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John,
My dad finally called my grandparents last night and Monday’s good for them. You asked me
again when you saw me two days ago if anything had been bugging me within the last little bit,
you yourself thought that probably nothing has been bugging me lately the way my E-mails have
been so positive and because I’m now starting to do a few more things again that I haven’t done
since before Christmas. And you already asked me the same question when you were here on
Thursday Apr.25,2008, if anything had been bugging me within the last little bit. I wrote to you
after the first time you asked me on that date about one thing that is bugging me, that I’m
worried if I have to move out. Seeing how our next meeting with FVMH is a week today, I’ve been
working on a long E-mail explaining to you my thoughts about moving out and I’ll try and get it
to you this week even though I’m not in any rush.
I will write about some things today however now that my cousin, Jenny, phoned my mom today
at lunch, she said that those two kids have now moved in with Judy and that she’s
(Jenny’s) sleeping on a couch in Judy’s room for now. If just somehow it happens that I end up
living with Carol, I of course plan for us to sleep in separate bedrooms. At least I know that
Carol can do better than this and that she wouldn’t make me sleep outside in a shed. I remember
you said to me one time not long after our last meeting with FVMH that “there’s lots of Carols
out there,” but I think the Carol I know is the perfect candidate to be a caretaker. I wonder if
the type of workshop such as that one you took last month might’ve helped her 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. And again I think that Carol’s making
the wrong decision to want her own life once she’s able to retire, I think that Carol would be a
good caretaker and I’ll also say again that I think she’s the right person to be a caretaker. I
don’t think it’s right that Carol won’t take me if she’ll put up with Pete for as long as she
has to even if he still can’t afford to move out right after she retires from her school job,
she just can’t let this happen to me and she can’t let me move in with a family or with any
people who I never met before even though my mom said that I could meet the people who I’ll be
living with and get to know them for a while before I move in with them and that she (my
mom), my dad, and you will come around lots to help me once I do move in with them. Enough said
about that stuff for today and again I’ll try to get the longer message ready for you sometime
later this week, and Jenny also told my mom when she called today that she hopes to go with her
boyfriend, Danny, to the Cloverdale Rodeo this weekend
I got out yesterday afternoon with my mom to the Save-On at South Point. We had planned to
get two donuts before leaving Save-On and after we did our other shopping there, but there
wasn’t a lot left to choose from yesterday afternoon. I told you that we noticed last time when
I was there with my mom that the only two kinds of donuts they had from what we could see and
that I would like were the chocolate iced long john and the standard round white glazed with
hole in the center. Yesterday afternoon they just had two white glazed left and no long johns so
we just got one donut, one of the two glazed ones that were left. We got home just in time for
2PM which is the time when I like to have my afternoon snack most days, I had the donut with my
cranberry juice to drink. And I guess obviously that store’s dessert section was due for a
shipment, I guess there’s no other way to know from day to day whether or not the grocery
stores’ dessert sections are stocked up other than actually going out to the store and then
finding out. I don’t know if you ever had a Save-On white glazed donut before, but I’ll tell you
that I prefer Save-On’s white glazed donuts to Tim Hortons white glazed. We also saw in their
dessert section yesterday big dark chocolate cookies with bits of chocolate instead of bits of
white, they didn’t have these last time when I was there with my mom and I thought these might
be worth a try if we see them there again sometime in the future. All they had to choose from
last time for big cookies were Chocolate Chunk, oatmeal, and the dark chocolate ones with bits
of white. And we saw that they now have the same big rack of the Lofthouse brand moist
sugar cookies that I told you my mom saw a few weeks before at the Price Smart store in
Semiahmoo Mall. The South Point store had all of the other same ones that my mom saw at Price
Smart except they didn’t have the ones that I wanted to try most, the strawberry iced ones.
Now I will talk about my other snacks for the last few days:
• I finally had the first half of the other bottle of Lime Crush for my evening
snack last Saturday (the 10th) with some Old Dutch Rip-L potato chips and Nalley brand
"Bacon & Onion" dip. And it was in the message I
sent you on Wednesday Feb.27,2008 when I first told you that I had
two bottles of Lime Crush, I also told you that my mom had to dump the rest of the first one and
again it was the second bottle that I had the first half of last Saturday evening. I didn’t fall
asleep until 2AM that same night (Saturday night/Sunday morning), mom and I both had
upset stomachs. I did have a good sleep that night once I fell asleep at 2AM and I didn’t get up
until twenty minutes to noon on Sunday.
• Tuesday May 13,2008 - evening snack: I had the rest of the Cadbury Mini Eggs, now all of
the Easter stuff is gone finally.
• And I plan to have Doritos again for my evening snack tonight.
Stuff that’s been happening on the news:
• You already know about the big earthquake last weekend in China that left
thousands of people dead.
• My mom watched Adopt-A-Pet at the end of yesterday’s Noon News, she told me that they had
on this Maine Coon cat named “Rapunzel” even though it was a male cat. They named it that
because he has long hair, but my mom still thinks that it’s not a name for a guy. They also had
on a beagle and two guinea pigs.
• Do you already know about the helicopter that crashed yesterday afternoon in a residential
area of Cranbrook? Of the four people killed; two BC Hydro technicians, the pilot of the
chopper, and a pedestrian who was in that residential neighbourhood at the time of the crash.
And my dad told us today when he phoned home at lunch that he didn’t know either of the two
Hydro guys who were killed.
• After my mom saw the weather on today’s Noon News, she told me that it’s suppose to clear
up tomorrow and then Friday and Saturday are suppose to be the nicer days. I thought we could go
to the Macs tomorrow and get two more chocolate bars, one to have for my snack and I’ll save the
other one again for another day. This time though, I thought that maybe you and I could do the
same big walk on our way to the store that I told you I took my mom on last week. We could take
that trail first and then I’ll walk you by the two ranchers that I told you I saw for sale.
• You saw in the paper when you were here two days ago that Neil Young has had a new species of
spider named after him. It was named after him because Neil Young is the favorite musician of
the biologist who discovered the species, and he is yet another one of the artists who I like. I
know that he’s 62 now and I know that he’s Canadian.
And I told you that you’d also get a repeat of what we got my mom for Mother’s Day. I got her
the plastic dog that she could put outside on the lawn or in the garden which we bought at the
Wal-Mart in Langley and then we went next door to the London Drugs in Langley where my dad got
for her the EUREKA hand vac. My dad got the
corded one with no batteries so that we won’t have to worry about charging it, and also my mom
says that it ““has more power when it has a cord.” And then we’ll have another image to scan
once the card I got for her at the London Drugs in Langley on that same day comes off the
mantel, the card has a picture of a dog and a cat on the front of it. Also when we were in
Wal-Mart on that day BTW, we got in line for the express checkout because we only got one item.
I guess you haven’t seen these express checkouts after you told me that you never been inside
the Langley Wal-Mart, but these checkouts have a voice that comes on the speaker and tells the
next person in line which checkout to go to as soon as one comes free. When it was our turn for
example, the voice on the speaker would say quote “please go to one” and a big red “number one”
would light up on the screen at checkout #1.
Cat stories for the last few days:
• Saturday May 10,2008: Izzy sat under a bush outside in our backyard while it
was raining and she got all wet. Later on this day, my mom opened the door to go out onto the
deck and bring in my bathmat which she left on the deck rail to dry after she washed it. Chloe
came outside in the rain when my mom had the deck door open to bring my mat inside which is
unusual because Chloe almost never ventures out into the rain. Izzy’s the braver cat, she always
wants out when it rains while most times when Chloe goes out when it’s raining she’ll just stay
underneath the overhang.
• Saturday May 10,2008: At another time on the same day as the above point, my dad took a
picture of Izzy who he saw on the roof of our deck. This wasn’t the first time my mom or I have
seen her up there though it was the first time my dad saw her there.
• And Izzy kept coming in really wet after she’d been outisde lots of times both today and
yesterday when it was raining lots, at one time after Izzy came in from outside my dad dried her
off with the aquarium towel.
Last Sunday (May 11th), my dad put our fourth and last beta barracks on the ten gallon
fish tank which is the one that’s above our five gallon and then he put the rest of the betas
that he wanted to separate right now in small jars. He then put the jars on top of the fridge
where Izzy can’t touch them. And my dad’s not sure yet but thinks that I might only have two
females in my entire batch of baby betas. I might have more females but some of them you can’t
tell whether they are males or females until they are bigger, my dad separated some of these
ones anyway so that they won’t get beat up. The two bigger baby betas that my dad knows are
females are both in the ten gallon right now.
When you were here two afternoons ago, my mom went out to Willowbrook to see if they had
anything new since the last time she looked there at sandals for me. Everything she saw there
that they didn’t have last time when she looked was all stuff that I wouldn’t like. She drove by
Dairy Queen on her way home that day and she saw a sign when she drove by that says “try our new
strawberry blizzard,” I don’t know if this would look so close to that some people might easily
mistake it for your Cheesequake Blizzard but I know that this one doesn’t have the cheesecake in
it which you know I don’t like. I think this would be more like the McDonald's strawberry
shortcake McFlurry which also didn’t have cheesecake in it and I told you that I tried a
strawberry shortcake McFlurry a few years ago when they had it on. And my dad stopped at the
Semiahmoo Mall yesterday before coming home from work and after he dropped off everyone else in
his carpool, he took my other watch into the battery place where he had them put the strap on it
last Friday when I told you they put it on the wrong way. This time they fixed it and now I have
two good watches.
I told my mom after you told me about the SandPiper Pub has lots of windows. After I said to
her that it might be okay for me if we go there in the evenings when it’s darker, she then said
that “it might still get kind of noisy seeing as how it’s a pub.”
Was it the dentist who you now see in South Surrey that you told me is involved with training
new dentists at UBC? My dentist, Dr. Lee, is also involved with that and so is the dental
surgeon who pulled my wisdom teeth. You told me that you don’t remember being put to sleep when
they pulled your wisdom teeth. My mom since told me that not everyone has to be put to sleep
because “some peoples’ wisdom teeth are harder to get out than others,” and both of my parents
had to be put to sleep when they had their wisdom teeth pulled. The only other time I got put to
sleep was when I had a cystoscopy done at the hospital. Do you know what a “cystoscopy” is? It’s
when they checked out my urinary system with a camera, they didn’t find anything wrong.
Helen and Don Dabay are my friend, Kris’s, grandparents who he lived with when he was growing
up and after his mom passed away. You found their names on our list of phone numbers in the
computer room. And “MacDonald” is Carol’s married name, her maiden name is “Koshman.”
Speaking about Kris, you asked me if he’s moved yet. I thought I had written to you
previously that he had already moved at the beginning of
March. And you asked me if he’s had any housewarming parties yet, I’ll
tell you that he hasn’t had any that he told me about but maybe you and
I could go see his new place coming up soon. He works on weekdays so if
you don’t mind taking a day from your weekend to go with me and see him,
maybe I could see if he’ll be available either on next Saturday
(the 24th) or on Sunday the 25th. Even though I already wrote to you about
that we brought him a housewarming gift the last time he moved, my mom doesn’t think we need to
get him one this time and she thinks that “he’ll just be happy if we come to see him” though I
thought that maybe we could bring him some Krispy Kremes donuts for our snack that afternoon.
My mom and I could go out and get the donuts earlier in the day before I go with
you over to Kris’s. And I still plan to call my other friend, Mac, one day later this week.
And my mom thought it would be better than we take separate vehicles to our meeting next
Wednesday morning at 10AM in Port Coquitlam
incase she and my dad want to do anything after the meeting because my dad will have that day
off work. I suggested to my mom that they could try that “Ruby Chinese Restaurant” for their
lunch that day which I told you I wanted them to try before I decide whether or not I want to go
there again, but she thought that it might be kind of early for lunch if we again don’t get out
of our meeting any later than 10:45AM. I thought for you and my lunch that day, either we could
go to the same Wendy's again on 152nd Street in Guildford that you and I went ate at a few
months ago or we could go to the Dairy Queen on 152nd in Fleetwood and I could have a chicken
strip basket. And who will I be riding with on the way over there that day? I said in the
message that I sent you on Thursday Mar.13,2008 that even though I’m riding with my parents
again now, I think it’s a good idea that you still go with us to our meetings because you work
with me and understand some of the problems.
I don’t watch “The Simpsons,” it’s a show that not all people are fussy about. Mac watches it
and so does Jenny though we don’t know if Jenny watches it as often as Mac does. And did you
know that Sesame Street characters as well as many other Jim Henson characters made cameo
appearances on “The Simpsons,” go
here
to learn about all of their appearances. BTW, did you check out the
13 Kermits
yet?
Last night on “Dancing With the Stars” which I told you my mom watches, they had on some
dance group who danced to Michael Jackson's “Thriller” which you and I watched on YouTube.
Another petition you thought I could put on my Facebook page once I get it going besides the
one to get a Dairy Queen in the food court at Semiahmoo Mall, why not a petition to get a
regular size A&W which you suggested now that you know I want one of these in South Surrey. And
yet another idea for a petition, this one I thought of, how about the “I want to live
with Carol” petition! I remember you said one petition that you’d start once you get your
Facebook page going would be to ban Wal-Mart in South Surrey because you don’t like
Wal-Mart. My dad doesn’t like Wal-Mart either though I told you that I like them better than
Zellers because I already knew that some Zellers products are not made very good, but since the
time when you and I recently discussed this my parents told me that “you gotta watch some of
Wal-Mart’s products too” because even some of Wal-Mart’s things can be junky. And also when you
and I discussed this, I remember you said something about you thought that somehow China is
involved with Wal-Mart even though I know
that they (Wal-Mart) are a U.S. business. After I told my parents this thought that you
had, they then said to me that they think some Zellers products might also come from China. And
I still wonder if
Target
will ever come to Canada and buy out Zellers. This store just has to come to Canada, you ever
heard of Target dog!
And I told my dad about your mom’s black and white photographs that she would like to make
bigger and then I asked him if he thought any clarity would be lost even if you make them
just a tiny bit bigger once you scan them for her. My dad then said quote “it’s all
trial and error.”
See you tomorrow at 1PM.
-Neil
P.S. Here are the links from the above message:
Muppet Wiki: 13 Kermits
Muppet Wiki’s page about The Simpsons.
United States Discount store: Target
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