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I made a post since the last one but it isn't here!  I hate blogspot!!!  It does or doesn't do things it is supposed to or not supposed to do.  Disappearing my post is one of the not supposed to do.  (shovel list all to hell and back)!!!!!

Well a ton has happened since the last post I must say.  I shall do my best to keep it short and not go into the minutia!!

One thing I must mention is wedding bells are in the air!!!!  It's so much fun and exciting.  I think, after much internet hunting we have found a beautiful venue!  It is countryish, which was important to April and Myles.  It has all the bells and whistles one could want.  It isn't huge or lavish, and best of all it is half the price all the other ones in the lower mainland were.  I shan't say anymore about it.  If you want to know you will have to ask the kids, it's not my story to tell.  But let me just say so far it's perfect!!  And exciting!!!  Many many many texts and emails flying around!!!

Monte arrived on Sunday the 28th and we loaded up the car.  He spent the night at our home away from home, the North Van Hotel.  He came and picked Leeloo and myself up the next morning.  We headed out to Ikea in Richmond.  I stayed in the car with Leeloo and avoided the pandemonium that is Ikea.  Monte did bring me a couple of their little hotdogs!!  

Leeloo is like a people magnate!  Anyone that went by would stop and talk to her and then me.  I met a few pretty interesting people.  We then drove out to the ferry and we had an hour to wait which was perfectly okay.  Now here is the part that isn't okay.

I have been sitting here trying to remember the trip over to Victoria.  I remember driving off and getting to the Zed hotel.  But for the life of me I can't remember the drive onto the ferry.  I can't remember if Monte went upstairs or not or even if I did.  I can't remember if I got food or coffee or ANYTHING!!!!!  It's scary to not remember!!!!  Is this how it starts?  (shovel list) I have since remembered it all...after much thought.  lol!!

The Zed is a very quirky funky hotel.  It is right on one of two main Victoria city streets.  And the hotel is old, and NOT soundproof.  There was a steady stream, and I mean steady, of sirens going by.  Police, ambulance and firetrucks....steadily the whole time we were there!!!  We were there for two nights and now that I have read the news, I understand the sirens.  Victoria is a massive, unmitigated shit hole.

  There are drug addicts, mentally ill, derelicts on every street with complete malcontent in their souls.  It is just unbelievable.  I feel bad for them, or I am trying to, but I utterly refuse to feel guilt.  I do feel for the genuinely mentally ill.  They aren't equipped to make good choices.  But all the rest, at some point  it was a choice and the collateral damage is incredible.  In my 71 years I have seen Mother Nature at her most destructive.  But nothing equals the immense filthy damage these people are causing.  It isn't right.  And they simply get away with it.  It is definitely harming the healthy community.

I think that what bothers me most is that with any down and out minority you aren't allowed to be pissed off with them.  Yet there are things these people do that are simply not acceptable.  I was talking with a person who works in one of the hotels the government bought and turned into homes for them.  By six months they had destroyed it.  This worker actually told me that these people are the most entitled narcissistic (I can just hear people going off right now about how they had terrible lives or pain or no self control blah blah blah) and can't help it.  Millions of people have terrible upbringings etc... and don't make such self harm destructive choices.  My empathy has been over used and has worn out.

But that aside we had a great time.  We had some pretty heavy conversations.  And on the way through Nanaimo I was starving.  We ate at a wonderful Korean restaurant we have had our eye on.  Wow the food was crazy delicious and more than that...interesting!!!

I have bought something I must mention.  I need motivation to get moving more, pain or no pain.  I remember Cookie telling me that the first thing that becomes useless on an old person are their legs!  And that is what is happening!  It's getting harder and harder to get up out of my chair and climbing stairs!  Geez!  Spare me now.  So I need to change this.  I think I will talk to the doc about safe painkillers...safe for my kidneys.  If I can pop a couple of those and then go walking, to start with, I think I would enjoy it! 

So to motivate that....I bought a smart watch, a cheapo.  It was forty bucks on Amazon.  It counts steps.  A person I know has the same one and she says it's amazing and super accurate.  So I will set short term goals, increasing to my long term one. 

 I just wish I could buy some fat lady rain gear.  I mean what the hell???  Fat ladies don't get wet?  The wetskins, the brand I really like and used to buy only go up to 3x.  Which would be fine if fat ladies don't mind half their arms getting soaked and a wide wet stripe down the front coat gap that won't close and the shoulders are so tight you can't clap your hands together, not that you would have any reason to clap in the friggin' rain. Grrrrrr!!!!  And no hat fits.  My hair is cemented in place with liquid cement spray and when it gets good and wet, little lethal chemical rivulets run down behind my rain speckled glasses right smack into my eyes.  Burning eyes behind blinding glasses are not conducive to long leisurely walks.  Thanks wetskins!  I hate the rain.

So now I am in my comfy chair.  Leeloo has settled right in happily and I am starving.  I need to eat something.  Unfortunately there isn't much in the house to eat.  Gotta go look!  Take care folks and let's hope this post gets there!!!  TTYL

'They've been together for so many years, instead of the Wedding March, the organist should have played the Hallelujah Chorus!'  Anon

DON'T I LOOK TINY AND WEE?  TRUST ME...I DEFINITELY AM NOT!!!!

ARYN SENT ME A PICTURE THAT WAS A VERSION OF EYE SPY.  THEN IT WAS MY TURN.  SO I HID A WINNIE THE POOH ON APRIL'S BUSY BUFFET TOP.  SEE IF YOU CAN FIND HIM!

MY LITTLE BUDDY FOR THE NEXT MONTH!!

TUESDAY MORNING IN THE HOTEL.  MONTE IS HOLDING HIS CPAP IN PLACE.  HE IS SO TALL HIS LEGS AND FEET ALWAYS HANG OUT OVER THE END OF BEDS.

WE HAVE TO DRIVE THROUGH LANGFORD ON THE WAY HOME SO WE DROVE BY OUR HOUSE WE HAD THERE.  THIS WAS THE LAST PLACE I LIVED WITH SPOD.  IT WAS HARD TO SEE IT.  IT'S HARD NOW LOOKING AT THIS PICTURE.  I MISS HIM.