Things I will do once a month

After losing a year's gross salary in the last financial collapse

I resolved that if I returned to work for a good salary again, I would do things different

Spend more, save less... seeing as I lost 40% of it anyway.

So once a month, I will spend some money on some whimsical stuff


Standing engagements include

• A night at a restaurant
• A spa treatment

I am also taking out a health plan and doing the preventative care thing.

May not agree with all of western medicine techniques, but I do think that periodic monitoring is a good practice.

Will hire a day cleaner who irons if I can find one.

An airconditioner

Yoga twice - although I already do that at only $100
 Aqua aerobics

The formula was 10% of time spent at work sitting on exercise... works out at about 3 hours a week

And yes, if you work longer hours you need to exercise more.

Will really need to plan time, to study the ten hours a week.

Strive to finish FA1 of 105 before starting the job.

Les Miserables Jean Valjean the translation

It wasn't bad. I thought Russell Crowe was a little, not out of tune but a little rubbery. He does not have the vocal range of the other members of the cast.

Anyways. I am wondering did we grant amnesty to the looters during the coup?
We had a coup here in 1990. That was a long time ago.

And I am thinking if we can grant amnesty to Abu Bakr.

We should also expunge the records of others who took part in the madness at the time.

Convicts still get a hard time getting a job, even now.

But I think there are circumstances where... there must be a point when it ceases to matter.

Canadian coverage of hunger strike

I got published!

http://guardian.co.tt/letters/2013-01-03/canada-hunger-strike-highlights-many-issues

Blood, Shit and Piss

I have completed the Basic Home Care Course offered by the Nursing council.
I'll find out next week if I passed. I know for a fact that I failed the Blood Pressure.
We have to hear the reading change, and I suck at it.
Should have practiced.
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/medical/bhs/tutorial/tutorial.htm

And this is a vital stat, so I may have to do some practical make up.

Anyways, as my lecturer said, if you can't stand blood, piss and shit.. this work not for you.

So what does this have to do with my living situation.

In reality, my father is getting older, that means he gets sick more often.
And he is not as tidy in the bathroom.

But as you learn if you do the course, or have some people sense. You are not supposed to make the person you are caring for, feel ahow about their disease, state etc etc.

My sister does not understand it. Her focus is things.
As the dead lady said, and she was a real people sense person.
When I complained about the dynamic in my house, since my mother died.

You all do not know how to give each other space.

I, being a physical upbringing lack of mother influence myself.
Responded, But it's a five bedroom house with only four people living in it, there should be enough room for each of us.

At this point my aunt shook her head and muttered, and they think you bright.
She liked to use "Bright" a lot. It was a sign she was being sarcastic.

She then explained.

I'm not talking about physical space, for example
Do you see that scissors ( I don't really remember the object, but I am paraphrasing as I understood it and the course I took)
Yes, so how it just lying there. Now it is L (someone not currently present) who leave it there.
It should go back in the holder ( it is a pencil holder)

But my aunt's concept of giving  L space was to leave the scissors there because when she came back to look for it she would remember where she put it, and look for it there.

So the point is, sometimes you have to think person, not thing.

Some people do this naturally, some people need to be taught.

I admit, I am in the taught category.

But the point is I learned.

And also objects do not equal money.

I'm just tired. And given how my aunt was treated. I don't want her anywhere near my father's care.

Living arrangement

Currently, my living arrangements are rather stressful.

But I don't have anywhere else to go, so I stick it out.
It's like a bad work place with no job prospects.

Anyways, I daydream about solutions.
And today, I think dividing the house into apartments would be best.

I only want two rooms and the end bathroom. I can even use the fire escape window as a door, if necessary.

The bedroom would have to double as a small kitchen, but I lived in a studio before so I don't need much.
A chest freezer and a small fridge below a counter if a large one can't fit.
And a 24 inch stove.
The entire kitchen area is a six foot counter and the chest freezer is below the window.

To make the space would need to tear out the built in cupboards in the bedroom. Well at least half.
And get rid of the beds. I could use my massage table, just unfold it.

Or I thought I could get a recliner and sleep in that in the corner. or a hammock.

I'd keep my bed which is a double decker and use the top as storage space when I can no longer climb up.
Can't find the picture, below is a closet.

But the best bit about my plan, daydream, is I don't have to live with my sister in the same household.
And then I'll get some peace.

Either that or I die first, before the rest of them.

Kublalsingh

I went to visit, saw a few of the old crew... too few.

Then I went to Mon Desir

I would like to say, deaths may be warranted yet.

 

Found this, clearly the first woman prime minister thinks she has to be our iron lady. 

Thatcher won the battle, but it is described as a pyrrhic victory.

Shan't be voting for her again.

Low salt

I think tomorrow I will still go to the market and attempt to make green seasoning.

Was told a recipe with no salt in the class. Group project is going ok.

No one else in this family wants to remember my mother, no idea why.
They don't like to talk about her.

I wonder what she would think about the new spin off of Dallas.

My cousins on my mother's side like it, no one here watches it.

I don't think it is my thing. But I do think I will watch the new WB series.. Arrow.