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John,
I had a really good sleep last night, I even slept a little bit before midnight. I haven’t
had a messy toot so far today, but I did wake up with a burpy stomach. This would have
been a good afternoon to go for a walk. I was surprised to see the sun when I got up this
morning, remember I told you that today was suppose to rain and tomorrow was suppose to be the
better day this weekend. My mom saw the weather on today’s Noon News and they’re now predicting
rain for Monday. I guess now Monday will be the first time I see the
news in a little more than two months. If we watch the 5 o’clock news
Monday, we could leave at a quarter to six to get our Chinese food. I don’t know what your hours
are like, but either we could do either 4PM to 7:30 Monday or 4 to 8 or if your hours are okay
we could do 1PM to 7:30 or 8. This way if my mom wants to go do something by herself for a few
hours she could go do so before she meets my dad at the Starlight Casino in Queensborough. If
you respond to this message I’ll respond tomorrow and let you know whether to come at 1 or 4PM
on Monday and we can talk more in a bit about my mom’s birthday, first a few heavy things.
You asked me why I feel that living on my own is a punishment:
> I remember Raynor said last Friday that moving our on your own for
the first time and becoming<
> more independent are things that most people look forward
to, again I feel punished to have to
> become independent only because I don’t feel comfortable where I am now...
I feel punished to have to live on my own because I don’t know what living on my own will be
like and I’m use to having mom around to help me out. When I said in the last message that “I do
regret saying that I no longer wish to have any contact with my parents after moving out,” I was
probably just writing down what thoughts were going through my head and what I was thinking at
the time. The reason why now I regret saying that is because I know that if I don’t wish to have
visits then my parents won’t be around to help me.
Another reason why I might feel punished is because you know that I got everything good where
I’m living now, again that’s only whenever there isn’t an altercation
taking place. My mom said to me one time recently that Mac and Kris
would probably do anything to have dad like mine while there are a lot of other dads out there
who would rather spend their time doing stuff that they want to do. I even told you when I last
saw you two days ago that my dad made a little bug cage for me when I use to collect bugs when I
was little. However, my dad just finished vacuuming while I’m here in the computer room and as
soon as I heard him turn off the vacuum I opened the door and asked him if he was done. He said
“yep” and then a few minutes after that he said quote “I’m all done” so I then asked him why he
said it twice. He said quote “because that’s just the way I talk.” He then said after that the
first time he just said “yep” was just to answer my question that I asked him “are you done” and
then the second time he said “I’m all done” because he was all done with the vacuum for today.
This sounded like a clear enough answer to me, but after I got the answer I had wanted he
wouldn’t stop and just kept going on about saying things like “this is the way he talks” etc. I
don’t know anybody else who talks in that same way or who goes on about the way that they talk,
all the more reason now for me to feel like I want to continue punishing him as I feel that the
reason why he was doing what he did just now might have been because he was trying to trigger an
altercation. I also wouldn’t want to live by myself by the way because you know now about my bad
stomach that I have.
You said when I saw you two days ago that you’d be obligated to go with me to take my fish to
the fish store because this is something I had been doing with my dad for a long time. I know
you said that it’s up to me and you’d still take me if I decide to, also think about the fact
that I’ll eventually need someone else after my dad’s gone who could go with me to take my baby
fish to the fish store once they get big:
> ...My dad talked at one time a few years ago about having someone
volunteer to help me look after my fish
> if I still have fish once I’m eventually living somewhere else after
they’re gone. Pretty much all I can do is
> feed them and I have a hard time seeing when it comes to maintaining the tanks and doing all
the other stuff...
I asked my mom if she remembers me having any altercations in the car with my dad and she
says “not for a long long long long time.” Maybe one day within the next few weeks I could go
with him either out for lunch to either McDonald's or SUBWAY or out for a snack as well as take
my fish into the fish store for a store credit. This is my opinion, after I told my mom after
you left two days ago that I’d tell you my opinion the next time when I E-mail you she then said
“or he could take them in by himself.” I don’t know if I should regret having this opinion now
after what I talked about above after my dad finished vacuuming. And keep in mind too that there
were lots of times in the past when I would tell my parents in advance not to make me angry and
most times they still made me angry. Remember in the long message I sent you back on
Tuesday Dec.11,2007
I told you all about going out with my dad the day before and doing my mom’s Christmas shopping,
I told him a few days in advance before that date not to make me angry when I was out in public
with him. He then said in response as soon as I had said that to him quote “you don’t want to
make dad mad,” therefore it worked out that time and we had a good day in the end but it still
happens most times though. Most of the other instances they made me angry in the end after I
told them in advance not to do anything that they know would make me angry, for example I kept
reminding them many times before Christmas not to make me angry at Christmas time (or
especially on Christmas Day) and then you know that altercation did take place a few days after.
I had previously said in the message I sent you on
Wednesday
Feb.13,2008 that my last five or so Christmases including this
last one weren’t that great.
Now speaking about the fish, that day when you saw that the one catfish wasn’t doing
well (Thursday Jan.31,2008) was the first time I looked in any of our fish tanks since
before the altercation. You remember he moved that corey catfish into my 32 gallon fish tank not
long after you looked that same day and saw that he wasn’t doing well in the same tank with my
baby platies who at that time were getting big enough to attack him. There were two other
catfish in that same tank (the 32 gallon) at the time my dad moved him over there, one
albino corey and one salt and pepper corey. The albino one died last Sunday morning
(the 23rd), The albino one died last Sunday morning (the 23rd), my dad flushed him down the
toilet so now I just have the two left in that tank. January 31st was only the first time when I
saw the platies since before that altercation, the first time I seen the bettas
(the ones in the tank below the one the platies are in) was when you were here on Tuesday
Feb.12,2008 . Both the platies and the bettas were a lot bigger than the last time I saw them
more than a month before. Again, Carol told me that she had never saw baby bettas before and
would have looked forward to see them after they are first born (when they are really
tiny) if I would have had luck breeding bettas sometime when she was still working with
me.
My mom went to Willowbrook Mall when I was with you two afternoons ago. She needed to look
for some new pants and socks, she got some socks and she tried on some pairs of pants but none
of the pants she tried on looked good on her. She also tried on some tops, one looked good on
her and she liked it but they didn’t have any in her size.
We got in the mail last Wednesday (Feb.27,2008) a KFC flyer and a letter that said we
got $3,000 back from the cost of David’s funeral because we paid for that funeral out of our own
pocket to start with and now the cost for the funeral will come out of his estate. My mom says
that we paid at fist because we didn’t know until we talked to the people who are in charge of
handling his estate that it would be handled through his estate. As soon as we get that money,
my dad buys scratches for all three of us later that same day (Wednesday). My mom won $5
on her’s and I didn’t win anything on the “Set for Life” dad got for me, I got five $50,000
though but only on all three games combined and I didn’t get three on one game.
My dad went out and got two birthday cards for my mom during his lunch break last
Wednesday (the 27th), one cat one and one with a picture on the front of two wine bottles
each holding a wineglass. After he got home from work last Wednesday he asked me if I wanted to
give her one of the cards and if I said “no” he said he’d put the other one away for himself to
give her next year for her birthday. I said “yes”
and that I would give her the cat one. He then said that either him and me could make out the
cards later that evening or I could make out mine when you’re here the next day (Thursday
the 28th), I obviously chose to make out mine with him that same evening. Dad also went to
Shoppers Drug Mart in Burnaby on Kingsway during his lunch break that same day and got some
scratches to put in each of the birthday cards including one “Holiday Fun” scratch (the
one that has the maze) that they still had leftover from Christmas. He also bought to put in
“the card that was from him” a ticket for the $1
million per year for life lottery. The draw was yesterday, my mom didn’t get her ticket until
today, and we didn’t win anyway. So now you learned that I spent some more time with my dad,
last Wednesday evening when we were downstairs making out the cards. Mom was upstairs having a
shower at that time. He also said when we were making out the cards that evening that maybe her
day at the casino on Monday could be her birthday present. I hadn’t mentioned this idea to
either of my parents yet, but maybe I could pay for half the cost of her day at the casino on my
next rent cheque. The cat card I gave her has a tab that you can slide in to make the card stand
up, I might take a picture of that card standing up either on a ledge or a table this evening
when it’s dark.
When we pick up our Chinese food on Monday, you can give them our order just like you did the
one time I went there with you before and got Chinese because you know how busy that Chinese
area gets. You know that I’ll get my rice and “chow mein” while you said you’d get a few extra
dishes for yourself. I don’t remember the one time when I got Chinese food there with you before
whether my mom gave me extra money to pay for your dishes or if you paid for your’s yourself. My
mom will make up one of the two Angel food cake mixes that I told you she has for us to have for
dessert that night and she will get some fresh strawberries that we could have with some
whipping cream when we have our cake. I miss my Safeway Chinese suppers with Carol and going out
with her to White Spot for fish and chips. I told
you many times that if I could live with her before May 1st, I would like to treat her to the
China Kitchen for her birthday dinner.
Now you know that I like strawberries and whipping cream with Angel food cake. You could cut
a piece of cake for each of us when we’re ready to eat it and then we could put each of our
pieces into a bowl and then put the strawberries in the bowl with the cake. Once the
strawberries are in the bowl, you could just spray whipping cream everywhere on the top. And BTW
fresh strawberries are my preference and I don’t prefer frozen ones. I had some fresh
strawberries for my dessert after supper last Sunday (the 24th) that my mom got at the
produce store earlier that same day, I had mine with brown sugar that night and not with
whipping cream. I also remember you asked me a while back if I like having raspberries by
themselves and not just anything that’s raspberry flavoured like raspberry cream flavour
chocolates for example. I also like to have raspberries
with either whipping cream or brown sugar sometimes for dessert after
supper, and sometimes I’ll even have both raspberries and blueberries together either with
whipping cream or brown sugar.
We won’t be having a birthday cake for my mom today, none of us will be having any cake until
we make the Angel food cake on Monday and after you and I have a piece. Speaking about desserts,
I guess any occasion could be used for an excuse to have a cake. I remember that you guys got a
Dairy Queen ice cream cake to celebrate Jason moving into your house and you know that I hoped
to get my Safeway double-layer chocolate Valentines Day cake. Remember the time I went with you
to DQ and I had my onion rings, I noticed an ad on my placemat for DQ Oreo and Reese cakes. I
had things made by both of those brands. My mom thought that those might have been blizzard
cakes that I saw in that ad. We got a regular ice cream cake from DQ last year at Father’s Day,
I never had a blizzard cake before but hope to try one someday.
For my snack last night I had some of my "General Mills Honey Nut Cheerios Snack mix" with
water to drink and for my snack the night before I had some Carr’s crackers with almond butter
plus milk to drink. You remember the last time I had this stuff we definitely learned how messy
almond butter can be, so my mom set my little TV table (the same place where I’ve been
having my meals since the altercation) in front of the couch and then she put my crackers on a
plate and gave me some extra napkins (serviettes). This worked well for me. I can tell
you that we’re now starting to get down on the Christmas stuff leftover, I had the last three of
the little Bahlsen brand gingerbread men for my dessert after lunch today. There were actually
four left, but one is broken and because you know I don’t like to have things that are broken
I’ll probably give the broken one to one of my parents. Now that I won’t be having Chinese food
today, my mom will make me one of her homemade salads for supper tonight with cheese and
lunchmeat and then I will have one of the “Oreo pudding cups” for dessert after that.
When you saw me last Thursday, you thought that day would have been the second time I had
Terry’s Chocolate Orange. That was the third time, there are now five pieces left and one of
them is broken. If one of my parents has the broken piece I could maybe have some other little
chocolate with the other four whole pieces when I have them for a snack. Now here is where I
previously told you before you came that day:
> ...After we get back, this will be the third time I have five pieces of Terry’s Chocolate
Orange and then there should
> be enough left for one more snack after tomorrow. I’m still on the OASIS brand cranberry
juice.
And the excerpt from the food chart I sent you last Tuesday (the 26th) :
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> Sunday Feb.24,2008 Afternoon snack:
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Tried having some of the OASIS brand cranberry
juice that I told you my mom got to drink with this
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And the excerpt you missed with my mom’s Volvo story:
> And speaking about red cars, my mom told me a story one that
she saw when she was out with my dad
> yesterday afternoon after Serena left. After they left Peninsula Village and were on their way
to Shoppers, they
> were South on 152nd Street near the “Tim Hortons/Semiahmoo Mall” area where there was a red
Volvo in the
> lane beside them and a little ways ahead of them. There was a couple times when this red Volvo
veered into the
> other lane like the people in it were distracted. After this and while the Volvo was in the
curb lane, a motorcycle
> drove up and was driving where it wasn’t suppose to between the curb and the Volvo. This made
my mom very
> nervous because it looked to her like the man on the motorcycle was gunna get crushed by the
Volvo and she
> didn’t think that he was gunna get out of there...
I’m not the only person you’re getting to know pretty good as I continue to E-mail
you...You’re also learning lots of things about my parents and about their lives, and lots of
things about Carol too, especially a lot of things about my mom who you read in the above
excerpt about how nervous she was riding in the front passenger seat of her car when she was
right next to that Volvo at that same split second where she almost thought that the
motorcyclist was gunna get crushed and also about the fact when I forwarded my dad’s funny
E-mail to you that she’s afraid of heights. You’re also getting to know the names of all my
relatives and all our doctors, I started to include their names in the messages I send you
because you were reading their names on our list of phone numbers one of the last couple times
when we scanned. You said when I saw you two days ago that you don’t feel obligated to read long
E-mails from me and that you have good dreams after reading them before you go to bed, maybe I’m
just as bad as Scott who like I said likes to phone you all the time and I like to send you
these long messages . I
said this in the message that I sent you on Tuesday
Feb.5,2008:
> ...I guess we were right when we thought last Thursday that you’ll probably learn what a
lot more of the games that I
> like are as I keep E-mailing you...
While we were scanning on Monday Feb.18,2008, you were looking at my CDs on the rack again
and saw the game “Colin McRae Rally” hence no relation. There is also "Colin McRae Rally 2" and
"Colin McRae Rally 3," I only have the first
one.
Speaking about the name “McRae,” while we were scanning that same day (on the 18th).
You made a joke and said that “McRae” must be a Canadian name because it ends in “eh.” You know
that “McRae” is really a Scottish name, it is actually my dad’s dad who his Scottish while my
dad’s mom is Norwegian. While we’re on this subject, I remember you asked me another time a
while back if my mom is English. I found out since
then that my mom’s dad is from Luxembourg which had a German background and we don’t know where
my mom’s mom is from because she was adopted.
You read in the newspaper one time when you were here within the last few weeks that
“Electronic Arts” will release the first “Play 4 Free” game where they plan to generate their
revenue by using in-game advertising and microtransactions. This company is also the developer
of another game I own,
”Need for
Speed: High Stakes.” And you will see on
my links page that
“Distinctive Software,” who developed the game that
my website is about, was acquired by “Electronic Arts” (in 1995). “Stunts Illusion” is
the name that I gave my website while the game is just called “Stunts” without the quotes.
Anyway, did you know that “Distinctive Software” was Vancouver-based and that they are now the
predecessor to EA Canada (Electronic Arts Canada). Speaking about the
bedtime stuff, more Wiki links for you to read.
And Speaking about the scanning you asked me one of the last times when we scanned if I plan
to eventually put the images that you and I’ve been scanning onto a disc. I then said that
I plan to later print them out for binders that I’m
putting together. I use to have a box full of cases of 5.25 inch floppy discs of images. Once we
got our first CD-burner, I erased all those floppy discs and burnt the images onto one CD. That
CD was only 30 MB once burned though. I also plan to eventually make a CD full of the funny
E-mails that my dad sends me once I get enough to fill a CD, until then I’ve been saving them
all on my hard drive. Maybe I could even forward some of those E-mails to you.
You can get the two images we scanned two days ago from my mom’s magazine as well as some of
the ones from the last couple times when we scanned including the first two (both
birthday card pics) we scanned last Monday the 18th (image54.bmp and image55.bmp): all
from the same location where you got the scanned images the last couple times:
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I saw the movie
“Men
with Brooms,” but we decided after seeing it that it wasn’t my
type of movie. I saw lots of other movies with Leslie Nielsen, but not the “Naked Gun series”
which is also not my type of movie. We took my friend, Mac, to Best Buy one day last year and he
bought the “Naked Gun series” using two cards that we got him. One we gave to him for
Christmas earlier that same year (Christmas 2006) and the other one we gave him for
Christmas 2005. Until that day last year, he didn’t know what
to buy with those gift cards. After he had them a
long time and before we took him to Best Buy that day, we thought that he might have to sell
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image49.bmp - this guy played in a TV series I use to watch called
“Undeclared.”
image51.bmp - you thought this one was a “good picture.”
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both the front and backside of another birthday card
image. You can see on the backside that at one time I had my own multi-coloured ink pen.
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image54.bmp - you thought this one was also a “good picture.”
image55.bmp - “smartie
dog”
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“ONWARD! TO THE KITCHEN GARDEN”
The “Kitchen Garden” is the name of a store in Peninsula Village. One of the owners brings her
dachshund named Sybil to work. I saw the dog one time when I was there a few years ago, it must
still be there now if it was in one of the images that we recently scanned. And my mom says that
there’s lots of ways to spell the name “Sybil” but she thinks that this one’s probably the way
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And I’m also glad to hear that you finally showed Danae the image of Taffy in the boat and
that she liked it.
Now speaking about Peninsula Village, I won’t be surprised if you get a wheatgrass when we’re
over there on Monday. I knew I’d probably be right when I said this in the message I sent you on
Wednesday Jan.30,2008:
> Any excuse I guess so John could get out to the juice bar and get his
wheatgrass.
And I don’t remember but did you get a wheatgrass that day not long after when you went to
Safeway before you came to my place to get some trail mix from the bulk section? If so, then was
the main reason why you went over there that one day really to buy trail mix?
Mom and me took a look at your “PATCHES THE
HORSE” video. When we saw it my mom said as they were riding along quote “he's probably thinking
it beats walking.” I saw the dog’s head in the car window. My mom also said that I should
forward this to my grandparents (my dad’s parents) because she thinks that they’ll get a
kick out of it. I haven’t E-mailed them for a long time, so I’d have to get their address from
my dad. And I thought you said that was suppose to be a YouTube video, you sent it to us as an
attachment.
Again, if you respond to this message I will then reply tomorrow and let you know whether to
come at 1 or 4PM on Monday.
-Neil
P.S. Late Happy Leap Year Day, John!...Ribbit Ribbit
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