crash landing on you stole my soul + nash and idaho pics
crash landing on your stole my life for 2 days. i stayed up until 5:30am watching it. slept until 11ish. went downstairs for a perogie lunch. mom said "you need to have a shower." well i knew that, but why did she know that? "do i stink?" i asked incredulously. she confirmed yes. odd, i thought. i also thought i knew why but it wasn't the reason mom thought. it was the reason i thought which was best left to myself. so after some 'rogs washed down with sour cream and a splarsh of apple cider vinegar, i went back upstairs to shower. i fully intended to shower. i even stripped down to my nothings. i was even in the bathroom beside the shower. and yet. and yet somehow i ended up nood, cuddled under my sheet watching crash landing on you. it's so cute and funny and romantic. so kdrama.
and so i lost another day. suddenly it was dark and mom was on the phone asking me to pick her up from the lab where she had locked herself out of her car and gave up waiting for bcaa to come. when i picked her up she said "were you in the shower?" a cursory look at me should have answered that question. no, i was buck in the buffs watching k-dramas and losing all sense of time and space, i should have said. but i just said "no."
uncle duncle and jenny were bringing us chinese food for dinner. mom was behind in her preparations due to the keys debacle and asked me to wrap d+j's present. which i did, even though all the wrappings and trappings were packed away for a year. yes i proffered a great sacrifice by opening the rubbermade tote and sweeping the garbage bags off of the wrapping stand. i went for simple yet glorious as my wrapping theme.
just as i was finishing i was called down for the eats. and we ate and had a nice time. uncle d, on my request told us all about the story of how he ended up working on the sea bus which led into the long slow burn of falling meeting, befriending, and falling for jenny. which was a nice story. but not short. and then bcaa called and ducle and jenny dropped mom off at the lab so she could get her car.
meanwhile i was back upstairs watching the last 2 episodes like the junkie i am. i finished just before 1am. the ending was slightly unsatisfying. but this does not diminish my devotion to the show. i keep seeing the characters in my head today.
this morning i had a shower. yes. i have accomplished that much. today was dad's first radiation treatment at the cancer clinic at vgh. last night when we were talking about when we were going to leave, i said 8:30 or 8:45. our appointment was at 9:45. it only takes around 30 minutes to drive to vgh so i felt like an hour or an hour and 15 minutes would cover both difficulties in transport to the car and any traffic issues. i knew it was the friday before ny and a lot of people would have the time off so traffic would not be too bad. i had thought about these things. but unc-dunc tut-tutted and said one needed to give oneself an extra window of time because of traffic and rushhour etc. did i receive this advice? no i did not receive it. instead i stubbornly stuck to my time of 8:30.
as we were leaving i mentioned how keen i was to prove duncan wrong and mom, from the backstreet asked "why do you care about proving him wrong?" "pride" answered dad before i could. "yes." i confirmed. "plus it's fun." mom said duncan had a very cautious dad, and so didn't have much of a chance in that regard. to my delighted vindication we made it there by 9. "tell duncan that." i crowed to mom.
actually once we got a wheel chair and transferred dad to it and found our way to the correct waiting room we were only 15 minutes early, but duncan doesn't need to know that.
while we waited for dad i started working on my 2023 planner which is all the more fun because of the 3 books of fun and colourful stickers i have. dad was back before we could say bob's your uncle.
on the way home we stopped at the old mission home on connaught drive. it has a heritage building marker on it that mentions our church. i made mom pose for a pic in front of it. she resisted because of the rain but i would not be dissuaded she looked like a disgruntled pink marshmallow in her puffy pink coat with the hood on, haha
back in richmond we picked mom's christmas laptop up from the post office and got some portugese buns for turkey sandwiches. i had the best turkey bunwiches! with cranberry, stuffing, mashed potatoes, roasted roots and gravy. and more gravy for dripping! yum. so messy and delicious. dad had a krab sandwich and mom at her keifer conglomeration.
i walked over to the roeders to check on their place. that's a long walk for me these days. helped mom set up her new lappie. after that i worked on my puzzle while mom and dad had snoozes.
and here are some pics from the idaho trip in march.
becky graduated and i took some pics
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