“You’ll learn, as you get older, that rules are made to be broken. Be bold enough to live life on your terms, and never, ever apologize for it. Go against the grain, refuse to conform, take the road less traveled instead of the well-beaten path. Laugh in the face of adversity, and leap before you look. Dance as though EVERYBODY is watching. March to the beat of your own drummer. And stubbornly refuse to fit in.”
— Mandy Hale (The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
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Forest fires in Fort Nelson plus the Aurora Borealis last night.
Fort Nelson, County of Grande Prairie and Fort McMurray all caught fire at the exact same time.
Really? Fort Nelson had sleeper fires since last year.
I am remembering the devastation of Fort McMurray’s last forest fire!
The May 2016 wildfire destroyed 1,595 buildings, which includes 2,579 living spaces and 22 commercial spaces. According to the Insurance Bureau of Canada, it is the costliest disaster in Canadian history.
What is remarkable is how many people are willing to help out the those who are affected by the forest fires!💕💕 shelter, food, clothing and even toys and car seats because they had to quickly get out.
Praying for all those affected 🙏🔥
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I was trying to write today but I kept falling asleep.
I gave up and had a three hour nap!
hypnagogic hallucinations can be writing fodder.
I just have to remember to write them down!🤣
And hopefully have the brain cells to write a story. I just don’t have energy anymore 😖 even though I get so excited about a new idea🤣
I wonder if any author has used hypnagogic hallucinations as inspiration for their own work?
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Read the headlines Tracy has gone too far this time.
I’m going to cut your hair and send it to the post
-hypnagogic hallucination. Auditory. I had been falling asleep trying to blog!🤣
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I can’t imagine this is how families wanted to spend Mother’s Day weekend.
Dealing with a forest fire. (More than one)
Having to worry if their home and land will be ok.
The air is thick with smoke.
Already having an evacuations from a town four hours away.
It needs to rain!
Ugh every year forest fires become more trouble, stressful and traumatic than the last.
The fire season begins early and last longer
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Did I wake up in the Twilight Zone?
Everything was perfect until I arrived at work and I stood in line to get a drink.
That must’ve been when the Universe decided to mess with me.
A customer had ordered extra pickles on his chicken muffin. Derp noticed that there was no charge for the pickles. he insisted Vicki cancel the transaction and charge. The customer had Tap. Too late.
Derp took the order to the customer “the reason the meal was so cheap is because you weren’t charged for the pickles” he told the customer.
My jaw dropped. Vicki and I looked at each other in disbelief. “This will be one time thing” Derp continued.
I shook my head. Wow! Just wow!
Vicki handed me my cup and I walked off to the back of the kitchen.
I was a walking disaster once I begun my shift. I was in a wonderful mood but do you think I could speak proper English? No I was speaking gibberish! I needed a translator because the words coming out of my mouth made no sense!
My mood soured when the next few customers were not the sharpest knife in the drawer. He was ordering his meal, when he glared at me “I said two burgers!”
I lifted my gaze to his “yes, and then?!”
“That’s two!” He snapped “why did it say one?”
“Because I was punching in the other one?!”
He stared at me for a moment. “Oh”
I finished his order. I walked off to be the McCafé person. Huang was taking the customer order. “Large tea. One bag in and one bag out” he ordered. “Why did you charge me for extra large?! I said large!”
“It’s cheaper as the extra large comes with two tea bags” Huang explained. The customer stared at her blankly. “You said one tea bag in and one tea bag out. That’s two bags!”
“I know that. So why are you charging me for an extra large?”
“Because a large comes with one”
The customer began to argue, when his wife snapped “you are not at Tim Horton’s!”
The customer blinked “oh no, right. I’m sorry I forgot I was ordering like I was at Timmies!”
A few minutes my customer came back to demand table service, so Huang was handing him a tracker and explained how he could let us know when he was ordering. “I am letting you know” he snapped.
I turned from the coffee station “when we ask if that’s everything? you can let us know. We have to punch in the tracker number” I snapped.
“So I’m letting you know now!”
Huang turned to let Derp know about the tracker when the customer said “never mind”
Huang was annoyed “do you want it or not?”
“Do we have a problem here?”
“Yes we do. open your mouth and say what you want or you don’t get it!” I snapped. He stared at me in disbelief.
I swear not even 10 minutes later Huang’s customer comes back and asks where his meal was! Everyone stared at him.
“We brought it out to you”
“Yes but where is it?”
“At your table”
“But how do I know if it’s mine?” He asked “the tracker wasn’t there”
We all stare at each other then him. What the hell was he even talking about? “The food is with your wife!”
“Oh but that’s his tray!” He goes and points to my customer, who had come back up to the counter.
“What?” We exclaimed.
“I put his tray down on the table and took the tracker!” The runner exclaimed.
“Did you check the receipt?” Huang asked. The customer pulled out his receipt. “How would I know if it’s mine?”
“Because there should be a receipt as well on the tray!”
Oh my god! his wife was seated and eating her food! Waiting for him! My customer and him were eating together!
Rocket science!
Steve asked me to grab some stuff from the cooler. I’m not supposed to because of my damn leg, but I did anyway.
It had been 5 years since I have set foot anywhere near the walk-in coolers! Do you think I had a clue on what I was doing? No!
I had to go downstairs and grab some stuff from the walk-in cooler. I was so blind! I was looking everywhere for it, it was right in front of me!
Coming back upstairs? I thought I would pass out.
It took some time to recover. I was asked by Derp to run an order curbside. Walking out to the parking lot, I ask the customer if she was waiting for an order. The woman gave me the side eye. “No”
I frowned and turned around to March up to the drive thru park stalls. I asked the customer waiting if he had the order. He said yes. I apologized for the wait.
Once inside i scowled at Derp. “It wasn’t curbside it was a park order”
After my break I had to go into drive thru. Oh my word! It was a disaster! Machines weren’t working, my brain was working, then to my horror? Rumble bum!
In the heat? Silent but deadly! Good lord I could have peeled the tile off the walls! Disgusting!
I asked a customer: “what kind of drink do you want with your quarter pounder happy meal?” Really?! Mortified!
Customer: can I get a triple triple iced coffee with espresso.
I was punching in the iced coffee “I said triple triple!”
I Ignore her. ma’am, this is not Timmies!
“Hello?!”
“Yes an iced coffee with espresso”
“But I want triple triple!”
“We don’t do triple triple”
“Ok so I want extra cream and sweetener”
I sighed. “Ma’am, please order extra syrup. Sweetener means Splenda”
The customer was silent “I said triple triple!”
“Ma’am we don’t do that in iced coffee now is there anything else?” I snapped.
I gave her 6 shots of cream and syrup! 🤣🤣🤢🤮
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I hate being awake hour or two before I have to take the first round of my medication. It’s like my body is paranoid I will miss the dosage and I have a seizure. Ugh.
Thursday was one of those days where I had one of my OCD flare ups.
I woke up to the smell of “dirtiness” aka my place wasn’t clean. I clean the day before 🤣How is it possible for a person to be fanatic about smells but chaotic her home? Everything is in its place but it’s not perfect and it’s not my level of organize but I can’t find the energy to get it right!
Add to the stress? The realtor was showing the complex. However, it occurred to me as I cleaned, was he just showing my unit? Paranoid much?
After the realtor left, I relaxed.
I suppose I was also stressed out about a trip to Vancouver I am supposed to be taking. A wonderful woman called me to let me know how I could get my accommodations, my flight, food and cab service at a low cost through a charity (?) How lovely is that?
I went out for lunch with my parents and spent the day with them.
I had to take out the third fan and set it up because it is getting hot outside! Its 25C in my apartment 🤦♀️
Right now I really want to sleep but I have to wait until I have to take my meds! It’s the perfect coolness to sleep! Cold air on my face and I can’t believe I have to wait to sleep 🤦♀️😡
Both cats are sleeping on my pillow of late, I think they want to smother me. I snore like a freight train! Tabby is with me and then Daisy jumped up to sleep with me until she realized Tabby was there.
I could have died if the cats were fighting! I was in the middle, face first!🤣🤣
Alright I’m going to bed now!
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the words, they just refused to come, Leaving my mind feeling strangely numb. Just empty echoes in my head, inspiration dead.
the quiet moments without focus my mind scatters.
Still no inspiration comes.
Just have to wait for another day.
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In the quietude of a stately drawing-room, where the ticking of the grand clock was the only sound that dared disturb the silence, Elizabeth posed a question that hung in the air like the delicate mist of an English morn.
“You want to end our marriage?” Her voice, though gentle, was fraught with the weight of a myriad shattered dreams. Her visage, the very picture of grace under duress, sought some semblance of the love that once danced in William’s eyes.
William, whose stance mirrored the unyielding lines of the family portraits that lined the walls, responded with a composure that masked the inner tumult of his being. “You betrayed me. Yet you act like Caesar upon the Ides of March!”
“How had I betrayed you?” Elizabeth shaken by William’s accusation. Her countenance, a portrait of composed anguish, sought William’s gaze.
William’s demeanor was that of a stranger. No longer was he the man who had showered her with affection, whose love shone through his eyes, truthfully he would speak of his heart to her as often as he could.
Now he stood before her, cold. the words spilling from his mouth were painful to hear. He was damning her heart with his hateful words!
“You took everything from me! My love! My life!” William’s reproach, though veiled in the decorum of his station, pierced the stillness of the drawing-room. “Yes, as surely as I devoted myself to you, loved you, you murdered me as surely as you’ve slain my love for you.”
Elizabeth struggled not to allow William to see her cry. She stood resolute. “Betray you? I am no more Brutus than you are Caesar!” Her fingers clenched into fists at her side. “My love for you has never wavered! My devotion is true! Your council has spun wicked lies! Mark my words, William! Guard yourself well! I shall not stand for the insults they have slung against me! As my husband you should have defended me and not heed them! Brutus?! Indeed!”
Pivoting on her heel, Elizabeth stormed from the drawing room. William’s anger succumbed to the shadows of doubt.
The anguish in Elizabeth’s eyes nearly unraveled his composure. His confidence in his council was shaken. Who could he believe but his friends since the nursery? Or his wife? Whom he held so dearly to his heart?
This adaptation of my dream conversation into a story is styled after Jane Austen! I adore pride and prejudice! I couldn’t read her other books. I also loved the film adaptations and the tv series Lost in Austen!
I was so upset when I couldn’t remember what my dream was about. I could barely remember the conversation! I quickly had to write it down!
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It was a rough night.
I was lucky and grateful that my neighbors hadn’t called to management to complain about me.
The cats got in a fight with each other and then another cat at midnight.
I had a horrible time falling asleep and I was being comforted by Tabby who curled up on my pillow. He had buried his face in my hair. All was fine, until the neighbors cat came for a visit!
Everything went to hell!
All the cats were suddenly in the bedroom. Daisy was screaming. Her scream was ear piercing!
I damn near died, because Tabby nearly killed me by stepping on my face!
they got on my last nerve! I tossed Tabby and the other cat out. Closed the bedroom door!
I couldn’t fall asleep right away! I was just so exhausted yet uncomfortable! How can that be possible!
I don’t know if it’s good to be a nosy neighbor. Staying in the shadows from behind the blinds. However, my neighbors cat was crying desperately this morning.
It was the first time I heard the cat.
I didn’t know if I should call management for a wellness check on my neighbor. I hadn’t seen her in a week. After some indecision I decided to call. I made it clear I was making a wellness check, not a complaint. After a half hour, one of the management team came by to check on the neighbor. No one was home and she left a notice to state that there had a been a wellness check filed.
I walked by the neighbor door and heard music. The note was gone. There was someone home.
I felt relieved and suddenly I had a creepy horrible thought. What if it wasn’t the neighbor? What if she had disappeared and someone was hiding in her apartment. And disposing evidence of her being there?!
A creepy plot for a story!
My phone rang sometime later. It was work wondering where I was. Two hours after I was supposed to start!🤣
I had called out sick last night. I guess the night shift manager didn’t mark it down.
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This popped up on my feed. I laughed. Ironically I had been doing some tidying up in my bedroom and I found a Forever 21 clutch bag filled with my vibrators!