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John,
When you were leaving yesterday, that was a record for the third or forth time in a row where
there was no paper on our front porch. Before you opened the front door to leave last
Monday (the 21st), I already knew there wouldn’t be as paper there because my mom had just
got back from getting the mail and I’m sure she would have saw if there was a paper there when
she was coming back from doing so and would have brought it in then. She told you that our mail
doesn’t come to our house, we have to walk a few houses down the street to the mailbox every
weekday where we pick it up. I remember the new garbage company picking up our garbage around
the same time my dad came home from work last Monday (the 21st), I guess that would have
been close enough to the same time they came yesterday while you and I were sitting at the
kitchen table playing Smart Mouth just before my mom came home. And I guess yesterday was the
forth week for Surrey’s new garbage company, I remember one of the first couple weeks they
didn’t show up to collect our garbage until as late as 9PM.
Here are the letters we wrote down that went into the Bonus Pile:
AO
BB
EO
GB
KG - kilogram
KP
OA
OH - ostrich
OM
RK
RW
WB
WC
I guess we’ll do the same as we did last time where you look up the bottom six (OA to
WC) and then as soon as you E-mail me with what you come up with I’ll E-mail you with what my
parents come up with after they check the top six (AO to KP). We also had YC on that same
list yesterday, that was also on the first list we made up and here are the only two words that
you were able to come up with for those
YC - yashmac, yogic
We’ll have to remember those two next time we play. Also, I said this in a previous E-mail that I sent you:
> We looked at the rulebook and it says that we're allowed to use
plurals (words that end in "s") in "basic Smart Mouth," but
> to make the game harder it says that we could eliminate them. I would assume myself that we
should make the game
> harder when we play by eliminating the plurals. My mom thinks that words ending with "ing,"
"ed," and "er" are allowed
> however...
So if words ending in "ing," "ed," and "er” are allowed, then I wonder if the same would
apply to words that start with “re.” I guess it’ll be interesting if we find any words that
start with R and end with K but don’t start with “re.”
Three nights ago (on Saturday) my dad got out to Safeway and got me my seafood
salad (the one that’s suppose to have shrimp and crab flakes) for supper. It didn’t have any
shrimp in it though, I don’t know if all the seafood salads that were in that store that day
were like that or if just that one didn’t have the shrimp and my dad didn’t look before he
grabbed it. I said these things about my dad in previous E-mails:
> ...he was also suppose to pick up milk at the store and he forgot. It
seems like my dad always forgets something when we
> have him shop for us, even if one of us writes him out a shopping list. My dad is good at
forgetting a lot of stuff, it seems like
> everything that especially I tell him goes in through one ear and then goes back out the
other...
> That was my dad that phoned just before 4PM yesterday afternoon, he didn’t leave a message
probably because he forgot
> that you were coming yesterday afternoon even though he heard my mom and me talking about you
coming lots of times the
> days before...
Anyway, that’s what I had for supper on Saturday and again he didn’t get me a donut or a
cookie from Safeway because I still had cupcakes left from Christmas and I had one for dessert
then too after I had my salad. Last night for supper, my mom made me fish and chips again; “Mrs.
Friday’s” battered halibut (“just for the
halibut” ) from Costco and
“straight cut” fries from the grocery store. I also had a cupcake for dessert after that, but
after the cupcake I had last night we are finally down to just two cupcakes. That’ll be enough
to keep me going until this coming weekend, they might have been gone a lot sooner if I still
had Carol and her “sweet tooth.”
My mom got me coleslaw to have with my fish and chips when she was grocery shopping yesterday
afternoon at Save-On-Foods. That’s the only prepackaged coleslaw in their deli section, there is
also a counter at the deli section and we don’t know if there would be any other types of
coleslaw there. I said this in one of the previous E-mails:</p>
> ...The potato salad I had last night would be the “classic” one from the Safeway deli
section, the one without the eggs. And
> the coleslaw I had last night would be the one from the Safeway deli section that has more
mayonnaise, I prefer that one over
> the one that has more oil and vinegar.
The Safeway coleslaw I prefer and the coleslaw from Save-On-Foods that I had last night are both
a lot like KFC’s coleslaw. The potato salad I prefer from Safeway is also a lot like the KFC
potato salad. I did also have a few other things on my mom’s list for shopping yesterday
afternoon including this; I was running low on the Hawkins Cheesies that I like so instead of
asking her to get more for me I got her to buy me a big bag of the “Doritos NATCHO CHEESE”
flavour chips for me to try for a change.
That cranberry juice that I had with my Fruit Mania wine gums when I had my snack yesterday
afternoon was the Costco brand (KIRKLAND). My mom bought it when she was at Costco last
Monday afternoon (the 21st) while I was with you. It has exactly the same ingredients as
both the Ocean’s Spray brand and the Save-On brand.
For my snack last night, I had my other Mint Meltie (the milk chocolate one) with two
of the last three chocolates that were in that box that Mac gave me for Christmas. The third one
was a hazelnut one which I wouldn’t like, my mom knew that the other two were soft ones but we
couldn’t figure out what they were until after I had them. She tried looking at the key before I
had them, but the pictures in the key don’t look the same as the chocolates in the box. My mom
thought that one looked like a lemon cream and the other one might have been one with vanilla
filling.
On Friday (the 25th) after I sent you the
last E-mail, my dad brought me home two “BLACKJACK” scratch
tickets, no win. The next day (Saturday) he got me a “BLACKJACK” and a “GOLDRUSH,” no win
for me again but this time he won $10 on a $5 crossword scratch and my mom won $3 on one of her
“SCRABBLE” scratches. Three dollars is how much the “SCRABBLE” scratch was worth. Later that
same day my dad went out again and got me another “BLACKJACK” and another “GOLDRUSH,” no win for
me yet again. That many times in a row me not winning, my mom says quote “these never pay off.”
She told him to try getting me something new when he went out the next day (Sunday), he
brought me home a 649 scratch worth $2 and I still didn’t win. I did get two $25,649s on the
first game of the 649 scratch (the one where I have to match three identical dollar amounts
to win that amount), but I needed to get one more to win that amount.
Just after I had my snack last night, my dad opened the front door and saw big fluffy
snowflakes starting to come down. I already told you that when I first got up yesterday morning
I looked out the window and saw that the lawns and the front street were bare (not
covered) while our driveway and the entire sidewalk (and not just portions of it) across
the street were covered, I also told you that my mom had told me that the front street was
covered and that it had probably melted before I got up, what I didn’t tell you yet was that
our pond in the backyard had been frozen at the
surface for the last three days (and is still frozen now). A while after my dad opened the front
door last night, I decided to open the front door myself and have a look. I saw the same thing
that my mom saw before I got up yesterday, all three things (the front street, our
driveway, and the entire sidewalk) were covered again while the lawns weren’t covered yet. And
then a while after I looked out the front door, my mom opened it and saw that a lot more snow
had come down and by this time everything (including all the lawns) were covered. And
more snow just kept falling overnight.
I wish that I could tell Carol what you said yesterday when we walked by the elementary
school about you and I stopping in there to see if we could take a Science class. You say that
you didn’t pay attention when you took Science in
school, well Science
wasn’t one of my best subjects either. Science, French, and Math had to have been my three worst
subjects with French being #1 at the top of that list. You asked me when I was with you last
Monday (the 21st) if I took French when I went to school. I didn’t get into the BASES program at Semiahmoo Secondary school where I met Michelle Hoare and my friend, Mac, until the second month of grade eight. I was in the L.A. (Learning Assistance) program for the first month of that year, I wasn’t doing too well in my academic courses while I was in that program and the L.A. program didn’t provide teacher's assistants that could go with its students to their classes so they moved me to BASES a month after that year first started where I could get teacher's assistants to go with me to my classes. I had to take French while I was in L.A., but a month into it they could see that French just wasn’t my subject so they took me out of it as soon as I got to BASES and they put me in grade nine Art. Micelle Hoare never had to take French in High School, Mac didn’t take French, nobody in BASES takes French. As for French in elementary school, I had to take it. Carol told me that when she worked in the elementary school, she would take the kids that she was working with out of the room while
the rest of their class would take French. She would then have the kids that she was working
with either take an extra computer class or get caught up on extra homework they had. I didn’t
get taken out of the room during French in elementary school.
You also asked me when I was with you last week if I played any sports while I was in High
School. I told you that even though I didn’t have to take P.E. in grade eight, I almost had to
take it in grade nine. I got out of the ball sports part of that course at the last minute
though. They still had to keep me enrolled in P.E. so that I could attend the few days of CAPP
(Career and Personal Planning) that are in “P.E. 9.” That CAPP would
only take just a few days of the semester while for the rest of that semester I would spend that
block in the BASES room having an extra tutorial block. I already had another tutorial block in
the BASES room that semester that I could use to get caught up on extra homework I had. I’m
higher functioning and I didn’t need more than one tutorial block per semester. They were going
to have me doing O&M (Orientation & Mobility...here’s an OM word
) with my vision teacher,
but a lot of the times during that semester the vision teacher I had at that time had to cancel
at the last minute so I therefore ended up spending half a semester wasting an extra block in
the BASES room when I could have been off taking the grade nine computer course that I didn’t
get to take. My friend, Mac, who has the heart condition was the only student in my entire
school at that time who they let not take P.E., and that was unfair because they didn’t enroll
him in P.E. just to take the CAPP stuff and they made me. I couldn’t see Mac not being able to
do the CAPP stuff with his heart condition, it would have been no different than him going to an
academic class and there are no ball sports (or anything where Mac could be pushed
around) in CAPP. This message is now getting to be a long one, I could continue this paragraph
in another E-mail.
I will be expecting a reply from you with whatever words you come up with for the bottom six
so I could then write you tomorrow with what words my parents come up with.
-Neil
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