Topic : Is This Normal Social Discussion

We get to hear about day two! geesh! I actually almost forgot you went on a trip Trace. Now that is bad!

I think I shall rename you Trasigh.....

 

LMAO. You know I love ya sweetie!! And yes you did say unplug not shut off.....

 

*still giggling*

~Ami

xoxo

Or is that even the right spelling. There have been times at work when I'll say a cuss word in front of a customer and my eyes get really bid and I put my hand over my mouth in utter shock. They always laugh. OR! I say one and say "I did not just say that ok?" lol

 

Once again it's fun being me! Guess what you guys! I feel no discomfort in my leg!!!!!!! I'm scared to say it cos I'll jinx me, but this is the first day and I can not believe it!!!! My gosh. I think I may actually be really and truely recovering. Sometimes you just wonder "Is this even helping?!" I may actually go to the dance tomorrow nite. I'm hearing nobody's there much (it's summer and usually slows down quite a bit) but my friends will be and it'll be a blast. I know I can't dance stil, or maybe a little bit. But I may be able to get rid of this spare tire soon. I'm just beside myself!  Yipppeeeee!

I'm so glad you're feeling better.  And I hope you dance!

 

You know, I haven't been home for very long but it seems like forever since I've been away.  I can't remember if I told you about Sedona.  We spent a day there before we stayed at the haunted hotel in the Grand Canyon.

 

When we left Palm Springs and did our little detour to Sedona, my stomach wasn't behaving.  We stopped at a gas station early that morning to fill up the tank (sheesh, gas prices are horrendous in both of our countries) and I really, really had to use the washroom.  Why is it that there are always at least fifteen women lined up outside of the ladies' room?  And no one outside of the mens'?  I'm a little desperate, dancing around, and Luc notices and pulls me outside.  "Here," he says, and hands me my brother's hat and sunglasses.  "Use the mens' washroom.  You and your brother look so much alike, no one will even notice that you're a girl".

 

I guess it helped that I was wearing jeans and a t-shirt and I am, after all, fairly flat-chested.  Who am I to argue at this point.  So off I go into the mens', pass a couple of guys at the urinals and sit in one of the cubicles, or stalls, or whatever men call them.    And my damn cell phone rings.

 

"Hello", I say in my deepest voice, so as not to give myself away.   And it's Mia Jade.

 

"Bamma, is that you?  Why your voice sound so funny?"

 

"Yes honey, it's me", I growl.  "Are you okay?"

 

"Yeah Bamma.  But I go to the park yesterday and I lost squishy baby and I can't find her anywhere and now Mommy says I can take the Dora ball and I put on sun scream.  And where are you?  Are  you with Unco Muck?"

 

Sheesh.  "I'll call you right back, okay," I say as I flush and slink out of there.

 

Okay, so I called her back when we were in the car and everything was fine.  Mark then proceeded to tell me that Sedona is known for it's healing powers and in no time at all my stomach would be better.  And I might even recover my feminine voice.  And remember my gender.  I threw his hat at him.

 

Sedona though.  It truly is a sight to behold.  There is something magical there, in the layers of the colours of the mountains, the absolute pure artistry of nature.  And there really is a sense of something in the air.  Something ... I don't know ...  just how it feels to be there.

 

I leave you with that for now.  Sometimes I can't write when I'm smiling at a memory.

 

xoxo

 

 

When thinking of a memory". Priceless. I'm gonna even let you get away with a going into the men's bathroom story. You did make a journal right? lol

You are one tough audience!

 

I sometimes wish I were a fine artist like Luc or a fabulous photographer like Sue.  Then I would be able to send you pictures instead of words.

 

If you've read books by John Steinbeck or Maeve Binchy or even Ann Rule (who writes about true crime) you can see the colours, smell the air, slap at mosquitoes on your arm - that's how good they are when it comes to description.  Me - well I just get overwhelmed by senses.  It's almost as though there is a kaleidescope in my head and I get dizzy and can't catch my breath.  Which is probably why I have seizures and asthma... (now there's something I hadn't though of...)

 

Along with the beauty I saw in the U.S. though, were the equally amazing people I travelled with and met during the journey.  What a fine combination!

 

Gotta run my friend.  MJ goes back to her father's tomorrow for a week so I want to spend as much time as I can with her.  But remind me to tell you about the waitress in Utah who looked just like Mimi from the Drew Carey show.  And about my friend Joseph who came out for five days and stayed with me and Paula (Cygne) and her husband in Abbotsford.

 

And then of course, there's Pender Island.  Now that, I probably will be able to describe, because I fell in love with the whales and otters.

 

Did you dance last night?

 

xoxo

 

I've been called worse!

 

Please, please though, don't forget to insert the "ig".  Sheesh.

 

I love you too sweetie.

I loved hearing that one too m'dear.

 

No  can't dance. That's tonite, but my leg and foot are fretting so I figured if I really want to heal I'm gonna have to not go. Work is alot really cos I am better and more focused and therefore work harder. I'm spending mucho denaro and have to stay ahead. At the moment I'm behind (where I feel I need to be) and have schedualed some things to be done at my house this week so first things first. It felt sooooo good to feel normal for a day I truely was beside myself. But! All's well in Janetpoo land.

 

Ya know what's different now though? I could care less about being in a relationship. Could care less. Alot of my friends have been telling me that and I never dreamed I'd get there. I suppose alot of it is not going to the dance in like forever, so I don't have all those guys thinking I'm hot. I am loosing my hair and doing everything I can to stop it from happening, but it is, and it ain't exactly all purty either. So. Now I'm like "A boy? Are you kidding me with this?" lol Kinda like it in single land and don't mind staying here at all. I really and truely think they're just too much trouble.

 

So tell us stories when you want. Of course I hope it's sooner than later! lol And I'l quit bugging you.  ...or try to anyway. I forgot you where gonna see Cygne. Where'd she disappear to anyway?

we got back last night from a vacation on the southern Maine coast.  A glorious week spent in a small little beach community, almost from another time.  A small grocery, gift shop and ice cream shop and a beautiful sandy beach, what else could a person possibly need?  The days were perfect 10s with the exception of the last, lightening is a very effective beach clearer!  We've been coming to this place since before we were married, some of my family spend time up there and we all try to do it together when we can.  Hubby, the girls and I, skipped the last two years, thought we would try new places and it was unanimous, we won't be doing that again.

 

Prior to the lightening I stood on the beach to say my goodbyes for the year.  I could just stand there and watch the waves pound the shore for hours (or at least until the tide came for me).  I was on a sandbar and the water would break then spread over the sandbar and over my feet.  I love the way I feel at the beach, watching the waves, makes me feel so damn alive I guess. 

 

We got home to a runaway cat, broken door lock (had to go through a window) and miserable humidity.  I'm thinking that next year we try and do two weeks.

 

2 cents time....

Ami, hope you are feeling better.  I'm not sure I could pull off your attitude.  Oh and Congrats to John!

 

Kelly, what they said and I'm glad that it all got worked out.  Hope you are doing well and happy birthday to Stephanie.  My Lily is the same age.

 

Neecie, my girls are into the Webkinz thing.  I made sure that I checked it out before they got involved and it seems pretty safe to me.  I think that it was created as a great marketing tool for Ganz, hook them in and get them to want MORE!  The price point makes for the perfect party gift and they have something tangible and access to the WHEEL of WOW!  Oh and our computer is in the family room, along with the TV.  And I pay pretty close attention to what they are doing and how much time they are on.  Everything in moderation.

 

Right now I am going to hit the pillow, my eyes are closing but I will be back tomorrow to say hi to everyone else.