Thought I would post some more pictures of the magnificent prairie LIGHT and my neighborhood and me in my neighborhood. As you can tell, with no job yet and school not starting till next week, I clearly have too much time on my hands and/or too great of an ability to procrastinate. Ahhh, well I am happy to experience perhaps the nicer parts of
P.S. Post comments God Dammit.
examples of different kinds of comments:
a) critical comment: "Get a job you lazy bum"
b) complimentary comment: " You made a wonderful decision moving to the land of mosquitos and cold and though I miss you desperately every day of my life, I know that you will soon be a happy as a plum"
c) inquiring comment: "What do you do all day"? or "Have you painted your other room yet"?, "Any more sightings of hunks in trucks with trees in the back"?
ETC...
OR alternately you can tell me something entirely un-related, something about your exciting and fulfilling life!
do they have a beautiful winnipeg sun soaked swimming pool in wolseley? i bet they do... also a knitting store... it might get you off your lazy bum and make you happy! you made such a brave decision heading out to the middle of the country on your own, maybe don't judge until school starts. and if school + insane light + hunky men + girls who sing in bars + hilarious children who love/fear toad doesn't make up for all the missing of toronto and friends and cafes and nights out then go home, nothing lost. and lastly, my inquiring comment (because, notice im trying all three types of questions in one) what kind of curry do you make? ive been wondering since you wrote about it. i dont know how to make curry at all. where did you learn this secret skill.
ReplyDeletelove you prairie sister.
what a great turn of phrase
ReplyDelete"happy as a plumb"
my mistake
that is Plum not plumb
I am not really awake yet
everything is looming - won't be a slow day here for me.
i need to try being a plum (juicy and sweet)
i can't be plumb (i.e. square or orthogonal)
i think I'm closer to a pit (tough and pointed)
can pits be happy?
maybe if they grow into fruit trees?
of course then some honking truck might just haul them through wolsely.
tonite is one week to winnipeg after chicago
don't paint the other room
just get blankets.
see you soon
the photos make me miss you too much
keep them coming.
the pictures have such a green green in them
ReplyDeleteand that Home is not real it is a telebus-ism
i found home st on google maps
ReplyDeleteDad, are you going to winnipeg?
ReplyDeleteYUP
ReplyDeleteI have to go to Chicago next week
so
they are routing me back through willipeg
not really direct
but convenient just the same.
myera is getting extra blankets or something I think.
Wish they would route me through London soon.
Dad! Alice!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the wonderful comments and cute how you are having a conversation of your own.
Funny you ask about the curry, 'cause it was pretty much the most ghetto curry you could make...I felt like a true bachelor(ette). It was this thing I had seen Natasha Greenblatt eat before, it like curry in a box. The middle eastern store sells all sorts of varieties of it. It was pretty good but not amazing.
Tonight, however I made curry of sorts from scratch. I just used lots of cumin and crushed coriander, chillies and coconut milk. Then I put in chick peas, celery, brocolli, yams and some parsley. It was pretty delicious. You can buy pre mixed curry powders that have all the spices you need. There are countless kinds of curries-- just look it up online.
True what has been said about me staying and me leaving. For now I suppose I'm staying but as dad so poignantly said, 'there is nowhere like home', a sentiment that rings more than true at the moment.
Love to you both.
I put a card in the door at your house on Wales yesterday so the people could contact me if the house is sick.
ReplyDeleteThe old couple next door put up a wood privacy wall on their side of the porch railing - they are sweet but terribly weird.
today I am "sick" at home being "home-sick" purposefully for the store set-up. but that is a different kind of homesick.
yes they certainly are sweet/weird. kind of sad that they put up a barrier, wonder why they did it now? their daughter controls them, so who knows what she said?
ReplyDeletegood that you're sick or at least good that you're home. i am about to go out, it's raining 'cats and dogs' (which will be the theme of my upcoming post, big changes here at the fawcett house) but i think i will bike any how.
still no package. i think we need to contact them again, how do i do that?
more to come...
Here is a comment about my fulfilling life: Sarah Liss got me a beautiful handkerchief that reads "I heart [read: actual heart, not the word "heart" which would be tacky] pitbulls" in semi-gothic text and there is a PERFECT pitbull silhouette of a pitbull with a bow on its head. I am trying to figure out how to incorporate it into my daily wardrobe, right now it is displayed on the wall which makes me feel vaguely 1st year Poli-Sci lesbian student-esque. She bought it at a vegan store.
ReplyDeleteYour D.S.F,
J.