Wordless Wednesday.

 

Daily Pondering.

 

Hacked!

Here is our tree now updated with the new ornaments.Yesterday during my nap my bank also called and left a message saying there was "suspicious activity" on my credit card and they wanted me to verify the purchases thinking my card got hacked again( this would be like the 5th or 6th time! Shit, do I ever have bad luck, or what?) so I called them back but they said it would be at least a 30 minute wait  on the phone so f*ck that; I'm NOT sitting there waiting on the phone for 30 minutes so I called back later and it was the same only this time they said I could leave a message and they'd call me back so I did and awhile later they did except then we got cut off and they never called back( just MY "luck") so I had to call them back again and I was on hold for forever  and I ended up just laying down on the floor waiting with the phone in my hand(my God, it was awful, and normally they text you but I don't have a cell phone) and I didn't recognize the charges, incl. a charge in the UK for over 100$ and something called Groupon that was just charged yesterday (I don't even know what that is!) so they cancelled the charges and my card and said they'll send me out a new card(again) and by courier "thanks" to the mail strike which they say they don't normally do but the guy was nice and felt "sorry" for me and said he was making an exception( wasn't that nice of him?) and it should arrive in 2 days.

Yet another rip-off,too: these yummy Ferrero Rocher chocolate bars that I just looove used to be 3 for 5$ until just a month or so ago and now they're 2 for 7$! So not only do you get 1 less you're also charged 2$ more for the privilege of being ripped-off, too!  Funny as well: last night the 17 YR old came into the kitchen and saw me eating pumpkin yogurt and had this puzzled look on his face and laughed and said at first he thought I was eating margarine(because the container looks similar) ha,ha, and the 30 YR old said his GF speaks to her dog in French( like a friend of mine in Ottawa her mother used to speak to their dog in French,too, but it was a Poodle; a French dog, and I always figured God made Poodles an intelligent breed to "make up" for making them so "gay"-looking) even though it's a Collie; a Scottish dog and I would have thought she'd talk to it using a Scottish accent. I speak German to Buddy,too, but he is a Dachshund, a German dog and German is his native language.

I also wondered if the 2-3 months the 30 YR old has off work while his boss recovers from knee replacement surgery maybe he can just go on Unemployment Insurance(my cousin B called "Pogey")  to still pay his bills and I heard it takes on average 17 minutes  for the police to arrive to a 9-1-1 call,too, which is waaay too long; if you've been shot, stabbed, robbed, raped, kidnapped, in an accident, etc. you may not have that much time, and I know every time we've called an ambulance it took 20-25 minutes(not good if you're having a heart-attack or stroke though or been shot!), but luckily the firemen arrived quickly; in just 2-3 minutes, and they said on the news as well 1 in 3 immigrants end up leaving this shithole as they don't like it here  and I'm surprised it's not more and I wish *I* could leave it,too, but can't afford to move, and heard a funny joke, too:

Wife: "Am I really the Only One you've been with?"

Husband: "Yes; all the others before you were all Nines and Tens."

I also had a dream last night there was this bad guy who I knew wasn't "good" for me but I was just soooo attracted to him anyway despite it every time he stood next to me or touched me I could feel my heart rate and breathing increase, and I remember as well when I was prego with the now 21 YR old the ultrasound showed "soft markers" for defects as well such as chromosomal and heart defects; a 2 vessel cord( 1 vein and 1 artery instead of the typical 3 vessel cord with 2 arteries and 1 vein) and echogenic foci, and cysts on her brain...so of course I was panicked and worried the entire pregnancy but left it in God's hands and it turned out she was fine ( the 2 vessel cord was confirmed at birth and they had all the medical students come in and see this rarity,too, but she had no other effects due to it) but the sad thing is that alot of other people would have killed  their baby over the possibility.....and imagine how they'd feel though knowing they killed a perfectly healthy baby? Even if not you still don't kill it...You can't always go by the tests. I still wouldn't have killed any of my babies regardless.

It was just me alone in my head, aided by audio headphones to keep me company.-S.Carlyle

 

Today's Truth.

 

Afterglow.

Today I still have some left-over joy from the perfect day yesterday! (See yesterday's post for more details) We also got some of the Tim Hortons Smile cookies (it's just their coffee and donuts I don't care for) where 100% of profits go to charity(and God loves the charitable), in this case to the food bank. I took mine( the retarded, mental-looking one below because I know no one else would want it and I know exactly how that feels) and went outside and when I came back in there was only one left and I freaked thinking the 30 YR old ate the rest leaving the 17 YR old with only one left(so I saved it for him), but it turned out he'd already had one before, too,whew!

Yesterday being a perfect day was also topped off by being a beautiful starry night as well.

So I figured if Buddy and I died last night or today at least we had a perfect last day.

Yesterday the 17 YR old also dropped off a bunch of job resumes at various places looking for a job, with his volunteering being the "experience" which it still is, at  the Bible Mission charity store inter-acting with customers, doing customer service, handling $$$, etc. ; he just didn't get paid for it but now he's trying to find a job to save up $$$ for post-secondary once he decides what he wants to study, and my hubby has to re-do alot of the outdoor Christmas lights as well as many of the bulbs are dead and it's too expensive to buy new ones but he has this cool gadget like doctors have to scan your legs for clots that tells him where the power went out so he knows which bulbs to replace, unlike when I was growing up and when one bulb went out the entire string of lights didn't work and you never knew which one it was.

I also got these Christmas Snoopy  PJ pants for only 8$ ( I just looove a good sale!) and my hubby cracks, Wal-Mart special? and I replied, Of course! You were with me! and he laughs why don't I wear my PJs when I shop there since other people do and I told him I don't care what other people do but I'm NOT wearing my PJ's out, not even to Wal-Mart and I'll wear my trackpants there but NOT my PJs!  We also finally got around to putting new batteries in the smoke alarms; we were supposed to when we switched the clocks back and I'd forgotten actually until the radio DJ mentioned it so I put batteries on the list but my hubby said Wal-Mart was all out and everywhere else was too expensive so he waited until they re-stocked which was just the other day when we went out so just got around to it now, some 2-3 weeks later.....but as it turned out most of them last for 10 years and didn't even need to be replaced!

HA!

It was a smoke detector that alerted us when we had our fire at the old Ottawa house 28 years ago,too; I heard it and went to check.....and was shocked stunned to find my bedroom on fire....

so, yeah....smoke alarms ARE really,really important!!!!!

I also saw this house online, my dream house both inside and out

and you'll never guess how much it costs:......

Just 450K in Ohio!

Holy f*ck!

I flipped!

Here in the Shithole it would cost millions $$$!!!!

I really AM in the wrong country!!

Find a man that never let's you go to sleep at night wondering if you still matter.-Ayaz Ali

 

One 'Mo Time.

Today was such a rare glorious warm day in NOVEMBER  it was 13 C and Buddy and I got to sit outside in the sun one more time!

We sat out in the back in the morning for 2 hours(where the sun was) and out at the front in the afternoon for 2 more hours, so that's 4 hours in total today!

It was a perfect day.

I even got some sun on my face which is nice esp. since my suntan is pretty much all faded now from summer. I just  love the feeling of the sun on my face(it's the best feeling in the world!) and that's how I hope to die,actually, sitting outside feeling the warmth of the sun on my face.

I'm pretty sure I'm getting a cold as I'm all stuffy, sniffly, snorty and congested and my nose is runny and I have a headache but getting outside always makes me feel better.

Today was just such a *perfect* day I couldn't wait until tomorrow to post about it.

It reminded me of that perfect day at the cottage when I was 4-5 years old and I was all tanned and still in my bathingsuit ( an ugly 2-piece  dark red with white trim I hated because my belly always got cold in the water!)all wet and glistening from swimming and I curled up on the white wooden porch swing with a towel wrapped around me as it swayed back & forth, listening to my mother and my aunt talk, feeling the warm summer breeze blowing on me, and I peacefully fell asleep.

It was just perfect  and I just drifted away, happy in the sun.

Today was like that.

Thank you, God.

I've been contemplating the difference between being eccentric and being batshit.-Philip

 

Thought For The Day.