Running With Scissors.(Formerly HippoRastaPotamus): March 2025

Monday, March 31, 2025

The weekend ice storm was epic but it did look beautiful(everything looks like it's all covered in glass) and I got some amazing photos(seen here)! We got 25 mm and lost power a couple of times but nothing too bad, esp. compared to some 400K other people who still have none. It's 10 C now and raining and it all melted and we have tree limbs and chunks of ice in our driveway now and my hubby and the 30 YR old also had to shovel off a thick layer of ice in our driveway. That horrible headache I also had for 3 days is also finally gone(but it affected my brain as I notice I'm spelling everything wrong and reversing letters I have to edit) and my guess is it was related to the storm; that it must have been a really low pressure system (I am connected to nature!)and it lasted for 36 HRS straight,too, the storm. Now we're also supposed to get snow Wednesday and I can't believe it's already April tomorrow,too, and it's the opposite day of my birthday which is 4 January which is 4/1 and tomorrow is 1/4 so it would be kind of cool if that's the day I die.

My therapist once said "people don't abandon the people they love, they abandon the people they're using" and that was all the closure I needed.-Ivy on X

The storm also reminds us that nothing lasts forever and all things will eventually pass.

Focus on you. you’ve done enough for the ungrateful.-SuckMeOnX

This morning my hubby was also thumping really loud doing his yoga even though I thought yoga was supposed to be quiet and peaceful...

Don’t ignore the little things—because sometimes, they’re the biggest warning signs.-Dr. Chris Michael

The good of that quake in Myanmar is that everyone across the globe is helping and it brings out the goodness in humanity whereas Trump shows the worst of humanity wanting to annex us and Greenland and the average sane American can see this,too, and it would be like beating up your best friend.

Too many people live in the moment and feel like old age is a long time in the future. In reality it comes hard and really fucking fast.-LeeAnn Madison

Walked away and never looked back because I left nothing behind.-Sherry Plymire

The waiting is the hardest part.-Tom Petty

I wish I had a man who was tolerant of me.-Quinley

I always want to know the plot of the drama especially how it ends. I usually read magazines and books from the back backwards.-Edward Lafreniere

Do I want to kill myself or do I just need to move out.-User000000

Let people do what they got to do; honey ,if they had other options they wouldn't be doing it-Annie092

Much sadness attends Old Age.-Klindar Gorak

But I'd rather be a free man in my grave Than living as a puppet or a slave.-Jimmy Cliff

Sunday, March 30, 2025

Pondering For Today.

Little Baby Cars.

Here is my latest stash of chocolate: a bag full of little baby cars, minus a couple I already ate. They're just the perfect size for one serving to satisfy my chocolate craving and I eat one a day, like vitamins. Hopefully this will last me until Easter....ha,ha,,, yeah I know it actually won't. HA! I still have that god-awful headache I've had for the past 3 days. My hubby thinks it's just an "excuse" to NOT (you know, nik-nik) but I honest-to-God DO have this horrible awful pounding throbbing headache that it just relentless and gets worse every time I change position from sitting, laying, standing up, bending over, etc. It feels like ice-picks in my head, like something's going to explode and I have to lie down and just want to sleep.

This is also a photo the 23 YR old send from Paris, no explanation needed. She said it was an 11 HR flight for her and with the time-difference( it must be a 7-8 HR difference for her since it was a 4-5 hour difference for me and in BC she's 3 hours behind us) she's really tired. My trick for adjusting to different time zones is going to sleep for like 15 hours and then I've adjusted when I wake up.

Yesterday Buddy also somehow wandered off and ended up down in the basement, even though I always keep the door closed for that reason(despite my hubby taunting me he'll never go down there) but someone must have left it open and he went down, and he must have fallen down the stairs,too, as he can barely even walk now so there's no way he could have gone down the stairs, plus they're also really steep,too. I'm just so glad he didn't get hurt....or worse. I heard him barking, the bark when he's stuck and needs me to come rescue him, so I went and couldn't find him but kept following the bark and it led me downstairs and there he was, much to my shock and surprise.....wedged in-between part of the furnace!

How the hell did he get there?

It must be like dementia or Alzheimers or something, the poor old guy,.

Everything is now also coated in a thick layer of ice and over 100 K people in the province have no electricity and yesterday as I was sitting out on the front veranda smoking mi face off I heard this really loud craaaccck and I thought a squirrel was falling off the roof but it was a frozen ice-ladden tree branch that fell off our tree and landed in the driveway right beside me so it's a good thing my hubby parked the car across the street and also that he didn't get the snow tires taken off yet,too!

It looks really pretty out there but it's also very hazardous.

These photos might look a bit blurry or "fuzzy" because I took them from my bedroom window and there's a screen on there, plus I also had to hold the other window up on top of my head to take the shot so it wouldn't fall down and I was kind of wobbly.

Oh, the things I do and the sacrifices I make, ha,ha.

This is also the new cute chicken( or maybe it's actually a rooster since it has the funny ball-sack thing on its head) the 30 YR old has in his room. Maybe it's for Easter?I noticed it the other day when I was in his room talking to him about something. I like it and think it's cute so I put it up on my blog. Below is also a shawl I like but will never buy because I'm tired of getting ripped-off online.