Birthday Boy!!

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Today is my best best friend's birthday! he is 16 ( that's 112 in Dog years!) which is really old  for a dog! My friend O's( from grade 10) dog is almost 17! I've had 8 wonderful years (I got him when he was 8 years old) of love, joy, light, happiness, companionship,and healing he's brought me and that we've shared. It's actually longer than I'd thought we'd ever get and I'm grateful for each day we still have. We're both a couple of old crotchety geezers now and hobble along slowly, riddled with arthritis and other maladies, with pain, fatigue,and aches and pains, and greyness and other ravages of old age; we're a good pair. he's the best friend and the best dog that I've ever had and the best thing that's ever happened to me in my entire LIFE  and getting him is the best thing that I ever did. I prayed to God to send someone to love me and He sent me Buddy. He knew exactly what I needed. He's my entire world and my entire life and I honestly don't know what I'd ever do without him.💓 He's really all I have.

These 2 photos are a few years old, when he was younger, but they are 2 of my faves. Look at how regal and handsome he is.This morning as I came out of the tub I felt really dizzy and "faint" and I almost fell over, and if I had I would have cracked my head on the tub( which wouldn't have been good) so I had to quickly sit down,and yesterday and today my lower back and flank area hurts soooo much  as well I just want to scream and I even feel nauseated from the pain; it feels like an elephant is standing on my spine and like my back is going to break and also last night I got this really bad pain shooting up my right leg into the back of my knee that was so bad my leg buckled from underneathy me and I couldn't stand up and had to sit down. What the f*ck was that? For the past couple of days I'm also always so cold I'm shivering and I just can't get warm no matter how many layers of clothes I bundle up in, how many blankets I snuggle under, or even having the heater on!

Tomorrow is also Family Day  and I'm still trying to find a nice family to spend it with ( they didn't say that you necessarily have to spend it with your own  family) and I thought I found one but they seem superficial and not as nice and "perfect" as they seem, and my hubby and the boys are going over to another family's house to play Dungeons & Dragons  tomorrow leaving my mother, Buddy,and I home, so we'll be ordering-in food, Chinese and Italian and sharing it, and I heard back from my travel agent too and she said the lifting of the vax pass next month is only so it's not required any more in businesses such as restaurants but you still need to be vaccinated for travel and to return to Canada ( who even wants  to come back  to this tyrannical Police State shithole,anyway?) even if the other  countries no longer require it so I still can't travel,and we're NOT really truly free afterall, but the problem could be solved as long as I don't come back...

Now the Freedom Convoy  in Ottawa is mostly cleared out; they towed out over 75 trucks by smashing in the windows and hauling out the drivers and by beating, clubbing, pepper-spraying, tear-gassing,and generally roughing up the peaceful protesters, and the old woman they trampled with the horse luckily is alive despite early reports she had died, and she's also a Mohawk Elder as well, so now the Indigenous People will hate the police and the gov't even more than they already did before.

Even with the main truck protesters cleared out, there are still protesters there standing firm and holding the line, plus a new influx of many others on foot arriving, as well as other protests popping up in other cities all across the country as well as the people's will and calls for freedom from tyrannical mandates, restrictions, lockdowns, etc. and now oppressive gov't and military-style police tactics still ring out strong and loud and will not be silenced. There are reports as well that even some police and RCMP are resigning, ashamed at what their comrades are taking part in; in attacking their own citizens.

"The rest is just silence".- Hamlet