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Jun 22, 2021, 05:57 AM
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I had a peaceful day watching a three-hour morning news show that i've never seen before that was recommended by a friend.
It took me all day to finish it as i take breaks from TV (i cut the cable and watch online so it's easy to pause -- and free!!!). Yesterday was National Indigenous Peoples Day here in Canada and there were Indigenous leaders speaking in their own languages and translating for us each 20 minutes.
I found the anchor team was fun, especially the man who was full of charisma and charm and handsome as Hell. The Muslim-looking woman anchor was achingly pretty too and had such energy.
The white woman anchor (there were a total of three anchors yesterday as the man was out of the studio and just participated via a gigantic screen) was least interesting tho she had a nice messy-Stevie-Nicks-look going and at least was not stick-thin as so many of the onscreen white women are. All shapes and sizes are good of course but the media tends toward TINY white women quite conspicuously.
There was a demo of Inuit throat-singing featuring Shina Novalinga who has an eclectic CD with throat-singing with a bit of a pop-twist to it with drums and percussion coming out later this year. I can't wait!!! She sings with her mom. Shina is also achingly pretty, many of the Indigenous women are, i guess it's all that clean-living.
Shina and her mom stand face to face and lock eyes and entwine arms and sway from side to side as they sing. The mom 'leads' as she is the experienced expert and Shina 'follows' for a pleasing harmonizing effect.
I LOVE HARMONIZING!!!
The mom goes faster and faster and the game is for Shina to keep up with her until she fails and then they collapse in giggles. It looks like a really good time and a superb way to honor your mom.
Got a few things done and got outside twice with my dog to enjoy the nice day, but am happy to have had a calm day of rest and today will be the same tho i do hope to get to my dishes today.
Tomorrow is our condo AGM and Thursday is the building women's social which is always a riot, very intense, i like to bring treats for everyone as my mom taught me to never go empty-handed.
With COVID i brought safely-packaged Nutella snack-packs last week that went over well and this week i will bring safely-packaged sesame snaps, both treats are outstanding, you really must try them if you have never had them.
I have a deal with our convenience store owner that every week i spend more than $30 i get free coffee all the next week!!! I use the convenience store a lot because i don't have a car and it's $7 in bus fare to go anywhere and it doesn't make good economic sense to go to the grocery store for just one thing.
The convenience store even has a small produce section and i was able to get a vine of tomatoes yesterday and they keep me in just-barely-ripe bananas, which is how i like them.
They're Sudanese-Canadian and help me out with the occasional print-out for free as i don't have a printer and the dad is excellent with tech. Good people!!! Good business people!!! Know how to build a business!!!
We get such nice immigrant families in our convenience store, tho they turn a tidy profit and move on frequently. The last family was Honduran-Canadian and would even shop for me for a song!!!
They brought in some of the grandmas savory baked treats also, which i was overjoyed with as i don't YET cook. They had delicious samosas from an Eritrean-Canadian chef in the building and would take orders for her which was useful when i went away for a weekend and wanted to gift my hostess something exquisite.
I also ordered my first vegan za yesterday and it was excellent, i knew it would be as i prefer this giant chain pizzeria and they would have had the resources to do extensive product-development by scientists in test-kitchen-labs.
The cheeze was a bit more creamy than gooey and the faux-pepperoni was a touch bland, but for the peace-of-mind knowing no animals suffered to make my meal, i will accept this gladly.
It was my second night on my restarted benzo taper and i slept fine except for getting up for an hour at midnight. But i got the hours in, just no long period of restorative deep-REM sleep which is so important. I'm at 8mg of Valium, so i am fully 60% of the way there. It's always easier once i pass the halfway mark with tasks, i find.
I WILL GET THERE!!!
Well, i guess this was not too much about bipolar, but perhaps you get the idea that my mood is high and i love all of humanity at the moment, embracing multi-culturalism with both arms and feel expansive and loving and amused and interested in the world.
It probably won't last much longer as we have passed The Summer Solstice, so i'll be back to Plain Jane before long, full of negativity and complaints and brief grouchy posts, so enjoy it while you can!!!!!
Hugs,
Jane.
Last edited by Anonymous41462; Jun 22, 2021 at 07:09 AM.
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