Adventures in Emmieland

We have a new car, again. This time I’m pretty happy with how it went down. We managed a straight swap for our gas guzzling monster for an older jag that gets at least three times the mileage even in town. Add the fact that it’s not ridiculously long which means I can drive it and happiness all around. Once again under the dryer but no curls this time, just trying to not have sopping wet hair all day. Just  to be productive I have done most of the sock matching while I’m under here. Make hay while the sun shines and all that. Our roommate moved out and I must say, the fact that we haven’t gone through a roll of toilet paper in two days or run out of bread within a day certainly has me smiling. I didn’t dislike him but we were not a good match mostly because I expected more maturity from a man his age.  I’ve cleaned the room and boxed up what he left so that we can get someone else in here. This time I’ve gotten a good bit of interest but as far as I know the first person c...

So last week I made Mac n cheese using powdered cheddar and heavy cream I reconstituted overnight. It was quite yummy. Today’s adventure is pancake muffins, feeling the desire for sweets but none in the house and being fairly broke I consulted my personal go to guide, the internet, and found simple pancake mix muffin recipes. I added dried cranberries to give them that hint of tart and sugar to add extra sweetness, as well as cinnamon because everything is better with cinnamon. I’m counting down my 15 minutes to see if I’ve made something edible or if I just made a mess only the dogs are likely to eat. We shall see. In other news I turned 44 and I can see that I look older but it’s nice. We had a lawyers appt yesterday  and shocked her with our ages, apparently Das was in his thirties not nearly 50 and I was in my twenties. I’ll take it. Still haven’t settled down financially but we are still in our happy little farm house so that’s something. Life moves on, sometimes slowly ...

So a broker lady came to the house the other day to explain tax credits and pension plans since we are trying to be grown ups. She works for a reputable company and had interesting things to tell us about but the weird thing was at the end of the visit. She offered me a job once I get residency. Now that is just the weirdest thing to me since I actually explained my job history and I’m not sure how, I have panic attacks, work inconsistently and have had way too many jobs in a short period of time equals you’d make a perfect coworker. And 5he offer wasn’t simply to come work for the company but with her specifically. Since it takes around a year to get residency I have no idea how things will stand by the time it’s done but it’s nice to be wanted. Hmm in fact you can apply for a work visa while you wait for the application to process so in theory I could potentially take a job with her. I actually had not thought about working here in a serious way since I haven’t been able to since w...

It has to be Friday, Friday afternoon to be exact because I’m already whipped from this week. Yesterday we had a hearing about our rental property and happily it was resolved amicably but it could have gone pretty badly. The upside, yay for house, the downside, a four hour wait for a ten minute session. Gotta love bureaucracy. I have been a personal witness to passing the buck a lot this past few weeks.  The latest is my emailing  the ministry of community and social services about some (to me) questionable OW services and having them forward it so that the director of OW wrote the reply. Of course it explained why they were right and answered nothing about the ambiguous wording or why te lack of consistency and transparency in their evaluation practices. Makes perfect sense right, let the agency I’m complaining about explain away my complaints, again.  Drives me crazy. I may not pursue it today but one day the list of names, dates, and actions I’m keeping are going to ...