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John,
Yesterday was the second Tuesday in a row that we didn’t go out anywhere in Larry’s car and
we just stayed home and played our board games. And Larry was surprised because until he showed
up at my front door yesterday at 1PM he had been expecting that I would have an outing planned
for the afternoon. He had a few suggestions in his last E-mail (which he didn’t send me until
yesterday in the morning so I didn’t check it until about an hour before he came); there is
Redwood Park, Surrey Lake Park, and he suggested that we could go back to
Campbell Valley Park. Those were his E-mail suggestions and then he suggested to me in
person once he showed up that we could even just drive to Softball City and then walk around on
the trail that goes into the woods just off there. You know that the Softball City area is off
limits during the summer break, and also I told you in
the June 15th E-mail
that Campbell Park is off limits because Carol had gone there a few times with different people
besides myself. Surrey Lake would be the only one of all his suggestions that is where I feel
confident no one that I know could show up.
Now, Larry doesn’t know that I won’t go anywhere that Carol might show up anytime when she is
not in school. Also:
• Larry showed up ten minutes early yesterday so my mom turned on Adopt-A-Pet for
he and I to watch. You know that I don’t watch Adopt-A-Pet every week and I haven’t seen too
much of it since before the big altercation that took place at Christmas 2007. Then after
yesterday’s Adopt-A-Pet, Larry asked me if I watch that segment on the noon news every Tuesday,
but because Larry doesn’t know that I haven’t been watching the news on a regular basis since
before that altercation I didn’t really have an answer for him so I said nothing more to that
than just “yah.”
• He also asked me yesterday which TV shows I currently watch during the week. To be honest,
I’m almost not watching any TV at all right now because all of my shows have stopped for the
summer and their next seasons don’t premiere until September. I couldn’t answer him by saying
that I’ve been spending my evenings watching movies while my shows take a break. He asked me if
I watch any of my shows while they’re in reruns during the summer and then after he told me that
he and his wife bought some of the shows that they like on DVD, I told him that I have the first
season of
Malcolm in the Middle
on DVD. He then asked me whether I’ve watched them many times since I got the DVD now that I
have all of the episodes that were in the first season or if I just watch them once in a while,
all I said was that “I watch them once in a while” because I only watched all of the episodes on
that DVD just a couple of times though I didn’t actually put on the DVD for a long time.
Larry explained to me yesterday about how he’s getting judged by the ministry and he has to
do a report for them after each time we have a session. If he tells them that we didn’t go out
anywhere in his car “today” or try something new and instead we just walked around the
neigbhourhood then played board games, then they’ll say that he failed “today.” On another note,
he just had to ask me if the reason why I didn’t want to go out anywhere yesterday was because I
knew that my mom would be stopping by between 3:30 and Four to get cleaned up, brush her teeth,
etc before she went to the dentist. But why would I not be okay if my mom is home while I’m
out?
Larry said that he really wants to check out the Semiahmoo library which
you know is still off limits for a few more
weeks, but I don’t think Larry seems okay with too many “quiet days” in a row and he’s been
promoting that we go there next Tuesday and first we go have our snack at the Dairy Queen in
South Surrey. Larry also said that we should try to get out for a few more walks to some of the
parks because summer’s almost over and then it will be raining lots.
And if we do go to the library on Tuesday, Larry suggested that maybe we could find a book or
a DVD about animals. He also told me that he knows they have
audiobooks
at the library and he asked me if I like audiobooks. He said that he prefers audiobooks because
he has a busy life and doesn’t get a lot of spare time to read, so he can easily put the CD in
his car and listen to a story being read when he is driving. I’ll let you know that audiobooks
are not my preference because they can be
hard for me to understand while if my mom and I read a book together she’ll stop to explain the
parts that I can’t understand. And I remember that a few of the times in High School when I had
to read a novel with my class, the teachers in BASES said that they could get the audiobook for
me that was based on the novel we were studying but the teachers wouldn’t believe me when I
tried to explain to them about how audiobooks wouldn’t work the best for me because it takes me
longer to process things.
Also, I only got about five hours of sleep on the night before yesterday. I was awake since
6:30 in the morning and I had to get up every ten minutes to go pee. And this was the first time
in a couple weeks that I’ve had trouble sleeping.
-Neil
P.S. Links for today:
• Audiobook
• Fred Gingell Park *
• Metro Vancouver Parks: Campbell Valley Park
• Metro Vancouver Parks: Redwood Park
• Metro Vancouver Parks: Surrey Lake Park
• Movie: Madagascar *
• Movie: March of The Penguins *
• Movie: Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit *
• Novel: Marley & Me (2005) *
• TV series: Malcolm in the Middle *
* denotes a link that was at the bottom of the
message I sent you just last Saturday.
• a green star (*) denotes a link that
I had already sent you a few times in the past but I don’t remember you telling me that you’ve
went there yet.
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