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went for coffee today with a local from a messageboard we both frequent. Odd duck she. She kept pulling her hair over her face. Terribly odd and distracting. I mean, nice enough but just...kinda odd in a really odd way and I consider myself an introvert? oh no. Not by any means evidently.

It wasn't unpleasant but I don't think future meetups are on the agenda.

Wanted to go get a haircut today but coffee ran later than I expected. So in two weeks I'll go, after I work the gem show. I might splurge and get my hair properly lightened too, because I'm tired of the mousy mess.

Novels: took a couple days off because exhaustion and real life ate into write time.

We picked up a jar of ORGANIC!!! baby applesauce and a handheld sippycup for babies for Stirling since he's showing inclination to hold the bottle himself this thing is basically a bottle with handles. The babyfood? well we've been offering tiny tastes of things, a tiny piece of egg or noodle or sauce or icing, hahaha, and he's been working at it. He's at the younger end of the "when to do this" but it's not unrealistic to start offering him small tastes of things. So we'll give it a try a bit at a time. He's nearly maxing out on formula feeds too.

He's kinda got the concept of rolling over, flipped himself over today.

We're starting to finalize trip plans and stuff, and even dealing with formula and diapers, there's a pharmasave across from the hotel so we don't really need to pack a ton of stuff. It's calgary, i'm sure we can get what we need.

His head shape is still a little wonk, but we're trying to fix that by positioning him off the flat side and holding him more, more belleh time but I think we might be facing a reshaping helmet stint if it doesn't start to resolve.

And next week i register for class and we find some kind of 2 day a week childcare. No lie that is stressing me out big time. There's a local councillor who organized a meeting night to talk to parents re childcare issues in the city and I'm going to go to it. I'd love if we had a provincial daycare or city daycare strategy but I know, people will bitch and say they don't want to cover other people's kids, and someone should stay home but it's simply not possible these days. ( I am lucky with some changes I can work mostly from home at least)

the next two weeks are stupid busy, then its two weeks to end of semester. Time flies. I wanted the novel 2/novella 2 drafts done by end of january. I'd also like to see if we can get another indie author on our small press label we created, maybe two. Start building that.

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Studio three hours. worked on my parents vow renewal rings ( having issue getting the sizing correct), and worked on my sample ring that also, sized wrong. I was all set to whack it into shape when a solder seam broke. I am not sure i really accomplished all that much today...

On further reflection, I am most definitely not meeting up with the forum person I met yesterday. She just seemed beyond odd. Aside from constantly playing with her ratty hair and pulling it over her face( at one point seeming to resemble cousin it, other times grabbing a hunk and holding it over her mouth and nose) she was...kinda rude? I mentioned that I wanted to get my hair cut since I'd been too sick during the pregnancy and she goes "yeah, it's GREEN". Um. No, my hair's not green. It's a dark dirty blonde and some lighting can make the damaged hair look green but it is NOT GREEN.

She just seemed to lack even basic social skills in a way that I was really put off by. and I know strange people.

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My family are mostly central albertan. Typically religious to varying degree, mostly conservative voting, vaguely anti government, anti handout anti welfare, kind of a softer version of a US conservative.

But.

Calgary and parts of the province got smucked with some floods this summer. The city wasn't levelled, it got back on its feet in fairly short order, scored didn't die, typhus and diptheria didn't break out. Y'know, all in all, not that bad. Relief funds were raised and offered, but to be honest, calgary's kind of a bad set up where the red deer/bow rivers blow their banks every 5 years or so, because that's what has happened for a long time. My uncle's house is in one of those low lying areas. his basement filled to the main floor, but he didn't lose the house or his wife or children.

So it rather frosts my ass to see my mom griping with her friends on FB about how come the philippines is getting all this relief money and aid and where's theirs?

Y'know, the ones who didn't lose houses and family, the ones who basically had a bit of mud and flood, not a levelled city?

I'm so glad I moved away. I really detested that "gimme mine fuck you" mind set of alberta conservatives. I don't even grasp how they have not a fraction of compassion for a region that just got blasted off the map by a fucking typhoon, and they're whinging that they had to deal with a spot of rain, relatively speaking.

for people who fancy themselves christian compassionate independent sorts, they're really really getting it wrong.