Well here we are, sitting in our hotel, or resort as they like to call it, in our room. My feet are sore and Cookie is ..... cold. Sigh. But more about that later.
I left Kamloops around 11 am after driving Wrangler up to the kennel. I also stuck a very formal and direct letter into the neighbours mail box, promising that I would be suing her ass if she doesn't shut her dog up. And I have to admit that every time I think of 'home', which used to invoke warm and fuzzy thoughts, I get kind of a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach and clearly that effing dog is ruining the enjoyment of my home.
The trip down was uneventful and very beautiful. It was lovely to see sunshine. I moved to Kamloops for the sunshine and much to my chagrin, there is a lot of no sunshine skies. And as I got closer to Vancouver the air became warmer and warmer. So I left 16 below temp and arrived in 4 above.
I arrived to a very warm and familiar welcome at Cookie and Brian's. Cook and I headed off to Walmart right away. I forgot my tweezers...can't have that! And Brian made us a wonderful dinner of hash browns, baked beans, eggs and toast. Mmmmmm.....And he did the dishes!!!!!
We were up at five the next morning and off to the airport. The trip was smooth sailing until about one hour before our scheduled landing. The turbulence kicked up enough that the flight attendant announced that the captain asked them to prepare the cabin for landing, early, and the seat belt sign would be staying on for the rest of the trip. Then the plane definitely slowed down and slowly dropped a bit and then a bit more and then a bit more. Around then the Captain came on and made an announcement, which I couldn't hear because the announcement was too quiet and people kept talking.
Well, with an hour to go...why were we slowing right down and dropping? I started to panic, of course. Who wouldn't? Well Cookie for one. I think she got a little ticked with me for being so freaked out. But clearly something was not right.
After a few minutes of freaking out I finally asked the lady across the aisle if she had heard what the captain had said. He said we were landing forty minutes early and and we were actually in landing mode and ten minutes later we landed. Well jeez if I had heard what he said I would not have been panicking!
We were met by the tour people with a lovely lai and taken to a bus which took us to our hotel. It is lovely and in the perfect location. We checked in and immediately took off exploring. We went into Foodland and bought booze. Oh and juice and came back to the hotel room and drank.
After we drank we went into what was the International Marketplace...a wonderful huge area full of little kiosks and locals hawking their stuff. But they booted all those folks out and built a massive very very high end expensive mall. Such a shame. We found a place to grab something to eat then headed back to the hotel and we were in bed sound asleep by eight o'clock Hawaii time...real swingers us!!!!
We got up early (four oclockish am. Hawaii is two hours behind) and Cook made coffee. We didn't rush and just relaxed and skipped the free breakfast and orientation session. We figured it was probably a waste of time and full of pressure to go on unnecessary adventures. Adventures like helicopter riding into live volcanoes, deep sea diving, hula dancing lessons, outrigger canoeing to the next island....you get the idea. Not doing any of that crap...and not 2 to 3 hundred bucks a pop. We can get into our own trouble by ourselves thank you very much.
We finally left and headed down to have a look at the beach. It was pretty empty at that time of day. We toodled around in and out of stores and looked for the pink line trolley...which is free to us with the right hotel cards. Eventually, after standing for over half an hour at the wrong trolley stop, we moved to another one and hopped on. So we bounced around all over Waikiki and back and then we found an awesome area where a bunch of the displaced merchants from the market place had set up.
So, as I was proceeding with this travelogue and reading it to Cook, she mentioned I had forgotten to tell about her going, by herself, into Lush where she met Denton. The wonderful helpful good looking fellow that worked there. She made instant friends with this man who then gave her awesome tips on where to find some shopping areas. She can't remember the girl salesperson's name. But...she has mentioned a couple of times that we can always go back and ask Denton for more information. (and apparently he is very much like Gail's friend Kevin at the quilt shop...hmmm these Sidhu girls...)
Upon Denton's advice, Cookie and I did find the "Denton's advice"shopping area. We found a rack, in the middle of kiosks and tiny aisles, of dresses we liked. The tiny lady that owned it was extremely helpful. She whipped our t-shirts up and over our heads and off..right there in the public eye! At one point she was whipping Cookie's t-shirt right up and off her when a tall white guy spied her and stopped dead in his tracks and watched, mouth hanging open. And the sad thing is that once you have noticed someone you have a knack of running into the suckers over and over.
So there we were, half naked, old asian lady mauling us and tweaking the buttons over our boobs, and exclaiming how awesome we looked! Long story short, Cook and I now own matching outfits.
This afternoon we spent a couple hours in the hotel coffee shop playing cards and drinking beer and gin. Then off again for dinner and now here we are back at the room. And Cookie is on her bed under a duvet, and two fuzzy blankets. That girl is always cold!!! And we don't even have the ac on!!! TTYL
Thursday, February 28, 2019
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
BUSY BUSY BUSY
Getting ready for my trip....checking off things as I go. I think I have my clothes lined up. I went into BCAA to renew my membership and get travel health insurance. In six years my membership will be free. Guess why? Because I will have been a member for fifty years! Fifty years!!!!!!!!! Now that makes me feel old. More than having a kid turn 46. Crazy!!! And I was kind of dreading the cost of my insurance only to find out I had bought a years worth last trip! Yay!!!
Its been a hella week let me tell you. I truly despise errands, and thats been the kind of week its been.
One thing I have learned over the many years is you can go ahead and make a sensible list of errands to get done in one day. Allrighty! I am going to go out there and gitter done! Today!!!
I organize the list in order of location. So in the end I would be making one big sensible circle...from place to place. With purpose in my heart off I go.
First stop. I inevitably will be missing something and can't cross it off my list. Have to go back later.
Second stop. The person I need to see isn't there today. Have to go back later.
Third stop. They don't have it. Its coming in on Thursday. Have to go back.
Fourth stop. You have to deal with this problem on the phone. We don't do that here. Grrrrrrr.
And so on. Its never as simple as going out and just simply getting it all done in an organized way.
Seeing how this is a complaining day, another thing I have to do is try on all my summer clothes and bathing suits and make sure they all fit and are appropriate. Acccchhhhhh!!! I hate that. At least I have them all rounded up. And I know I always take too much. So I shall be brutal this time and only take a few outfits. If they get dirty, well so be it, I will wear dirty clothes! Heeheee...Cookie may not agree with that one! She has a magical way of staying unwrinkled and clean all the time!
Today is kind of a special day for me. My friend Anne has a son by the name of Scott. Our kids all grew up together and we were super close until I moved to Vancouver when the kids were about ten and twelve. Even then we had Scott over for dinners and games etc... a few times when he moved to Vancouver as an adult.
I haven't seen Scott in forever and right now he is in town to see his family. Anne and Scott and I are meeting at Cora's for lunch today! I am pretty excited to see him! He called me the other day and we had a wonderful long visit. So I can't wait to see him today.
Tomorrow its serve pizza to kids at the university day. The youth somethingorother, has a day of listening to mentors teach them about entrepreneurship and business and life in general. Normally we would be standing behind tables of pizza and handing them out to lines of kids. But I guess last year a few assholes, after it was over, threw pizza all over the place. So this time we have to pack the pizza to classrooms and serve it there. Jeez! Kids, some kids, can be soooo stupid.
And its been a busy week with the Adopt a Grad program. I would have been completely crazy, not to say unsuccessful as the committee head, if it weren't for my sister. She did soooo much and she isn't even in the committee. But I think its under control now until I get back from my trip.
As soon as I get back on the 12th, I will be diving into the grad thing, preparing for two weekends of fittings etc. As soon as that is all done I will be off to Port Alberni. I haven't seen Monte for over a year now. It feels abnormal. I can't wait to go see him.
Well I had best get on with my day. My day that is full of barking dog. The weekend was lovely. She was home all weekend of course and the dog doesn't bark when she is home. She has no idea how unbelievably awful it is to have a howling barking distressed dog barking non stop. (more than a shovel list...I want to use that shovel for....)
TTYL
Its been a hella week let me tell you. I truly despise errands, and thats been the kind of week its been.
One thing I have learned over the many years is you can go ahead and make a sensible list of errands to get done in one day. Allrighty! I am going to go out there and gitter done! Today!!!
I organize the list in order of location. So in the end I would be making one big sensible circle...from place to place. With purpose in my heart off I go.
First stop. I inevitably will be missing something and can't cross it off my list. Have to go back later.
Second stop. The person I need to see isn't there today. Have to go back later.
Third stop. They don't have it. Its coming in on Thursday. Have to go back.
Fourth stop. You have to deal with this problem on the phone. We don't do that here. Grrrrrrr.
And so on. Its never as simple as going out and just simply getting it all done in an organized way.
Seeing how this is a complaining day, another thing I have to do is try on all my summer clothes and bathing suits and make sure they all fit and are appropriate. Acccchhhhhh!!! I hate that. At least I have them all rounded up. And I know I always take too much. So I shall be brutal this time and only take a few outfits. If they get dirty, well so be it, I will wear dirty clothes! Heeheee...Cookie may not agree with that one! She has a magical way of staying unwrinkled and clean all the time!
Today is kind of a special day for me. My friend Anne has a son by the name of Scott. Our kids all grew up together and we were super close until I moved to Vancouver when the kids were about ten and twelve. Even then we had Scott over for dinners and games etc... a few times when he moved to Vancouver as an adult.
I haven't seen Scott in forever and right now he is in town to see his family. Anne and Scott and I are meeting at Cora's for lunch today! I am pretty excited to see him! He called me the other day and we had a wonderful long visit. So I can't wait to see him today.
Tomorrow its serve pizza to kids at the university day. The youth somethingorother, has a day of listening to mentors teach them about entrepreneurship and business and life in general. Normally we would be standing behind tables of pizza and handing them out to lines of kids. But I guess last year a few assholes, after it was over, threw pizza all over the place. So this time we have to pack the pizza to classrooms and serve it there. Jeez! Kids, some kids, can be soooo stupid.
And its been a busy week with the Adopt a Grad program. I would have been completely crazy, not to say unsuccessful as the committee head, if it weren't for my sister. She did soooo much and she isn't even in the committee. But I think its under control now until I get back from my trip.
As soon as I get back on the 12th, I will be diving into the grad thing, preparing for two weekends of fittings etc. As soon as that is all done I will be off to Port Alberni. I haven't seen Monte for over a year now. It feels abnormal. I can't wait to go see him.
Well I had best get on with my day. My day that is full of barking dog. The weekend was lovely. She was home all weekend of course and the dog doesn't bark when she is home. She has no idea how unbelievably awful it is to have a howling barking distressed dog barking non stop. (more than a shovel list...I want to use that shovel for....)
TTYL
Thursday, February 14, 2019
I AM GOING TO KILL IT
Oh My God!!!! That awful little shit never quits barking. All day long. Its driving me crazy. I don't know what it is about barking dogs that change me molecularly....and not in a good way. I have taught myself to ignore and deal with dripping taps, flashing lights, loud mouth chewers etc.... but I cannot deal with barking dogs. Something happens to me and its not good.
She leaves at eight in the morning and the dog immediately starts hysterically barking. And then it takes a ten or twenty minute break then barks again for another hour or so....all. day. long. Its driving me nuts.
I have left two pretty strong notes now in her mailbox. One she will be getting if she comes home for lunch. I left my unit number on it so she can come talk to me. I have also re contacted strata. Hopefully they will do something...even if it's slow. Maybe the dog will settle once its used to its new place. Bylaws won't deal with inside dogs. They don't consider that an infraction of the noise bylaw. Inside dogs don't count as noise. Yeah. But if there is no resolution one of three things will happen.
1. I will contact SPCA and report neglect. They can actually tell her to daycare the dog or lose it.
2. I will offer to daycare it. I would rather have the blighter in my house than next door barking. Wrangler and it can make friends and it won't bark around me....I will not let it.
3. Sell this place and go rent somewhere. A place that allows Wrangler and has strict barking rules. I will not live beside a barking dog. Tenants with barking dogs can easily be evicted.
Anywho Anne's birthday was on the tenth. She is coming tomorrow for the day. She is going to help me sort the clothes downstairs and I shall haul out Hawaii clothes. She will do the laundry she said. What a friend! I hate doing laundry. Especially when it's downstairs.
Anyway, today, if I ever get done with the business things and phone calls I have to make today, I am going to bake her a birthday cake. I am going to make a lemon one with fluffy lemon icing! I would zest some lemon on the icing but someone very tall put my grater high up on the topmost shelf over the sink and even on my stool I cannot reach it. (shovel list!). Oh well. I have two strip loin steaks I am going to marinate, potatoes to bake, sour cream and green onions, and carrots and turnips and salad. A lovely lunch! She deserves it.
April usually sends me flowers on Valentine's Day. But she didn't realize dates and it snuck up on her. Which is totally okay with me. I was telling her that once you're over forty, Valentine's Day doesn't really matter. So I was recounting to her what Bill gave me, the occasional and few times he gave me something.
He gave me three very thin gold bangles once a very long time ago. He would occasionally give me chocolates from Purdy's. And one fateful time, which made me scratch my head and go....what the hell was he thinking? he gave me a teeny tiny see through very very skimpy two piece lingerie. Seriously! I couldn't even get it over my head, never mind on my ginormous lumpy body! And another time, you would have thought he learned, it was a tiny black one. That one I actually have a picture of. Its on a one year old April, over her diaper and t-shirt and standing in my giant extremely tall high heels. Pretty cute!
Anyway its time for me to hang it up here and get to it. The dog is quiet. The broad must be home for lunch. TTYL
SMELLS: Hah!!! Wasn't I just saying smells should be on this list? I am actually grateful for smell. I can tell when my cooking is burning, cooking properly, done....I can tell when Wrangler has had an embarrassment in the living room, I can tell when I need to wash my towel, I can tell when its going to snow, I can tell when it truly is spring, I can tell which kid is coming through the door etc.....
She leaves at eight in the morning and the dog immediately starts hysterically barking. And then it takes a ten or twenty minute break then barks again for another hour or so....all. day. long. Its driving me nuts.
I have left two pretty strong notes now in her mailbox. One she will be getting if she comes home for lunch. I left my unit number on it so she can come talk to me. I have also re contacted strata. Hopefully they will do something...even if it's slow. Maybe the dog will settle once its used to its new place. Bylaws won't deal with inside dogs. They don't consider that an infraction of the noise bylaw. Inside dogs don't count as noise. Yeah. But if there is no resolution one of three things will happen.
1. I will contact SPCA and report neglect. They can actually tell her to daycare the dog or lose it.
2. I will offer to daycare it. I would rather have the blighter in my house than next door barking. Wrangler and it can make friends and it won't bark around me....I will not let it.
3. Sell this place and go rent somewhere. A place that allows Wrangler and has strict barking rules. I will not live beside a barking dog. Tenants with barking dogs can easily be evicted.
Anywho Anne's birthday was on the tenth. She is coming tomorrow for the day. She is going to help me sort the clothes downstairs and I shall haul out Hawaii clothes. She will do the laundry she said. What a friend! I hate doing laundry. Especially when it's downstairs.
Anyway, today, if I ever get done with the business things and phone calls I have to make today, I am going to bake her a birthday cake. I am going to make a lemon one with fluffy lemon icing! I would zest some lemon on the icing but someone very tall put my grater high up on the topmost shelf over the sink and even on my stool I cannot reach it. (shovel list!). Oh well. I have two strip loin steaks I am going to marinate, potatoes to bake, sour cream and green onions, and carrots and turnips and salad. A lovely lunch! She deserves it.
April usually sends me flowers on Valentine's Day. But she didn't realize dates and it snuck up on her. Which is totally okay with me. I was telling her that once you're over forty, Valentine's Day doesn't really matter. So I was recounting to her what Bill gave me, the occasional and few times he gave me something.
He gave me three very thin gold bangles once a very long time ago. He would occasionally give me chocolates from Purdy's. And one fateful time, which made me scratch my head and go....what the hell was he thinking? he gave me a teeny tiny see through very very skimpy two piece lingerie. Seriously! I couldn't even get it over my head, never mind on my ginormous lumpy body! And another time, you would have thought he learned, it was a tiny black one. That one I actually have a picture of. Its on a one year old April, over her diaper and t-shirt and standing in my giant extremely tall high heels. Pretty cute!
Anyway its time for me to hang it up here and get to it. The dog is quiet. The broad must be home for lunch. TTYL
SMELLS: Hah!!! Wasn't I just saying smells should be on this list? I am actually grateful for smell. I can tell when my cooking is burning, cooking properly, done....I can tell when Wrangler has had an embarrassment in the living room, I can tell when I need to wash my towel, I can tell when its going to snow, I can tell when it truly is spring, I can tell which kid is coming through the door etc.....
Sunday, February 10, 2019
A BUSY WEEK
I just made the best curry dish I think I have ever made. I make curry a lot. But this time I decided to try something new and it turned out so good that I wish I was the type to follow recipes or at least write them. Because my stuff never turns out the same twice. And does it ever smell good! You know 'smell' should be on that stupid gratitude list.
Went to a Kiwanis meeting on Tuesday. It was a pretty small gathering. A few are missing due to snowbirdism. Afterwards Kathy and I headed up to Costco and did a little shopping. Then when we were finished the actual shopping part we got a couple of cuppacinos and sat at a table and visited. Had the best time! And I don't think even one person stopped to talk to her! That was very odd. That girl knows everybody!
I made a trip to Walmart this week and Save-on. Every single thing I bought in Save-on tasted awful. What the hell? Two samosas...awful, and I mean awful, made me gag. Two salad rolls had a layer rolled into them of something like skin...so tough you couldn't chew them, the potato salad was vinegary and terrible. The baguette was good but how can you wreck a baguette.
When I was at Costco I bought a couple of things I simply wouldn't if there were more than one of me. I got some smoked salmon and stuffed salmon. So the next day I had Anne for lunch and cooked the stuffed salmon, made coleslaw and rice. A delicious lunch. Then we ate wafer cookies for dessert. In our house we call them welfare cookies. I had bought them for Kevin. I always get them for Kevin. Sooo good and soooooo cheap. Thus welfare cookies.
I have been talking with Monte everyday. It is such a huge awesome thing being able to talk with him again. And he is so happy and healthy right now. He is walking everywhere, he is skinny (he only weighs about 260 - 270 now and at 6'9 thats skinny) and our conversations are always funny and interesting. He is working on his place right now, organizing and cleaning and making it homey. After I get back from Hawaii in March I am going to Port to see him. I can't wait!! Its been over a year since I laid eyes on him!
So only one black mark on my life at the moment. A new neighbour moved in next door. A girl. I don't know her age or status yet. But what I do know is she has a freaking little shitty barking dog. And if you know me you know this is the number one bane of my life. I effing hate barking dogs. I hate them. And this one is barking non stop and its loud and beyond acceptable. I effing hate brain dead people and you gotta be brain dead to think people want to hear your 'fur baby' barking. It just makes me want to stomp on it till its bloody, flat and dead.
So I will let it play out for a few days. With any luck it belongs to someone else who is helping her move. If not, step one will ensue. I shall report here. TTYL
TEXTURE: Oh for heavens sake do I HAVE to be grateful for texture? Really. Well I am not.
Went to a Kiwanis meeting on Tuesday. It was a pretty small gathering. A few are missing due to snowbirdism. Afterwards Kathy and I headed up to Costco and did a little shopping. Then when we were finished the actual shopping part we got a couple of cuppacinos and sat at a table and visited. Had the best time! And I don't think even one person stopped to talk to her! That was very odd. That girl knows everybody!
I made a trip to Walmart this week and Save-on. Every single thing I bought in Save-on tasted awful. What the hell? Two samosas...awful, and I mean awful, made me gag. Two salad rolls had a layer rolled into them of something like skin...so tough you couldn't chew them, the potato salad was vinegary and terrible. The baguette was good but how can you wreck a baguette.
When I was at Costco I bought a couple of things I simply wouldn't if there were more than one of me. I got some smoked salmon and stuffed salmon. So the next day I had Anne for lunch and cooked the stuffed salmon, made coleslaw and rice. A delicious lunch. Then we ate wafer cookies for dessert. In our house we call them welfare cookies. I had bought them for Kevin. I always get them for Kevin. Sooo good and soooooo cheap. Thus welfare cookies.
I have been talking with Monte everyday. It is such a huge awesome thing being able to talk with him again. And he is so happy and healthy right now. He is walking everywhere, he is skinny (he only weighs about 260 - 270 now and at 6'9 thats skinny) and our conversations are always funny and interesting. He is working on his place right now, organizing and cleaning and making it homey. After I get back from Hawaii in March I am going to Port to see him. I can't wait!! Its been over a year since I laid eyes on him!
So only one black mark on my life at the moment. A new neighbour moved in next door. A girl. I don't know her age or status yet. But what I do know is she has a freaking little shitty barking dog. And if you know me you know this is the number one bane of my life. I effing hate barking dogs. I hate them. And this one is barking non stop and its loud and beyond acceptable. I effing hate brain dead people and you gotta be brain dead to think people want to hear your 'fur baby' barking. It just makes me want to stomp on it till its bloody, flat and dead.
So I will let it play out for a few days. With any luck it belongs to someone else who is helping her move. If not, step one will ensue. I shall report here. TTYL
TEXTURE: Oh for heavens sake do I HAVE to be grateful for texture? Really. Well I am not.
Monday, February 4, 2019
HOLY MOTHER OF ALL THAT IS PAIN
That was my week, or at least half of it, last week. I came down with some kind of infection or something of the sort in my nethers. If I still had my parts inside, (seriously! I am hollow inside. No female anything, all having been removed years ago, at least half my colon, my appendics,...all gone... although my stomach kind of makes up for it) I would be cursing my spot in life as a woman. But no, I don't know what the hell was left in there to hurt like the devil whenever I coughed, laughed, blew my nose, used the loo, or even moved. Owwy to the power of infinity!
I would have gone to a doctor if that had been possible. There was no way I could go to the clinic and stand in line from 7 to 8 when the clipboard came out. I could if they put one of those atrocious green porta-potties out there. My awesome kind sister actually offered to go stand in line and get me an appointment! Who does that for someone? Well my awesome kind sister does!
I decided to wait until today, Monday, to decide what to do. Usually I just wait crap out and it hasn't killed me yet, it just goes away. And guess what? It went away. All better today thank goodness. That one was a doozy and really hurt. Plus it made me sick for two days. Like literally upside down sick. One day I don't even remember much. Apparently the kids all called me at one time or another and I have zero remembrance of it. Of course that could be a wee touch of the D word.
I spent half the day yesterday up at Kathy's. It was Super Bowl day. You know I don't get it. Watching macho men who, you know will end up with brain damage eventually, chase a ball around a field is the ultimate stupid reality show. And yesterday's game should have been called the Boring Bowl. At least there is alliteration in the name.
But!!! The party was awesome. There were about a dozen of us and everybody brought amazing appys and then Kathy served a delicious dinner after the game. And the fun we had!!! Everybody is so funny and interesting. I normally shy away from gatherings, not really my fave thing, but this one was really fun. We did a lot of laughing! Some of it at the ridiculous game's expense.
Anyway, this week I devote to the Gift of Grad, and the good works of Kiwanis. Lots of letters and posters to type up, with Kathy's help. Thank goodness! I am pretty hopeless. How I ended up chairwoman of that committee is beyond me. So busy week and a freezing cold one.
I am afraid we have all become soft over the years. It used to hit forty below every winter for a while. Now when it hits twenty below we all go into hibernation mode. It's been years since I have had a block heater and had to plug my vehicle in. Once you couldn't buy a new car without one already installed and a cord end hanging out the front. I haven't seen one of those in forever.
It may be cold out there but its beautiful! The sun is shining and there is just enough snow on the ground to be shiny but not enough to cause trouble...like getting stuck and shovelling. (shovel list....hahahaha!!! ).
I have my gratitude list back, thanks to Arnie sending me my left behind cord. So I will resume the gratitude thing (shovel list). TTYL
NOISE: Hmmmm...lets see. I find noise, certain kinds, comforting. An extremely quiet house makes me uneasy so background tv or music noise is comforting to me. Although there are some noises, like frigging magpies outside the bedroom window early morning, or a murder of crows in the trees over your tent when camping, I do not appreciate. But this is about gratitude. The noise I like to remember was the calls to prayer wafting out everywhere over Istanbul. Very eerie and foreign and evoked uneasy attention thanks to scary movies about Muslims. Still a very interesting noise.
I would have gone to a doctor if that had been possible. There was no way I could go to the clinic and stand in line from 7 to 8 when the clipboard came out. I could if they put one of those atrocious green porta-potties out there. My awesome kind sister actually offered to go stand in line and get me an appointment! Who does that for someone? Well my awesome kind sister does!
I decided to wait until today, Monday, to decide what to do. Usually I just wait crap out and it hasn't killed me yet, it just goes away. And guess what? It went away. All better today thank goodness. That one was a doozy and really hurt. Plus it made me sick for two days. Like literally upside down sick. One day I don't even remember much. Apparently the kids all called me at one time or another and I have zero remembrance of it. Of course that could be a wee touch of the D word.
I spent half the day yesterday up at Kathy's. It was Super Bowl day. You know I don't get it. Watching macho men who, you know will end up with brain damage eventually, chase a ball around a field is the ultimate stupid reality show. And yesterday's game should have been called the Boring Bowl. At least there is alliteration in the name.
But!!! The party was awesome. There were about a dozen of us and everybody brought amazing appys and then Kathy served a delicious dinner after the game. And the fun we had!!! Everybody is so funny and interesting. I normally shy away from gatherings, not really my fave thing, but this one was really fun. We did a lot of laughing! Some of it at the ridiculous game's expense.
Anyway, this week I devote to the Gift of Grad, and the good works of Kiwanis. Lots of letters and posters to type up, with Kathy's help. Thank goodness! I am pretty hopeless. How I ended up chairwoman of that committee is beyond me. So busy week and a freezing cold one.
I am afraid we have all become soft over the years. It used to hit forty below every winter for a while. Now when it hits twenty below we all go into hibernation mode. It's been years since I have had a block heater and had to plug my vehicle in. Once you couldn't buy a new car without one already installed and a cord end hanging out the front. I haven't seen one of those in forever.
It may be cold out there but its beautiful! The sun is shining and there is just enough snow on the ground to be shiny but not enough to cause trouble...like getting stuck and shovelling. (shovel list....hahahaha!!! ).
I have my gratitude list back, thanks to Arnie sending me my left behind cord. So I will resume the gratitude thing (shovel list). TTYL
NOISE: Hmmmm...lets see. I find noise, certain kinds, comforting. An extremely quiet house makes me uneasy so background tv or music noise is comforting to me. Although there are some noises, like frigging magpies outside the bedroom window early morning, or a murder of crows in the trees over your tent when camping, I do not appreciate. But this is about gratitude. The noise I like to remember was the calls to prayer wafting out everywhere over Istanbul. Very eerie and foreign and evoked uneasy attention thanks to scary movies about Muslims. Still a very interesting noise.
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