drip drip drip drop little april showers
it's raining. don't care. sometimes all that matters is sleeping and waking because you've slept enough. i've had a lot early mornings and late nights lately. they take a toll. elicia and bethany jnr stayed over yesterday. spent the night, as karey would say. we were going to watch a movie but by 7:30 i was wondering how i was going to stay in the land of the living long enough. sure enough as soon as we started it, i was fighting to stay awake. not long after it started elicia went to go put junior down and i took the chance to succumb to the sweet drug of sleep. leesh came out at 10:30 appologetic--bethany took too long going to sleep and she was just going to go to bed. i was grateful to go back to sleep myself but then i got my second wind, watched the elimination round of so you think you can dance--sad. i really liked her. and rookie blue, then the drug hit me like a wall again and i curled up on the lazyboy love seat and slept like a baby...a snoring baby. this morning i woke up with a purring cat on my hip and a pinched ear and the drug slowly drifting from my body as the sound of rain registered on my consciousness.
a lot of old friends have been popping up out the snow like daisies lately. and by lately i mean this last week. which also happened to be the week i put on a dance, did one and a half photo shoots, covered then trained on an early morning job site for dave and lisa who are away and other such things. because life happens all at once and nothingness can be a long drawn out vacuum. so anyways busy and happy week--that's my point. heather arrived thursday morning. i took some of my many overtime hours to pick her up from the airport. of course it was raining. "welcome back to vancouver!" i cheerily greeted, gesturing to our vancouver drizzle. heather got into my car and said "your car smells the same! and your windshield wiper still doesn't work! somethings never change." ( that's right everyone else changes and i stay the same. that's the way i feel all the time) "my car smells the same? what does it smell like?" i wondered, hoping it wasn't a bad smell--which it very well could have been. "i don't know, like lip gloss, and lavender" she said.
thursday night we ate at the white spot and wandered chapters. talking talking talking. it felt like heather was never gone. friday morning i dropped her off at budget car rentals at 6am before going to train at my early morning job site. rothko and the kitties had a near showdown earlier that morning.
i was off at 12:30. i came home quickly, left quickly to go pick up tania at evan and esther's. when she got in the car she said "your car, so many memories!" i asked her if it had a smell. she said it was a fruity smell. first we went to the famous 3 dollar threading place where i was only charged 2.50. i think it was a new girl. she was good but threaded slower and so it hurt more. we drove into vancouver to pick up elicia and jr. from yelana's. we drove to a random park and sat on a bench by the tennis courts and talked while bethany played with tennis balls happily.
on our way to drop tania back off we stopped at the mcdonald's in marpole so tania could get a bite to eat. tania was ordering and elicia and jr were in the bathroom and i secured a table by three elderly. i enjoyed listening to their conversation. the man with the portable oxygen tank was questioning the prim lady in the dressy yellow jacket and stylish bob about her scooter. "i can go over 30 kilograms!" she exclaimed. "it's kilometers." one of the men corrected. "i thought i could go all the way to oakridge mall!" she laughed at her foolishness. "you don't want to do that," wheezed the man with the oxygen tube, "you'll run out of juice! now do you have one of those that can turn on a dime?" they thouroughly entertained me while i was waiting. once everyone was there we chatted and bethany played. an older man maybe in his 60s stopped to talk to us. "you gotta keep your eye on that one!" he said to elicia. he said a few more jovial remarks before coming out with this stunner--"so what do we have here, mother and grandmother?" we both just stared at him. i was taking a while to register that this man actually thought i was elicia's mother. her realized his mistake probably by the way we both were just staring at him stunned, "sisters? are you sisters?" "GRANDMOTHER?!" i finally sputtered out. "YOU THINK I'M HER GRANDMOTHER???!" at which point elicia started killing herself laughing. "we're only two years apart!" the man explained something about how when you have grey hair you think everyone has grey hair. i think this story is going to make andrea feel better for being thought katie's mom--but at least they are 7 years apart. so then this guy comes over to me and engages me in a conversation all about the canucks and how he and gretsky and some others would have bought them and everything would have been better yadda yadda. everyone else did their best to not be part of this conversation. when the guy left tania said "you always attract strange people." tell me about it tania.
so we drove out to hamilton to drop tania off. i asked elicia what my car smelled like. "weiners." she said. so elicia. someone was having a fire somewhere outside and the smell was wafting in.
speaking of elicia i better get off this computah and get on with my day. leesh is in the shower and jr. is playing with her tennis ball and stack-em's in front of bambi. i taught bethany how to say no. i'm cool like that. i'm going to get some breakfast.
a lot of old friends have been popping up out the snow like daisies lately. and by lately i mean this last week. which also happened to be the week i put on a dance, did one and a half photo shoots, covered then trained on an early morning job site for dave and lisa who are away and other such things. because life happens all at once and nothingness can be a long drawn out vacuum. so anyways busy and happy week--that's my point. heather arrived thursday morning. i took some of my many overtime hours to pick her up from the airport. of course it was raining. "welcome back to vancouver!" i cheerily greeted, gesturing to our vancouver drizzle. heather got into my car and said "your car smells the same! and your windshield wiper still doesn't work! somethings never change." ( that's right everyone else changes and i stay the same. that's the way i feel all the time) "my car smells the same? what does it smell like?" i wondered, hoping it wasn't a bad smell--which it very well could have been. "i don't know, like lip gloss, and lavender" she said.
thursday night we ate at the white spot and wandered chapters. talking talking talking. it felt like heather was never gone. friday morning i dropped her off at budget car rentals at 6am before going to train at my early morning job site. rothko and the kitties had a near showdown earlier that morning.
i was off at 12:30. i came home quickly, left quickly to go pick up tania at evan and esther's. when she got in the car she said "your car, so many memories!" i asked her if it had a smell. she said it was a fruity smell. first we went to the famous 3 dollar threading place where i was only charged 2.50. i think it was a new girl. she was good but threaded slower and so it hurt more. we drove into vancouver to pick up elicia and jr. from yelana's. we drove to a random park and sat on a bench by the tennis courts and talked while bethany played with tennis balls happily.
on our way to drop tania back off we stopped at the mcdonald's in marpole so tania could get a bite to eat. tania was ordering and elicia and jr were in the bathroom and i secured a table by three elderly. i enjoyed listening to their conversation. the man with the portable oxygen tank was questioning the prim lady in the dressy yellow jacket and stylish bob about her scooter. "i can go over 30 kilograms!" she exclaimed. "it's kilometers." one of the men corrected. "i thought i could go all the way to oakridge mall!" she laughed at her foolishness. "you don't want to do that," wheezed the man with the oxygen tube, "you'll run out of juice! now do you have one of those that can turn on a dime?" they thouroughly entertained me while i was waiting. once everyone was there we chatted and bethany played. an older man maybe in his 60s stopped to talk to us. "you gotta keep your eye on that one!" he said to elicia. he said a few more jovial remarks before coming out with this stunner--"so what do we have here, mother and grandmother?" we both just stared at him. i was taking a while to register that this man actually thought i was elicia's mother. her realized his mistake probably by the way we both were just staring at him stunned, "sisters? are you sisters?" "GRANDMOTHER?!" i finally sputtered out. "YOU THINK I'M HER GRANDMOTHER???!" at which point elicia started killing herself laughing. "we're only two years apart!" the man explained something about how when you have grey hair you think everyone has grey hair. i think this story is going to make andrea feel better for being thought katie's mom--but at least they are 7 years apart. so then this guy comes over to me and engages me in a conversation all about the canucks and how he and gretsky and some others would have bought them and everything would have been better yadda yadda. everyone else did their best to not be part of this conversation. when the guy left tania said "you always attract strange people." tell me about it tania.
so we drove out to hamilton to drop tania off. i asked elicia what my car smelled like. "weiners." she said. so elicia. someone was having a fire somewhere outside and the smell was wafting in.
speaking of elicia i better get off this computah and get on with my day. leesh is in the shower and jr. is playing with her tennis ball and stack-em's in front of bambi. i taught bethany how to say no. i'm cool like that. i'm going to get some breakfast.
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Sounds like a fun and busy week. I'm glad all your friends are popping up like daisies. At least they're not Huns.