Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Life is Drama.






As requested by Amanda over in Israel, which as you may know is at war with the hazbullah, but apparently not as dire as my life seems to be. Actually, things are okay. Spent a couple days shopping with my daughter, had a great time. Got her a Bonzai tree, which she had said she wanted, plus tons of clothes.

I am starting to feel a little better about losing my friend/cousin Marc. He had been given less than a year to live, so we would've been saying goodbye to him soon anyway, and so the suicide part is less stinging now.

My buddy Stephane learned about helping people out. He was staying here for the holidays, so he agreed to look after three peoples places. Two with cats and one with plants. The plants one is down the hall from me, but after last summer, when I killed her plants, the request went to stephane. So one place, the cats are old and everytime he goes over, there's shit and puke everywhere. The other place, he flushed the flushable cat litter, and it flooded the suite below. Stephane works a lot with drywall, so he had to help fix it on his days off, with sewage pouring down on him. The other night he was over with another friend at my place watching a DVD. My player stopped working, and so he went next door, and borrowed my neighbours. Well, you guessed it, the neighbour had someone else looking in on the place, and they told my neighbour her DVD player is missing. So now poor Stephane is getting enraged french woman phone calls from Quebec. Anyway, I was away when he tried to return the DVD player till this morning when he came over and put it back. So much for helping people.

My old roommate Darryl Lenox is coming in to do the New Year's Eve show at Yuk Yuks, so I'm gonna hang out with him.

Friday, I go back to the Cancer Agency for another CT scan, and an appointment to get a consult for my kidney operation.

But my city isn't being shelled by anything but rain and snow, so here we go into another year.

Enjoy the pictures of me and her highness!

Monday, December 29, 2008

sometimes endings are beginnings too






In the last two days I have gone from shovelling the church parking lot, having lunch with K's extended family, going to a memorial gathering for my cousin (picture with my aunt above) and finally hanging out with my daughter.
I will miss my cousin a lot, but sometimes the best you can do is keep trying. Today, Breanna and I will go spend some money. This holiday is a turbulant path (of weather and emotion) but it is headed towards things be good. Spending time with my daughter seems to make everything feel okay. My life continues to have plenty of drama, but at least it's not boring(for my readers anyway).