Bob Marley Country.

My mother brought me home some yellow Gerbera Daisies the other day and when I asked her, Where did you find Gerbera Daisies THIS time of year? she goes, Oh! I thought they were sunflowers! Oh, well, the thought was there.... and it was a nice gesture though but it got me suspicious as she's normally NOT "nice" like that so my "warning" attenae shot up and I got suspicious......and then later she said she'd help pay to send me to Jamaica,too, and then  the curiousity finally just got to be too much and I asked her, Why are you being so nice to me all of a sudden? and she replied, You need a break, and we need a break from you! We all need a break! and so there it is. There you have it. I should have known she had an ulterior motive. She always does: they just want to get rid of me and figure it costs less to send one person away for a week than everyone else but who am I to complain though; at least I still get to go to Jamaica for a week and much-needed beach therapy, even if their intentions aren't so nice.

  Today we're getting the worst snowstorm forecasted yet this winter: 25-35 cm plus blowing snow and ice pellets and not only were the school buses all cancelled across the board but all the schools themselves were even closed for the day, even though this is Canada and it's winter and we get this every year and I can still remember the blizzard of 1978 and I still had to walk to school in that when I was 11. People now just are a bunch of wussy-pussies and have no tolerance anymore, no endurance, no balls,and are so coddled and babies, it's pathetic. We were warriors back then.We also never had seatbelts, helmets, elbow or knee pads, we climbed jungle gyms and rode in the back of Station Wagons, drank out of the hose, etc. and lived to tell about it. The only safety precaution I had when I was a kid were life jackets.

  I also commented online to a post about a woman in Toronto who made a viral video hurling garden chairs 30 stories off her condo balcony down below and the police are looking to arrest her and I made a light-hearted comment about it saying Attempted murder of chairs! Chairs have rights too! Stop chair abuse now! and people replied how I'm stupid and what's wrong with me, etc. and it just backfired, just like things often do, but I was only trying to lighten the situation and make a joke. I've done that my whole life,actually, just trying to fit in and survive; I've always tried to use humour to bridge the gap between myself and other people, to try and connect with them, to break the ice so to speak, to lighten the mood, to be more likeable, to fit in, to make them laugh,and if they're laughing with me hopefully they won't be laughing at me but often it ends up offending people or coming out the wrong way and I still end up looking dumb, being ridiculed and outcast anyway even though I meant well and I tried.