Sylvain, thank you for giving my day such a cheerful start. My niece is here now and I read parts of it to her. I'm hoping she will join us here sfter she goes back to Portland, Or. Where she lives. Don't know if I said it here but we had not seen each other in twenty years = although we correspond semi-regularly. She arranged to come down here while I was up here. I left the hospital about the same time as her plane landed and we met at the hotel. Same hotel where I stayed for a month in December of '14 while I had radiation treatment. (By the way, I had another mammogram six weeks ago and I'm cancer-free!!
Elizabeth (the niece) and I are mostly vegging and enjoying each other's company. We both come from severely disfunctional families and have traded off on some of our survival stories. The snake and danger of wild animals stories reminded me of one story of my mother in which she was amazing and I shared that. One of those "while she was basically crazy, she had her incredible moments" story. We divide the loonies in our lievs into two catagories - the a@@$#*@s and the f%%##%ing crazy. I suspect any children watching will figure those out faster than most of the adults but I'm trying to keep it clean.
We are going to go to Dog Beach today. That is the extent of our planning. Elizabeth flys out tomorrow at 8am so it will be an early night.
I think I slept fourteen hours - from about 4 yesterday afternoon to 5 this morning. Up and on the puter then back to bed until 8.
Our hotel has a small buffet breakfast so I got coffee for us. One of the desk clerk's is here and remembered me from last year. Good hotel with a nice funky atmosphere, some long-term residents and friendly staff.
Sylvain, let me say again how happy I am that you have made the move over here. You are one of my people and I value you highly - even when I mostly lurk around your posts. I send love to you, Gail, your father and Lucy and thank you all for being part of my life.
katie
