January 14, 2025

I can't believe it is now 2025.  There have been so many changes in my life since I last posted on Blogger..... 

• My mother passed away on March 23, 2021 from a massive cardiac event (heart attack)
• I sold the house my mother and I had lived in and moved into a condo on September 16, 2022
• I left Facebook on December 31, 2024 because I found the place to be very grim. People were always rude and attacking, the platform itself was always auto refreshing so I missed things and it frustrated me when it would auto refresh in the middle of reading something.
• I joined Threads just after (Maybe January 1st, 2025) because a friend on Facebook had recommended it.
• I left Threads shortly thereafter thanks to being bullied and harassed by Indigenous and their supporters (another repeat of what happened to me on Twitter. No thank you!)
• I tried BlueSky in 2024 because it was supposed to be a great platform. There were too many creepy people on there (those ones that seem to flirt with you but you know are a total sham - that are "military people" -- scammers, all of them)
• President Joe Biden left the race for President (the new election was in November 2024) and Kamala Harris took his place.   Donald Trump was running as the Republican opponent.  Trump won. 
• Donald Trump became America's first convicted felon President.  He was convicted of 34 counts that had to do with tampering with the 2016 Election, and hiding hush money to the porn star (Storm Daniels) who accused him of rape.   He is also guilty of inciting violence on the Insurrection of the Capitol (the riots on Capitol Hill) on January 6, 2021 when he didn't win the election in 2020.   He is also a convicted rapist (though they say it was sexual assault; later defined as rape), and has attacked several women.
• Donald Trump reversed the Roe V Wade decision that legalized abortion.  So now abortion in the USA is illegal - regardless of the reason for it (health of the mother, health of the baby, rape, etc - essentially telling women they do not have a right to say what happens to their bodies)
• Donald Trump has stated he is going to put 25% tariffs on Canada when he gets into office January 20, 2025.  Donald Trump has also stated he wants Canada to be America's 51st state, wants to obtain Panama Canal and Greenland - using military and economic force if necessary (which is a declaration of war against a Sovereign Nation)
• Justin Trudeau stepped down as the Prime Minister of Canada on January 6, 2025.  There will be a new leader for the Liberal party chosen, and there will be an election for the Prime Minister of Canada.  I have a horrible feeling it will be the Conservative Party, lead by Pierre Poilievre - which will be a very bad thing for Canada.  Poilievre is like the Canadian version of Trump; and his supporters have been dubbed the MAPLE MAGA (MAGA being Trump's "Make America Great Again" slogan)

The world nowadays is far more self-entitled, and full of more a-holes than ever...  at least that's what I'm finding.  Everyone expects more and are rude and just don't care about that. It's rather crazy.

In 2024 I made a trip to Calgary, Alberta and visited my niece. I've never been west of Ontario so that was interesting. I got to see mountains; and even hiked to the top of Sanson Peak in Banff when my niece and I went to the Banff Gondola.  I got to see the West Edmonton Mall - a mall I have wanted to see since I was a kid!  I got to see the Calgary Stampede, which was pretty cool (though I'd have liked to see the part with the rodeo. I saw the night show with the chuck wagon races.  The concert after was amazing though.)   The worst part was the fact that my niece is vegan and refused to let me have non-vegan food in her apartment. (I asked for "regular cream cheese" and bagels and she bought me vegan cream cheese (which was disgusting))  I understand that it's her place; but I feel she should have taken in to account the fact that I am not a vegan a little more.  When she comes to visit me, I usually make sure that we have vegan-friendly stuff.  I just think it would have been a little nicer to have been considered, rather than forced into her lifestyle.  IF I go to Calgary again, I think I will get myself a hotel - maybe a rental car. I won't stay with her again, though it did save me some money. I just think I would have been more comfortable in a hotel.  Ah well.

December 28th, my boyfriend and I celebrated our 14th anniversary.  We started going out in 2010.  It's a very long relationship - the longest I've ever had - and it's an online one.  We have gone through a Pandemic where we didn't see each other for 2 years due to COVID.  I figure if we can survive that, we can survive anything haha.   Now he just has to hurry up and win "the big one" so I can retire from work and enjoy life as a retired lady who spends the winters some place warm.  Haha!