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John,
I made it out with my dad yesterday afternoon and we took my platies into Fish World, I’ll
tell you about that. Just before we left to go to Fish World, I called my friend Mac after my
mom decided that my dad could go with us and we could take him to the Moxie's in Langley. Mac
said that either his actual birthday (Wednesday), Thursday, or Friday next week all look
good for him even though I probably prefer either Wednesday or Thurs. And my mom also decided
that I can have my first piece of the cake after turkey dinner tomorrow and then they’ll just
come home at 4:30PM the next day, if I decide I want Chinese food that day she said that they
could pick some up for me to have after you go. I’m glad it worked out two days before when I
called Mac the first time after not talking to him for a few months, here is something I said in
the message I sent you on Wednesday Feb.27,2008: /font>
> Also when my dad took Kris’s call last night when I was upstairs having my shower, he told
Kris that I’m going
> through a tough time right now. I normally don’t want people to know that I’m going through a
tough time, none of
> our friends or relatives know that there are altercations between myself and my parents and
they all think that we
> don’t have any problems and are no different than the rest of the families on my dad’s side.
My mom told me that
> if I choose to call him back and if he says anything about my tough time I could lie to him
and say that “we’re just
> trying to figure out what my future will be and what will happen to me after my parents are
gone.” He didn’t say
> anything though, that’s a good thing.
Before I called Mac last Wednesday (the
19th), my mom told me that if he asks why I haven’t called him for a few months I could tell him
that we’ve had a lot going on the last while. And if Mac asks what’s been going on, my mom then
told me that I could say we had a lot of appointments and there were a few times when my mom
wasn’t feeling well. Once again it worked out in the end and Mac didn’t ask me why I hadn’t
called him.
If I end up keeping my dentist appointment on April 3rd and I have to reschedule with you, I
think I would be too tired on Thursday if you come on the Wednesday so Friday would probably work
better for me. Or if Friday isn’t good for you, I’m also okay with Saturday the 5th. Again, I
hope that we can make time sometime in the next few weeks for me to go out with my mom and find
a birthday present for my dad. There’s already a lot going on the week of his birthday which is
Thursday the 10th and Serena comes two days before on the 8th. And Raynor should be back pretty
soon from his time off, I told you that he wanted to meet with us again sometime after he comes
back. I assume this will also probably happen sometime within the next few weeks. I also hope
that my dentist’s not gunna want to make extra appointments to make a new bite guard (AKA
night guard) for me if I keep my six month checkup on the 3rd. He always says that I’m grinding
my teeth and that I’m wearing them away, this was why I had to go in for that bonding back in
December where I had some of my teeth rebuilt. I had a bite guard made for me once and haven’t
wore it for a long time because it bothers me to wear it, my dentist did say though that things
have changed since then and he could make me a smaller bite guard that takes up less space in my
mouth. I’m not okay with the idea of wearing any bite guard, especially if I have problems
sleeping that you know I have some nights.
The rest of the message will be lighter stuff, I still have yet to write about what I have to
say about Dr. McKibbin’s question that I didn’t answer “why I would feel punished to have to
become independent.” Even though I only use this purple colour
(hex value #CC99FF)
whenever I write about something that I don’t like, I’ll use it today anyway because it’s an
Easter colour. My dad figured that because yesterday was his payday he brought everybody home a
scratch two days ago on Thursday, he got me a BLACKJACK and another new one for me called TAX!!.
I won $2 on the TAXI!...My mom said that I did better than she and my dad, neither of them won
anything.
My dad told me that he saw the border lineups on yesterday’s Noon News and that there was a
two and a half hour wait at the Peace Arch crossing. And at the border crossing all the way out
in Abbotsford, the border lineup was backed up all the way to Highway 1 resulting in a more than
two hour long wait there also. He phoned Fish World the day before we went two days ago
(on Thursday) to make sure that they would be open on the next day and the girl he talked to
told him that she thought they’re holiday hours which are 12 Noon to 4PM would be in effect for
Good Friday, but once we walked out of Fish World after we were done there yesterday we saw that
the South Beach Cafe where I told you I had planned to get my snack from was closed for Good
Friday. I then said to my dad that maybe we could get one of the big Smartie cookies from the
little Safeway across the street at 64th Avenue and Scott Road, and then even though I said to
my dad that I wanted a Safeway cookie he then said to me that he remembers there being a SUBWAY
right next door to that Safeway. We tried SUBWAY first and they didn’t have any Smartie cookies
in yesterday, but they had the kind of Chocolate Chunk cookie I like which I think you know is
the white cookie with the dark chips/chunks. I didn’t think I wanted another Chocolate Chunk
cookie after getting one from Save-On when I was out with my mom the week before so we left
SUBWAY and went next door to Safeway. My dad was going to get a small coffee for himself when we
were in SUBWAY, but he didn’t bother because I didn’t get any cookies there so he got a coffee
from the Starbucks inside Safeway. I think my dad prefers SUBWAY coffee to Starbucks because
SUBWAY’S isn’t as strong. He gets his coffee mild whenever he buys from Starbucks even though he
finds that their mild is also quite stronger than SUBWAY’s coffee, but he did say that he’s okay
with a strong Starbucks coffee if he has trouble waking up. I got just one Smartie cookie from
Safeway even though I get two cookies whenever I go to SUBWAY but the Safeway ones are twice the
size of the Smarite ones I had gotten in the past from the South Beach Cafe, and my dad took his
time reaching to the back of the bin because he saw one back there that had three green smarties.
Once we walked out of Safeway, we noticed a lottery kiosk outside Safeway where my dad cashed
in my two dollars that I had one on my TAXI! scratch the day before. He got me a BLACKJACK and
another TAXI!. This lottery booth was something different, I had never saw one outside before. I
also told my dad after we left the kiosk that I noticed they had chocolate bars there and if I
would’ve known about that lottery booth before we went into Safeway I could’ve got a chocolate
bar for my snack instead of the cookie. Now I know for if I’m in that area another day in the
future when the South Beach Cafe is not open, those are the same chocolate bars that I buy when
I walk over to the corner store. My dad said that they probably also sell cigarettes there at
that lottery booth. We got home only three minutes after 2PM which you know is the time when I
prefer to have my afternoon snack most days, so I waited til we got home to have my cookie and I
had my cranberry juice to drink with that.
At Fish World I traded 18 platies in total, they gave me a dollar for each fish so I
therefore got a $18 store credit. I still had a $15 credit from the day I told you I traded in
those three angelfish a few weeks before Christmas and I hadn’t bought anything from that store
since then, so as of now I have $33 in total...That’s more than $30 worth of store credit. I’m
almost out of frozen fish treats, but Fish World didn’t have the right stuff that I like to feed
my fish. Other than that, we took a look at the fish when we were in Fish World and they didn’t
have too much for fish. I then said to my dad that maybe they’re due for a shipment. A couple
hours after we got home, my dad moved 13 of the bigger bettas up to the ten gallon tank that we
took the platies out of and there are still a lot more than
that
amount for the number of smaller bettas that remain in the five gallon. Some of the 13 bigger
ones that he moved now have bits of blue on them. Also, my dad flushed the albino corey catfish
this morning that was in the ten gallon with my adult plaites. This use to be one of the two
albino coreys that was in my 38 gallon, but my dad didn’t tell me until today that he moved it a
few months ago because it’s fins had dissolved. I guess that maybe coreys don’t do as well in
salt. We need to have salt sprinkled in the 38 gallon where my big mollies are because mollies
require a bit more salt than most other types of freshwater fish. He also flushed one of my
female swords that had died yesterday in my 32 gallon. Speaking about the swords, he plans to
maybe put one of my other female swords in the breeding cage on my six gallon fish tank which is
the one upstairs in my bedroom where the baby mollies were.
After we got home yesterday afternoon, my mom went out to look for a birthday card for Mac. I
figured that most of the bigger stores would probably be too busy and crowded for me on Good
Friday, so my mom went by herself. She first looked at the few cards they had in the Save-On at
South Point but she didn’t find anything there so she then walked over to the “Carlton Cards”
store at South Point where she found a neat car one for Mac and she also picked up a card for
her and me to give to my dad for his birthday. We also figured that it would be easier to buy a
card for Mac this year, hopefully next year there won’t be as much going on so that we could
maybe grab a frame from "The Dog the Cat and the Rat” video and then try to make Mac a card for
his next birthday. And we probably won’t give Mac a present with his card, taking him out for a
meal will probably be enough. This will be your first time at Moxie's. After my past experience
you read about just before Christmas a few months ago, either I’ll probably get the half order
of natchos or If I get the full order maybe anyone who finishes before me could snack on some of
my plainer ones that don’t have cheese. The four of us could go in my mom’s Honda, you’ll
probably be up front. Mac’s a big guy so he’d probably be better behind you and I’ll sit behind
my dad. Lately I’ve been sitting in the front when I go in the car just my parents and myself.
Whenever Mac’s with me and it’s either just my mom or my dad with us, I usually ride upfront.
And whenever Mac goes with us and both my parents come along, these are the times when my mom
gets to sit in the front while Mac and I sit in the back together. Sometimes though when Kris is
with us and just one of my parents comes along, we’ll sometimes let him sit upfront because he
can fight for the frontseat.
My mom’s first stop after she left the house when you were with me two days ago on Thursday
was the Peninsula Village Safeway when she saw that they still didn’t have any Easter cakes and
when she found out that their cake decorator was off sick. She then walked across to London
Drugs because I was on my last pack of Gas-X, but they were out. She looked in the South Point
Save-On yesterday afternoon before she looked at cards but she couldn’t find the right kind of
Gas-X there either, she thought that maybe they stopped making that kind so she got me some new
stuff to try called “Ovol GAS.” After Peninsula Village two days ago, she thought that she’d go
to one of the casinos for a while, either the one in Langley or the one in Cloverdale but first
she tried the big Safeway out by Willowbrook Mall and they didn’t have any Easter cakes. She
found that Langley was busy once she got out that way two days ago so she then decided on the
casino in Cloverdale after she tried the Willowbrook Safeway. After the casino, she got the cake
from the Safeway in Ocean Park and then she came home. I think I like the cake that my mom found
two days ago better than the one I sent you an image of last Sunday (the 16th), the one
my mom found is more colourful. The one my mom found also has jelly beans on it as well as
little candies shaped like bunnies and chickens. There were only two round double-layer
chocolate Easter cakes at the Ocean Park Safeway and my mom got the only one that had green on
it, the other chocolate one had blue where mine has green and there was also a lot more round
double-layer white Easter cakes than chocolate ones at that same Safeway location. I even took a
couple pictures of that cake two days ago after you left which I’ll send to you once I download
them, you can then compare this cake to the image I already sent you and we’ll see whether or
not you agree with me that this one’s the better looking cake. I also took a picture of what you
made two days ago in our downstairs computer room, the ping pong ball on top of the cat spring.
You thought that it wouldn’t hold together that long, and it’s still holding up right now.
My mom also got some of the Safeway coleslaw that I like from the deli section when she was
at the Ocean Park Safeway two days ago, I had some of that for supper later that same day
(for my supper on Thursday) with some leftover Shake 'n Bake chicken and a hot cross bun. I had
some Bugles for my evening snack last night with a can of “ice UP” to drink and I plan to have
some of the Easter HERSHEY’S EGGIES that I got in bulk for my evening snack tonight. After not
having them for a long time I started having Bugles for my snacks again about a year ago when
Carol told me that her nephew, Rory who also went to High School at Semiahmoo Secondary when I
went there, likes them. Remember that Rory’s Carol’s ex-husband’s sister’s youngest son and
they’re the “pirate family” because everybody’s first name starts with the letter R. And I don’t
like the Nacho Cheese flavour Bugles, just the Original ones.
I get possession of my Easter stuff as soon as mom brings it home and she doesn’t keep it
from me until Easter Sunday though I don’t eat it until I get around to it even if it’s not til
after Easter Sunday. And don’t forget that I’ll only want to eat so much of my Easter stuff
instead of eating it all at once because you know what my stomach can handle. I remember you
said that you ate as many as ten or twelve Hershey kisses, well I told you in the message that I
sent you on Wednesday Feb.20,2008 that I had ten the day before and I said in the message I sent
you on Sunday Mar.2,2008 that I had nine. This didn’t upset my stomach either of those times.
And remember I told you that my grandma (my dad’s mom) gave me a marshmellow filled egg
last year at Easter, I still ate it even though it wasn’t my preference.
I still drink Coke the odd time after I switched to 7UP when I started having the stomach
problems which I detailed all in the message I sent you on Saturday Mar.8,2008, and keep in mind
too that I also like to drink Lime Crush the odd time:/font>
> ...until after I told you two days ago that Coke use to be my favorite kind of pop until I switched to 7UP a few years
> ago when I started having the stomach problems. And before then, I use to always get a milkshake to drink with
> my meal whenever I went out for meals but now I just get 7UP with my meals and have milkshakes for separate
> afternoon snacks after learning that a milkshake with a meal seemed like a bit too much for my stomach to handle
> at once...
I also use to eat Barbeque, Ketchup, and “Salt & Vinegar” chips but haven’t had any of those for a long time. And I think that Lay's was my preferred brand for Barbeque chips.
Remember you told me one of the last times I saw you that the “Keg Restaurant” also has a
slice of chocolate cake on their dessert menu, well I like things that are plainer and not too
fancy. I know that I like White Spot's “Chocolate Passion Cake” and Safeway's “Triple Chocolate
Torte” while my mom doesn’t know whether or not the Keg’s chocolate cake would be more of a
fancier one.
When my mom was driving down 24th Avenue two Mondays ago (on the 10th of this month)
on her way to Peninsula village after she left the casino in Cloverdale, she saw that they’re
also building apartment buildings along there on the same side of Highway 99 that Home Depot’s
on. And she saw that they’re coming along quite a ways on building the Wal-Mart, but they
haven’t seem to have come as far on most of the other stores.
Also, my mom read me in the newspaper on Wednesday Mar.5,2008 that the Christophers store
that use to be in Hillcrest mall not far from the bakery will soon be opening its new location
in Ocean Park. My mom thought that maybe the reason why it took so long after they closed their
old location and before they open there new one could be because they might’ve had a tough time
with regulations. Again, this Christophers store has no relation with the one in Scottsdale
Mall. Neither of these stores have more than one location, they’re two different stores that
both have the same name “Christophers.” My mom also read in the paper sometime within the last
few weeks that the little Hallmark Cards store in Ocean Park will soon be closing and that the
dentist office next door to them will then be expanding into where the Hallmark was.
My mom heard Izzy in the sewing room a couple more times yesterday jumping up at that spot of
sunlight on the wall again. And remember I said this about Chloe in the message I sent you on
Thursday Mar.13,2008, well she seemed interested in my supper again when I was having it two
days ago (on Thursday)...she even jumped up on the big coffee table in our living room at
the time two days ago where she then tried to sniff my plate of food that was on my TV table:
> ...Speaking about Chloe, she was on the loveseat last Sunday night (the 9th) until my mom came in the room and
> dished up my supper onto my TV table. When my mom was dishing up the supper, Chloe thought it was for her.
> Once I sit down to eat after that, Chloe puts her front feet up on the couch next to me for a few seconds while her
> back feet were still on the floor. Chloe doesn’t usually act like this...
Remember when you were here two days ago you
heard my cousin Jenny cough when she left a message on our answering machine. My mom says that
Jenny seems to always have a cold lately.
My grandpa (my dad’s dad) phoned my dad last night. He said that they (my
grandparents) now have their land phone service through Shaw and no longer through Telus, they
can now phone local to South Surrey all the way from out in the valley. He also said that my
cousin Michael who moved to Edmonton last month put his house in Nanaimo up for sale, I guess
they changed their mind about renting it out and are just gunna get rid of it. And I guess his
kids will be starting at their new school in Edmonton after the Easter break.
My dad took my mom’s Honda in this morning for its servicing that it needs after every 6
thousand kilometers. The servicing didn’t take too long so he then went to the Bell store in
Willowbrook Mall to see if he can find a less expensive plan for his cell phone. He phoned my
mom after he left the mall to let her know that he was going to then go to the Cascades casino
for a bit and that he would be home in time for lunch. My mom then said to him quote “or
supper.” I closed the garage door for him when he came home an hour after he phoned my mom, I
also closed it for him two days ago when he pulled in only a few seconds after mom left to get
the mail which was only a few minutes after you left, and I closed the garage door for my mom
when she came home yesterday after card shopping. My dad saw my mom leaving to get the mail as
he was pulling in two days ago BTW.
When I talked to Mac on the phone last Wednesday (the 19th) he told me that he got a
new Canon All-in-One printer/fax/scanner/copier. At first he just had a Canon Three-in-One
printer/scanner/copier, but I guess the tack that holds his calendar somehow came out of or got
thrown out of the wall and landed in the printer head. The scanner and copier would still work
after this, but no longer the printer so he took his Three-in-One into Staples and he got the
next model up. He said that he wouldn’t use the fax but again it’s the next model up after the
Three-in-One he had. I guess that hardly anybody uses a fax anymore and that most people these
days are switching over to E-mail. He also told me that now when you go into Staples, all you’ll
see for printers are the All-in-Ones and it’s now getting harder to find just the single
standalone printer like what we have both upstairs and downstairs. I guess now they’re
phasing out on the single printers. The printer that I have downstairs right now is a Canon i550
that I’ve now had for five years and I’m hoping that it will last me for at least a couple more
years. When it does go, I hope to buy my first All-in-One. It should hopefully take up less
space on my desk because I’ll have the printer and the scanner in one instead of both things
taking up more space on my desk. Mac also told me when I talked to him on the phone that same
day that his friend, Ben, who works for a computer company in Langley came over and upgraded
Mac’s computer. Mac then told me that Ben who’d been driving an old Ford Oldsmobile for quite a
long time just bought a new Honda Civic and his company that he works for pays him to have
advertising put on his new car, so Mac says that if you see a black Honda Civic driving around
South Surrey with ads for a computer company and the guy driving looks really big when he’s in
it...that’s Ben. Ben and me were in a few classes together when we were in High School BTW.
I remember when you were here two days ago you read in the paper that now’s the right time to
buy a new car. I also remember you told me that you had already clicked on my link to the
“Mercury Milan” and thought that it was a nice-looking car. I thought it looked like a nice car
too when I saw that image, but I didn’t want to jump the gun and say that before seeing it in
person. You were also wondering how much it costs and if it was an expensive car. Maybe that’s
something to lookup sometime online, and if you look this up sometime and find out that it is
too expensive for you then maybe just don’t get the deluxe version...Hint, if you don’t get the
deluxe model there’s a good chance that you probably won’t have a sunroof. And you said that
Dianne would be jealous if you did get this new car and if your Camry was the vehicle that you
ended up getting rid of, so the two of you would therefore keep trading vehicles. Once the day
program does finally get started whenever this may happen, you’d probably come to my place in
the car every Monday and Thursday because the van could take more passengers. I don’t know if
your van already has a sunroof, but if it does and if you don’t get the deluxe Mercury
Milan...Then you could bring the new car on the days that you see me and let Di have the car on
the days that you see Scott because you told me that Scott likes the sunroof.
Also from what I could see in that image on Wikipedia, it looks like that Mercury Milan might
be a good alternative for me next time my mom needs a new car and if for some reason I don’t
like the Honda Accord that’s out at that time as much as I like the one that we have now. A few
other alternatives that I have considered besides the Honda Accord include:
-the Chevrolet Cavalier because my dad got one as a courtesy car one time a few years ago, I
also sat in the front passenger seat of this car while it was parked in our garage and I thought
that I sat pretty much the same in it as I do in the front seat of my mom’s Honda compared to
the way I might sit in some other cars though my mom did say that the Honda Accord has a better
review.
-the Buick, it’s a nice roomy car. My grandparents (my dad’s parents) now drive a 2001
Buick Century which they bought off a lady who lives in an apartment in a different tower of
their complex after her husband passed away, before that they were driving a 1998 Mercury
Mystique. Now you know that I’ve been in a Mercury before. Also, my dad rented a Buick a few
years ago when he took Kiernan up to the cabin. Again, he’s David’s ex-girlfriend’s son. I saw
inside that Buick when my dad rented it and that one was nice and roomy inside. I forget which
kind of Buick that was though. Speaking about the cabin, my mom was wondering if you’re a good
fisherman and if fishing’s one of your interests. If so, would you maybe like to go with my dad
if he decides to go up to the cabin again this summer? I could put together a short video of the
cabin to send to you if you want me to.
-And of course I probably also wouldn’t mind the Toyota Prius.
-I should also tell you my mom’s opinion about the PT Cruiser. When my dad rented that one a
year and a half ago, my mom also sat in it while it was parked in our garage. She said that she
would never want to drive one of those things because she found it harder to see out of. Now you
know that none of us three like the PT Cruiser.
Remember Play Dome was held at BC Place all last week while the kids were out of school, the
large Indoor Carnival with rides etc. My parents and me took my friend, Mac, with us when we
went to a car show at that same place (BC Place) not long before we bought my mom’s 2001
Honda when we were looking to buy a new car.
I told my mom that you called your Camry a beater when I saw you last Monday (the
17th) she then said that it must be starting to show its age. Don’t feel bad, I told you
previously that Carol had been driving an old 1992 Ford for many years before she leased the
2007 Toyota Yaris. She nicknamed her old Ford the “Whalley car” also meaning “welfare car.
By the way, our old 1986 Honda Accord was the vehicle that my cousin, David, used to kill
himself. A few days before Christmas Day 2005, he parked the car in the loading bay at his
business. He then shut all the doors and started the car’s engine, and then he died from carbon
monoxide poisoning. When he first started up his lighting business, he was in a different
location around the corner from the one with the loading bay for the first few years before the
other one became available. He moved when it became available because the first location didn’t
have a loading bay. My mom’s pretty sure there was a guy named Brian who worked at “Show-time
Lighting” when David worked there in the late 1990s though she’s not 100% sure. This was back
when they were in the same Surrey complex where David had his two locations and before David
first started his own business. They since moved to Burnaby after David stopped working for
them. Anyway, could this have been the place in that complex where you said you had rented
lights? And my mom says that if David could’ve toughed it out, he’d probably be doing a good
business about now. Also, there is a Macs convenience store in that same area at 96th Avenue and
152nd Street which has a SUBWAY in it though I think it mostly just has the sandwiches and not
everything a regular SUBWAY has...I guess this might be called an express SUBWAY.
Also on our way to our meeting at the FVMH that same day (March 14th), just before we got
to that area you noticed that we were in Scott’s territory when we came to 88th Avenue and 152nd
Street. I remember the time before that when we drove through there in February you told me that
nobody who lives on 88th has a driveway and you have to enter Scott’s place from the back alley.
This is the same as my friend Mac’s house which is on King George Highway, he doesn’t have a
driveway in his front yard and you also have to enter his place from the back alley. You also
asked me when we drove through there last week if
I had
ever been inside Scott’s Safeway there before even though you already know my dad has a few
times. I’ll tell you that I have been in there a few times, my mom sometimes takes me in there
after my dentist appointments to use the washroom. One thing I don’t like about my dentist’s
office is that you have to go behind the counter and then passed the chairs to get to the
washroom. I use to always have my dentist appointments at the same time as my dad, but for the
last few years him and I have been separately because I remember a few times when my dad went
there with us he sounded a little reluctant to make an extra stop for me after the dentist. It
almost felt like the same as if he had actually said “either use the washroom at the dentist or
don’t go at all.”
Remember you said when I last saw you two days ago that you use to always walk by the
“Fin-Omenal Fish” store next to Shoppers Drug Mart at No. 2 Road and Blundell in Richmond when
you use to work in that area but you just never went in the fish store. They sold a few other
kinds of tropical fish too, but they specialized in bettas. I use to go to that store with my
dad all the time, that store was where we got our microworm cultures the first time when I had
baby bettas about four and a half years ago. And after they were in that location, they were on
Westminster Highway for a while. I assume this was probably because their rent was less
expensive at this location than the cost of rent for their previous location at No. 2 Road and
Blundell, but they still didn’t do a good enough business so they had to close their business
not long after they moved. And then the two ladies who ran Fin-Omenals started working at
“Roger’s Aquatic and Pet Supplies” formerly Perky's Pets in New Westminster not long after they
moved from NewWest to Scott Road in Surrey not far North of 80th Avenue. Not long after I got my
second batch of baby bettas a few months ago, my dad had to go to someone’s house in Richmond
and buy a microworm culture from a guy who lives there that grows them.
And another thing I remember you said when you were here two days ago was that you remember
the time before when you saw me (last Monday the 17th) we had fun singing Billy Joel
tunes when we were in the computer room. Here’s what I know about some of the other tunes you
were singing that same day:
• I believe that song "Release Me" that you sang a spoof of that day (Monday) is an
Engelbert Humperdinck song.
• When you were singing “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” which I know is the number one 1961 hit for
The Tokens, you sounded like Pumbaa from “The Lion King" when you sang “A wimoweh, a-wimoweh
a-wimoweh, a wimoweh...” Now I know that you can do a Pumbaa
accent (and I also now know
that you can do pump impressions). And did you know that Timon and Pumbaa did a duet of “The
Lion Sleeps Tonight?” This could possibly be found on YouTube, I also asked this about the other
song that they sang together in the message I sent you last Sunday (the
16th):
> ...And I wonder if there’s a video on YouTube of Timon singing “Yummy, Yummy, Yummy...I Got Bugs In My Tummy.”
• After you sang “The Lion Sleeps Tonight,” I
believe next you sang “Iko Iko.” And I believe it was Amy Holland’s version of this song that
was played during the closing credits after the
movie “K-9 (1989)” which
I saw a few years ago. I also saw the
sequel “K-911 (1999).”
• And then you sang a few songs by Neil Sedaka including “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do” and
“Laughter in the Rain.” Neil Sedaka is another one of the artists that I like and I have a few
of his cassettes.
• You also asked me that same day if I ever heard the song “Seventy-Six Trombones.” If you
remember that Microsoft Word document I sent you way back on Friday Nov.9,2007 where it lists
all the song titles that we were putting into my grandparents’ home movies, that’s one of the
songs that we’ve got in there so far so of course I heard that song. And if I remember
correctly, I think you heard it one time with me when I showed you the work that we had done so
far on the home movies...I do know that your memory’s not as good as
mine.
We also talked about a lot of different movies when you were here last Monday (on the
17th), but I’ll save what I have to tell you about those for another message. This message is
now eight pages long plus I should probably wait to send you more links until after you look at
all of the ones that I already sent you. I didn’t write the “did you spot the leprechaun with
his St Patrick's day hat” below that image of the green St Patrick's day dog, it was already
written underneath that same image on the site where I got it from which is
http://guy-sports.com/humor/saints/saint_patrick_dogs.htm .
And I’m still trying to find a clouds background to put behind that image we were working on of
Aladdin’s dog. I took the clouds background off our Windows 95 CD which you can get from the
attached ZIP file but it’s smaller than the image of the dog plus this clouds background doesn’t
“repeat itself as a pattern” if you know what I mean while choosing a background for your
Windows Desktop you can choose to either “Center“ it or “Tile” it. I was hoping we could find
one that repeats itself when “Tile” is chosen. There might be such a clouds background on the CD
for an older version of Windows 95, but I don’t have a version that’s that old. Do you have an
older version of Win95 or know somebody who might have one just so we could copy the one image
from that CD?
My mom just said a few minutes ago that she wonders if you’re now doing your final
countdown to the day when Scott goes home.
See you on Monday at 1PM, and if I don’t E-mail you again before,
Happy Easter! 
-Neil
P.S. This is the best I could find for images of Easter cats, and I’m disappointed that I
couldn’t find any Easter cat smilies (again AKA emoticons).
In addition to the following images, check out this image on
Flickr photo sharing website.
This one looks like Izzy in an Easter basket.
Remember that image “smartie dog” we scanned a while back and then I sent it to you...Now we
have “smartie cat.”
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