Bit of a Rant

This week thus far has been both good and bad. I was cat sitting for some friends and so i was able to catch up on my reading and relax which was good for a change. I went to visit a coworker at her new apartment as well. Sometime hopefully in the near future i will be moving to the city in which i work, i wanted to check out her neighbourhood and see what it was like. Not too bad for downtown i must say, though knowing me i'd be much more comfortable on the mountain away from the riff raff.

Work has been fine, in fact today i barely worked at all. I went to get my RCMP clearance, then had some chinese food for lunch, when i tried to get back to work my boss patted the couch and told me to hang out for another 10 mins and chat. None of us were working we sat in the group room for an hour talking away.

Now, where i park is starting to get a bit to me. I walked to my car, got in, looked up and noticed a man all of a sudden lying in the middle of the road where i had just walked past. I waited, he didn't move. I drove up, got out, by then the shelter workers were outside giving him first aid, i made sure they called the ambulance as he was gushing blood from his head. They said it was an assault, how could i have missed that? He was 20 feet away from me. It made me really sad and i actually cried, i felt terrible for him. I feel terrible for all of the people out there, sleeping on the grass, so dirty. The city has cut down a lot of the trees around the area so there is limited shade for the homeless to at least seek some solace from this terrible heat. As well, the city has decided not to issue extreme heat alerts or to have cooling stations available for those less fortunate. I think that's bullshit.

This evening we had a crazy crazy lightning storm.....i'll share a secret with those that don't know me, i'm terrified of lightning, truly afraid of it. I took a gravol and put my sleep mask on so i couldn't see it. I used to put my running shoes on and stay in the basement .... don't ask!! I was essentially trapped and my mother got a hold of me. My sister made some quip about me having a lot of time on my hands because i took photos of the kitties i was watching. My mother then joined in. She likes to do this to me every now and again. I call it the pissing contest to see who has the most to do or who is more overworked. I told my sister i leave for work at 7:30am and drive for 45mins, work till 5pm and do the 45 min commute back home. Generally after that i hit the gym and don't get home until 7:15pm or so. Depends if i have more to do such as volunteer or run errands. So no i don't seem to have an excessive amount of free time on my hands. Mother chimes in "well i got home at 8 tonight" and goes on and on about how when she got home she vacuumed blah blah. I told her i was not going to engage in her pissing contest...I'm now thinking that i should go and look at an apartment tomorrow, perhaps right in the downtown core with all the addicts and sex trade workers. Anything is looking better than this at the moment.