day's end

I just came back from having caramel vanilla ice cream, a bike ride in the dark and I made a makeshift deck-ramp entrance to better ease our access into the house. A is finding it hard to experience all the changes I am making to their home in need of a little feng shui J is a great bike coach for her girls. E-L did not want to go but she cohurst her into doing a cold ride in the dark. We were all good. I had just eaten two of the carrot muffins with the white cream icing I made. It's ok, we did go for a bike ride and I am using her special body cream with "grumoses" inside. I will ask her if I can exchange that for one of my creams.

family time

Melissa and I talked about all the countries I have been in. She is such a big girl and ready to come out on the road. We laughed allot and She played the guitar and then we all found a place to sleep.

could be the same

Here is a run down of what I have been up to this summer.
I was in hot and dusty pre-olympic Athens for one month living at the Orion with a bunch of models and lounging up the stairs in the metro station on my way to gazilion castings a day. I had the chance to spend some time on a couple of Islands and the last week of July I went to Istanbul for some work then took a ten hour bus ride to Selchuk-Efes were my grade 7 teacher lives. I had a wonderful archeological adventure beneath a ruin following underground tunnels and searching for treasures. After that I spent one week with my pregnant sister then joined my family.....

My family and I were in my home town visiting my relatives and (I was chilling) teaching English in a kids summer camp. We left the north of quebec this afternoon and after 11 hours of driving in a van we made it. We were 9 people, a dog, a guitar and a couple of matresses. Tomorrow we are leaving early for another 5 hours to my sister's place near Toronto. She just had a baby last week!!!! So I am reading, writing, learning how to play the guitar, being available as the oldest of seven and soaking in all my family's love. At times I wondered what the point of my existance was and worked through the insicurity of my life and now I am poised and ready for action. In the next week I plan on heading back to Europe first to Belgium (If I book the job I am on option for) Then Italy to pick up the clothes I left behind when I got conned into marrying an Italian after one week of meeting him. I did not get married I just lost alot of time and money. Oh and maybe some superficial friends. Welcome to my university of life. E dopo, tripping in London for a month or so to set my foot in the commercial and advertising "sterling" market.

I have not reached nirvana although I have read through most of the new testament during my summer starting from the back and I do not have so many worries since I float around with my family as if on a mission from point a to point be. Although I was on the phone trying to figure out how to retreive my belongings from Milan everyday. that was a little frustrating at times. It is nice to be in the cocoon of my family. I have a couple of more days then I will take off like a rocket and reach another stratosphere where every inch counts and my dreams are eased on the chance scale of missed blessings.

I will call you soon. I miss you and want to see you soon. My U.S visa starts to work only in October

clutzing about

I just came back from Jessica's women to women's Christmas gathering. I tripped in the stairs and landed on both my knees. I then dropped my drink while we ate and drank some punch. A couple minutes before Jessica brought to my attention that my foundation was showing off all my wrinkles. We were in the back of one of the rooms thankfully under bright lights, I calculated. Smilling we edged our way filled with wrinkles I feared tripping on an electrical cord and dropping my virgin punch. My sister came to my rescue explaining I had no time to place my contact lenses in the car. Too busy we were putting on spray on foundation. Only one :) The other lence did not make it from the container to my eye ball. Once seated in the pews I spotted the fire hazard... my seat was next to a candle. As the evening wore on the stick it was on became loose and the candle almost fell off while a women was playing the cello... A women got up to help but I put the flame out in time. As they were ending the night I rose to the occasion instead of just raising my hand when the mc asked for us new people to stand up. It being my second meeting but first Christmas event my sister again poke me in the gut. Sitting in the front I did not have the benefit of spying on the others.

Too bad I have forgotten my wire to recharge my camera in Toronto at my other sister P's place.