Go, Tanya!

So many wakeful periods overnight! I rose once at 2:25 a.m. to use the toilet, realizing as soon as I opened my bedroom door that my wife and both of her sons appeared to still be up; but I was surreptitious and not noticed.

I cannot recall when I went to bed last evening, but possibly it was no later than 10:30 p.m. With my cellphone alarm set for 5 a.m., I needed high expectations to think that I was going to sleep that entire stretch.

Fortunately after my toilet break, eventually I got back into some sleep and managed my best block of sleep thereafter ─ at least, I do not recall being restlessly conscious. When my 5 a.m. alarm sounded, I was almost eager to get up.

I resolved that my grocery shopping was going to be done at Deepu's No Frills store maybe four blocks away. Even though it is so darned close to where I live, I rarely shop there ─ not since the advent of the fake 𝒞𝒪𝒱ℐ𝒟 pandemic back in early 2020. It was that year that the bigger supermarkets began opening at 7 a.m. and giving me a cherished hour's jump start on the build-up of the public on Sundays, the only day of the week I engage this morning grocery shopping.

No Frills is a subsidiary of one of those bigger supermarkets (Real Canadian Superstore), but for some reason it never opted for the earlier opening time. Actually, I think that it did not open on Sundays until 9 a.m. not all that long prior to 𝒞𝒪𝒱ℐ𝒟.

I hate being abroad during daytime. I prefer the anonymity of darkness; and I especially appreciate the dark a.m. when few people are abroad.

Anyway, since No Frills is so near, I didn't leave home this morning until at least 7:50 a.m. Had I not slept after that toilet break overnight and risen then or even around 3 or 3:30 a.m. ─ maybe even 4 a.m. ─ it would have been very possible that I would have burned out and lost all impetus to be going anywhere that near to 8 a.m. Happily at this time of year it is still quite gloomy out at that point, whereas in Summer it would have been sunny and hot with more people outside than I care to have to put up with.

Thankfully my overall shopping experience was almost pleasant. At checkout, I had a young South Asian chap who had clearly been born here, for his English was unaccented and replete with vernacular common to practically any native-born Canadian. He was quite engaging, in fact. Even the walk was not bad. Only once did I ever have to coincide with someone coming from the other direction. A mature South Asian, he was immersed into conversation on his cellphone.

So it was a good outing. Even my left foot's plantar fasciitis (or whatever is amiss with it) did not seem overly aggravated. I might see about going out this evening on a possible shopping excursion elsewhere, but I likely won't if my wife remains home. As I type these words at 3:16 p.m., she is busy in the kitchen and still in her housecoat following a shower, so it does not appear that she will be having to go to work for a partial day at the Thai restaurant where she is employed part-time. On her partial days, she would already have long gone by now on her fairly long drive.

I was back from No Frills before anyone else was yet up. My younger brother is usually up ahead of 9 a.m. most days, but there was no sign of life at that time this sunny morning. I considered maybe some further bed rest, but just after 10 a.m. I instead went downstairs to watch some T.V. via our Android TV Box.

My choice was a superb 1⅓-hour (1:23:00) video published January 9 at Rumble's Action4Canada  channel: Chemical Warfare, Police Covid Corruption, Prorogue: Legal Action, Palestinians Death To Canada, Jan. 8, 2025.

Tanya Gaw, founder of Action4Canada, provides Weekly News Updates on current issues that are important to Canadians, as well as effective resources and actions to equip and empower citizens in protecting their rights and freedoms and defending this great nation! This week Tanya discusses chemical warfare, police covid corruption, our prorogued government and much more.

Tanya was on fire! I am now convinced that I am going to seek to watch each of her weekly updates, which categorizes this particular video ─ it was powerful. Tanya seems fearless in speaking the truth.

My brother joined me fairly into the video, so he did get a lot of benefit from it.

I next played a 14-minute (14:36) video uploaded earlier today to YouTube's AnitaK channel: How the Governor General Betrayed Canadians.

Governor General Mary Simon has chosen to prorogue Parliament instead of calling an election, sparking heated debates across the nation. What does this mean for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government and the opposition led by Pierre Poilievre? 

Anita links to three news articles as her video's references, so refer to the full video description if you are interested.

We finished up with a pair of older videos uploaded in November 2019 to YouTube's Talasbuan channel ─ the first was very short:

⭕ New Beginnings (2:51) November 20, 2019

Our family is getting bigger

⭕ Pregnant and Living Off the Grid (30:53) November 30, 2019

Episode fifty-two, in which we're talking a little bit about Tovas pregnancy and doing some chores

My brother returned to his bedroom for some rest. I had already feasted on some of my wife's ground beef pasta dish from yesterday well before he had first joined me for T.V., so at 12:30 p.m. I was back in bed seeking a nap. However, I was back up in under 1½ hours. As yet my wife had not emerged from her bedroom, but in short order someone began two rings of the doorbell that went unanswered, and that was sufficient to rouse her.

I had shut myself back up into my own bedroom to feign unavailability. I think that she ventured downstairs and to the door to have a look, but by then whomever had been there had left.

I don't tend to answer the door. No one visits me, so all I can expect is someone wanting something from me, and I sure don't need any of that.

My brother had been out in his van on an errand or two, and had just returned. He was to waste no time in readying to leave again to catch a bus and go forth to engage his daily social drinking.

Around 4 p.m. I heard my wife apparently having a one-sided instructional farewell conversation 'at' her youngest son, and then without any word to me left for somewhere ─ some shopping, or off to hook up with one or more friends? Time shall tell. She had already done some cooking, so the suggestion to me is that she intends to be away for some while.

Maybe I will have opportunity to be getting out for that secondary shopping walk after all. Right now it is 4:30 p.m., so I am going to take a break ─ whether or not I have much to say afterwards.

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My wife was back barely ahead of 5 p.m., so I reckon I am home to stay. At least I had some exercise while she was away.

I will be sitting up late tonight watching shows (via our Android TV Box) with my brother, and of course having two or three beers. Right now it is 6:18 p.m.