My name is Tanya Derbowka and I live with my life partner, two children and several messy pets, including a Jack Russell Terrier, two cockatiels and an Indian Ringneck Parrot in the city of Saskatoon, SK. I work as an educational assistant for the Saskatoon Public School board. I am luckier than a sack of horseshoes.
This blog exists to give me a place to publicly vent my frustrations and share my life and views. I want there to be proof that I lived when I die.
Please send all inquiries, praise and free samples of medicinal cannabis from your garden to tanyaderbowka at gmail dot com.
BORING LIFE STORY:
I grew up in many small towns in rural Saskatchewan. My earliest childhood memories are of my parents running a bar and hotel in the town of Plenty. We had a babysitter that was boring because all she did was knit. I moved from Saskatoon to Borden to Plenty to Borden to Dundurn to Lucky Lake back to Dundurn by the time I was in grade eleven. I can totally relate to Corner Gas. I would have watched that show but it’s on the teevee. There are few things in life I favor less than television. In just about every small town that we lived in, my parents owned the local bar. My friends would often think that I would pull beer for them when in reality I was an uptight nerd that disdained anybody who wasn’t exactly like me. Who am I kidding, I am a nerd that lives in her mothers’ basement, I don’t have any friends. As an adult I would make up for lost time.
I was educated in public education institutions in all the small towns that I lived in. I had to say the Lord’s Prayer every day at the beginning of the school day. I secretly fantasize about telling the teacher that did that that he is the reason I became an atheist. Wouldn’t that be delightfully mean? I graduated from Mount Royal Collegiate. I skipped my grad and I’m not sorry. I am often conflicted about school. Sometimes I love it and other times I wonder why I haven’t quit and gotten a job as a Wal-Mart greeter.
I hate most things in the world and I plan to bore you all with the details. Oprah, Wal-Mart, shopping, bad jokes, vapid teevee shows, reality shows, American Idol, Canadian Idol, politics, hypocrites, patriarchy, rape jokes (not funny), people that are more bothered by swear words than by offensive bullshit, standardized testing, reefer madness, rude people, consumerism, religion and the term atheism are at the top of the great list of things that Tanya really, really hates. As for things I like, that includes, but is not restricted to: political activism, power tools, blogging (obviously), telling everybody around me how to think, fixing things, my 1996 Geo Metro, complaining about the things that I hate, learning new things, my pets, feminism, my family, education and cannabis culture.
This is just the beginning. I plan to update this page from time to time when I feel so inclined. Feel free to add me on facebook. I am easy to find.
