u/stumpy_chica

I'm from Saskatchewan, so I don't have to deal with elevation on a regular basis. We would love to take it on a road trip out there (the fuel economy is amazing).

I used to go to Gail's in the Warehouse District. They had so many tea flavours and a plethora of coffee syrups. Is there anywhere else like this?

I recently bought a Nissan Micra SR after 2 decades of driving an SUV. It's been a while since I've driven a car in the winter in Canada, and I've never owned a subcompact car. The last one was a Saturn Ion that was a stick shift, and I put winter tires on it and found that driving a stick shift in the winter (the Micra I bought is one as well) made it easier to stop on ice but more challenging when it came to getting going.

Should I purchase an SUV to drive in the winter, or can I winterize one of these to be safe on the roads in the winter? I live in Regina, so it does get fairly snowy/icy, and they don't often plough our residential streets. Is it easy to get stuck? I would post on the local subreddits, but subcompacts aren't super popular here, and I figured it would be easier to find someone with experience driving a standard transmission subcompact asking nationwide.

For context, I am in my 40s, would consider myself a good winter driver (incident free), and I put on around 100km/day owning and operating a residential cleaning business. I drive on the highway a few times a week.

Sorry if this is over descriptive. Had a joint right after work lol

I drive Uber here and there to make some extra cash. I used to drive an SUV, but a few months back, I decided to buy a manual transmission car. Nothing else about me has changed, but holy Dina the amount of men who get into my car and say something about me driving a stick/hit on me now is insane. Is there something innately attractive about a woman who can drive a stick or something? I just like it for the fuel efficiency. Plus it's fun.

Edit: I figured I should add a TL:DR version, so we are at a wedding with family and over the course of the last few months and the weekend, my mom's whole attitude when anything doesn't go her way is basically Cartman "screw you guys, I'm going home."

In the last few years, my mom has been the most toxic negative person. Everything is about someone judging her, "what will people say?" This weekend we had a family wedding, and she has just become unbearable.

The first thing that happened was finding her accommodations. I was going to book an Airbnb nearby. Most of the family was staying at a small town motel (the town that the wedding is in has a population of around 800). One of my cousins ended up canceling his reservation, so I decided to take his room. My sister was also supposed to be staying at the motel. And I guess between the 2 of us, we ended up not getting a room booked for my mom, because my sister assumed she would be coming to the Airbnb with my daughter and myself and I thought my family had taken care of booking her a motel room. So I decided to just bring an air mattress (the room is big), give my mom the bed, and have my daughter and I share the air mattress. This was her first "well, I'm just not going then." As if her sleeping on a bed while we shared an air mattress was going to be some sort of huge issue. One of my other cousins ended up having to go to Norway for work, signed his room over to my mom, and she decided that she would come.

The next thing that happened before the wedding even happened was regarding her travel. She was supposed to come with my aunt. Then my aunt decided to come early to help set up. I'm not talking days early. I'm talking about 2 hours difference. She stubbornly refused to come 2 hours early, so my sister said she could come get her on her way, but that she would also be coming early. So then my mom called me complaining about how she just wasn't going to come then, and suggested I drive her. For reference, I live exactly 2.5 hours south of where the wedding is happening, and exactly 2.5 hours west of my mom. And I had to work on Friday before driving out and have to have my daughter home to work by 4pm today. My mom threw yet another "well, I'm just not going to come then" fit when I refused to alter my work schedule and my daughter's work schedule to travel 2.5 hours in the wrong direction twice just to bring her to the wedding. By the way, my mom is perfectly capable of driving and has a reliable vehicle of her own. And that's how she got here.

So then we get here for the wedding. She was fine on Friday night. Saturday morning rolled around, and the first thing she started to complain about was what her feeding schedule would be for the day. As with most weddings, dinner wasn't until after 6pm, and she hadn't noticed this. According to my mom, she absolutely needs to eat by 5pm every single day. She was also angry that we wanted to wait for my cousins to go to brunch in the morning, that she hadn't planned for lunch for herself (I ended up buying her a grocery store sandwich), and then started insisting that she was just going to go home and skip the entire wedding, since she couldn't eat on her schedule.

So then, after her whole little dramatic morning, we go to the ceremony. It was a very hot day (35C) and the humidity made it feel even hotter (like 44C). The hall was air conditioned and not too bad. And we were only really in there for 15 minutes. But after the ceremony, she once again started to complain, said she was just going to go home because it was too hot, etc etc etc.

Then the big incident happened.

My cousin's husband saw her smoking after the ceremony and made a joke about it. A very very obvious joke. When it comes to my mom and her cigarettes, she will defend them more than she will defend her children.

So the plan was to go to the ceremony then to my cousin's campsite until the reception. Well, once again, she started on with the dramatics. "I'm just going to go home." "I'm not going to the reception." "I'll just stay in my room."

My aunt and my daughter talked her down and eventually she showed up at the campsite, sat in a corner sulking, and didn't say a word to anyone.

At the campsite, my daughter (I should have mentioned that she's an adult) and I had some alcohol. The reception site was only about 5 blocks from where we were, so we were just going to walk over to avoid drinking and driving or catch a ride with my mom. My mom got really upset when we said we weren't driving over and that she would have to drive herself and actually tried to make me drive her over after having 2 drinks in the span of less than an hour. In hindsight, it might have been a better idea, since she nearly got into an accident and drove over a curb while trying to park.

Flash forward to the reception. The hall was hot. The AC was not keeping up. And it was still really hot outside with a tonne of mosquitos due to the weather conditions. And our table ended up being one of the last ones to go up to the buffet line (it was by design...we were seated with the MC's family). So she was craaaaanky.

Soon after dinner and the speeches, she went outside for a smoke with my daughter. I was inside dancing with my aunt, and got a couple of texts from my daughter to come outside because of my mom. So when the song finished, I went out there. My mom was complaining loudly and said "I'm just going to leave. I don't need to sit around and watch you all drink." For context, when we went to family weddings and my parents were in their 40s, they were ALWAYS drunk. There was a wedding when I was 14 and had to get one of my friends who was 16 to come DD my parents home, because they were falling over drunk and couldn't drive. Last night, between my daughter and myself, in the 7 hours we were at the wedding, we each had 4 drinks. We were not intoxicated in any way. Well, maybe a bit because we were out smoking weed with the groomsmen lol but no one was falling over drunk, we were smart about water and food to balance out because of the heat.

So anyway, if you've read this far, when I went to rescue my daughter from my mom, she told me something that was kind of a last straw thing with her. She said my mom touched her belly (my daughter is on antidepressants that cause her to gain weight and she's really self conscious about it, but for reference, her BMI is in the healthy range with her being 5'7 and 150lbs) and told her she looks like she's pregnant.

So today, we're supposed to go to a family BBQ before we leave back for the city and I'm laying here fuming, stressing, but not wanting to miss out because of my toxic mom. I love my cousins so much and we live all over the place and only get to see each other a couple of times a year and I feel like she's ruined this whole weekend for us with her negative attitude.

I know Shannon's is playing the game for sure. And possibly Brewhouse. Anywhere else? I Googled and the results were pretty sad.

I was looking at some footage of Flo Rida. He actually played at our city fair (I'm from Canada...city about half the size of DC) in 2023, and they had to shut the gates because they reached capacity. Our 4 day fair is considered a bust if less than 100,000 people attend, and the normal attendance number is closer to 200,000.

If Trump is being genuine about his figure of 45,000, that's about the draw we get in a day in a city half the size. So, I'm just curious as to whether state fairs are actually well attended. Because even his brag figures are just "meh" here.

Edit: Thanks for the clarification. Our fairs are usually city run (like, in my province there are probably 20 or 30 of them), and they bring in multiple rides (like 20 to 30 at a large fair, 10 to 15 at a small one), food vendors, etc, and they have concerts and rodeos and other entertainment. This reminded me of what they would do in the village of 150 people that I grew up in, with a couple of food vendors, a small local band, and a couple of rides.

In Canada, we get a year. 16 weeks is considered pregnancy leave to be taken by the mother, the rest can be split between the parents. You are paid 55% of your wages.

A lot of larger employers will top up the money and offer up to 18 months.

Was curious as to how this varies around the world (or maybe even within the same country).

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For us, it's milk, eggs, bread, and cheese. Any of those run out, and it's time to go grocery shopping!

I see a loooot of American profiles defending the idea of trickle down economics online. However, I also know that there are tons of bots who will push this idea, since it benefits the rich. I have a business degree (I grew up outside of the US), and we learned in economics and finance classes that this theory has been widely debunked. So question: is the online rhetoric just pushing propoganda? Or does the average American understand that trickle down is a giant hoax perpetuated by the rich to benefit themselves?

So far, I've done the community garage sale in White City, the Arts Festival, and Mosaic. Pride this upcoming weekend. What are all of the things that happen in the summer that are worth checking out? Is Over the Hills Orchard worth it?

Just looking for recommendations specifically on where has the best lamb or goat curry in the city.

My tolerance is at around 100mg. And they need to be available in Canada. I used to get them through Distillate Direct.