Chugging Along

So, I have found a good way to relax at nights now. I have started smoking marijuana again, this time from legal sources. Gotta love that Canada has legalized weed! Now you know what you're getting instead of trusting that the supply your dealer has is safe and hasn't been dusted with something else.

Originally, I had stepped foot into a Tweed store here in town with the plan to buy my daughter some gummies to help her relax enough to sleep at night. She gets migraines from the smell of pot smoke so it's not like I could just share my pipe with her (yes, I use a pipe to smoke pot - less smell on my fingers, and less hassle trying to roll a joint with shitty fine motor control of my fingers). I totally would share with her if she wanted, but such is life.

So, I got the gummies with the lowest amount of THC I could find - a pack of five for under $6 really isn't that bad. And while perusing the menu of stuff Tweed had to offer I found a decent price for one of the types of marijuana they had - it's a balanced hybrid and I don't feel totally baked on it like I would with something with a high THC level. Instead, I just mellow out and relax, which is something I routinely have a hard time with. AND it doesn't mess with any of my other meds.

I'm interested in trying other types, and I actually have a list in my phone of several types I want to try. I may have put that list together after smoking a bowl... And I also ordered a new pipe, bud buster, and screens from Amazon, with the eventual plan of getting a long handled pipe for those days that I'm in full Goth dress and want to get my buzz on. Yeah, I'm *that* person.

Back in my high school days - mid to late 80s - a friend of mine used to smoke a pipe. Sometimes he had nothing but legit pipe tobacco in it, but quite often he had pipe tobacco mixed with weed - the pipe tobacco covered most of the smell of the weed. And during those years, most high schools had a smoke pit for the senior students...guess where we went to smoke this pipe? Considering that I didn't do a whole lot else, getting stoned at school was a minor thing in my eyes. It wasn't until I was in college that I got into the stronger stuff, and pot was NOT my doorway into cocaine use so don't go getting any ideas. That was just my own stupidity.

I've been muddling through at work as best as I can. My direct manager is still off work due to stress and I'm having to deal with her boss - the manager who drives me a little nuts and caused such a high turn-over in staff when she was the property manager. But it's getting better - I have realized that she really doesn't have that much power over me, and I can tell her no without worrying about my job. It's not like we have several employees available to work the front desk - there's only two of us! And I pretty much do a lot of the management stuff for the front desk these days anyway. Which is something I just naturally tend towards anyway, in a friendly 'we're all a team' sort of way.

Last week I discovered that one of the estheticians at the spa connected to the hotel is a certified nail tech and has now started offering nail services beyond just regular manicures, pedicures, and hand treatments. I may have booked the first slot available next week to get my nails done! It will not be a cheap set like I've been getting in the past, nor will it be one of those assembly line sorts of things where you get passed from one person to another for each step, thankfully. And there is a good chance that I will be able to get 50% off the service because I work for the hotel - when the spa is open Monday through Saturday, we get 50% on services (excluding massages and medispa treatments) on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays, but right now the spa isn't open on those days. When I go in for my appointment next Thursday I will ask about getting the discount, but if for whatever reason they can't give me the discount I won't be upset as it's just one of those things. And I know that in time the spa will be open daily once again. I'm just happy that I will be able to get my nails taken care of!

Now to go spend a bit of time looking up nail inspiration - this will be the first time where I will actually be able to get nail art done! WOOO!