That’s kinda how I see my girl whenever I look at her. Transcendant. Ethereal. Angelic. Pure magic incarnate. A wonder to behold. No glowing adjective seems hyperbolic.
She’s nuts of course.
I don’t know why I find it odd that she’s so comfortable upside down. She’s really spent more time upside down than she has breathing at this point. You know, counting pregnancy.
Last time I wrote, she was just starting to grasp things on purpose. Now she’s confidently reaching for them. She yells at them if she can’t fit them whole in her mouth. True for most things, unfortunately. It’s a vocal household, now. Happy vocal, to be sure but… I think this is how kids came to be called little monkeys. Howler monkeys, anyway. It really poses a quandary – ease her off the soother, or invest in publicly traded ear plug companies?
She’s thinking, “If only I had one more arm, I would rock that teddy bear’s world.” She hasn’t quite negotiated being on her tummy yet. She’s happy enough for a few minutes, but soon enough she wants to engage with the world, and both arms are all tied up. She lets us know she’s done with tummy time with grace and subtlety. If grace and subtlety are 11 and 12 on the volume knob.
But oh so adorable.
Possibly the funnest hat ever. Suits her perfectly. The hat that gets our official stamp, however:
We’re so subversive. Sticking an American girl in a Canadian toque. That’s right, I said toque. And she’s about the cutest button you ever saw, so there.
A pair of cute buttons, no less.
Meanwhile, in BC, Premier Christy Clark is ignoring the cries of the film industry to restore tax incentives to production companies they see as leaving town for greener pastures. 90% unemployment aside, that means about a billion dollars a year not entering the provincial economy. Yes, you read correctly. About a billion dollars. No matter how you slice it, that makes Clark’s administration a bunch of idiots. There’s just no way to justify it. Offer incentives, productions come spend money and pay tax. Don’t offer incentives, productions do not come, so no tax revenue, a bludgeoned economy, and a mass exodus of an entire industry. Sharp move.
I find myself thinking, “What the hell, Canada? Harper and Christy. Seriously.”
What does that say, that, living as I do in Americaland, I look north and have to shake my head?
Adrian Dix, leader of the NDP, took a high profile jaunt to Hollywoodland to meet with studio execs, assuring them that if the NDP wins the next election, he will look favourably on reinstating the incentives. Probably they don’t care, as they will cheerfully go wherever they can get the best deal for a workable location, but you can be sure the BC film industry took note. A tidy way to wrap up a hundred thousand votes. Considering the billion dollars of annual revenue at stake, that should wrap up an entire election. But we have the business sector with which to contend (banks and such), who have been pretty content to watch their province rot away around them while they reap comparatively meager rewards. So it falls to you, BC resident, with your single vote. Vote Liberal and continue watching arts, health and education get slashed, or vote NDP and hope it’s not too late.
Should be an interesting election. Who will the Liberals hire to produce their propaganda?