Cruel and unusual
Mar. 6th, 2025 08:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mousmeI got tapped to take minutes for TWO meetings led by our Director General, and I am planning to file a human rights complaint at this point. Our DG is lovely but she's a tiny Tasmanian Devil-shaped whirlwind of unstoppable nonlinear energy, and trying to take notes when she talks is like trying to fill a wine glass by holding it under Niagara Falls. One meeting I can do, but by the end of the second meeting my brain was actively trying to climb out of my skull and my wrists hurt from typing. It should be considered cruel and unusual punishment at this point.
In other news, I have political whiplash from Trump instituting tariffs on Tuesday and now walking most but not all of them back today. Canada isn't removing tariffs from US products, however, until even the threat of tariffs is gone, and rightly so. I know that they don't actually care about creating instability, that instability might in fact be a bonus rather than a negative consequence, but it's incredibly difficult to wrap my head around what they are trying to accomplish by crippling their own economy and fucking over ours in the process. Ugh.
I have made an appointment in about ten days to do my taxes, so I need to print out all my documentation from 2024. I'm hoping to get a half-decent refund, part of which will go towards the eventual purchase of a house, and the other part I'm planning to use to pay for the professional organizer who's coming at the beginning of April to hopefully turn my kitchen into a functional space in which things will stop falling on my head and/or generally falling/collapsing/breaking/whatever every time I try to cook or clean in there.
I bought some new power bars today at Canadian Tire (they were on sale at 2 for $40!) with extra long cords in order to hopefully solve my grow light vs location of power outlets problem in the basement. I am going to see my parents this Saturday for the day, but if all goes well I will be home on Sunday, and I'd like to start my seeds so that they'll be ready for planting in May. At the very latest I need to start them the weekend after next, but I'm working on the Sunday so I kind of want to get it done sooner rather than later. I also want to start my indoor plants as well so that I can get a proper little herb garden going again.
That's it for now. Today was mostly uneventful, really, at least on a personal level, and I can't complain too much about that.
In other news, I have political whiplash from Trump instituting tariffs on Tuesday and now walking most but not all of them back today. Canada isn't removing tariffs from US products, however, until even the threat of tariffs is gone, and rightly so. I know that they don't actually care about creating instability, that instability might in fact be a bonus rather than a negative consequence, but it's incredibly difficult to wrap my head around what they are trying to accomplish by crippling their own economy and fucking over ours in the process. Ugh.
I have made an appointment in about ten days to do my taxes, so I need to print out all my documentation from 2024. I'm hoping to get a half-decent refund, part of which will go towards the eventual purchase of a house, and the other part I'm planning to use to pay for the professional organizer who's coming at the beginning of April to hopefully turn my kitchen into a functional space in which things will stop falling on my head and/or generally falling/collapsing/breaking/whatever every time I try to cook or clean in there.
I bought some new power bars today at Canadian Tire (they were on sale at 2 for $40!) with extra long cords in order to hopefully solve my grow light vs location of power outlets problem in the basement. I am going to see my parents this Saturday for the day, but if all goes well I will be home on Sunday, and I'd like to start my seeds so that they'll be ready for planting in May. At the very latest I need to start them the weekend after next, but I'm working on the Sunday so I kind of want to get it done sooner rather than later. I also want to start my indoor plants as well so that I can get a proper little herb garden going again.
That's it for now. Today was mostly uneventful, really, at least on a personal level, and I can't complain too much about that.
