Monday, May 11
May. 11th, 2026 11:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Decent sleep.
Getting chores and such done, and headed to town.
I made a belated Mother's day card for my husband's Mom last night, even though she was never nice to me. It is his Mom, and I did it for him.
She now has dementia, and I suppose I can be "big" enough to make her a card.
I took it to be mailed today, and got fuel in the little town nearby. Then I headed to town for pottery and groceries.
For whatever reason, I was thinking about our auto registrations. Maybe because I will be making a longer trip soon. My husband said he took care of it, but sometimes I wonder....
The registration in my car was expired, though my husband said it should be paid up. I went to the registration office, who confirmed that it was paid up.
So the mystery is, where is the current registration forms? If I had to guess, they are sitting in a cloth bag in my husband's car maybe, or in a pile of mail that he just dumped in the house without opening or telling me about.
I paid to have a new one printed so that I would be up to date. This likely means that the registration in the other vehicles is also out of date, and the forms nowhere to be found.
I will need to try to update the one in his car, since that's the one I will be driving to Manitoba.
Sigh.
The registrar then informed me that a parking ticket we got some time ago in the winter, was "insufficiently paid". I have no idea at all how that could be possible. Either it got paid, or not paid?
I do remember that we got the ticket, that it was a simple, $25 thing that my husband said he would just pay online, and he struggled to figure out if it was done correctly or not, and apparently he never bothered to follow up and find out.
So, the amount I paid today was $75, and imagine if we had never bothered to check.
I feel like I spend a lot of time finding little "bonus problems" that my husband was supposed to take care of.
Then I went to pottery, and it was nice to just trim a vase I threw last week. It's looking good.
No, it's not your imagination; I've been mostly making vases lately. I am entranced by the challenge of making interesting forms.
A woman from the next class came in early, and told me about her Mom's back problems, which in some ways mirror my Sister S. Crumbling bones, back surgery, long recovery time. What was weird is she says the Canadian system wasn't going to do surgery (maybe because of the advanced osteoporosis?), so her Mom went to Tijuana, Mexico for complex back surgery. Wasn't expecting that.
Then I went to Mark's Work Wearhouse to look for sturdy shoes for the yard, and I hated to spend money on shoes for that. BUT, I've tried buying cheap shoes from Wal-mart or something, and they fall apart in a month.
Sigh.
Then I went to Winner's, and found a few things. Some sleeveless tank type shirts, but a little "nice". This is the first summer in ten years or more that I might actually wear such a shirt, now that I have removed the lipoma.
I still have a scar, but that doesn't bother me. There's still some loose skin that isn't perfect, but people probably won't notice.
I know I have some other sleeveless shirts, but I gave away most of my casual tank top type shirts.
Then I got groceries, though I was already feeling like I was running on empty. I've noticed that this is generally how I feel now, by the time I get to the grocery store.
I got groceries, and as I have for about the last year, I felt like a deer in headlights looking at the prices.
I am very grateful to be able to buy groceries, to have the physical ability, the car, and so on.
Then I went home, and my Sweetie already ate, so I made some supper after we put the food away.
He was late getting to bed. Sigh.
Lately though, I've been feeling pretty discouraged about the state of things on a larger scale.
All of this stuff in the U.S......!
I feel like the Alberta government is not doing anything for us at all either, and every day I have news articles about more things being cut, taken away from us, due process ignored to build these stupid AI data centers that NO ONE WANTS, the threat of separation, the extreme cost of fuel (in a very short time, it's costing about $20 more to fill my little car), the ever rising costs of EVERYTHING.
What power do we have at all over any of these things? I can grow some food, but not everything.
I need shoes. I need a car (no bus service to our rural property)...it's nuts!
It doesn't seem to matter about public opinion, voting feels like a joke. We recently had a petition for Alberta to remain part of Canada, and it got enough signatures, and that was it. Never to be seen or heard from again.
Instead, a petition to LEAVE Canada started, and somehow THAT is the one they want to bring to a referendum.
Every damn day I think about everything just crumbling around us. The data centers bother me as much as the separatists and U.S. politics, because of their environmental impact, and WHO THE HELL WANTS ALL OF THIS AI?
It's being forced on us. No one that I know wants it. No one.
It all makes me so tired.
Decent sleep.
Getting chores and such done, and headed to town.
I made a belated Mother's day card for my husband's Mom last night, even though she was never nice to me. It is his Mom, and I did it for him.
She now has dementia, and I suppose I can be "big" enough to make her a card.
I took it to be mailed today, and got fuel in the little town nearby. Then I headed to town for pottery and groceries.
For whatever reason, I was thinking about our auto registrations. Maybe because I will be making a longer trip soon. My husband said he took care of it, but sometimes I wonder....
The registration in my car was expired, though my husband said it should be paid up. I went to the registration office, who confirmed that it was paid up.
So the mystery is, where is the current registration forms? If I had to guess, they are sitting in a cloth bag in my husband's car maybe, or in a pile of mail that he just dumped in the house without opening or telling me about.
I paid to have a new one printed so that I would be up to date. This likely means that the registration in the other vehicles is also out of date, and the forms nowhere to be found.
I will need to try to update the one in his car, since that's the one I will be driving to Manitoba.
Sigh.
The registrar then informed me that a parking ticket we got some time ago in the winter, was "insufficiently paid". I have no idea at all how that could be possible. Either it got paid, or not paid?
I do remember that we got the ticket, that it was a simple, $25 thing that my husband said he would just pay online, and he struggled to figure out if it was done correctly or not, and apparently he never bothered to follow up and find out.
So, the amount I paid today was $75, and imagine if we had never bothered to check.
I feel like I spend a lot of time finding little "bonus problems" that my husband was supposed to take care of.
Then I went to pottery, and it was nice to just trim a vase I threw last week. It's looking good.
No, it's not your imagination; I've been mostly making vases lately. I am entranced by the challenge of making interesting forms.
A woman from the next class came in early, and told me about her Mom's back problems, which in some ways mirror my Sister S. Crumbling bones, back surgery, long recovery time. What was weird is she says the Canadian system wasn't going to do surgery (maybe because of the advanced osteoporosis?), so her Mom went to Tijuana, Mexico for complex back surgery. Wasn't expecting that.
Then I went to Mark's Work Wearhouse to look for sturdy shoes for the yard, and I hated to spend money on shoes for that. BUT, I've tried buying cheap shoes from Wal-mart or something, and they fall apart in a month.
Sigh.
Then I went to Winner's, and found a few things. Some sleeveless tank type shirts, but a little "nice". This is the first summer in ten years or more that I might actually wear such a shirt, now that I have removed the lipoma.
I still have a scar, but that doesn't bother me. There's still some loose skin that isn't perfect, but people probably won't notice.
I know I have some other sleeveless shirts, but I gave away most of my casual tank top type shirts.
Then I got groceries, though I was already feeling like I was running on empty. I've noticed that this is generally how I feel now, by the time I get to the grocery store.
I got groceries, and as I have for about the last year, I felt like a deer in headlights looking at the prices.
I am very grateful to be able to buy groceries, to have the physical ability, the car, and so on.
Then I went home, and my Sweetie already ate, so I made some supper after we put the food away.
He was late getting to bed. Sigh.
Lately though, I've been feeling pretty discouraged about the state of things on a larger scale.
All of this stuff in the U.S......!
I feel like the Alberta government is not doing anything for us at all either, and every day I have news articles about more things being cut, taken away from us, due process ignored to build these stupid AI data centers that NO ONE WANTS, the threat of separation, the extreme cost of fuel (in a very short time, it's costing about $20 more to fill my little car), the ever rising costs of EVERYTHING.
What power do we have at all over any of these things? I can grow some food, but not everything.
I need shoes. I need a car (no bus service to our rural property)...it's nuts!
It doesn't seem to matter about public opinion, voting feels like a joke. We recently had a petition for Alberta to remain part of Canada, and it got enough signatures, and that was it. Never to be seen or heard from again.
Instead, a petition to LEAVE Canada started, and somehow THAT is the one they want to bring to a referendum.
Every damn day I think about everything just crumbling around us. The data centers bother me as much as the separatists and U.S. politics, because of their environmental impact, and WHO THE HELL WANTS ALL OF THIS AI?
It's being forced on us. No one that I know wants it. No one.
It all makes me so tired.
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Date: 2026-05-12 07:21 am (UTC)Everyone over 40 should be taking steps to preserve bone health – the future creeps up fast and stealthily. Supplements are a big part of it for me.