mariellequinton

mariellequinton, 19 days ago

Urg. The various beeping construction vehicles have arrived. Beep beep. Idle idle.

mariellequinton, 19 days ago

The cat yelled at me, I thought at first he was complaining I was right outside and should be inside with him, but then I set up a chair inside in front of the door for him. Now he's happily looking outside and hanging out with me while safely being inside and I still get to be outside :)

mariellequinton, 19 days ago

Wants to look outside. Does not want to be outside.

mariellequinton, 19 days ago

I went for the a walk so I had to move the chair to lock the door, but the cat was waiting at the door for me when I got back to put his chair back.

mariellequinton, 24 days ago

@human3500 @geekingirl I think the problem is that we have them running a private business. I think we should move towards clinics run by the government like hospitals, so the doctors and all the staff are just clinic employees. So doctors just have to be doctors and not small business owners and employers. That would mean less paperwork for doctors while not having private companies sucking money out of the system (Appletree etc)

mariellequinton, 24 days ago

@grivettcarnac Presumably they don't make women wear ties so making men wear them would be discriminatory.

mariellequinton, 24 days ago

@stephanie @grivettcarnac I agree. I get equally pissed at people who think women should wear pantyhose. At any rate, hopefully a nice suit should be good enough for everyday and just wear ties for important meetings etc. Maybe keep a tie at work just in case. But I really think the government needs to rethink attire based on gender.

mariellequinton, 23 days ago

@WTL @grivettcarnac Aim to get yourself transferred to a scientific department. They dress terribly 😝

mariellequinton, 24 days ago

@grivettcarnac Presumably it's Norovirus, which is really not anything like COVID (having had both). Hope you're feeling better soon.

mariellequinton, 24 days ago

@grivettcarnac I didn't get a headache with COVID 😝 fever yes, but weirdly no headache. No nausea either. No body aches. Lost my sense of taste for a week though. As soon as I started to feel better, I couldn't taste anything 🤷🏼‍♀️ COVID was just weird.

mariellequinton, 24 days ago

@grivettcarnac It was so weird too. Like I was feeling better and then I ate dinner and couldn't taste any of it. It was strange. And then the next morning I could taste breakfast just fine. My partner got me a PSL at lunch and I couldn't taste it. Couldn't taste anything for a week. Food was not terribly interesting and I kept worrying because you can't tell if the food in the fridge has gone off. You feel reassured if you can smell that it's ok. I'd be cooking dinner hoping everything was good. I kept putting cream in my coffee because I assumed there was texture component, but no, it just tasted like water. Hot water 😝

mariellequinton, 23 days ago

@grivettcarnac It was so weird. It was scary because so many people said it took a long time for their taste to come back. Some people it never came back. I figured it would because a few times, in the morning, on my first sip of coffee for like half a second I could taste it. And then it was like I shorted out my taste receptors and then nothing. I was using pumpkin spice creamer so I could taste cinnamon etc for a moment and then before I could swallow it turned to water. This was better than my kid, for him almost everything just tasted terrible. It was hard to get him to eat at all. I couldn't imagine if he'd been a toddler and I couldn't have reasoned with him.

mariellequinton, 24 days ago

Lavender coffee 💜 this morning 💜

mariellequinton, 25 days ago

@ottaross I would really like it if the government just took all the info and filed the taxes themselves. When my sister lived in Finland (she moved back to Canada in 2008) they'd just send her a notification (with a bill or whatever if needed). You could object, but otherwise zero paperwork.

mariellequinton, 27 days ago

@stephanie I don't know what the Korean lilac is like, but we have a dwarf Siberian lilac and it's been doing it's job of not getting too big 😜 I planted it near the house so when it's in bloom and I have the windows open the house smells like lilac and it's wonderful. I have a big old normal one in the back, but it's too far to smell in the house.

mariellequinton, 27 days ago

@ottaross @stephanie Yeah, at first I thought "why is there a garbage truck in the middle of the night?" 😝

mariellequinton, 27 days ago

@stephanie @ottaross Yeah, at first it was odd. Then it sounded more like regular thunder. But I did giggle to myself wondering if I'd forgotten what thunder sounds like.

mariellequinton, 27 days ago

@casseagull @dan613 I wonder what it is about e-scooters that scare governments so much. In England privately owned ones are still illegal. You can only use them as a rental. It's so weird. I think of them as less capable e-bikes, which governments generally allow like bikes only with speed restrictions.

mariellequinton, 27 days ago

@dan613 @casseagull I think it's the "reckless youth" thing. They think e-scooters are for twenty-somethings and e-bikes are for retirees. So it's the users they're trying to control and not the vehicles.