Me On A Monday - October 22nd

Reading:  The Winters by Lisa Gabriele.  It was a quick read, no surprises.

Finished: the re-shingled, repaired roof is finally done.  The bin has  left !  All the banging comes to any end, well until next week for a few hours when they come back with an electrician to repair the wire they cut through.  Truly not their fault, the original builder of the house took a lazy way of wiring the kitchen dinette area's outlets - rather than, as code demands, going through the 2x4's, they went over the 2X4 which put the wire  right against the roof sheathing!!!

In The Mail:  the federal government sent these to everyone in Canada.  

There is all kinds of jokes going about regarding the change to our federal laws about the use of marijuana cannabis.  There's even one that has Santa Claus saying cookies from Canada this year could be "jollier" than normal. Also the government feels that calling it cannabis is less stigmatizing than the use of the word marijuana.    I find it most interesting that our current prime minister, Justin Trudeau's mother's interview from a few years back is getting a lot of current air time.  Margaret Trudeau was married to a former Prime Minister, Pierre Elliott Trudeau (Justin's father) & she has had lots of scandal attached to her name.  She is also a woman that sadly suffers from mental illness & has been hospitalized several times for it.  In the 2007 interview she stated that many, if not all of her most serve psychotic episodes occurred after heavy use of marijuana.   I'll say no more.


Listening To:  Vivaldi's Four Seasons on repeat - I don't know, I just had a need to listen to all four seasons.

On This Day:  Ontarian voters go to the polls if they haven't already participated through the early polling stations or mail in.  Most areas are voting for Mayors & Councillors.  Some areas also vote for school board trustees.  Our region had all the school board trustees acclaimed as no one ran against them.  I think our current Mayor will win.

Now all eyes turn south to watch our neighbours vote in their mid-terms on November 6th.  Good Luck.  I'll say no more.

Watching:  we went to the movies & saw a Star is Born with Lady Gaga.  I have not been a Bradley Cooper fan but he is amazing in this movie as is Lady Gaga.  Bradley has an excellent singing voice!
If you haven't seen but plan to ... bring tissues.  I will download the soundtrack.

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Distracted By:  all the FaceBook December Daily groups - so much inspiration ... no not yet, I'm still working on my 31 Days of Thankful. 

I did not purchase the December Daily kit shown below.  Who is also doing December Daily this year or perhaps Shimelle's Journal Your Christmas?

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And while we are speaking DD, I was rather disappointed that one member on the (fabulous) Ali Edward's group posted about getting her package delivered & she used the "Me Too"  as a start to her post & added the hashtag #metoo.   I don't think I'm a "snowflake" but I really thought it was an inappropriate use of the term & hashtag.  I saw later that she did remove the hashtag from her post but still kept the Me Too lead it. 

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"It is of the small joys and little pleasures that the greatest of our days are built."  - Mary Anne Radmacher