Depressing. Raffi is pretty passionate about politics on the Twitter. Or his criticism of politics. Pity about the grumps. I think Fred Penner is legitimately nice. He quite happily hung about and chatted with everyone anyways.

Will have to courier due to postal worker lockout.

BC, but not the coast. It’s been storming all week. We saw some flooded streets last night when we were out for dinner. And the poor babysitter was left with no power for a while. :P Oh well. We had a nice spring.

It would probably be a friendly type curse. Cats that always come back or something.

We have 80,000 people. Not super big, but not tiny. Just located far away from things. It was definitely the biggest turnout we've ever had though.

Seriously. I have one big dog and one small dog. I live in fear of my small dog getting slaughtered by an unleashed big dog or my big dog getting attacked by an unleashed smaller dog and causing more harm than she might intend while defending herself.

No. More. Panic. I think I was cured by Fred Penner yesterday. I don't know if he is a familiar name to everyone outside of Canada. But I took my kids to a show yesterday and we sang and danced and I've felt fine ever since.

I'm off alcohol now, so it's decaf earl grey for me!

It was Pride Day in my town today! After this week full of sadness it was lovely to see thousands of people turn out for the parade. It was even pouring rain and nobody cared. And finally my panic is fading and I feel more like me. Very happy.

Well, yes. It was simpler than saying neither of them got my big mouth and appropriately sized teeth.

My second one got my eyes. And that’s it for looks. My first one is basically a clone of her dad. And my second is the same with my eyes. Nobody got my curly hair. Nobody got my straight teeth. Fucking braces for both of them one day. But they both have my anxiety! So looks like I managed to pass on my malfunctioning…

It’s not generally sunny though. Like yesterday was cloudy and thunderstorming and I still had to wear my sunnies to drive.

My blue eyes are really light sensitive. So...painfully blue? I mean I need sunglasses in the winter. Basically any day.

This poor guy. His picture has been splashed all over. :/

That still happens up in the boonies around here.

Vancouver will suffer the same fate.

Prince George and Qualicum Beach BC. I mean not Madeleine. Me. But I did visit Toronto in the summer with their humidity and had to live in the basement though. Nobody has air conditioning here and I didn't know anyone with AC on the island either. We sure had a lot of umbrellas though.

Oh, I mean same. But my mother is also an immigrant from a previous generation. I don’t know much about this person, but I’m guessing she’s born in America and my age or younger. It just seems very unlikely she's never eaten it when she's been close enough to be put off by the texture.

I have no words right now. Just thank you for sharing.

This is what gets me as a mother - the very idea that you’d have to educate your kids based on the fact that they could get shot by the police (meant to protect us) for no reason at all. No parent should have to do that. No child should have to grow up that way. No human should have to worry like that.