Running With Scissors.(Formerly HippoRastaPotamus)

Friday, July 3, 2026

It's still soooooo ungodly hot out there, and the worst is the humidity and it's now "officially" hot as my hubby put an A/C unit in his office window and I slept in just my underwear last night.It's so hot we have both the A/C and ceiling fans on and it's still 78 F in here and it's so hot even just going out for just a short 10 minutes to smoke mi ganja the sweat pours down my face and my shirt is soaking wet with sweat.! I'm like my petunias; I get wilted in the heat.The other day Ottawa even got flooding and we've had storms every day and I think today's will come early as I even woke up with a headache(I get them when the air pressure in the atmosphere drops before it rains and even worse before a storm; my head is a barometer) and this morning my hubby slept in(he's still on a schedule 2 HRS behind and has to adjust to the time difference) and I had to wake him up. He also said there were over 100 people competing in the chess tournament. Most mornings around 5 am I also hear the youngest thumping around and running up and down the stairs and he's just going to bed the same time I'm starting to wake up, reminding me of when I was a teen during summer break; I'd stay up all night and cook, write, clean out my closet, etc. and go to bed at 5-6 am just as my mother was getting ready for work.

Yesterday I finally picked up my passport at the post office and the reason I had 2 delivery notices left was they also returned my old passport as requested and they came separately in 2 separate packages on 2 separate days. I'm just sooo glad I finally got it. It was just so much hassle getting it but it lasts for 10 years until I have to worry about it again and by then I'll probably( and hopefully) be dead by then anyway and this will be my last one. It's really cool,too, one of those new biometric models and it's all shiny, reflective, iridescent, and has a hard plastic page. I think it looks really cool. On the way by I also quickly checked out nail polish as I'm running out and need new ones(the post office is in the drug store) and was shocked and dumb founded to see they now cost 17$ each! Last year when I last bought it it was only 5-10$ so I said forget it; I'll just check Wal-Mart later!

Seriously, though, WTF? 17$ just for a bottle of nailpolish?

Holy shit!!

You can also see here how nicely my summer tan is coming along,and yesterday when I got back from the post office(I was gone less than 30 minutes) Beja was just sooooo happy to see me he kept happily wagging his tail in excitement and bouncing around all over, all over me like a cheap suit so I guess he really does love me,afterall.

I really needed that.

The older I get... the more I understand why people disappear into cooking, art, music, gardening, books and quiet lives.-Blue

Thursday, July 2, 2026

Musing For Today.

In USA you die because you can't afford medical care.

Here you die waiting for medical care.

...And So It Goes...

Yesterday around dinner-time we had this horrific wind and it brought down this gigantic tree limb from our Maple tree at the front that landed in our front garden( shown here) you can't really tell size/scale from the photo but it's a BIG sucker, over 6 feet long(my hubby says more like 20 feet) and really big & heavy. The airport in Toronto that my hubby had just landed at mere hours earlier also had 115 KM winds so he'd left just in time!I told my hubby to move the car out of the driveway and it was a good thing he listened too as another big branch fell there where the car normally would have been. I heard later that we also had a biiiig storm overnight that I apparantly slept right thru and somewhere got 126 mm of rain and over 170K people were without power(many still without today) and there were even some reported tornado sightings and many Canada Day celebrations & fireworks were cancelled yesterday due to the weather as well and post-poned to tonight.

We haven't even been able to go outside( other than for Beja to quickly run out in the back to pee) it's just waaaay too hot and last night I was again woken up by baaaad indigestion; a painful burning in my chest I still have this morning along with a feeling of a big "lump" stuck in the middle of my throat, likely from the jalapenos I ate last night and my hubby's flight even arrived 14 minutes early which is what happens when you don't use Air Canada and his trip was 3 HRS 50 min. and was 1674 miles(map shown below) and I thought he'd left an hour later than he actually did so when I'd checked the flight tracker expecting to see him just taking off he was already in the air for an hour! He also saved time by not having to go thru customs or wait for his baggage as he just took a carry-on.

He also said the 25 YR old's been diagnosed with Ehler-Danlos , something I'd often wondered if I might have, given my extreme flexibility, now even more likely given it's genetic, and her doctor didn't really listen or take her seriously, brushing off women's concern and pain, just like my GP does with me, and Beja was excited to see him when he came home as well and I was happy for him, like how I felt happy seeing the kids happy on Christmas Day, but *I* feel unsettled and rubbed the wrong way now he's back and he's so selfish as well he still hasn't got food for us( he did bring us back fast food last night which we appreciated but still no groceries as the stores were closed yesterday for the holiday) or even seem to care, and he said he's NOT getting them right away after work but not until after he finishes playing his online chess after work first even though he just spent the last week playing chess and just had the last 2 weeks off doing stuff for him and we desperately need food and only have 2 bread crusts left...but his little hobbies always come first,before what the family needs ....I swear, he's the most *selfish* person I have ever met, and he scoffs, "What's the difference if you wait a few more hours?" I also wanted to go pick up my passport at the post office early, as soon as they open( before they mail it back!) but no, even that isn't a priority(not for him!).....even though it's because of him it's a problem in the first place; he goes away and I always have to end up "paying" for it and getting screwed over.

It was soooo much better when he was away.

God gave rock and roll to you, gave rock and roll to you Gave rock and roll to everyone (oh yeah) God gave rock and roll to you, gave rock and roll to you Put it in the soul of everyone.-KISS

Thoughts For Thursday.

                     I'm sick of being alive knowing I have nobody and nothing.-21

Ice cream.

My hubby would love it.

Kids' meal.

It becomes easier to avoid the mirror than to look at the reflection.-VitalSign

Yeah, and nobody's gonna change me 'Cause that's who I am, uh!-KISS

Everybody ends up hating me anyways.-CatLover1739

Even if I say it'll be alright Still, I hear you say, you want to end your life Now and again, we try to just stay alive Maybe we'll turn it all around, 'cause it's not too late It's never too late.-Three Days Grace

Let 'er riiiiiip!

There are way too many things that would get solved if I just died. There's nothing good about being alive, and I want to die soon, but dying is just too damn hard.-Vaniperish

I wanna go with a shotgun blast I wanna go in a motorcycle crash Out on my own, I don't need to be saved I wanna go out my way But on my tombstone when I go Just put "Death by rock and roll".-The Pretty Reckless

I passed away internally a few years back my body is just here.-uu

My greatest disappointment as an adult was discovering that bad people get away with everything.-Feyisayo

I want to die soon and become free. I want to be liberated from the suffering called life.-

My shadow's the only one that walks beside me My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating Sometimes, I wish someone out there will find me 'Til then, I walk alone.-Green Day