Bad Kitty

It is cold here today. Like -15 with 50km/hr wind cold. Takes two hands to force the cold car out of park cold. Golum-hunch for warmth-preservation cold. You get the freezing picture.

Just last Thursday it was six degrees and sunny and as we skipped out a bit early to check out this MLS listing I actually said "February is going to feel awful after this". The same time the next day it was six degrees below.

The house we went to see seems good - not for us (not after putting in those floors) but to help make up for some of the salary I won't have after May.

Maybe I should change this blog to "The Floor Blog". Anyways ...

Maternity benefits pay the same as Employment Insurance Benefits - 55% of your regular income up to $457 per week. I fail to see the logic in this. First, I don't buy that you can starve unemployed people back to work. You only prove that you have lost touch with the cost-of-living realities for those not dicking around on publicly-funded six-figure salaries. Second, what exactly is the relationship between Employment Insurance and Maternity Leave? Am I really home looking after an infant because I can't find work? Or is it 55% compensation because all households are still dual-earner households in which the woman's salary is so insignificant that its only used to buy doilies and scented air fresheners anyways? I need a sarcasm font.

So we're pretty excited and waiting to hear back from the real estate agent to see if the interior is as lovely as the exterior.

As for those weekend muffins - I left them on the counter all nice and gently covered up thinking there's no way the fur children will eat things made of flax and carrots and nuts. Oh so wrong. The next morning there were muffins strewn from corner to corner - in the kitchen, in the bathroom and down the stairs - all with a few tiny cat bites out of them.