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the_siobhan14 – International Bath Day: Do you take baths regularly, or are you strictly a shower aficionado?
15 – Nature Photography Day: Have you ever enjoyed a photo of a flower? Or a close up of a bee landing on the entrance to its hive? Have you taken any photos of nature that you're particularly proud of? Care to share it with us?
16 – Take Back the Lunch Break Day: When you're at work (or when you worked or were still going into the office), did you fall into the habit of eating at your desk and continuing to work while eating? Did your working conditions include a proper lunch break? If you're mostly working from home, do you still eat at your desk and continue working during your lunch?
17 – Eat Your Vegetables Day: Do you love veggies? Do you have favourites? Do you have a favourite veggie recipe -- either main meal or side dish? Will you share it?
14 - I am shaped incorrectly for most baths, (ie I am long) and the vestibular issues mean that slippery surfaces are not my friend. So showers it is. 15 - I adore nature photography and I am terrible at it. Maybe when I'm retired and have more time for hobbies I'll invest in a proper camera and get more into it, but that's a plan for future me. 16 - I definitely eat at my desk. I think where I'm not simpatico with the "take a break" crowd is that workday lunches are boring, and if I'm not doing something interesting I might as well double up. I will happily get away from my desk if the thing I'm getting away for is not... sitting on my ass in a slightly different location for 20 minutes. 17 - I was a fussy eater as a kid, so a lot of being an adult has been discovering that there is a way to cook things I didn't like in such a way that they no longer suck. Having said that, eggplants, zucchini, and okra are still vegetables I avoid unless the cook does something really sexy with them.
18 – International Panic Day: Contrary to what it sounds like, this is a day dedicated to reducing panic and stress in your daily life, not celebrating it! How to you go about reducing the stresses, anxiety and yes, panic, in your life?
I don't think it's possible to avoid panic, that's a completely normal response to something terrible and unexpected happening. But I do tend to shed panicky people - people for whom every minor roadblock is a catastrophe - because I find them exhausting.
I also tend to shed people who do stupid shit that could be easily avoided and so create panic-infused situations for themselves. Just as an example, I've had several exes who drove their cars in such a way that guaranteed they would get into an accident eventually. I'm happy to report I figured out I should stop travelling with them early enough to avoid being part of the inevitable pileup.
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Problems only goths have: losing clothes whenever I do laundry because every single thing in the laundry basket is black. I'm missing a bunch of socks and I'm pretty sure they accidentally got folded into my bedsheets.
Guess I'll find them next time I make the bed.
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I crossed sorting out the "medicine cabinet" off my list - it's actually a dresser drawer where we just toss things we don't have an immediate need for or where we have bought more than one container of something.
Things I discovered in the process.
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We got another air quality warning today, but I went outside and the air didn't smell like a campfire, so I took the risk of sitting on the patio for a while.
I read this article recently about how Ontario is having trouble keeping experienced fire fighters because the bill that restricts public employee's pay includes fire fighters and so people are saying "Fuck this, I can have a job where I'm not living in a tent for a month while I risk my life for shitty pay."
And here's the thing, we have so many fires going on in this country right now that the federal government is shipping people in from other countries to help. I have seen videos of South Africans arriving in Alberta. Spanish and Portuguese fire fighters are in Quebec. There are French and American teams in northern Ontario.
So let me get this straight, the provincial government cuts the funding to the firefighting program, cuts the pay of firefighters, cancels the carbon tax, sells large portions of the green belt to developers, cancels green energy programs, and builds a new fucking highway that we don't need right through our core farm country - and then federal money has to be used to fly people in from other countries to fight fires exacerbated by climate change?
How the fuck does this make any kind of sense?
15 – Nature Photography Day: Have you ever enjoyed a photo of a flower? Or a close up of a bee landing on the entrance to its hive? Have you taken any photos of nature that you're particularly proud of? Care to share it with us?
16 – Take Back the Lunch Break Day: When you're at work (or when you worked or were still going into the office), did you fall into the habit of eating at your desk and continuing to work while eating? Did your working conditions include a proper lunch break? If you're mostly working from home, do you still eat at your desk and continue working during your lunch?
17 – Eat Your Vegetables Day: Do you love veggies? Do you have favourites? Do you have a favourite veggie recipe -- either main meal or side dish? Will you share it?
14 - I am shaped incorrectly for most baths, (ie I am long) and the vestibular issues mean that slippery surfaces are not my friend. So showers it is. 15 - I adore nature photography and I am terrible at it. Maybe when I'm retired and have more time for hobbies I'll invest in a proper camera and get more into it, but that's a plan for future me. 16 - I definitely eat at my desk. I think where I'm not simpatico with the "take a break" crowd is that workday lunches are boring, and if I'm not doing something interesting I might as well double up. I will happily get away from my desk if the thing I'm getting away for is not... sitting on my ass in a slightly different location for 20 minutes. 17 - I was a fussy eater as a kid, so a lot of being an adult has been discovering that there is a way to cook things I didn't like in such a way that they no longer suck. Having said that, eggplants, zucchini, and okra are still vegetables I avoid unless the cook does something really sexy with them.
18 – International Panic Day: Contrary to what it sounds like, this is a day dedicated to reducing panic and stress in your daily life, not celebrating it! How to you go about reducing the stresses, anxiety and yes, panic, in your life?
I don't think it's possible to avoid panic, that's a completely normal response to something terrible and unexpected happening. But I do tend to shed panicky people - people for whom every minor roadblock is a catastrophe - because I find them exhausting.
I also tend to shed people who do stupid shit that could be easily avoided and so create panic-infused situations for themselves. Just as an example, I've had several exes who drove their cars in such a way that guaranteed they would get into an accident eventually. I'm happy to report I figured out I should stop travelling with them early enough to avoid being part of the inevitable pileup.
***
Problems only goths have: losing clothes whenever I do laundry because every single thing in the laundry basket is black. I'm missing a bunch of socks and I'm pretty sure they accidentally got folded into my bedsheets.
Guess I'll find them next time I make the bed.
***
I crossed sorting out the "medicine cabinet" off my list - it's actually a dresser drawer where we just toss things we don't have an immediate need for or where we have bought more than one container of something.
Things I discovered in the process.
- A pack of nicotine gum that expired two years ago
- One of those truck-stop energy shots that expired three years ago
- A pack of nicotine patches that expired four years ago
- A pack of allergy meds that expired five years ago
- A bottle of ear-drops that expired six years ago
- A pack of famotidine tablets that expired in 2007
- A prescription jar of cortisol cream from 2002.
- Three packs of sharps
- And a partridge in a pear tree
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We got another air quality warning today, but I went outside and the air didn't smell like a campfire, so I took the risk of sitting on the patio for a while.
I read this article recently about how Ontario is having trouble keeping experienced fire fighters because the bill that restricts public employee's pay includes fire fighters and so people are saying "Fuck this, I can have a job where I'm not living in a tent for a month while I risk my life for shitty pay."
And here's the thing, we have so many fires going on in this country right now that the federal government is shipping people in from other countries to help. I have seen videos of South Africans arriving in Alberta. Spanish and Portuguese fire fighters are in Quebec. There are French and American teams in northern Ontario.
So let me get this straight, the provincial government cuts the funding to the firefighting program, cuts the pay of firefighters, cancels the carbon tax, sells large portions of the green belt to developers, cancels green energy programs, and builds a new fucking highway that we don't need right through our core farm country - and then federal money has to be used to fly people in from other countries to fight fires exacerbated by climate change?
How the fuck does this make any kind of sense?