Do you have a quote you live your life by or think of often?
My favorite quote is from Denis Diderot, and it has to do with freedom.
“Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.”
This quote is a big part of the reason why I reject both the monarchy and all religions. I do realize that my country of Canada is tied to the British monarchy, but thankfully, it doesn’t really affect my daily life ,with the possible exception that my home province is called British Columbia.
When is the last time you took a risk? How did it work out?
In October of 2013,I gave my number to a guy who worked in the same hotel I did. I knew he was single but he didn’t ask for my number, and I wasn’t sure if he even wanted it, but I wanted to get to know him outside of work, so I went up to the podium he was standing behind and placed my business card with my name and number one the back, facing up, onto the podium and tapped it with my fingernail. He looked at it and said, “I guess I’m gonna have to use this. ” I replied, “Please do. ” and walked away. A couple of hours after I got home from work the same day, he called, and we’ve been together almost every day since. He’s now my husband of nearly 10 years, and it was the best risk I’ve ever taken . I was 48 years old and nervous as hell because it was not something that most women would be comfortable doing . I very nearly chickened out. But I put my ego aside and made the move anyway. So, ladies, my advice to you is , DON’T BE AFRAID TO INTRODUCE YOURSELF. It might be tradition for the man to make the first move, but when it comes to love, to hell with tradition.
What makes a pet the best? If it has the same love language that you have. For me, that pet is a male cat intelligent,independent, and snuggly when he wants to snuggle. Soothing with his purr. Trusting enough to let me massage his toes and tummy. Dogs are good too, if a bit on the needy side. I really like a furry animal who fills both my lap and my heart ❤️. I would consider a ferret, bunny, or a guinea pig among the animals that I may enjoy spending time with. While I like horses, they are just too big for lap time. But a domesticated fox would be of interest.
What makes a pet the worst? If it terrifies you or gives you the creeps.For me, there is a list of worst pets starting with anything that flies,so no birds or bats or even butterflies. Next up is spiders, even the furry ones. Insects. Then snakes and lizards. While fish are beautiful and calming to watch, it seems cruel to take them away from their natural habitat and put them into a claustrophobic tank with other fish they may never meet. And I just don’t understand the appeal of a turtle.
How have you adapted to the changes brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic?
During the covid19 outbreak.Since I rarely leave the house in winter and never touch anything but my wheelchair, I didn’t need to adapt during the winter months. In spring, summer, and into mid autumn ,the only adaptation was wearing a face mask inside public areas, and that was for my protection because I’m immunocompromised. And then I got vaccinated.
Post covid, I’m still up to date with my vaccine. I still wear a mask if I have to go to the hospital or the doctors office. But that’s the only change to my life which, again, is for my own protection.
Every person is unique. From looks to personality, height,weight, skin color, skin tone, muscularity, strengths, weaknesses ,intelligence, humor, body type ,speech pattern, voice, movement, and body language. Every single one of us is as unique as we are similar.
If you could have something named after you, what would it be?
If I could have something named for me, it would have to be my perfect lipstick shade. It’s cool toned, like my skin and bright like my eyes. What’s the color? It’s slightly more purple than fuchsia but not quite magenta . There are many good shades for bright winter women like me,but I still haven’t found exactly what I’m looking for. I’m not sure if it exists in one lipstick. But if it’s out there, it should be called WUMS. And it should be sent to me immediately.
Being Canadian, I grew up with a love of dry British humor. For instance, I really love the boys of Monty Python in all of their incarnations. From the original sketch show right through to the movies and songs.
I’m a huge fan of John Cleese on screen. Fawlty Towers is still one of my favorite TV shows to watch. In the movie A Fish Called Wanda, he was truly brilliant . I met him briefly a few years ago, and he was the embodiment of the phrase, “Don’t meet your heroes “
Eric Idle,on the other hand, could not have been nicer to us commoners . He’s truly a sweet and funny man.
Humor is so important to me that I finally married an extremely funny British man who makes me laugh almost every day with a goofy face or a silly walk or his cleverly humorous take on a situation.
Us Canadians are well known for our self-deprecating sense of humor, and it keeps us grounded. People like Mike Meyers and Dave Foley and Catherine O’Hara have been a few of my favorites over the years. More currently, I also really enjoy Seth Rogen’s sense of humor. And Ron James cracks me up. But my all-time favorite Canadian comedian is the late great Norm Macdonald talk about a dry wit.
When you were five, what did you want to be when you grew up?
… I wanted to be a ballerina. I already had a year of ballet classes at that point and would go on to have another 10 years of classes before I decided it wasn’t fun anymore and switched to tap dancing classes and then added jazz dance classes to my repertoire. I stuck with those classes until I was 17 years old. Then, in my late 20s, I took adult tap classes for a year or so and really enjoyed it.
Dance was my childhood, my sanctuary, and it’s the thing I miss most since becoming a wheelchair user.
That there’s really nothing that hasn’t already happened in this world.
Which is why studying history is so important. For instance, what is currently happening between Canada and the USA has happened before. We’ve had trade wars, and we’ve even had literally invasions by the USA before.
Granted, North America has not been threatened with a dictator ,but if you know your history, dictators have been around since long before Hitler and Mussolini.
Just as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, whatever happens east of us will eventually come to us in the west. There will always be people who have dictatorial traits,the trick is not to give these people power.
It seems like Canada is finally coming to its senses and turning away from the Trump–light candidate, Pierre Poilievre. We’re still smart enough to learn from our neighbors to the south, and we still pride ourselves on not being them,which might just be what saves us from falling prey to a dictator.
It looks like the only thing Trump has done to Canada is succeed in uniting us against him and anyone who thinks like him.
