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John,
Even though I said in the message that I sent you yesterday that I would be expecting a
response from you so I would know what to tell Mac when I call him this afternoon, I went ahead
and called him anyway. Funny things happened, I first tried calling his home number at 1PM which
is the time of day I usually prefer to call friends. When I first called his home number at that
time, I didn’t hear his phone ring once I dialed the number and I got a message that said
quote “your call has been forwarded to Telus answering service.” I then tried calling his cell
number and once I dialed that number, I got nothing...no ring or voicemail, I got nothing. I
then called him back a couple hours later at around 3PM. I got through to him this time and he
said that he was home when I called his home number earlier in the afternoon, I haven’t talked
to him for a few months and he said that they got an answering service sometime within those few
months. And the reason why his phone didn’t ring and went straight to the answering service was
because Mac said that he was on the phone at that time. Anyway, Mac said that any day’s good for
him except Monday.
Guess what, my dad’s trip got changed again. Now he’s going next week on Tuesday (the
25th). Now I’m glad that my plans to go out with him on Friday hopefully shouldn’t be affected.
Once we trade the platies in, my dad plans to move just the bigger bettas up to the tank where
the platies I’m trading are currently and leave the smaller bettas in the five gallon. The
biggest betta is now an inch long and the smallest ones are about a quarter of an inch.
Serena returned my mom’s call at around 1:30PM this afternoon. She said that she’s pretty
booked up for the next few weeks and she won’t see us until Tuesday April 8th at 2:30PM. I
talked to her on the phone for a few minutes after my mom was finished talking to her and before
she (Serena) hung up because she wanted to talk to me. She asked me if there’s anything I
wanted to chat about or work on with her when she comes on the 8th. She said that if there is
anything I want to talk about with her I could make a note of it if I think of it before she
comes. When Serena asked my mom before she talked to me if there’s anything that she (my
mom) thinks that Serena should work on with me, my mom said that she couldn’t really think of
anything right now other than exercises to help me relax. Again, you know I don’t find either
this necessary or seeing a behavioral specialist on a regular basis. I even told Serena when I
talked to her on the phone today for a few minutes that things have been going well lately and
then she said that if things keep going well in my life for the next few weeks maybe I could
chat with her when she comes here on the 8th about the things in my life that are going well.
Remember Dr. McKibbin said last week that he hopes Serena will be out to my house before our
next meeting with him, now we know she will be because the 8th is only one week before the next
meeting which is on the 16th. And if I end up keeping my dentist appointment after my mom asked
me why don't I just go get it over with, I’ll have to reschedule with you that week because the
appointment’s on a Thursday which is again April 3rd. I hope I don’t get too tired with
everything going on because I told you that I don’t like too much going on in the same week and
my dad’s birthday’s coming up on April 10th. I’ll have to get out shopping with my mom for him
one day.
When I hung up the phone in our downstairs computer room once I finished talking to Serena, I
knocked over one of your two ping pong balls on the cat springs while the other stayed standing.
Just a few minutes later when I was on the computer, I knocked over the other ball and cat
spring while I was on the computer.
I had a good sleep last night and got my usual six or seven hours except I woke up ten
minutes before 8AM to hear Logan’s car start up next door and it just sat there running for a
good 40 minutes this time before it drove off. After I told my mom this once I got up, she then
said quote “what a waste of gas.”
I remember that we saw a property that was for sale on 140th street by Sarah Daniels on our
way to the store two days ago. My mom told me that she saw another property for sale by her on
24th Avenue when she was out that same day. My mom didn’t like Sarah when she used to do the
weather on Global because some of the things she said on the air, my mom said that she would
sometimes not think them through and they were rude or sometimes stupid. Sarah Daniels has her
own website, check it
out.
Today’s picture on the front of "the Surrey Now" local paper had some of the other people who
currently do the weather on Global including the current weekday News Hour weather forecaster,
Wayne Cox. Carol met Wayne Cox. His daughter, Chelsea, goes to school at the elementary school
where Carol used to work. Carol told me that Wayne also has grandchildren. It said in that
newspaper story today that the other weather forecaster who currently works at Global, Kristi
Gordon, was a graduate from the school where Carol works now, Earl Marriott Secondary.
I have another story to show you in today’s Now when you’re here tomorrow. It’s about a girl
named Michaela Robinson who was in the BASES program at Semiahmoo Secondary when I was there and
there’s also a picture of her with the story. Her picture was also in one of the newspapers a
few years ago when she had her picture taken with Jared from the SUBWAY commercials. Carol also
knew Michaela, I think it was when Carol’s daughters were younger and were playing baseball. I
think the sport might’ve been baseball, I can’t remember which sport it was. Anyway, I forget
whether Michaela has siblings who played on the same team or why she was at Carol’s daughters
games, all I remember Carol telling me was that Michaela sat on the bench with Carol while her
daughters played.
Here is something I said in the message I sent you on Wednesday
Feb.27,2008:
> ...I also have two bottles of Lime Crush that I’ve had for a long time, but whenever I plan to
drink one of them I keep
> ending up changing it to either “ginger ale” or “ice UP” at the last minute after my stomach
being upset. Whenever
> I have either a can or a bottle of pop to drink at home, mom pours the pop into a glass for
me. Otherwise if I drink
> right from the can or the bottle, then I have to use a straw and mom knows that drinking
through a straw can make
> me burpy...
I finally felt like having half of one of those two bottles with my evening snack last night.
I only had half a bottle because that’s all that would fill a glass and my stomach might get
upset if I drink more than what can fit in a glass, and I had some Old Dutch Rip-L potato chips
with Nalley brand ranch dip to eat with that. We haven’t bought Lime Crush for a long time as
you know the two that I refer to above we had sitting around for quite a while...Lime Crush is
harder to find BTW than some of the other flavours. I had some of the red grapes for my
afternoon snack today and a few of them were funny-shaped, my mom said one
looked like a very little pumpkin. I didn’t know until today that the
bottles of KIRKLAND brand cranberry juice we buy at Costco come in packs of two bottles and you
can’t buy them individually.
After my mom saw the weather on today’s Noon News she told me that they’re predicting rain
for tomorrow. On yesterday’s weather they predicted the same forecast for today, I hope those
weather guys will be wrong again so that we could get out for a walk before my snack tomorrow
afternoon. I plan to have a bag of allan gummies for my snack. My mom said that we can erase the
fancy dog carrier on the image that we’re currently working on, did you open the scanned image
that I sent you yesterday? And BTW, tomorrow’s suppose to be the first full day of spring.
And finally, I took a couple pictures this morning with my camera of the cats. I took one of
both our cats laying on the couch in our family room, it’s not too often we see the two cats on
that couch at the same time right beside each other. A few minutes after that, I took another
one of Chloe sitting up on one of all small coffee tables in the living room.
When I told my mom about Scott’s little calendar and that he’s marking down the days until
his mom comes and gets him, she then responded by saying that you’ll probably be ready for a
rest by that time and will want some time to yourself.
See you tomorrow at 1PM.
-Neil
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