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I probably owe tons of people messages since the last time I logged into this thing. Sorry.

I have been feeling really bleaurgh the past couple of weeks. Nothing physical, just a really bad case of the donwannas.

I think I'm just burned out.

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My plan to hold Christmas dinner three weeks after the actual date so people wouldn't share their germs turned out to be the right call. My sister texted me on Boxing Day to say, "you have my permission to say 'I told you so'" along with a picture of her positive Covid test. Then a couple days later my daughter got the flu.

So last weekend we did it. I bought the turkey and my sister cooked it. I unpacked my mother's dishes and dug chairs out of storage and everybody brought food. I think it worked out really well.

I even got a new toilet installed time for the occasion. It flushes and everything. Luxury!

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This fucking house. It's finally getting below zero in Toronto and the water taps in my kitchen keep fucking freezing. I'm convinced the guy who did the kitchen didn't insulate the kitchen enough, and I spent today digging through emails and looking at the blueprints.

The kitchen is really cold all the time and the heat vents don't seem to put out any heat, so I've been complaining about that to the contractor and he says he's going to fix it. Somebody has been downstairs banging and sawing all week, so hopefully that's a good thing.

Meanwhile I still have not received any of the dates or written statements I asked him for back in October. Jesus fucking wept.

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I am trying not to think too hard about politics right now, at least not the bits I can't do anything about.

I did dig through my passwords to find my twitter login so I could delete it because what the actual fuck.

And I registered to be a member of the Liberal party. There is a message being passed around that pro-Polievere crowd are telling conservatives to register as liberals so they can vote for Freeland as party leader over Carney. Because they think PP is more likely to beat Freeland and would likely to lose to Carney. I'm not a Liberal by a long shot, but I would rather have a Liberal leader than Trump North, so I registered.

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I signed up to do Write Every Day in February. I do enjoy doing it, and it kicks my ass to actually write. Something to distract me while I wait for the outside to thaw. (Not to mention my pipes.)
 

And also in February I'm doing Coldest Night Of the Year again. Fundraiser page here:

Coldest Night Of The Year