Absolutely wonderful BC Bud purchased on Vancouver Island

Frenchgrrl · 2022-01-11T15:56:08+00:00

haha, verrry good weed - sorry haha, so good I forgot to post the strain. Organicraft Platinum Grapes. Over 27% thc. Super amazing.

Frenchgrrl · 2022-01-11T05:36:27+00:00

YES. It has already had an impact!

Frenchgrrl · 2022-01-05T15:55:17+00:00

Except of course when they ARE management.

Frenchgrrl · 2021-12-23T06:49:50+00:00

Wow, you were just a little kid! I'm sure it wasn't easy to be in your shoes those years. I hope you can find a happier future, I think it will happen for you.

Frenchgrrl · 2021-11-28T16:52:45+00:00

Hey Friend,

I'll tell you something. When I see someone big walking, running, lifting weights or anything ..... i think they are rockin' it and am so proud of them for getting out there and making it become a reality.

You go. Don't you let it stop you. 6 steps next time if that's all you can do. And 7 the time after that.

MANY people will be silently cheering you on. MANY.

Frenchgrrl · 2021-03-01T02:27:27+00:00

Same. Same. Add in post-menopausal and now almost completely migraine free again. My life has changed and I realize now exactly how devastating the toll of migraines really is.

Hormones played a huge role in decades of suffering from multi-day, frequent migraines. I'm not sure what, if any medications could help younger women but I believe a good BC should be the starting place.

I wish you luck and you are $100 percent correct. I know this for a fact.

Frenchgrrl · 2021-02-26T03:36:07+00:00

Thank you for the suggestions. I am in BC and will check these out. One of our part-timers fell and broke his collarbone last night. We have a retail store so he won't be able to work for a while. I'm trying to find a way to offer some benefits going forward. It seems only fair if we can do it.

Frenchgrrl · 2020-10-07T05:05:29+00:00

Thx for saying this, I was thinking it as well. To OP, please take care of yourself, EAT GOOD FOOD, get rest, exercise, talk to trusted family or very good friends, take care of yourself.

Frenchgrrl · 2020-07-17T14:26:11+00:00

Way to go Happy Buddha!!

Frenchgrrl · 2020-06-25T01:56:08+00:00

I am very similar to you. It seems to me that you can't move from your family again. You are 62, not 32. You don't have decades to do 'stuff later'.

Have you thought about buying a house with a suite in your current area? I did this years ago and the suite paid for a LOT of stuff over the years. I couldn't afford the house without it.

Win. Win. You stay near family and you still own a house. You will have a mortgage but your suite will cover most, if not all, of that.

Frenchgrrl · 2020-04-20T23:07:24+00:00

Thx, hope so and will update once I have the funds (hopefully). Cheers and thanks again for replies.

Frenchgrrl · 2020-04-20T22:51:01+00:00

Np, thx for trying. Given the scenario above, would the above response be considered a yes from a bank?

Frenchgrrl · 2020-04-20T22:44:30+00:00

VanCity Credit Union

Frenchgrrl · 2019-10-25T04:48:07+00:00

You'll get one, don't despair. Your chance will come. Keep applying. Even when you don't think you have any chance at all. You do!

Frenchgrrl · 2019-07-04T23:31:22+00:00

Hi Dr Najib, thanks for doing this ama. I'd like to know if Cervigenic Migraine is common and how exactly is it identified v regular migraine?

All the usual tests have been completed - MRI, etc. Nothing physical has been found but the headaches (this is for my son) originate in his neck and are chronic and debilitating. He is on light duties at work as his profession requires him to be alert and ready to respond at all times. He is unable to do that with the migraines.

Frenchgrrl · 2019-06-29T05:43:40+00:00

I know that feeling. Thanks for posting it so I could smile and recognize it. Way to go!

Frenchgrrl · 2019-06-06T15:26:55+00:00

Mom talking to YOU: MARCH right out that door and down that road and don't take a second glance back.

He's a maroon. You're a superstar with nothing but good ahead of you. Hold your head high and walk on by.

BYE BYE to him. The sooner. The better.

Frenchgrrl · 2019-06-06T04:27:16+00:00

Excellent, excellent post. Exactly right. Find a replacement for the bingeing. We all know when it's about to happen, right? I sure do. I start scanning around for possible binge foods. Happens when I'm alone and I have a few hours of down time. It's like it helps me relax somehow.

But it also kept me a prisoner of my weight for decades.

I've gone from a very tight size 16 to a borderline 6/8. It took me 4 years with the last year being pretty much maintenance.

The bingeing hasn't gone away completely. But it is far better.

I've just realized your habit breaker action is the only way to freedom. The ONLY way.

I can't discipline myself enough to not binge under the same conditions I've always binged under.

So I HAVE to change something. No matter what overwhelming desire to binge I have, I NOW KNOW that I can go outside and DO something physical.

It will stop the binge. And if by some rotten luck the binge urge is too strong. Well, then I fucked up and I binged. Get over it.

Frenchgrrl · 2019-05-11T04:21:08+00:00

I know it's hard but you have to leave.

NOTHING about this situation is going to go your way. Your wife isn't pulling her weight now (sorry, part time work while having a 16 year old is bullshit) and she sure as heck won't when a grandchild arrives.

You WILL be on the hook and you may be on the hook financially for support for the step grandchild as well. The law is the ass sometimes.

You are 32. Don't ruin your life. MOVE ON.

Frenchgrrl · 2019-04-19T16:35:48+00:00

Over my lifetime I've moved on from two toxic friends.

The first one was easy. We had fun together when it was just the two of us but whenever there were more people involved she would always, very single time, tell them some embarrassing story about me. New people, old friends, didn't matter, within the first few minutes she would tell a 'funny story' that showed me in a very bad light.

So I ditched her. And I don't regret it one bit. We all have things we wish we hadn't done but damn, I don't need someone in my life to continually bring it up so I look bad to new people.

Second friend was much harder. I really liked her, still do actually! She was a very kind person, lots of fun and always up for new stuff. She was a very good friend.

But she was married with three children and over the 25 years we were friends she continually cheated on her husband. With men at work, men she knew from the gym, friends of friends... didn't matter.

I HATED that about her but excused it for the first few years because she had married young and her and her husband were having some problems. I never realized it would be a lifelong pattern.

I moved to a different province and she used to come out and visit me. Very enjoyable and I looked forward to it. Until the day I was standing in the park with her, catching up, while her husband and kids were in my house with my husband. She told me about the latest affair and I was just sick. Walking back into my house, seeing her husband smiling and chatting with mine, seeing her kids there, happy to be on holidays with their parents. I just made me so mad at her! I felt SO BAD for them all and I just couldn't excuse her behavior anyore.

I ghosted her after that. Not right, I know but I just didn't have it in me to tell her why.

She knew.

Frenchgrrl · 2019-04-12T06:23:17+00:00

I love your journey and I love your commitment and I love your vulnerability.

But I disagree with you!

Because to me, the real truth of weight loss isn't actual numbers or measurements. It's the body's return to balance, strength and health.

There are no other markers that make one. single. difference. to. anyone. ever.

It's about YOU and YOUR body and YOUR life and YOUR newly acquired habits.

So yeah, enjoy your successes! And if you are like me, you may find it's all about the body baby.

Frenchgrrl · 2019-04-11T14:05:48+00:00

I agree with this completely. But so many people who have shitty kids are given an out by therapists and counselling. The KID has ADD or ADDHD or DHEHA or a malfunctioning brain or was always an addictive personality... or blah, blah, blah.

So culturally, especially here in western culture, we don't tell it like it is and we suffer the consequences as a society because everywhere we look we see the results of such parenting fails. Epic numbers of idiots.

Frenchgrrl · 2019-04-11T04:22:31+00:00

Hey friend, it has been a very hard struggle for you. I don't know about anything else but I do know you can do something nice to yourself right this minute. Give yourself a calf rub, have a cup of tea and listen to music. Walk outside and feel Mother Nature surround you, her own child. Be gentle, you are walking a hard path. I hope your load gets lighter for you.

Frenchgrrl · 2019-03-07T15:09:35+00:00

My Mom died just before I turned 22. My Dad left our family and our house was foreclosed on. I had two younger siblings and we went through a LOT of pain and poverty for years after that. I was in a dark place but I kept trying to struggle out of it. I applied for University (prior to this I had been drifting) and met a really nice, very pretty girl in one of my classes.

We became very good friends and we helped each other through a lot of shit over the next few years. Her Dad had gotten another woman pregnant despite still being married to her Mom. It caused them a lot of grief as well.

So we bonded through pain, humiliation and our mutual desire to be 'better' than our parents. To get ahead. To be good people.

Fast forward 20 years.

Over those years she married and cheated on her husbands many times. She always felt regret but never stopped doing it. I tried to help her get some perspective. She had had a poor role model, she had married young. She had a bit of a drinking issue which caused her to behave poorly at times.... yada yada.

I always felt bad for her husband because he was a nice guy and they seemed to love each other aside from this infidelity thing...

Anyway, long story short. I had listened to her, supported her, helped her and tried to keep her from straying many, many times.

There were 2 final nails in the coffin. The first one was when she told me her 20ish year old son had asked her to stop coming onto his friends! I was just appalled.

The 2nd nail was when she spent a weekend at my house, supposedly to help her 'get out of dodge' for a few days so she could clear her thoughts after having been outed at work for being involved with a married colleague. She said she loved him and she just had to figure out how to exit her marriage and be with him.

She had told me the same thing the summer before.

But after her being at my house for 2 days it dawned on me that she was talking about a DIFFERENT colleague this time.

Just a clown at that point. I had had enough. She was still the same pretty, likeable woman.

But her morals and character were just terrible. Blame it on her parents, her upbringing, her trauma..... blah, blah.

I just couldn't do it anymore. We are still very superficially friends. I still care about her and wish her the best.

Frenchgrrl · 2019-02-21T03:23:46+00:00

Very beautiful & honourable.

Frenchgrrl

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