It has been ten days since I posted. My apologies. I used to read blogs back in the day when people actually blogged their basic life. And it was so annoying when someone wouldn't post for days. You come back and check and check and no post. Then you start to wonder what the hell is going on. So freaking annoying.
One time I was reading a particular blog. This would have been back before 2003. Back then the general trend of posters were single anti social women. Once in a while there would be a woman with kids. There were and still are bloggers with a specific interest...sewing, cooking, gardening, the queer community etc... I wasn't interested in them. I far preferred the general dear diary type and would deep dive into their personal lives.
There was one lady with a busy life. She was a member of the queer community and she belonged to a queer choir in Seattle. She was really funny and had a busy life which appealed to my nosyness. Once in a while she would take an extra few days to post and I would go back and check multiple times.
One time it took quite a while for her to post. I kept checking and people were commenting in the comments...calling on her to please post already yet!!! The last time when I checked after a couple of weeks there was a post....finally!!! I started to read and in the very first line whomever was writing identified himself as her brother and she had been killed in a car crash a couple of weeks before. OMG!!! It was like losing a member of my family. I was on the fourth year of her blog posts. I knew this woman inside out. It was a shock and it was painful. I have never forgotten that.
So if there isn't a post for a long time here I could be dead. If so I apologize. Lol!!!! Just know I have completed my bucket list ... and Bill's bucket list, several times over and I have read hundreds of near death experiences and I know exactly where I am going should I die. Yup!!! And it's a waaaay nicer place than earth. I am totally jiggy with it.
On that note I want to mention another one I was reading at that time. She was a late thirties, chubby cute single lady with cats. One of the things about these personal blogs is how cagey they are about their identity and location. But due to sleuthing (reading backwards reflections of signs in windows etc) I deduced that she lived a few blocks from me in North Van and she worked for Skytrain. I even figured out which apartment building she lived in.
Anyway I read her blog for a number of years. At one point she wrote that she had a fellow friend from Seattle visiting her for a few days. He came up on the Greyhound into Vancouver and she picked him up. There followed a couple of posts about his visit. She did post pictures of herself and her cats.
Then one day a creepy strange thing happened. I was either going to Kamloops on the bus or picking someone up, I don't remember, and as I walked towards the doors that led outside to where the buses came and went, she came in as I approached those doors. It was just so strange to see someone I knew so well but actually didn't! I almost said hello!!! But I quickly realized that that would be totally inappropriate and possibly scary for her so for once in my life I slammed a filter in place. But it was very unnerving to see her after four years of reading all about her life. Eventually she switched to twitter which I could not follow and lost her.
Now...back to me hahaha!!!! I have been busy these past few days. This Kamloops/Mexico trip has been the hardest trip to pack for that I have ever experienced. I have been on so many trips I can't count them. But every one of those trips was either a hot country or a mildly cold one. Greenland was pretty chilly I must say. But other than there packing for those trips was pretty easy.
But this upcoming trip is really difficult. I am spending one week in Kamloops where it can actually suddenly be 25 below zero. And then ten days in Mexico. And all I have is a medium 22 inch rolly suitcase and a smallish backpack. And when you are a hefty heifer your clothes are huge and take up space. My living room looks like my closet threw up. Piles of musts for cold here, musts for hot there, possibles for both temps on the floor, wishful thinking clothes. Jeez!!!! And I like to pack choices, not just necessaries. I am looking at my packed suitcase...which isn't closed yet. I am hoping that it WILL close.
I leave Sunday by the walk on only ferry in Nanaimo. Aryn and Bradley will be picking me up. I spend a night at their place and then they take me to the bus the next day....then bus to Kamloops and stay til the 17th. Then we fly to Calgary and then on to Cancun. I am getting pretty excited!!! Home again on the 27th.
So that is way more than you ever wanted to know about anything. I shall stop now! TFL&TTYL
