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Wishing you a day filled with blue skies, wispy clouds, warm bright moments, and the love that you so deserve!
We came home to an incredible Valentine’s Day gift .. Not only did our Landlord replace our dead puny Danby fridge, he gave us a full-sized GE brand NEW refrigerator! After our fiasco last summer of no fridge for 3 weeks and this ordeal of 4 days with only the Koolatron to keep all our perishables somewhat alive, we were relieved and inspired by the new lease on life that we have (literally .. the Landlord finally gave us our contract and established our residency … for however long that may be, month by month. Yippee!).
SlaDE and I went to yoga last night and were absolutely delighted by the class involvement … Our instructor (a replacement for Ally) had us do partner yoga. A first for slaDE and only my second time. It was so much fun! Full of giggles and tender loving moments, the class was inspirational and bonding to us all. A perfect way to start our romantic evening  .
I received a lovely bouquet of stargazer flowers and a 1 gig orange iPod shuffle lovingly engraved, from my sweetheart. He IS the best!!
Not sure if I mentioned that last week I went for a marathon job interview. The job-hunting process was beautifully easy in that I was referred to this job by my current boss. What a lovely lady … she felt that my skills were so extraordinary that she was happy to look for other work within the Calgary Health Region. they seem to be in need of competent and efficient staff, or so I’m told. How lucky!
Well the interview was unlike any that I had ever endured before (not that I’ve had many, but a 1.5 hr grilling session was quite exhausting). My interviewers were lovely ladies within the Oral and Mental Health Departments of CRHA … and the pay level is about the same as what I’m making as a temp currently. The big draw for me, however, is the insanely short walk to work … a mere 7 minutes, meaning that I could go home on my lunch hour and have an equally brisk and short walk to the gym. How wonderful! The possibility of no more trudging my way through the downtown core-filled pollution roads, where traffic is as thick as a fly on a manure mound (the smells are equally disgusting — you’re speaking to a farm girl who is in the know here!), is exciting …
So the offer is on the table and I’m pretty certain that I will accept the job position offered to me. Who knows how long we’ll be here in Calgary now … one day at a time. Meanwhile, save, save, saving those pennies.
Did I also mention that this Saturday I am starting another job? Part-time with the local Community Natural Health Food store as a Bulk Clerk. I’ll be standing all day on my shift and I’m not certain how that will go over, body wise. I’ll give the job a shot for a few shifts to see how it goes, but it may be just as worthwhile to look for contract web work (although the community aspect won’t be the same) on my Saturdays. At least that way I can work in my pajamas! 
What a lovely day … yoga to enliven and energize, an afternoon spent in contemplative conversation, Conversation Cafe style, on the subject of ‘Listening’. With a potluck to follow, the day ended a delectable weekend of solitude and reflection that we had hoped to achieve. Too bad that slaDE~s hockey games were cancelled last night (not enough regular participation to warrant a ‘team’ effort) … our 2 days would have been mere perfection otherwise!
Maybe ‘perfection’ is too strong a word … I forgot to mention that our fridge died (not again! you say), but at least this time, we were ready with a koolatron and multiple coolers to place on the roof, acting as an alternative ‘freezer’.
My poor baby …
slaDE~ had three teeth extracted today and a root canal plus fillings drilled into his jaw. He lost his two front teeth several years ago playing hockey, and at the time, opted not to have anything done to fix the gap in his mouth. But a terrible tooth ache forced his hand and he went to the dentist to see if he could quell the rebellious mouth beast. The dentist told him that he needed the extractions taken care of asap and hence, here he is today after 4 gruelling hours spent in the dental chair. A partial was molded to fill in the gap, but the thought of wearing that for 48 hours after such major surgery seems downright painful to me.
I find it hard not to mother my partner when he is feeling ill or is going through so much pain. But in this instance, I let him tell me what he needed and gave him the space and time to heal. Diet modifications had to be taken into account … tough when all you can eat are baby-like foods (soft and mushy) that are cool to the touch. Try feeding a hard-working man for a week on a diet like that and see how much weight he can lose. Oh dear!!
LITTLE WING
Now she’s walking thru the clouds
With a circus mind
That’s running wild
Butterflies and zebras
And moonbeams and fairytales
All she ever thinks about is
Riding with the wind
When I’m sad she comes to me
With a thousand smiles
She gives to me free
It’s alright it’s alright she says
Take anything you want from em
Anything
Fly little wing ….
Jimi Hendrix says it best for me right now ……
(Jimi Hendrix © 1976)
 It’s been years since I’ve seen slaDE~ play hockey on a regular ‘team’, and having missed his first 2 games, I wanted to cheer him on.
Well, the shinny turnout was pretty dismal (7 guys), and at $265/hr for ice time, that makes for a pretty expensive hobby of shooting a puck around! But these men were determined to make the most of the empty rink and I still was able to cheer the guys on (accompanied by our friends Rob & Robin).
We sat huddled in the stands, with a carafe of hot chocolate, hard as nails mini-marshmallows and dunking cookies, whooping and hollering, enjoying our 11pm game. The bonus: I managed to skilfully jockey the puck around with slaDE~ on the ice, without falling down. Hurrah!! So good to see him happy and in his element.
Treat the earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents.
It is lent to you by your children.
- Kenyan proverb
 Global warming is no longer tomorrow’s problem.
 Well, it seems to be ‘official” …. but in reality, we knew this a long time ago, and action should have been taken worldwide, then.
Shoulda, woulda, coulda.
The warning came in a draft U.N. report on climate change released today, in Paris France, that projects a big rise in temperatures this century and warns of more heat waves, floods, hurricanes, droughts and rising seas linked to greenhouse gases.
“The final version of the report, regarded as the most comprehensive study on climate change, predicted sea levels rising 7 to 23 inches by 2100, but added that oceans could rise much faster if ice sheets rapidly disappear.” … Furthermore, the report “suggests average temperatures could rise more than expected – by as much as 6.4C by 2100, unless greenhouse gas emissions are reined in. “
With the statement “Oceans, soil and trees will become worse at absorbing carbon dioxide as temperatures rise“, I can’t help but wince at the thought of our rainforests, and the accelerated rate at which they are being harvested (40 species and 20 acres of rain forest are killed per minute). Less trees means even LESS possibility of carbon dioxide absorption. So not only is our use of fossil fuels spurring the changing of temperatures, our raping of the earth’s soils and forests is accelerating the earth’s untimely demise (as we know it, I believe).
“To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them.”
The California Center for Strategic Studies
What’s happening to our priorities? Concern for the environment should be regarded as non-partisan and non-political issue. WE are responsible for our World. Individual belief and action goes farther than any government policy can ever dream or hope. However, it doesn’t help when the politicians decide to ignore the relevant issues at hand. For example, Bush is proposing that $245 billion more be spent on a War that is without meaning, cause or direction. Why not devote that money towards a cause(s) much more worthwhile?
There are a plethora of positive ways to invest our efforts and the World’s financial resources in bringing on change, growth and a future filled with hope rather than Apocalyptic predictions and realities (and these are my own personal beliefs, skimming only the bottom of the bucket, per se):
- affordable healthcare / education on healthcare
- development and implementation of renewable and sustainable energy resources
- Aids / Cancer / Heart Disease education / prevention and research
- environmental restraint on deforestation
- enforcement of policy which holds Companies / people responsible for their excessive use of fossil fuels
- education on / prevention of Global poverty and homelessness
Call me a hippy but I truly believe that Make Peace and Not War should be our Global Initiative and Mantra. Our mission on Mother Earth should be (as the California Center for Strategic Studies quotes) Securing World Peace, Fostering Human Rights, and Promoting Sustainable Prosperity.
I believe that this is the first step in a positive direction, where the road ahead of us will be filled with global environmental issues, tragedies and realities which far supersede the aggressive and arrogant behaviour of a Government more intent on ‘winning’ than peaceful living in our present reality. Ignorance is not bliss. Both Individual and Government action is necessary if we want to pave a Yellow brick road for the future for our children, rather than dig their graves (and potentially our own).
This is my rant for today.
Amen.
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