat as cleanly as possible. I think I found something to do with my leftover Greek yogurt, too, but it involves some honey so I'm going to wait until I'm done with this. I'm pretty proud of myself for keeping this up!