This posting has absolutely nothign to do with the title....I just sorta had that song in my head.  Probabably becuase it's after 4, I need a sugar fix, I've had to be quiet all day in meerkat world and I'd really just like to run around yelling like a 4 year old.....(maybe even ripping kleenex out of a box and throwing it everywhere WHILST yelling!)

Perhaps I should try and organize an office rowing race.....something that requires office chairs, some lanes and of course - participants.  I think that if I asked people in my office, they would probably be up for it.....some of them are zanier than me.

Sometimes when I'm bored...I like to call Pizza Pizza or another take out place.....and quickly transfer the line to someone else in the office and within ear shot.....then I hear this:

Hello?

Pizza pizza?
You called me

NO - YOU called me

NOOOO - YOU called me, I just picked up my phone....

Wierd

click

AND SCENE!

It makes me smile and laugh hysterically....but only on the inside.....

today is ANOTHER birday of my ex step daughter whom I miss sooo dearly.   If ever two hearts understood each other on a level where words were not needed.....it was she and I. 

12 today, she is the most amazing artist and will be someone to watch in the art world as an adult.......if life continues to support her art. 

My wish for her today - in absence of being able to hug her, spoil her rotten and kiss her nose that I love so much........

Is that she knows always - whether I"m in her life or not - that I believe in her - in everything that she does.   That in the moments where she asks tearfully "why does this crap have to happen to me?"....she remembers our conversation about how special she is...becuase life/god/the powers that be chose her to resolve these challenges - so she can share her learnings with others when they need to hear a success story........ and from someone who can communicate with compassiona and caring.

My birthday wish for this special not so little girl - is for her to find her voice and not be afraid to speak it, stand up for herself be it with words, actions or art.    That she knows how special she is, how loved she is and that regardless of things she may do right or wrong - I am always on her side....That she remembers that my guardian angels will help hers when she needs it......and she can always come and visit me in her dreams becuase she's in mine every night. 

Happy birthday special beauty.  May the world be kind to your special gentle heart.

Yesterday, I returned to the lake I spent ALL of my formative years to visit a dear friend at her family cottage. 

As a teenager, I remember hanging on out someone's dock...looking around at my cottage friends, wondering what we would look like and be like when we grew up.   My dear friend and I have weathered major milestones together....often turning to each other as a touchstone, gathering the strength we needed to face whatever particular challenge life threw our way.    In our teens/ young 20's......a milestone in life   (ohmygod why hasn't he called me?) was met with  "let's go for a drag behind a boat"  or "let's go skinny dipping", or "let's go jump beaver dams in the tinner!".....or meeting mid week for mini put.......really important coping mechanisms!  I sure wish she lived closer so we could do more of that....

Her family is NOTORIOUS for projects.  ANY project....and they're usually so interesting that it doesn't take long before you've been voluntold right into it.  Participation is easy too, becuase if you want to do it RIGHT, they most likely have list of precise instructions that ensure success.   Yesterday, my friend and I were charged with making Wood Chips to aroma-ize the beer can chicken her husband was making......I had no idea how much we needed, but my friend and I had a fabulous time in the garage with the hatchet and a hunk of pine.......We ended up chopping much more than we needed but we definitely honed our skill at chip making......and both gained a great deal of respect for wood carvers who let the wood speak to them about what needs to come out.........I think all our wood said was "ladies!  Please!  just chill!  OUCH!".   I'm sure we had enough left overs to wood chip around some trees.....

  It was a really nice moment..... a rainy day cottage project with my childhood friend, feeling like a kid again.... going back inside the cottage to the warmth of her family, who, over the years. have come to feel like my own. 

I have just one more rant this week....I think I got up on the wrong side of bed this morning and was too afraid to scowl becuase I have a deep wrinkle erasing creme and didn't want to cause a wrinkle on my forehead...........so you're forewarned.....

How is it that governments can be so profoundly short sighted?   Canada could be one of the richest countries on our resources alone.....and we could be the most sustainable, if we looked after what we have and think NOW - about the future..... 

Our government, in it's "wisdom" decided to pull its support from a fruit cannery in Niagara.  I think it may have been the last of it's kind.   And then - in their final act of everything "smart",   hauled out the peach trees....some of which, i would imagine could be considered heritage based on their age.

In this age of carbon footprints, importing food.......we have homeless people and we're ripping out fruit trees!  And fueling the tractor to rip them out....for what? So piles of dirt can sit on that field for the next few years until another "friend" of the government can by the property at a severly discounted price becuase of the "state" it's in?   

I would LOVE to meet the person that made the decision to rip out those trees.   Just so I have visual of what "STUPID" really looks like......

I went to Dream in High Park tonight and what a perfect evening.....the wind was warm and playful, a lovely couple offered us chairs for their guests that weren't coming.......I knew someone in the play and it was an amazing version of Midsummer's Night Dream. 

I could hear the wind thru the trees, see the stars in the night sky, and see fireflies!!

I have a dear friend who has recently lost her eyesight.  Sometimes, I take her grocery shopping becuase it's fun together time for us both, and it's less stressful for her.....

Today she went to her local IGA on the Danforth.....and was navigating the lights with her Guide Dog Lagoon. (he's soooo lovely!) She waited patiently, listened carefully - to make sure that she was crossing with the lights at the right time.

The moment she stepped out onto the street...a car made a right turn, not even stopping for the light.  THANK GOODNESS - she has some vision left front and centre.....becuase if she didn't see the car, he would have hit my friend and her dog.  I dont' wish anything bad on anybody....but I do hope that he understands the implications of his stupidity - before he actually kills someone.

I WOULD like to take a moment to THANK THE DRIVER BEHIND THE A** who not only honked like a madman, but stopped his car, and helped my friend cross the street safely. 

I wish everyone would be more aware of those that are differently-abled and be more willing to assist....(THAT INCLUDES GIVING UP SEATS ON THE TTC) I wish that that driver understands that he almost took out a most precious and special woman who has so much to give the world........not to mention the most glorious dog that assists her daily.......

I cannot take credit for this........a totally true story!!!

A friend of mine made a committment this week and purchased a plant.  It really took a great deal of thought, but the decision was made.  After a few days of touch and go moments while getting to know each other (the first fight, first making up....awkward silence....you know)  he decided that he could safely commit to tranplanting the plant into another pot.  Not just the one it came home in. 

 It was a very serious operation.........he purchased all of the appropriate knowledge tools..... "how to transplant a plant" books and all the accoutrement of plant transplantation....

It was apparently very touch and go, with some dicey moments......it took a steady hand, and a will of steel....but the plant made it into recovery and seems to be doing well.

I think if I had to committ to a plant (and subsequent plant transplant) I would committ to the same plant my friend adopted.  However, I"m in the middle of a metamorphosis and couldn't possible drag my plant around while I'm trying to spread my wings....

Tonight I went to an Argos game with a friend......what a fabulous night!   I don't purport to get football, I don't know if I ever will.....I can recognize a good play when I see one tho.

My friend ordered a beer - I double dog dared her to drink it with a licorice straw as I downed my blended cosmo (with a licorice straw). 

There were men in tights, balls, fights on the field and off.....they played some great 90's music, I could scream and yell, clap and cheer and not feel like I belonged on a short bus.  Sure made up for having to be quiet all day in meerkat world! 

Thanks girlfriend!  That's a great girls night!

I can't sit still....I can't be quiet.  Prairie dog world is killing me.  I have the song "Maniac" in my head from Flashdance and I'd like to do the dance that goes with that part of the movie........

Just what the heck is a "Flash Dance" anyway?  The Eighty's sure were silly!

I don't know if anyone REALLY likes to wear pants.  Maybe in the winter time.....snow pants for sure...but now?  When I wear pants, I can't wait to come home and take them off....it's a season for less clothes.  I was thinking that perhaps offices could green themselves by turning down air conditioning and omit PANTS from appropriate / policied attire however - I dont' know if I want to look at a lot of de-panted people......