Rant

Today was nice out. . . the morning was white and shining and I finally mailed off a letter that I had needed to send away. Then the door fell off the house. I knew the the dang thing was ready to go, and I had endeavoured to fix it yesterday. When it came off today, all I could do was laugh. My patch job didn't work, and I had to enlist my handy dandy hubby to do the job correctly. In doing so, he managed to whack my finger in between the door and it's frame, causing me terrible discomfort. (I was trying to show him that there was still a gap between the frame and the door, and while using my finger as a gap gauge, he swung the hammer). All I could do was laugh though, which is one of my weird reactions to certain types of pain. It may have also be due in part because he was wearing his coveralls over top of his pyjamas and the coveralls have a "insta-cap". It is bright orange, and it sits inside the collar of the suit. Tres attractive. He had put it on over his stubbly head to avert the dripping icicles and he just looked funny. It was very tight and accentuated his round head. Plus he has the never ending cold, so his face was all puffed up. So as I type, I have a bo bo, and I am eating torte, and drinking a cup of tea. My rant does have a point. First of all I am multitasking. Torte, Tea , and Typing. Insurance companies are sending out a warning to drivers in an effort to cut down on accidents due to multitasking. You know the people you see, reading a book (I couldn't believe it when I saw it). Doing their face (mascara for example). Changing a CD. Talking on the cell phone. Personally, I cannot multitask and drive for the life of me. I need my hands at 10 and 2, or 9 and 3. I don't even like to put on the defroster. I have pulled over to change CD's and I don't use a cell phone. I don't know how the multitasker's do it. I am sure there are people peeling carrots, flipping burgers and having a pedicure. According to the last job (outside the home)I had, I did have manual dexterity and was able to multitask, I just can't apply it to driving. That includes listening to the kids play Connect Four in the back seat. Which brings me to my other issue, that Food Banks aren't supplying the needy with enough calories or nutrition. When ever I do support the Food Bank, I always chuck in beans (yup, the protein thing), canned beans such as in lima, or black. When I have looked into the drop boxes, I see a lot of beans. So now I will switch tactics and maybe try to send some freeze dried vegetables or something. Maybe instead of canned goods (ooh that is a nasty combination of words), maybe vitamins would be a good idea. The places where I have dropped off stuff, do not want any fresh food because they would need places to store it. I can just imagine the influx of turnips (or in our area), rutabagas. Those bloody things can be waxed and left for a few decades. They must be high in nutritional content because they taste horrible. The idea of the Food Bank is to supplement, not for total reliance. Unfortunately, there are many people who heavily rely on the Food Bank. Give me a break. Minimum wage isn't even at eight dollars an hour. If you are a single parent with two kids (who need day care, which runs about forty dollars a day, and you don't have subsidy), you may have to rely on a Food Bank. Even a single person on minimum wage may have to rely on a Food Bank. A few years ago, I read a study that said that minimum wage should be at least eleven dollars an hour, if it was on par with minimum wage in the 1970's, keeping up with inflation etc. That was a few years ago, and for the life of me I can't remember where I read it. Here is another thing that is bothering me tonight as I plug away. Tea. I drink it with milk and sugar. I thought I was doing myself a favour by drinking tea. Now I learn that all my effort is all for nought, and by adding milk I have negated any health benefits. (Big sigh) I hate plain tea. I hate it. It tastes terrible. Now I am going to have to switch it up a bit and drink my orange pekoe straight up.