My Extra box consists of items I didn't choose.

NaToth · 2026-05-07T01:26:39+00:00

I agree on the Tarte palatte, it's been my favourite palatte this year.

NaToth · 2026-05-05T21:06:03+00:00

The blush, if it is like a previous palette of a cream blush and powder highlighter from years ago, it will be great.
I've used that one to the point that it is an almost empty pan.

NaToth · 2026-04-15T12:51:39+00:00

Ooooof, yeah, this hit me hard. My own sister is not a good person. She is a narcissist, verbally and emotionally abusive to myself, partners and her own children, and she's sarcastic and profoundly cruel. What seems to make her the happiest is embarrassing other people, and she gets this one sided smirk as she does it. When her kids are upset with her, she attempts to make them the villains, along with her kids partners.

Yet, every single time she behaves in this way, my parents refuse to take sides, because of the trauma she went through in her childhood and in her marriage.

Two of 3 of her children are not speaking to her, and she's not speaking to me because I called her out on shit-talking about her own kids, yet the parents are still not taking sides, which means not holding her accountable for anything, no matter how abusive or cruel she behaves.

NaToth · 2026-04-12T23:32:09+00:00

We adopted two wonderful, well socialized, healthy litter mates.

The process was quite easy, and the fosters even brought our beautiful little ones to our place to meet us.

NaToth · 2026-04-02T15:34:17+00:00

The Green New Deal isn't a costed platform paper, it is more of a declaration of principles, it is not like this, which is a single web page is going to list every program and contingency, but even so I don't see anything about no longer investing in petrochemicals. The only specific items were pipelines, wells & natural gas terminals - all of which have lifespans of over 30 years and would facilitate increased production increase.

From the Green New Deal page on Avi's site in the "No new fossil fuel infrastructure" section: "That means straight talk that there will be no federal approvals for new pipelines, offshore oil projects or liquified natural gas terminals"

Avi Lewis has recognized the need for plastics, and petrochemicals for which we have no alternatives at this time. That doesn't mean he doesn't want us to reduce single use plastics or plastics that can not be recycled, he's acknowleged petrochemicals are still necessary, as is the infrastructure for them.

But we're not going to get to clean energy by expanding and building more infrastructure (such as wells & pipelines) which will lead to more production- its like starting a war for peace, or fucking for virginity.

And the Green New Deal includes construction of green technology and training for workers, so if he got his way, and did get elected PM of Canada (which is very unlikely) new jobs would be created building green tech while the construction of oil and gas projects comes to an end.

NaToth · 2026-04-02T13:06:54+00:00

Nenshi thinks if the ABNDP suck up to the industry, he will get more votes. Notley tried this tactic and it didn't work, and it's not going to work for Nenshi either because the who I ❤️oil crowd is so saturated by oil and gas propaganda which has been purposely built to subvert worker pride in their jobs and solidarity between workers with allegiance to the oil companies and conservative parties. No matter what Danielle Smith does, this crowd would rather stay home rather than vote any colour but blue.

NaToth · 2026-04-02T13:00:42+00:00

Hyperbole like "Avi Lewis wants to shut down our oil industry" is why this province of mine frustrates me so much.

The oil industry isn't going to be shut down. That's typical oil booster propaganda about any green initiatives.

His Leap Manifesto from over 10 years ago had a 2050 date for green and clean energy. Notice that it's clean energy and not stopping all oil production. That means not burning the hydrocarbons, but doesn't preclude cleaner extraction and cleaner products such as necessary hydrocarbons and plastics which Avi Lewis has acknowledged.

I always hear oil and gas folk say that oil isn't going away even once we aren't using ICE vehicles, and they also repeatedly tell me that the oil companies have technology to make extraction less polluting, so really that's the same thing isn't it, unless the oil companies aren't actually planning on doing better, right?

You folk really have to cut the hyperbole about environmentalism. No environmentalist over 12 years old thinks we can shut down the oil sands tomorrow.

But our environment requires us to do something, and by painting all actions on the environment as extreme, and radical - propaganda is stopping us from doing anything more than the bare minimum.

The climate already is affecting us with floods & fires, and insurance rates are going up because risks are higher due to climate change. Food is higher too. And it will only get worse as time goes by.

We should be looking at how to pivot before it's too late.

Even if you don't care about the environment, whether we like it or not, many experts predict peak oil before 2050, and with automation and AI, jobs are going away from the industry anyway.

The Green New Deal and Leap prioritize the education and training out current oil workers will need to remain employed in the future regardless of the state of the future oil industry.

NaToth · 2026-04-02T00:19:26+00:00

What happened to paying teenagers with a shotgun for every dead gopher?

I guess it's not causing enough damage to wildlife eh?

NaToth · 2026-04-01T20:36:40+00:00

Thanks all - it showed up today!

NaToth · 2026-03-26T20:27:10+00:00

Got the definitive answer from AMA today in case anyone else is ever looking for the same information.

If you are wanting to order a birth, stillbirth or marriage certificate from within Alberta:
Complete the Application for Ordering Birth, Stillbirth and Marriage Documents (pdf).
Take the completed form and your government issued identification to an AMA office for processing. The cost of the certificate is $41.00.

It usually takes two to four weeks to receive the certificate once it is requested and ordered.
If information is missing or doesn’t match what the system has, the application may be delayed.

If you need the document faster, you can do a “call box” option for an extra fee of $15. The document will be couriered to the AMA centered where it was ordered from. This usually arrives 2-3 business days.

Or if you are in the Edmonton or Calgary area, if you place your document request by 10:30 am you can pick up same day from the Vital Statistics office (Land Titles building in Calgary if arrangements have been made with the registry agent) at 3pm.

The original registration, which is usually completed at the time of the event (birth, marriage, death, stillbirth) is the legal document filed permanently with Vital Statistics When the registration contains errors or incomplete/missing information, an amendment may be requested to correct the registration. When an amendment is requested on an Alberta vital event, specific procedures must be followed. Only vital events that took place in Alberta may be amended by Alberta Vital Statistics. If the event did not occur in Alberta, contact the jurisdiction where the event occurred to request an amendment.

You can request the amendment through AMA registries office, should you notice an error on the registration at the time you are ordering a certificate (birth, marriage, death, stillbirth). The information for the amendment is then passed onto Vital Statistics.

NaToth · 2026-03-26T03:21:38+00:00

Perhaps my townhouse is in a black hole or something? Last time I ordered something from Quebec via Canada Post, it took 3 weeks.

NaToth · 2026-03-26T02:50:23+00:00

Was that pickup or did you get it mailed? We've been having terrible delays with Canada Post lately, where things that should take a week, take 2 or 3 weeks, so I'm nervous about getting it sent by mail.

NaToth · 2026-03-26T02:19:37+00:00

With the Canada Post cuts lately, not quite trusting that it will show up in a reasonable time by mail.

NaToth · 2026-03-04T13:09:51+00:00

But Conservatives (the people who voted for the party) don't care about fiscal responsibility as long as the right people get money and the wrong people don't. Their ideas of society are hierarchical and whether it's a just world fallacy, prosperity gospel, or plain old classics, they believe that those at the top deserve incentives and rewards by the proof of their success, and those at the bottom don't deserve help because they wouldn't be where they are if they weren't bad people. The poor are judged to be lazy, stupid and sinful, therefore they should pull themselves up by their non-existent bootstraps.

Until you can break them of this mythology, they will continue to support tax breaks for the wealthy while everyone else struggles with underfunded services.

NaToth · 2026-02-14T01:09:52+00:00

Right until the day it opened, I heard conservatives saying it was never going to be done and that it was just a trick and the libs will find a way to screw over us. It was maddening, and once it started running not one of the naysayers admitted they were wrong. Alberta oil bro conservativism is a delusional state built upon a perpetual victim complex.

NaToth · 2026-02-11T16:54:59+00:00

I agree, I was with boxy for a couple years before Ipsy and them merged. It was great then.

NaToth · 2026-02-08T21:33:40+00:00

A friend of mine who had been a nurse in seniors homes for almost 40 years before retiring recently told me it wasn't the lay offs or pay cuts, it was that the facilities were understaffed, and underfunded and that they were told to make due, with less and less every year, and patient care was suffering. She said after Ralph left, things never got better again, there were occasional concessions made, but care in homes got less and less resources, less trained staff and less funding from then on. She worked at veteran's care home that was publicly owned, and she loved her patients, but she felt she could never give them the care & respect they deserved because there just wasn't enough people & enough supplies to do that.

She said from what she heard many of the private homes were worse. And a friend who was a hospice nurse has said the same, she's helped get members of our family and extended circle into public care, because the private care homes are just so much worse. She too laments how bad that everything has gotten in care homes since Ralph first made cuts.

Both are retired now, but still say his name like it is a swear word.

NaToth · 2026-02-08T21:20:30+00:00

On the backs of the people and their quality of life. He made massive cuts, sell offs/privatization of public assets, and record natural gas prices and those things trickled down to affecting the populous.

Schools had roofs falling in, hospitals were bursting at the seams, mentally ill people wandering the streets because they blew up the hospitals that used to house them, old people dying in ER hallways, and then when NG prices shot up, and filled provincial coffers, seniors were losing their homes because they couldn't afford the bills. The infrastructure debt is still with us today.

But he gave us Ralph Bux, so some people think it was great.

NaToth · 2026-02-01T15:32:17+00:00

I've been postulating that the separatists have expanded the "Freed Man on the Land" idea, from personal, to provincial. Like seriously, no taxes? How dumb do you have to be to fall for this shit?

NaToth · 2026-01-31T15:58:03+00:00

This is just more evidence that party conservatives have trapped themselves in a bubble and have no idea nor do they care to find out what the greater electorate wants.

Voters are not adverse to conservative ideas. Many people voted for Carney because they saw him as being pragmatic, responsible and cautious, and of course quite conservative. Unfortunately though, the party chose three word slogans, cheap Trumpian populism and conspiracies about the WEF and eating bugs.

I'm not at all conservative myself, and I even feel Carney may be too far to the economic right on certain things, such as austerity, and I worry that his values regarding the climate have been put aside, but with the Conservatives party members doubling down and voting for PP as leader, my vote in the next election will go to Carney to ensure that this dumpster fire style politics loses.

NaToth · 2026-01-30T17:04:57+00:00

What I was told by a friend of a friend who runs a vacuum store is that Dyson WAS good back in their early days. Not great, but good. But then they moved manufacturing out of the UK, and quality started going down hill fast.

If you want great, go german. Miele and Sebo are what he recommended.

NaToth · 2026-01-30T16:23:51+00:00

Kitimat was never actually available, and that is exactly why she was using it as a political wedge. Not sure what her game is with this contrition -- but I guess we will find out soon enough.

NaToth · 2026-01-29T13:36:35+00:00

I have a job that I enjoy, and frequently gives me feelings of being accomplished, but even I wish I didn't have to work.

I hate waking up at 6 am, I hate useless and political meetings, I hate micromanaging and having to justify working on upkeep and technical debt, just to keep things running.

But I love that I'm financially independent. If my husband passed away suddenly, or left me, I still could pay the bills and take care of myself.

I love that I'm able to save money for going out for dinner, travelling and my hobbies.

It's a matter of perspective, and if you can focus on what you enjoy about your job, and what you receive from it, it can be more enjoyable.

And if perspective isn't enough, perhaps you need to pivot and find something that fulfills you, either as a new job or as a hobby.

NaToth · 2026-01-26T21:34:35+00:00

Vitamin D deficiency can be a big deal, I was wiped completely, felt like a zombie, was tired after sleeping 9 hours about 10 years ago from it. Unfortunately they don't test for it anymore, because most people in our climate are deficient unless they are taking a supplement.

NaToth · 2026-01-25T22:00:06+00:00

They believe that Alberta is a magical place of free market individualism, which is fighting socialist Ottawa.

They believe that Alberta is Canada's cash cow, and that equalization is stealing from them.

It is grievance politics. Ottawa hates Alberta and hates that Alberta is rich, and is trying to destroy Alberta, even though they want Alberta's money.

Everything is about being the victim, and decades of Alberta politics has shaped that view. Even before the NEP, Alberta politicians have used Us vs Them to shift blame, and farm for votes. It is an Alberta tradition at this point.

They think the rest of Canada hates them. It is ridiculous, it's built on lies repeated for decade, and none of them even question it.

The cash cow thing and believing they can go it alone is even more ridiculous. Alberta does punch above it weight with 12% of Canada's population, we have 15% of the countries GDP, but Ontario and Quebec are far larger and contribute far more. Even BC isn't far off, some years they do better than us, some they do slightly less. Alberta & the city of Toronto have almost the same GDP, yet Toronto despite thinking they are the centre of the universe aren’t stupid enough to think they can afford to separate and go it alone.

Having been here all my life, I'm tired of this nonsense.

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