Busy AF Weekend

I was up North this weekend, like, WAY up in the Northwest Territories for work. The screening was largely uneventful except for someone coming up to me to ask me to come back for another event in the summer. But also the friend who brought me up there for this screening came and took me out on the town which was amazing. We went for a walk across the lake to an ice cave which reminded me of Superman’s hideout at the North Pole only it wasn’t so deep. We saw an old cemetery out there. I bought some sealskin mittens from a fur place because I always wanted some and there’s been films and stuff about how important seal hunts are to Inuit people. ANYWAY they are nice mittens. I ate some codfish. I ate some Artic Char. I took photos of three different taxidermied Polar Bears but we actually were too inland for polar bears to be around. We drove around looking for Northern Lights but it was fucking creepy and Japanese northern lights hunters were everywhere on these Aurora tour buses. My friend G walked me into the woods at night looking for lights but I got creeped out and we could hear voices out there. OMFG so scary. We also drove up to Giant Mine which is this extremely toxic place that has enough arsenic to kill every human on earth. FUCK oops. We didn’t get out of the car tho, and it was an accident. He drove me onto the ice road which was super cool, it’s huge! And there was a man dog sledding with a team of about eight dogs next to the ice road.

We didn’t actually really see Northern Lights because it was cloudy most of the time. But that was okay. It was an interesting community to go to and I would do it again. As I age I am less about going to new big cities and more about going to different environments and being on the land.

Maybe I can go to Iqualuit next ha ha.

Anyway, yeah it was a better thing to do than go to Jessie’s festival this last weekend. I haven’t been added to the slack workspace of the festival Jessie and I are involved with. Today I finally sent someone an email about it. Ugh. I’m really confused by who to talk to about what with our festival now that Mutual Friend is trying to step back from it.

My Invisalign is breaking. And I don’t know when the company is sending new ones. I just tried super glueing it back together, we’ll see if it helps. Its not totally broken, but there’s like one little thread holding the back part of one side on. So eeps! Mostly I just need to keep wearing them to keep my teeth from moving. Until Tray 11 comes. But who knows when that will be. The dentist had to take some impressions of my teeth and send them back to the company, and the first impression wasn’t good enough so she did it again. And sometimes it can take a month for them to make new ones. Ugh. Mostly I just don’t want to go right back to the beginning of this journey because my invisalign breaks and my teeth shift backwards. I really wish they made stronger Invisaligns. The material is so flimsy. And in the end it’s about the same cost as braces which sometimes makes me wish I had just done braces, although those chew your mouth up. Ugh either way it sucks.

It’s beginning to snow here, like a lot. There’s supposed to be a storm, and it got quite cold. Not as cold as where I was up North, but cold.

This morning the Ant Abatement pest control guy came by and did something. And I don’t really know what as I was under the sheets STARK NAKED and holding my dogs so they wouldn’t bother him. I knew he was coming but to be honest I thought it would be later in the day. Anyway, hopefully that gets rid of the ants. I don’t know if he did anything in the living room tho. I hope so. If they stick around I’ll be so annoyed.

Anyway yeah, and my tattoo hurts, which is to be expected. I didn’t have lotion with me in the Northwest Territories so it got pretty dry. But it’s lotioned up now and feeling better. I’m following one artist’s tips which were to mainly leave it alone. Because when I have done that the tattoos heal without needing touchups. And when I was lotioning all the time I always needed touch ups. But yeah, so far it looks good, of course most of it is scab so who really knows.

Maybe my big news will come out today. That would be nice. I’m tired of keeping a happy secret. Like sometimes it makes me have a goofy grin on my face when I think of it, but mostly I just want to be able to talk about it finally.