vaughn, washington

here to see my friends, stella and matt, and the sacdalan family for the american thanksgiving. five hours from vancouver bc along the i-5, near gig harbour. i am in this gigantuan house on the bay. it is for sale for 2.6 million so if you are interested, i can direct you to the owner. it is always great to see stell who is my best friend of all times. she and i met about twenty years ago working for the hair salon , suki's. i was a hair cutter and she was an receptionist. anyssa carruters, also was a receptionist at the time. i feel fortunate that such groovy girls are still my friends all this time.
this week has been great. i had a real moment, with nat gold from saltsprisng island, this week. it reminded me that i am nothing but a child some days. all that is important to me is to have time to my self to do my personal business, and i mean that. we had been doing hot yoga every morning at 6 am and the days were getting a bit cranky for me as we continued on. the mind was irritable and suddenly, i was reactive to the external world. crying was close to the surface but anger showed its head instead. luckily, i have a good friend in nat and though it was disruptive for both of us, we manged to rectify with sleep and understanding.
i am realizing that with age, i have mellowed. i am more concerned with the quality of my life. i work hard to love it.

nat called from the vancouver school of bodywork and massage and told me about a email announcing the spice girl tour needing therapist. she suggested i send in a resume. so i put one in and got an interview but no response on the job.

a few weeks later, i was griping about how boring my life was. routine was dull and my mind was frustrated with the lack of excitement. it was a snowy day, december 5th. so alex and i went out to enjoy the heavy snow. we shovelled the walk. we pulled the toboggan to the school hill and rode on the fresh stuff. got home and alex went over to his friends to play. i retrieved my voice messages. heidi from new york left me a message asking me to work the spice girl show at gm place. bobi, who is the usual therapist could not make it through the heavy snow. would i work it? of course, i am a ski bum and can drive through anything to get to the hills. so downtown vancouver would be a breeze. i rushed down. worked on five of the ten dancers for the tour. an agent came into get his neck worked on. at seven, the gig was over, i was provided with dinner and got to see the show on the floor. fabulous.
this whole event showed me that life is not dull and that opportunities come out of the woodwork all the time.