Chuckle For Today.

 

Orange Shirt Day.

Today is Orange Shirt Day also known as the Day of Truth And Reconciliation, a day to reflect on the victims and survivors of Canada's Residential School system, where Indigenous children were cruelly and systematically stolen from their families and communities by the gov't and church to be "assimilated" into English culture where they were abused and has the "Indian beaten out of them". They were physically, sexually, and psychologically abused every time they spoke their native languages or practiced their culture and this caused trauma for generations and still continues to this day. These abuses went on for over a hundred years and the scars and damage last to this day. It's just inexcusable and horrific and I just can't wrap my head around it or how anyone could ever try to "justify" it and why they'd even think that there's anything "wrong" with being Indigenous; why they'd even have to be assimilated; Native culture, language,heritage, and tradition is beautiful and full of rich history and culture and there's nothing "wrong" with it or to be ashamed of. It's nothing more than genocide what was done to them for generations, State and church sponsored genocide and nothing they can do can ever "make up" for it. It makes me ashamed of this country and is this shithole's biggest shame and disgrace.They were here first.

There's nothing about us without us.-Indigenous saying.

 

Weekend Words.

I got a fever and the only prescription is more cowbell. - Christopher Walken

 

Daily Truth.

 

Queenie.

Here's my mother after her new haircut yesterday. I think she looks like the Queen as she has her same hairstyle, Usually she has it much shorter, closer to her head, not much longer than mine and this time it's fancier,too, with a bit of curl! I call her Queenie ( or secretly in my head The Queen of Mean)  and I can remember her saying either her grandmother or great-grandmother(one or the other ) was nick-named Queenie although I don't know the reason behind it and pretty much though most old white ladies sort of look alike. She's also supposed to see her doctor this morning assuming she got the time right this time but they normally call the night before to remind her and they didn't yesterday so who knows...She also often drops her pills on the floor which is dangerous if Buddy snuffles along and eats it so I'm always having to pick them up and she ran him over with her walker the other day too in a rush to get to the bathroom before she shit her pants( she didn't make it) and he yelped and needed extra hugs, cuddles and love from me afterwards, the poor guy.

Here he is yesterday as well, soaking up the sunshine and just enjoying himself. Even though he does have painful days he still does also have good days like this too where he enjoys being alive and looks blissful basking in the warmth of the sun. Now he's old he limps along ever so slowly too and when he was younger he used to race around the house wildly and had so much energy and now all he does is sleep all day but he(like me) still loves being outside and feeling the sun and breeze. This morning I could also see my breath when I took him out and I thought it was 10 C but it was really only 5 C so that explains it and I think they might be close to finishing our road and putting down the asphalt soon too as now it's all rough and now they say the average ER wait is 20 HOURS due to staff shortages so I don't think I'll ever be going there ever again and I'd rather die  than wait that long, and, in fact, if you went with a heart-attack, stroke, GSW, stabbing, car accident, etc. you likely would die anyway having to wait that long, and my friend who arrived in Cuba just before the hurricane said power went out awhile the first night but was restored and I assume the resort would have back-up generators and my friend in Tampa said he's not in the area that got evacuated so hopefully he'll be ok...

God ain’t done with me yet.-Lecrae

 

Wordless Wednesday.

 

Today's Thought.

 

Right Now.

Check out my cool funky tie-dye lighters! My fave. one is second from the left and I have a shirt that matches it! That reminds me of when we first moved to Ottawa and my Babushka visited us and I was wearing my tie-dyed shirt and she loved it and my mother had one too and Babushka wanted to get one so we went to the outdoor market where they were selling them and she got one too so we all matched and then the 3 of us went out all wearing our matching shirts! I remember when I was a kid having one as well and then later on bought them for all my kids as well. Always the eternal hippie. We finally got our broken dryer fixed as well; a repairman came and fixed it( and he used to own the laundry mat) and luckily it was just a special fuse that needed replacing for 100$ which is much better than a new dryer which would cost at least 800$ we don't have and it's nice to have dry towels again!It's also been a week since I shaved my eyebrows off and no one noticed still and they're taking alot longer to grow back in than I thought and now it's still just tiny little stubbles you can feel but can't see yet. For the past couple of days my stomach pain is also a bit less(and it helps when I bear down, like pushing to do a shit) or else I've just built up more of a tolerance to it but now the pain is worse in my kidneys and my skin looks jaundice as well( yellow) and my eyes itch and sting and my appetite is less so my liver must be acting-up again now as well. It's always something.

Yesterday my mother also went to her doctor thinking she had an app't.....only to find out she got the dates wrong( again; this isn't the first time it's happened) and it's actually tomorrow and she says she says an app't to get her hair cut this morning as well assuming that's right, and now she's spelling things wrong in German and French as well as in English so it's not a specific language problem; it's a spelling problem and she used to have no trouble spelling so her mind is going, and the other day she oddly cooked and she only gave us each 3 measly chicken wings and at first I thought it was to make sure there was enough to go around.....but nooooo....because she gave her precious prince the 15 YR old 7-8 of them! So the rest of us had to practically starve so she could indulge him! My friend P(from grade 6) also left for 2 weeks in Cuba yesterday....and then hurricane Ian hit and now the entire island is without electricity and my fave. Facebook friend lives in Tampa where it's also going to hit hard next and so now I alsohave to wait for hurricane season to end before I  travel again and go back to the Carribean and if the last hurricane was Fiona why is this next one Ian? Whatever happened to G  and H? Why did they skip from F to I in naming them?

When I was 17-18 or so my original plan was to go back to Russia to live and get married and to have my babies by the new ( at the time) underwater birth method....but as it turned out God had other plans for me as He sees the Big Picture and knows ahead of time what's to come in the future( that I didn't see) such as the fall of Soviet Russia and that now Russian men would be conscripted to fight in the Russia-Ukraine war which would mean that my boys would have also been called to war if we lived there(just like with my friend Sergei; he was called to fight in Afghanistan back in the day and we still wrote letters....until one day I stopped hearing from him and I fear he was killed...), so in the end it worked out for the best that I didn't end up living there afterall but at the time there's no way I would have known that but God did. He always knows what's best even if we don't at the time.

Being homely is more than a face . It is also a deep sadness.

 

Musing For The Day.