PrairieGirl 🇨🇦

It sucks. And it turns out, so does trying to find a new car.

C-Max hybrid. They've been discontinued, sadly.

Was she called Christine?

It is!
And to add to that, Hubs and I had to go straight from the shop last night to dinner with my best friend's ex, who I hadn't seen since before she died, a lot of years ago. I cried the whole way. After dinner, we were driving home and Angie's song came on the radio. 🩷

See? You get it. Whether you put your heart and soul into the purchase, or it's wrapped up in memories (or both), we remember the ones that mattered.

Tomorrow, the Auditor General will release his report into the UCP's Dynalife fiasco.

They're hoping to flood the zone this week with citizenship markers and anti-trans legislation.

Keep your focus on the targets.
And the broader pattern.

The UCP is shifting Alberta away from liberal democracy.

And for anyone who might say, it's just a car, or suggest I enjoy shopping for a new one, that car was the perfect car for me. She was a good car: always reliable, even in -40. I had just finished touching-up her rust spots. I'm heartbroken.

13 years is a wonderful friendship. I'm so sorry for your loss.

Alberta to invoke notwithstanding clause to shield 3 transgender bills from court challenges | CBC News The Alberta government has tabled legislation that seeks to invoke the notwithstanding clause to shield a suite of bills that affects transgender youth and adults from legal challenges.

"The government seems to be on a path of replicating the worst of the United States in terms of attacks on minority populations, in terms of calling into question the rule of law and in terms of not respecting evidence or science," Bennett Jensen said.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Took my car in for repair today and I had not anticipated they'd wipe their hands, park it in the cemetery out back and offer me a ride home. This was not on my list of possibilities.

A bold red graphic with black speech bubble text explaining how first past the post deepens Western alienation. It notes that hundreds of thousands of Liberal voters in the West elect almost no MPs, which fuels an us versus them narrative. A headline from the Toronto Sun about Prime Minister Carney being booed at the 2025 Grey Cup is included as an example of regional tension. The graphic argues that proportional representation would give both prairie Liberals and urban Conservatives fair representation and reduce division across the country.

Western alienation is not inevitable.

It is what you get when millions of votes in the West elect almost no one and voters are told their communities do not count unless they back the winning side.

Proportional representation would take the heat out of the divide.

"After tomorrow, things will be back to normal" is something I've told myself at least once/week for 30 years and I'm getting the sense that some new thing getting in the way of other things IS what's normal.

I've been trying to figure out why MB doesn't like Carney. They have an NDP Provincial government and he's supportive of major initiatives in that province. He cancelled the carbon tax. Is there something I'm missing?

Trudeau bought AB a pipeline and it didn't get him any respect from Albertans, so I'm just not sure why a Liberal government would go through that again. They'd be better off answering to the environmentalists, IMO.

❤️❤️❤️ Thank you very much!

But what if the Physicists are a simulation?

The last time I watched football was the infamous 13th man game. It broke me. Tonight, I will enjoy the snacks in another room thank you very much.

I love people who love to cook. Y’all are God’s greatest gifts to Earth.

Aha! That reminds me, I was going to make tuna salad and banana muffins today.

I'm so sad that you went through that, and glad you saw the signs and found a way out!

I've got 6 more years. It'll go too fast, I'm sure.

Sadly, I don't think there is anything else I can do to make up the difference- though, I'll be keeping my eyes open!

Still loving my They're Good Dogs Brent t-shirt. Congrats on 10 great years!

Much as I appreciate my employer's offer to let me retire early with no penalty, I've done the math and it just doesn't work. Oh well, I enjoyed the dream while it lasted.

Every day it’s meetings about emails, emails about meetings, spreadsheets of data, slides about the spreadsheets, execs chanting “AI” like they know what it means.

None of it matters. Nothing connects. Everyone’s exhausted.

I think I need to get off the hamster wheel.

Yeah, that's what I did but I couldn't figure it out. Was I supposed to do one, then the other and try to get them on the same day...?

I dream of cross-country rapid transit being an affordable option (like Europe and the UK) so that when the airlines say they want to charge us for every piece of luggage, we can say, "You do you, bro. I'll take the train."

I couldn't figure out how to book both shots at the same time, which is super annoying.

Here's 1 of 2500+ photos I took last night. My camera is looking south south east. The aurora way brighter and faster last night compared to what I saw the previous night. This is just a teaser, as I have a lot of aurora content that is crunching on my computer now.

I don't dislike salmon but it's better with texture. A diced pepper or some celery would have helped!

Smoked salmon for lunch because they say it's good for me, but what I really wanted was almost anything else.