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[starlitshore]

Personal
- I applied to two jobs yesterday. Both related to teaching/education. Both requiring cover letters and tweaked resumes. Job hunting is so time consuming!
- My grandfather has Alzheimer's and is a bit of a TV addict (I come by this honestly) so my mom and I spent 2 hours on the phone with Bell sorting out their new Fibe package and daaaaamn Canada is so fucking expensive.
- I'm very frustrated at grocery stores here. All the Free From stuff is just not as good as Sainbury's and Waitrose. :\
- Baked these gluten free banana muffins this afternoon. Not bad, actually. Less dry than I thought and decent with chocolate chips. (Note: I used Robin Hood gluten free flour.)
- I've fallen down the YouTube rabbit hole and discovered a LOT of music videos with wlw. I may have to create a masterpost at some point.

Fandom
- Marvel: Today I saw for the first time this incredible fanvid by @harleivy called Welcome to the Age of Female Superheroes. Go watch!
- Meta/Personal: Interesting meta post on slash fic and drag culture from franzeska & my comment here
- SPN/Design: Today on things I didn't but definitely did need to know, apparently Jensen and Danneel Ackles own literally my dream home wtf (a little less wood/more white in that sitting room and I'm sold). Literally *_*
- HANDMAID'S TALE SEQUEL! THIS IS NOT A DRILL!
- The other night I finished watching The Bodyguard on Netflix and :O Review to follow!

Politics (Edition:...ffs conservatives are the worst)
- Climate Change is a thing that is happening people.
* Even CNN says so (Shout out to CNN for doing an about-face and slamming Trump since January)
* So guess what, Trump? As the Great Stephen Colbert demonstrates: You're an idiot of the first order. (Bonus: "I've heard better explanations of weather from toddlers on Benadryl.")
* And guess what, Ford? SO ARE YOU
* And of course the PC's released their Climate Change Plan today, which I'll have to read into further. But surprise, surprise, it involves funding for and deregulation of private companies. >___<
- The Oshawa GM plant is closing and I have mixed feelings. I'm YAY for the environment and NAY for Ontario.
* But let's be clear, Mr Ford: GM closing their Canadian operations because they want to build electric cars is NOT Trudeau's fault as you claim but rather is LITERALLY your fault for getting rid of our Green Energy Plan and associated funding. Fuck you.

In Other News
- Good: This is the reason I don't bother with 'influencers' -- how gullible? Rock on, Payless!
- Bad: StatsCan has announced that hate crimes increased by 47% in Ontario in 2017 and that the "increase was largely tied to more hate crimes targeting the Muslim (+207%), Black (+84%) and Jewish (+41%) populations". I'm not even surprised since this world is going to hell in a burning dumpster.

I prescribe a lot of tea and baked goods while listening to holiday tunes and blocking the world out today.

Comments

[starlitshore]

I don't understand the difficulty of diagnosis either. Doctors are really weird about even saying you have an intolerance because it's tough to tell without a biopsy. But apparently you have to not be avoiding it in order for the biopsy to show anything? Argh.

YESSSS the bread is so so bad. It's made it easier for me to kick my pastries habit at least, which is a good thing. I guess?

I HAD THE PUPPY YESTERDAY! I had to give him a bath and brush him and blow-dry him (it's -12C so can't leave him wet) and he fell asleep in the middle like he was at a spa. *_*

[spikedluv]

Here they can do a blood test, but yes, you have to still be eating the gluten for them to tell you are sensitive to it. Weird. But they don't even think of checking for it sometimes.

The bread, god. Ick. Right now we're using a brand called Canyon Bakehouse, which is the best we've found to-date. That said, our local store just started carrying a new brand of texas toast bread (thick) that I picked up to see if it tasted good as French toast (for him; I'm eating regular bread, lol). And his mother (who I think I also told you turned out to have celiac, which they caught after Pip was hospitalized) found a local cafe that serves some GF stuff and she's started ordering bread from them that she says is pretty good, so I just picked up a loaf this morning. We'll see if it's really any better than the usual. o_O

Aww, I'm imagining him being so relaxed and happy that he fell asleep while being groomed. I like to play with Ti's big floppy ears or itch him under his collar and watch his eyes close in pleasure. *g*