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John,
My grandparents phoned my dad last Thursday morning before you came, they phoned to wish my
dad a happy birthday and to let us know that they wouldn’t be meeting my parents at the casino
because my grandpa’s eye that got operated on a few days before was all bloodshot when he got up
that morning. He was feeling better though the day before (on Wednesday the 9th) when he
drove into New Westminster all the way from Abbotsford to have his eye checked. Their first stop
after my parents left the house last Thursday was the Bell store in Willowbrook Mall where they
changed the plan for our cell phones. Because my mom had her cell phone for a certain amount of
time, we were eligible for a $250 credit which we used to buy a new $250 phone for my mom with a
green faceplate. With our new plan, both my mom’s and my dad’s cell phones now have voicemail
even though the voicemail on my mom’s phone will never get used. And my mom’s new phone is a
camera phone, now we’ll be able to take pictures of the fish when we go into the fish stores and
then I could make up a binder of aquarium fish just like the binders I plan to do with dog and
cat pictures. After the mall and before heading over to the Cascades casino, you heard my
parents say that they decided to stop for lunch at Red Robin...I wish Carol could hear about
what was going on at Red Robin when my parents went there that day. They had a big takeout order
which was taking them forever to put together. Instead of telling my parents this when they
first went in, they didn’t tell them until after they were seated for a while. Lots of people
were sitting at tables waiting for their food and then 40 minutes after my parents were seated
my dad got fed up so he threw some money on the table for the drinks and then they went and had
their lunch at the casino. The burger that my dad ordered came with just a couple onion rings as
well as a whole side of fries. I asked my mom if that restaurant had anything that I like
besides the sides, she said that she knew they have hotdogs and she thought they had fish and
chips though she also said that I probably won’t want to eat there because that restaurant’s
right inside the casino where it can be noisy. Sounds like good food though and my kind of place
if it just wasn’t so noisy. I asked my mom if that was the only restaurant at that casino, she
said that’s the only one she knows of that’s in the casino part but there might be a separate
family restaurant in the hotel at that casino because kids are allowed to stay in the hotel with
their families but just aren’t allowed to go into the casino. Once they left the casino, my mom
dropped my dad off at the Subaru dealership on her way home. The rep had been there but couldn’t
find anything, they said to my dad when he picked up the Subaru that if he hears the noise again
bring it back and then they’ll have my dad take the rep for a ride maybe either on Highway 1 or
Highway 99. Or maybe my dad can take you for a ride in the Subaru one day and then we’ll see
whether or not you hear the
noise . When my parents
were at Willowbrook Mall last Thursday, they also picked up some strawberries at the Langley
Produce store near there that I had with some brown sugar for my dessert at supper after you
left that same day. I finished the chocolate fudge bells and the milk chocolate polar ice
chocolates for my afternoon snack two days ago (on Saturday the 12th), there were seven
fudge bells and six milk chocolate polar ice chocolates left in total. And then I had the other
half of the Dare Rabbit Ju Jubes for my evening snack that same day (Saturday).
You thought I said to Carol that I would hit my mom if she (Carol) didn’t let me phone
my parents about the sunscreen, and for some reason you thought that I’m stressed whenever I
write in bold red about something that happened in the past. I honestly don’t relive that day
last August every time I write to you about it, but if it bugs you I won’t bold red any heavy
stuff today. I was okay at first with the idea about Carol not letting me phone about something
like that, I just didn’t like the way she said to me that we weren’t going to phone them and the
way she said it made me start to feel worried inside about getting angry so I then said out loud
to Carol “I’m worried about how I’ll treat my parents when they come home tomorrow.” After this,
I did decide to let it go and carry on with my plans so a few minutes later I kindly
offered to go upstairs and change my clothes before going out to Crescent Beach. And then
before I could go upstairs, Carol stopped me and asked me what I meant when I said that “I’m
worried about how I’d treat my parents” because she didn’t quite understand what I meant when I
had said that. If I remember this part correctly, I guess I just needed time to think before
opening my mouth and after she said that she didn’t know exactly what I meant so I just stood
there not saying anything which you know I tend to do when I get asked a question and can’t
think of how to answer. Before I could say anything, she asked me if I meant that I would hit my
mom. I then said to her “yah” and then now is when she “lashed out” at me and said quote, “if
you hit your mom I won’t come see you anymore.” I had no longer wanted to phone my parents after
this just to ask them about my sunscreen, it was at this point when I wanted to phone them to
come home a day early and Carol still wouldn’t let me phone.
I wrote about in the last message I sent
you why I wasn’t sure about the idea of buying more sunscreen, you
also suggested for other alternatives I could’ve went out without sunscreen on my whole body and
either stay out of the sun or carry an umbrella. I also told you in the message I sent you on
Wednesday Feb.13,2008
that I have a separate type of sunscreen I put on my face, it was the type I put on the rest of
my body that I ran out of. Carol suggested that I use my face sunscreen on the rest of my body.
I only wanted to phone my parents and ask them if they had anymore of the other type of
sunscreen put away for me somewhere, I did find out after they came home though that there
wasn’t anymore. I feel that Carol would’ve been “violating my rights” to use the face lotion
only because she wouldn’t let me phone my parents to ask them if they had anymore of the other
stuff, or “violating my rights” for me either to stay out of the sun or carry an umbrella. I
didn’t want to not put sunscreen on my entire body and have to watch to stay out of the sun only
because Carol wouldn’t let me phone my parents, if we were going to go walk along Crescent Beach
think about it...There’s sun almost everywhere at Crescent Beachand not
much in the way of shady spots. I am handicapped and I was 24 years
old (almost 25) at that time, that’s two reasons why I feel that I should’ve had my own
rights and should be allowed to phone my parents anytime I want to. And you suggested that
because it was my sunscreen I should’ve checked the sunscreen myself before my mom went
out to buy me more so that I could’ve told her how much I needed, my mom thought that what she
did buy me would’ve been enough to last me the whole time. I already knew once I saw all she had
bought for me and before they went away that it wouldn’t have been enough for me, I even told
her this before they went away. I hope you’re not offended when I say this but it sounds to me
like you’re suggesting that I be held accountable for my mom’s mistakes, first suggesting that
the right thing might’ve been for me to phone and change my own dentist appointment
after I went over
everything with my mom twice and made it clear to her exactly how I wanted it to be
done and second suggesting now that I should’ve checked myself to see how much
sunscreen I had left when I did tell my mom exactly how much to buy me before she left to go out
and buy it. Well, maybe there’ll be one bold red spot today. Anyway, you said that there’s
nothing wrong with me having my own opinion and you agreed that you and I don’t argue when I
E-mail you with what I have to say and then you discuss with me in person what you have to say
about what I write.
Now as for me holding my parents accountable for what I did last August that ended Carol’s
and my relationship, I said to you in person when we saw each other last Thursday that I have my
own thoughts:
-they were hesitant to have her work with me once they first got that phone call a month
before she did start working with me.
-we had that altercation a few
days into the year 2005 after I had looked forward to doing lots of stuff with
Carol, and then I hadn’t seen any movies since this one altercation.
-I wrote in the last message I
sent you about how the only two people I had that my dad considers workers are
Amir and you.
You thought that maybe my parents known Carol long enough that they could trust her to be
left alone with me for two nights and they therefore wouldn’t have wanted to end their vacation
early just so that they could end Carol’s and my relationship, especially if it would’ve been
the first time in many years for them to get away just the two of them for that long of a time.
Did you ever consider the thought that maybe they didn’t care about getting away on vacation and
that maybe all they wanted was for me not to have a relationship with Carol. I also said in the
last message I sent you that until our relationship ended last August, I had looked forward to
spending two or three days per week with Carol after she retires instead of just spending every
Sunday with her. I remember you said about how I’ve only known a few people in my life so far
and that it’ll be most likely I build a lot more relationships than that amount including like
you said a few new relationships that I’m just starting to build right now. I’d be okay with
building lots of new relationships with people I haven’t met, but I still want Carol to be the
one who I live with until she’s just too old to care for me if it ever so happens that my
parents get killed in a car accident. Again, I
don’t want to have to do a big
goodbye for Carol just like I had to do one for Maureen, and also again it
seems that all the nice people who I’ve met in my life so far and who I end up liking get
forced/driven out of my life. I feel it’s unfair that the other two people Carol does respite
for in her other families and who Carol was already doing respite for before she started doing
my respite don’t have to do a big goodbye for Carol just like my mom wants me to do for
her, and again Carol’s still working for both of those families as far as I know. I do want to heal Carol’s and my
relationship. I don’t want Carol to die not being scared to be left alone
with me, I don’t want her to die knowing that our relationship ended the way it did.
If Carol were to have gone to court and got a restraining order against me, that feels the
same to me as if one of my parents were to have gone to court and got a restraining order
against their own son or for a more appropriate example maybe we could use “the two Js.” Let’s
say that my cousin, Jenny, lashes out at Judy and then Judy goes to court and gets a restraining
order against Jenny. I’ll also tell you that I myself have met Carol’s daughters a few times and
until what happened last August I wanted to make it through my life without saying anything
negative about them or especially anything negative about Carol herself. And until what
happened last August, I felt better whenever I was around Carol than how I felt when I stayed
with my grandparents when I was younger or how I felt around any of my other relatives.
I wonder if the type of course that you’re taking today and tomorrow might’ve helped Carol to
become a better caretaker. Or the course that you said you took at Capilano College many years
ago, I don’t remember whether you told me it was the “Non Violent Crisis Intervention” course or
the “Psychological Emergencies & Crisis Intervention” course.
One other heavy point, about my mom chit-chatting by making suggestions that she knows I will
always say “no” to...You describe it as people sometimes might “change the waters” whereas I
might say “yes” to my mom when she makes one of these suggestions. I tell her every time when
she makes one of these suggestions that I will speak up on my own when I’m ready to
change (or “change the waters”), but she never listens and continues to keep making the
same suggestions in the future even though she knows that I’ll always say “no” to them unless I do
speak up on my own.
I use to always take baths and never took showers, just like Dianne right now who you told me
never takes showers, until when I switched to showers many years ago and haven’t taken another
bath since.
My dad was talking to our neighbour, Marjoree, over the fence two mornings ago (on
Saturday morning) and then a while later that same morning Marjoree phoned us to let us know
that she was going out to a plant sale and asked if my mom wanted to go with her. My mom said
that might’ve been a nice thing to do, but she wasn’t feeling well that day. If Carol still had
contact with us, maybe she would’ve phoned my mom one day and invited her to go with her to a
plant sale. This is how close Carol was to us. I detailed many reasons in the message I sent
you on Friday Feb.8,2008 why I consider Carol as family, and I also remember writing about that
she considered us as family too. My auntie Karen who also had the day off work that same day
phoned my dad to wish him a Happy Birthday last Thursday morning before you came. My mom
answered the phone and then once she gave the phone to my dad I asked her who it was and it took
me three times before I heard her say “Karen.” I keep telling my mom that she has to speak
louder, the first couple times I wasn’t sure whether she said Karen, Carol, or Kiernan.
Also when my dad talked to Marjoree over the fence that same morning (again, two days
ago), she said that they’re having problems with their son, Logan, who lost his driver’s license
for four months. He just lost it sometime within the last few days, and I’ll tell you that this
isn’t the first time Logan lost his license. I thought at first that I might get four months of
freedom not having to wake up to his car starting up, but for some reason I heard it start up
around 7:30 this morning and then sat there for a few minutes before it drove away. My mom
thought that maybe somehow he got it “reversed” meaning that he might still be allowed to drive
just to and from work for those next four months. The last time I heard his car start up before
today BTW was just after 7:30 last Thursday morning (the 10th) and then it sat there
idling for the next eight minutes before he drove off. I saw that the green van across the
street left its house briefly at one point a few days ago, this is the one that you thought
might’ve been the culprit before I found out that it was Logan’s car. I saw the green van back
in its driveway later that same day. I told my mom that you saw it was on wood blocks where its
wheels would go, she said that she saw wood blocks behind the wheels. I guess so that it
wouldn’t roll down the driveway. My mom thinks that maybe somebody was storing that van there
for a while when it wasn’t licensed, must be running again now though after I just told you that
I saw it gone briefly a few days ago. Now you saw the landscaping guys working in my neighbours’
backyard when you were here last Thursday, they just put in a big raised flowerbed on the other
side of our fence. I guess they want more flowerbeds and less lawn. Marjoree told my dad when
they chatted over the fence two mornings ago that they’re starting with the backyard and then
they plan to have their house painted. They might still do the front yard after they get the
house painted, I told you before that they talked about making their front deck bigger if they
do the front yard.
The same morning when my dad chatted with Marjoree over the fence, another cat chased Izzy
into out backyard. My dad opened the deck door so that Izzy could go inside, but as soon as he
did so the other cat chased Izzy back over the fence. My dad said that the other cat came into
our yard and then was gone again so fast that he had no idea what the other cat looked like nor
could he tell whether or not it was a cat we seen around here before. And here are the other
cat stories for this last week:
• Last Wednesday evening (evening of Wednesday Apr.9,2008), my dad briefly left his
chair (the leather recliner) in the family room for a minute or just a few seconds. When he
went back there to sit down, Izzy was in his chair. She had taken over his chair while he was
gone, he then picked Izzy up and put her down on his lap once he sat back down.
• When my dad was opening his presents last Thursday morning before you came, somebody else
thought that it was their
birthday ...Izzy
started to play with the tissue paper as soon as he dropped it on the floor once he got it out
of the gift bags that we put his presents in.
>• Last Friday morning (the 11th) before I got up, both cats were watching a spider
was crawling along the kitchen ceiling. When the spider started to come down the wall, Izzy
tried to catch it before my mom then took if from her and threw it ouside.
• Also last Friday before I sat down at my TV table to have supper and again yesterday before
I sat there to have lunch, Chloe was on the couch eyeing up my food.
• And my mom’s been putting a pot lid over my pills for the last few days so that Izzy won’t
find them when my mom leaves them out for me on the kitchen counter.
I had an upset stomach two evenings ago (Saturday the 12th). When I was on the toilet
after supper and before I had my shower that night, a great big ball of poop came out and that
had to have been the biggest poop I’d ever had. I also saw little yellow chunks in the big ball
of poop, it looked like maybe corn though I didn’t have any corn for supper that day. My mom
made me some of the Save-On brand hash browns that I like to have with my supper that day, maybe
that was it. I don’t remember ever seeing food come out with my poop, or at least not for a long
time. My stomach was still upset until I went to sleep that night,
there’s nobody else who I want to doctor me
other than Carol when I feel like
that. And my right ear was ringing again almost the whole day
Saturday. When I woke up yesterday morning, my other ear (my left ear) was plugged. When
I laid awake in bed before I got up yesterday morning, I couldn’t hear any outside noises
because one ear was plugged and the other one was ringing. After I got up, my mom cleaned both
of my ears with a Q-Tip. She saw that there was a bunch of gunk in my left ear (the one
that was plugged).
I tried on my summer clothes a few days ago. When we drove around the block trying to find
the turn into White Spot
after our last meeting with FVMH and I saw the Mark's Work Wearhouse store on 152nd Street just
outside Guildford Mall, I told you that’s where I sometimes buy my clothes and then you asked me
what I like about it whether the colour, the feel, or the whole thing. My mom thought the whole
thing plus I like plainer tops and they’re easier to find there. I’ve been buying most of my
sweatshirts at Dog's Ear for the last couple years though and another time within the last few
years I bought a couple sweatshirts fromT-shirt.ca because it seems that Mark's Work Wearhouse is
phasing out on the big selection of plainer sweatshirts that they use to always have in many
colours to choose from. Gildan is the brand of the blue sweatshirts that you always see me
wearing that I’ve bought online and from Dog's Ear. I have a red sweatshirt and the last time I
wore it not too long ago I noticed that it was starting to wear in spots, my mom said that
she’ll watch around the Dog's Ear locations for a Gildan red sweatshirt though if I could have
my way and especially if I could live with Carol I’d buy not just one or a couple but stock up
on the Gildan brand Royal Blue sweatshirts that I like as well as the black Denver Hayes pants
that I like with style number “P280100V” and waist/length “W34/L32.” Maybe as many as five of
the blue sweatshirts and five pairs of the black pants though it seems that Mark's has now
discontinued these Denver Hayes pants with the exact style number and are now phasing into Stain
Repellent pants. I have at least three of the Royal Blue sweatshirts and at least two of them
each have different style numbers, “RN 93846” without the quotes and “CA 25181” also without the
quotes. All of my sweatshirts are size Large and I should tell you that Dog's Ear carries their
Gildan brand sweatshirts in both Heavyweight and Lightweight, I prefer the Heavyweight. And I
use to like to wear a few certain shades of green sweatshirts hence you know by now that green
is my favorite colour and I’d still wear these colours now if these shades of green weren’t as
hard too find as they use to be. When Mark's use to have their big selection of sweatshirts
which again isn’t so big of a selection now, there was one green shirt in that selection that I
liked and then after Mark’s phased out on this colour I bought a sweatshirt from the Bay that
was a different shade of green I liked. I think that
sweatshirt I bought from the Bay might’ve been a hunter green, it showed its green in all shades
of light instead of showing black in some lights. I also couldn’t find this shade of green
anywhere for a long time in sweatshirt. If I come across a picture sometime of me wearing one of
those two shades of green sweatshirts, I’ll scan it and then send it to you.
Also when I was trying my summer clothes a few days ago, we noticed that the sole on one of
the two shoes in my pair of sandals is now split. I now had this pair for a few years and I
guess it’s now time to start watching for a new pair. I bought this pair at the Bay a few years
ago, but I said to my mom that they might’ve changed their stock since then. It’s hard to find
plain black sandals, and I prefer the Velcro ones instead of the ones that have an adjustable
strap with a clip on the adjustable strap. My mom said that she’ll get out to one of the Bay
locations and have a look one day while I’m with you and then she’ll bring me back if she sees
something that she thinks is worth me trying on.
Wednesday Apr.9,2008:
> ...Speaking about scratches BTW, I told you in the last message I sent you that I had two
scratches to do last
> Sunday evening; a CAPTAIN CASH and a “Lucky 7s.” I won $2 on the “Lucky 7s” though my dad
didn’t
> remember to cash it yesterday, I hope he cashed it today.
My dad did remember to cash in the two dollars I had won last Wednesday. He got me a TICTAC
DOUGH and a “Lucky 7s,” I got three Xs on the TICTAC DOUGH and won $2.
My mom played the “SAFEWAY Life On the Go” that I brought home last Thursday and she didn’t
win. I don’t play these and my mom said that “there’s not usually much inside those.” And she
said that it’s okay if we give them our home phone number for things like Safeway Club
Cards.
It wasn’t just the TV’s sound but the gray box under our TV in the family room that I had
trouble turning on and off last Thursday. You thought the remote I was using might need new
batteries, my mom didn’t think so because she has trouble with that one too. And my dad calls
that gray box under out TV a “receiver/amplifier,” he calls it a “receiver” because he can get
the AM/FM radio on that thing and an “amplifier” because it can make the music louder. When you
and I watched the Noon News together, you thought that was the first time I had watched the news
since before the latest altercation after Christmas. Did you miss this portion in the message I
sent you last Sunday (Apr.6,2008):
> ...This will be the second time I watched the news and the second time I eat at the kitchen
table since
> before Christmas...
News points you and I saw last Thursday:
• RCMP held public meeting in Merritt to discuss the murder of three children, residents
weren’t allowed to ask any questions.
• House fire in North Delta kills three, police suspect that a grow op they found in the house
might’ve been the cause.
• Dog nappin in the U.S. is
up, I thought that was a good idea the woman had at the end of this story...to
install a microchip in her dog incase it ever gets stolen again.
• Squire Barnes hosted the travel segment.
quote “Randene has ironically taken a vacation from the travel segment so it's me and Claire
instead or is it Claire and
I
And here are some news points from this last weekend that I know about:
• During the weather segment
on the News Hour last Friday (the 11th), Wayne announced that Steve Darling’s wife had
her first baby...It’s a girl.
• Saturday Apr.12,2008: I caught a story on Global National about a cupcake store in
Washington D.C.. It’s a store that I believe sells
nothing else besides cupcakes, this would be the first store I ever heard about that specializes
in just cupcakes though my mom said that from what she could see the cupcakes in this story were
the fancier type that I wouldn’t like. She thought she saw nuts on top of the icing and she
assumed that these might have filling inside. I think now they should open a cupcake store much
closer to us but only specializes in the type
of cupcakes that I like without nut toppings, filling inside, etc. Think about it, a huge selection of cupcakes to
choose from and only the kind that I like.
• A couple cat stories in our Peace Arch local paper that I could show you later this week,
one about some lady who has a mental illness and who has lots of cat magnets all over her fridge
and another about a man who climbed up a tree to rescue a cat that had climbed up there two days
before. The tree is in White Rock near Roper and Kent, the man’s wife is a dog walker for the
SPCA and she really likes animals.
I’m glad you weren’t offended when I said that I thought you sounded lousy when you sang one
of the Billy Joel songs and I’m glad that you recognize me for being a good critic and an honest
one.
I already knew before you told me last Thursday that the time when you drive me to and from
Port Coquitlam is taken from the hours that you are given to spend with me each week. Maybe you
could leave as soon as we get back to my place on Wednesday and then you could come back the
next day on Thursday at 1PM for our regular Thursday visit. And I don’t know how my mom missed
this following portion of the message I sent you last Wednesday (the 9th) or how she
couldn’t remember that she suggested not doing supper and instead maybe going for a short
walk on the beach if you did stay that day instead of coming back the next afternoon:
> ...I remember you thought that we’d be out of that meeting a bit too early to go out for
supper that day, so my
> mom thought that maybe all four of us could go together in one vehicle (her Honda) and then
either once we
> get back to my place my parents could go for a short walk on the beach while you and I have
our visit or if
> you’d rather leave as soon as we get back to my place you could then come back at 1PM the next
day (on
> Thursday) and we’d still have our regular visit from 1 to 4:30PM. The appointment on Wednesday
is at 2PM
> which is usually my snack time, either way my mom thought that we could pick up a milkshake
after the
> meeting for me to have on the ride home...
I told you many times that my mom always reads the messages I write to you before I send
them. And before we decided on Thursday afternoon, when I asked my mom a few days ago which of
the two options she decided she for some reason thought that we decided on Wednesday and we were
going to do supper. I don’t know how she could’ve thought that after she being the one who
suggested getting a milkshake, she and my dad going for a walk on the beach, etc. I said to my
mom that maybe she would be less likely to screw up and more likely to clue in if the day wasn’t
messed up with my appointment being at 2PM which is my snack time most days, she then said that
“sometimes we have to take what we can get.” One good thing that I might get out of this, I
should hopefully have a good sleep the night before our meeting if it’s not gunna be until 2PM
and therefore I won’t have to get up until the time when I normally do most days. And by the way
before I even wrote that message last Wednesday where the above excerpt came from, I asked my
mom whether or not she thought it would be a good idea that you and I still do supper that day
if we might be home a bit too early. She answered by saying it would depend whether or not you
could stay that late on Wednesday, I don’t know why it wasn’t obvious to her that you could stay
late after I told her that you said you could when you suggested to me before I asked my mom
this question that it might not be a good day to do supper. When Serena was here last week, my
mom said about how forgetful she can be and about how I’m the one who’s got the good
memory whereas I always say to my mom about how she (my mom) tells me lots that it’s good
to remind her because she can be forgetful. And then Serena said to me that I can “use my
skill (skill being “having the good memory”) to help others.”
Next time you and I look up videos on YouTube, maybe we could look for some videos of Babe,
the talking pig. I own both the
movie,
Babe, and the 1998 sequel,
Pig in the City, on DVD. And in addition to these things I
suggested in the message I sent you last week on Wednesday, once my dad’s birthday card that my
mom and I gave to him comes off the mantel in a few weeks from now we could then also scan the
cat picture on the front of that card:
> ...my mom’s gardening magazine came in the mail last Monday after you left and there’s a
picture of a dog on
> the front of it. We still haven’t yet scanned my mom’s birthday card, the cat one that I gave
her for her birthday.
When I went into our family room after you left last Thursday to take a picture of the green
spring on the lamp, I saw that the spring wasn’t there anymore. I asked my parents if they knew
anything about it but they both said that they didn’t touch it, and I didn’t think the cats
could touch it because I thought that it might be a bit too high up for them. My dad called me
into the family room a few hours later and then he pointed to a green cat spring on top of the
cat’s head on the fireplace.
I even took a picture of it, and I wonder if it was the same one that was on the lamp and
if you moved it after I left the room.
I didn’t know until you and I looked at the website of Nora’s merchandise a few days ago that
they have a 2008 calendar of Nora pictures. Hopefully they’ll make a 2009 calendar next year. I
hinted to my mom that I now have a few ideas for stuff that she and my dad could get me for
presents next Christmas even though that’s still a while off; either the 2009 calendar or one of
the posters. There’s still room for another poster on the wall in my bedroom next to my “Puss in
Boots’s” one from “Shrek 2” though at one time I was thinking about looking into seeing if I
could get a picture enlarged to poster size for that spot on my wall; either one of Chloe, one
of Chloe and Izzy, or one of Chloe and me. And until I learned just last week that I can get a
Nora ring tone for my mom’s new cell phone, I had always thought about maybe a
Billy Joel ring tone if I ever got a cell phone where I could import my own ring tone. Maybe one
afternoon this week I could call my friend, Mac, and tell him about my mom’s new cell phone.
My dad told me that his ““I Am Legend” movie that I got him for his birthday is a remake of
the 1971 film “The Omega Man” staring Charlton Heston who passed away last week.
My dad phoned my mom at lunch today to ask her if she remembered to her new cell phone off
“vibrate” and put it back on “ring” because he once again forgot that you weren’t coming
today and therefore wouldn’t need her cell phone because she didn’t have to go out.
Last Friday morning (the 11th) at work, my dad’s cell phone rang. The person on the
other end asked, “is this Neil McRae” and then my dad said “No, this is his dad.” It was
Imperial Data, where I buy my printer cartridges from. They phoned because they wanted to
let me know that they have a sale on right now. My dad brought home from work that same day some
dowels. His work had a bunch that they were getting rid of so my dad took a few of them, he
thought they’d make good plant stakes to use outside in the flowerbeds. “More freebies,” my dad
said. And also that same day, we got another KFC flyer in the mail...this one for their “Mom’s
Night Off Feast” which comes with battered cheese sticks which I wouldn’t like as well as a
triple chocolate mud pie for dessert. You know that I also don’t like pie, I always liked the
KFC Mega Meals and I especially liked it at one time many years ago when for a short time the
Mega Meal came with a milk chocolate McCain cake.
My auntie Ann who lives in Ontario phoned my dad two evenings ago (on Saturday the
12th) to wish him a late Happy Birthday. I don’t know if she thought for some reason that this
year is 2007 because she thought that she herself (Ann) was gunna be 54 this year when
she’s really gunna turn 55, sounds like she’s a year
behind< so no wonder
she got my dad’s age wrong. Ann also told my dad on the phone that same evening that her older
son, my cousin Leslie, was in a
hit-and-run
at a four-way intersection and his car got totaled. I don’t know if Ann was
referring to the same story that my grandpa had previously told my dad over the phone:
Tuesday Mar.25,2008:
> ...My grandpa told my dad one day when he talked to him on the phone last week that someone
drove into the
> back of my cousin, Leslie’s, car then drove off...
My cousin, Jenny, found a ring back around Christmastime just a few months ago. She took it
to the police station and they told her that if no one claimed it within the next few months she
could have it. It has now been a few months and nobody claimed it, so Jenny went back there and
claimed it last week. She now plans to give it to her boyfriend, Danny, for his birthday which
is tomorrow (the 15th).
My dad noticed this last weekend that the angelfish upstairs is now looking much better
though my dad could tell by the way that it was swimming that it can only see out of one eye
now, the bugger disease it had must’ve got that eye. My dad also said that same day (last
Friday the 11th) that we’re gunna have to separate some of the bigger male betas pretty soon
that are currently in the top tank (ten gallon) and put them into the barracks because he
noticed that they’re starting to nip at each other’s fins. When Serena saw my bigger baby betas
in the ten gallon when she was here last week, she thought at first that she use to have some
betas that were this small. I couldn’t understand at first because I asked her if she use to
breed betas and she said she didn’t, I don’t know how else she could have betas that are this
small if she didn’t breed them. When
she later told me that same day that she called
those ones she had “aquababies,” I then came to the conclusion that maybe it wasn’t betas she
had. I never heard of aquababies
We had a misunderstanding just after my dad came home from work last Wednesday
afternoon (afternoon of Apr.9,2008). My mom thought that my dad had been feeding the smaller
baby betas in the five gallon every morning before he leaves for work, it was once my dad got
home from work last Wednesday when he told her that he hadn’t been feeding them so my dad then
went and fed them right away.
This is the message I get whenever I try to access a video on
YouTube while using Netscape:
Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version
of Adobe's Flash Player. Get the latest Flash player.
My dad said that he tried completely uninstalling our “Adobe Flash Player” and then
installing the new version and that didn’t fix the problem. There’s an icon in the bottom-left
corner of our Netscape that says if you hold the mouse over it “Updates Available.” If you click
on this icon a box will then pop up that says “Support for Netscape browsers has been
discontinued” and to upgrade to Flock, my dad thought this might be the reason why I get this
message though it worked earlier in the day just last Wednesday (the 9th) before I got
this message for the first time later that same day. I even tried typing parts of the above
message into a search engine like for example “...JavaScript
turned off or an old version...” and lots of results came up.
I will forward you my dad’s funny E-mail a few minutes after this message has been sent.
Again, respond and let me know
whether or not you get it. The message’s subject is “FW: HIGHWAY in
Bolivia” without the quotes and without the bold red.
I hope to hear from you before Wednesday.
-Neil
P.S.
Why don’t we search for a picture of Squire Barnes and then maybe I could switch the heads on
Squire and the
dinosaur.
Business machine supplies retailer: Imperial Data
Movie: Babe (1995)
Movie: “Babe: Pig in the City” (1998)
Online clothing manufacturer: T-shirt.ca
Raven’s Wing Online Shop: Nora merchandise
Search Engine Results: “JavaScript turned off or an old version”
TV series: The Muppet Show
Website: Raven's Wing Studio
Wikipedia page: Nora the piano playing cat
YouTube videos:
• Elton John: Tiny Dancer (live 1971)
• Elton John: Rocket Man
• Elton John: Daniel [Bad audio version, sound sucks over here.]
• Elton John: Goodbye yellow brick road [...a little fixer upper. This video has the album
version dubbed over a couple of performances.]
• Elton John: I'm Still Standin' [Elton John parades around with half naked painted men in
g-strings.]
• Elton John and the Muppets: Crocodile Rock [Elton John made a special appearance on “The
Muppet Show” to perform one of his classics, Crocodile Rock.]
• The Muppet Show - Elton John: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
• The Muppet Show - Bob Hope: lousy cowboy sketch [Oh, give me spam, lots of spam...]
• The Muppet Show: Christopher Reeve playing Rowlf's part on “Veterinarian's Hospital”
• The Best Ventriloquist in the World (1984)
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