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John,
When my mom was waiting in line after doing her shopping yesterday afternoon at the South
Point Save-On, she saw the clerk at the checkout next to the one that she was in, spill some
chocolate milk all over herself. I guess it was in someone’s grocery order and for some reason
it split open when she lifted it up. Also when my mom was at Save-On yesterday, she picked up a
bottle of WESTERN FAMILY brand CRANBERRY BLACK CHERRY which has a bit more sugar than the other
stuff, but mom thought that it might be worth a try. And that was my neighbour, Gary’s, trailer
you saw parked across the street in front of his house as you were leaving yesterday.
I remember you said just yesterday that you don’t judge me because I don't want to be left
home alone or because I don’t want to run into Carol out in public and that you are instead
pushing me while hoping that I’ll change. I’ll tell you that I didn’t say I wouldn’t change, I
know you said that you’ll be disappointed if you don’t get to go to Dairy Queen this whole
summer. And we have an appointment over in Port Coquitlam coming up next Thursday (on the
17th), if you and I go out for lunch after that I’m thinking about maybe going to White Spot
again (the Guildford one on 152nd Street near 100th Avenue) unless I come up with another
idea before then.
My situation is different seeing how the reason why I’m worried about running into Carol in
public is not because I don’t want to see her. I told you that it isn’t just Carol who I’m
worried about running into, and again I also said in the message I sent you last Tuesday
(on July 1,2008) that I feel I’d have more confidence and wouldn’t want to continue isolating
myself from the community if Carol’s and my relationship could be healed.
And I know you said when you were here last Thursday (on the 3rd) that I don’t have to
answer every question that you ask me, but I asked my mom on that same day after you left if she
has any opinion about why I don’t want to be left at home by myself. She thought because I’d be
anxious and then she said that this might be something we could work on so that I get my
confidence back. I remember that I still didn’t want to stay at home by myself even before I
lost my confidence in doing a lot of things, and again the reason why I don’t want to be left at
home by myself is not to punish my parents by the way. And I reminded my mom about people who
can’t be left alone due to medical issues like Jennifer for example, that 30-year-old girl who
Carol does respite for. I want that same designation for myself. And you asked me when you saw
me last Thursday if Carol use to bug me like you do about being left home alone, I said in the
message I sent you on Sunday Feb.24,2008
that she was bugging me about it one day when she was at my place just two weeks before our
relationship ended. I got upset about something else later that same day just a few hours after
Carol left and what I was upset about didn’t have anything to do with Carol, when I phoned her
once I got upset though she said that she hopes what got me angry wasn’t earlier in the day when
she was with me and she wouldn’t stop bugging me about being left home alone. And this was the
same evening that I keep writing about on which I wasn’t sure if I was ready to do two nights
after I got upset but when I talked to Carol on the phone that same day she said in a calm tone
of voice that she still wanted to come spend those two nights with me.
I didn’t say that I think my parents should’ve knew that I wasn’t ready to do two nights yet,
what I said was I think they should’ve prepared Carol incase it did end
up that I wasn’t ready for two nights and I wanted them to come home a
day early. And I said to my parents lots of times since that day last August that they should
tell Carol I want her back, but they would respond by saying that they can’t make someone work
with me who doesn’t want to work with me anymore so I then told them that they should do the
right thing and; phone up the ministry, tell them that they didn’t prepare enough last August
for me to be away from them for two nights, and tell them to give Carol back to me. My dad
blames the ministry for what happened seeing how I told you in
the message that I sent you on Wednesday Apr.2,2008
about how he says that whenever we asked them for help for me all they would give us was just
respite.
And in your reply that you sent me last Wednesday (on July the 2nd) to the message I
sent you on the day before, that was the first time when you took an excerpt from my E-mail and
included it in your reply. Usually I’m the one who’s taking excerpts from your messages and
including them in my replies. And I noticed that you even copied over my bold red lettering.
Someone who I met online and who I’ve been keeping in touch with over the last few years sent
me an E-mail one day last week asking me to scan for him pictures of all Canadian dollars and
cents, he also said to make sure that the scans are in good condition including the paper bills.
Do you think I’d be supporting criminal activity if I were to do this for him? I don’t know why
else he might want pictures of Canadian dollar bills other than to make counterfeit money. His
website is at http://www.rorboy1983.com/
And if you go to his site and then click on “Photos,” you can see all the pics that he has of
the Australia Dollar and of the United States Dollar. If I wouldn’t be supporting criminal
activity by doing this for him, either you and I could scan the coins and dollar bills when
you’re here on Thursday or I could use my Sony camera on my own time (when you’re not
here) to take pictures of the coins and bills, whichever of those two scenarios under which the
coins might show better. By the way, the same person had another website a couple years ago
called “The Dos Vault” which was about the kind of classic DOS games that I like to play, like
the ones you saw me play on my old Pentium 133 MHZ upstairs in my bedroom one of the very first
times when you came to my place more than six months ago. And when this guy had that website a
few years ago, I hosted some of the games for him on the Stunts Illusion website so that he
could link to those games from his website seeing how the paid website hosting providers allow
HotLinking of any file type.
It was this page
under YouTube’s Help Resources on which I read that “it can take from a couple minutes to an
hour for your video to upload to YouTube.” That was probably why you couldn’t post your video to
your Facebook Wall that you took of Prince immediately after you uploaded it. It also says on
the same page that all videos you upload can’t be more than 10 minutes long,
this one relaxation video
that I watched with Serena on YouTube is 26 minutes.
My grandpa phoned my dad last Wednesday evening (on July the 2nd) and said that he and
my grandma stayed a bit longer at the casino after my parents left there two days before
(on Monday June 30th) and then they drove over to the Langley Wal-Mart where they did a bit of
shopping. After Wal-Mart, they met my uncle Gordon and auntie Sue at the Willowbrook Mall and
they (Gordon and Sue) had their whole family with them:
-their son Michael, his wife, and their
kids who all came down from Edmonton.
-Michael’s younger brother, Paul, and his wife, Agnes.
-and Michael and Paul’s sister, my cousin Janice who came with her boyfriend.
And then after they all met at the mall, they went
out for supper at White Spot. After my grandpa told my dad all this over the phone, my dad then
said to my grandpa that they must’ve filled up half the restaurant. My grandpa also said when he
phoned my dad last Wednesday evening that he knows my auntie Karen and uncle Robert were around
somewhere the last weekend (weekend of June 28th and 29th) because they didn’t go to the
cabin.
Once my mom left my place on Thursday last week when you were here, she had an hour and a
half to kill before her appointment so she drove up to Whalley and browsed around Central City
Mall though she didn’t buy anything when she was there. She did however discover when she was at
Central City that the little pet store there closed out. I remember it was still there the last
time when I was at that mall six months ago, I guess they just weren’t doing enough business.
After my mom left the mall that day, it was then time to go to her appointment. And then after
her appointment, she drove back to South Surrey where she then dropped off her prescription at
the London Drugs store in Peninsula Village. While she waited for her prescription, she went
across to Safeway and got me a deli coleslaw for my supper that day. The woman who was in front
of my mom in the line for the deli counter had two little kids with her; a six year old girl and
eight year old boy. The girl kept complaining that she was cold and then she climbed up onto the
shelf where she was then about to put her foot on top of the bread when her mom yelled at her.
The boy wasn’t much better behaved and the mom kept yelling at both of her kids. Also when my
mom was at London Drugs that day, she was suppose to cash in a GOLDRUSH on which I had won $5 on
the evening of the day before, but she forgot so my dad walked over to the store and cashed it
as soon as he got home that same day. My dad got me $3 cash with my winnings and two $1
scratches; a CAPTAIN CASH and a GOFISH. A few days later, he brought me home a new $2 scratch
called “LUCKY SIGNS” and then he brought me home the next day another new $2 scratch to try
called “FRUIT SMASH” on which I won $6. With my winnings this time, my dad got me another FRUIT
SMASH plus $4 cash. I now have a total of $18 of winnings on scratches that my dad bought for
me. And seeing how I won $6 when doing a new scratch the first time, I thought that this might
be a sign of luck for me whereas I’d eventually win big if I keep buying this same
scratch (the FRUIT SMASHs) until last night when I scratched the FRUIT SMASH that my dad got
me with my winnings on which I didn’t win anything. After not winning anything last night, my
mom said quote "What happened to our lucky streak on these."
After you told me yesterday about Bob Ackles’s, president of the B.C. Lions, passing at age
69, you then asked me if I know about any of the news stories from this last weekend. I told you
that my parents didn’t tell me about any that have happened just within the last few days, but
here are a few I know about that happened before then:
• On Thursday last week after you left, my mom saw the story on the five o’clock
news about Markus Naslund leaving the Vancouver Canucks to join the New York Rangers. When my
mom saw this story she said about how it’s not gunna be the same team anymore now that some of
the most popular players left the Canucks, first Trevor Linden left and now Markus Naslund
left.
• And then an hour later on the six o’clock news, I heard about the story about the 4.5 foot
building that’s in the Guinness Book of World Records for being the world’s narrowest
building...located in Vancouver’s Chinatown.
• And my mom read in one of last week’s editions of the Peace Arch local newspaper that the
grand opening for South Surrey’s Wal-Mart will be on July 30th. I probably won’t go check out
the new Wal-Mart right away because it would probably be really busy for the first bit.
And some cat stories:
• After my dad got up last Thursday morning (on July the 3rd) and before
he left for work, he found Izzy hiding in their closet. She must’ve been scared after the
thunder that we had the night before. And I think that time when you were here later that
same day (on Thursday) was the first time Izzy ever brought a spring outside.
• Saturday July 5,2008 - afternoon: When my mom was sorting through my grandma’s (her
mom’s) stuff and putting it into a box, Chloe kept climbing up onto the kitchen table wanting to
help my mom. And then Izzy was on the kitchen table a while later.
My dad told us that Dave at his work was trying to register one of his daughters to go to
university in Alberta and because she’s coming from out of province there was some extra
paperwork that he had to do. Once the university got the paperwork, they made some mistakes when
they were entering the information into the computer so Dave had to read through it himself and
make sure they corrected everything.
When my mom got the mail earlier this afternoon, there was an envelope that was addressed to
the estate of my cousin David and said that he owed some income tax. They talked like he was
still alive even though it was addressed to his estate. There was also a Thank You card in
today’s mail from Jeff and Jen in which they thanked us for the cookbooks that my mom got for
them and said that maybe one day they’ll invite us out to their place for dinner and cook for us
one of the recipes that’s in those cookbooks, my parents could probably go there for supper one
day when you’re with me.
My mom planned to watch “Canadian Idol” last night which she read in the guide starts at 9PM
so she turned it on at 9 only to discover that it was ending. She wasn’t happy. When I asked her
if she read the guide wrong, she assured me that she
didn’t.
I don’t know if you saw the breeding cage on our five gallon fish tank when you were here
yesterday, my dad moved one of my female swords there from my big 32 gallon on the day
before (on Sunday) because she looked big.
-Neil
P.S. Remember when I said to you in person about what my friend, Mac, told me about that
portion of Highway 97 being a deadly stretch, you then said that a barrier should be installed
down the center. Or even more lives could be saved if they were to have two separate highways,
one for two northbound lanes and one for the two southbound lanes. The peach-coloured line on
this map that I drew indicates the current stretch of highway between Williams Lake and 150
Mile (the red dot on which indicates where the accident took place on Highway 97 at Amarillo
Road) where there could be two northbound lanes and the red line indicates where there could be
two southbound lanes. And you thought that every so often the two lanes should join up side
by side (separated by a yellow line down the center) incase somebody wanted to make a
U-Turn. Or every so often they could have something like what is shown in the “Close up” on the
following map so that the north and southbound lanes wouldn’t ever have to merge:
And you asked me if I had ever been on that deadly stretch of Highway 97, the only
time was on the way to Barkerville when I went there many years ago with my parents and then I
went through there again on our way back from Barkerville.
I also remember you thought that they should build a newer and wider bridge across the Fraser
River to replace the aging Pattullo seeing how a newer bridge should be a safer idea than
installing a barrier on the center of the current bridge after all the lives that the current
bridge has claimed. If you look at yet another map that I drew, then where would there be
room for a fourth bridge if they keep the current bridge just for pedestrians and cyclists?
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