Just another boring sunrise..... NOT, lOl
There is an e-mail. Grandma feels week. WTF? Last night I dreamed Grandma had a heart-attack and died in front of my eyes. In reality: The Nurses want to ship her to a HOSPITAL but Grandma refuses. I am fully aware that I will have to make an executive decision. Where is that telephone?
There are two possible decisions, and four possible outcomes.
I talk to Grandma for a while and she seems weak but utterly coherent and sure of what she wants.
Am I making the easier decision or not? Considering my thoughts about having someone make decisions for me when I'm old, and myself not agreeing with those decisions, I feel more confident that letting Grandma decide for herself is the best way to go.
This bay has amazing waves. Be floated to the crest by one and you can see it breaking to the left and right for miles. Too bad I don't surf, lOl.
I walk over to the kitchen area and see Thom sitting there with headphones on his head waving at me. The exuberant feeling of happiness washing over me is another indication that Less is More!
Another sign of the times (NOT a good sign IMHO): Looking up "supernatural" in Google Images produces almost exclusively pictures of a TV series.
Anyway, the whole worrying about Grandma brings up my mourning for George again and in particular THIS beautiful combination of sound & image.
Time to buy cigarettes. 3 packs of White Horse. I just spread my wallet and extend it to the kid guarding the store. The usual result. The idea of taking too much doesn't even enter their thoughts. CAD $3.49 for 3 packs of cigarettes. Equivalent cost in Canada: $48. I'm happy to be HERE but NOT only for the cheap prices.....
OMG, it's so beautiful !
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| Did I just dig the Eye of Osiris? |
FINALLY, the ether is carrying my draft translation to the patent attorney in Vancouver......
I'm exhausted, both physically and mentally.....
In Vancouver I'd succumb to the temptation to .....(this is a 5th amendment blank ;-)
Here, I just go to the beach ;-)
But where are the 3 German Sauna women with little T? Did M tell them that DUSK happens fast here and that they might be trapped behind the rocks by the tide? Time for a rescue mission:
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| That's NOT them.... |
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| There they are..... |
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| Viva Vietnam ! |
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| Big sweating woman running after spoiled little child ! |
18:00
Dinner in Sweden? Why not...
WTF? The place has ONLY TWO TABLES?
I only notice once they have been dragged away to the beach by other people.
The bar stools are REALLY UNCOMFORTABLE!
WHY is food taking so LONG?
I'm going to do take-out, eat in my room, and bring the plate back later!
Toi se an hand-wave-over-there.
I almost forget to pay in my endeavor to reach the comfy table in my room.
Oh, the cook points out another table hidden in the dark....
But then I hear the cat-calls of the 7 single mothers .....
Wooooowwwwwooow!...... What's your name? .... hysterical group laughter ....
OMG, they sound like a Beer & Blowjobs bunch of British bimbos in Brest !
How was THAT for an alliteration? lOl
Chat with the Australian born in La Bretagne over their dinner on the kitchen terrace. And it's a joy....
WHY does one connect with some people instantly and never with others?
8:30
time to sleep !
3:30
Grandma is MUCH better today...... I made the right decision after all....this time......
7:00
OMG, I'm SLOW & Tired this morning..... Post-work trauma? Or maybe it's the DRIZZLE outside? Or Grandma worries?
Whatever it is, I have enough excuses to be slow today lOl.
As soon as I get to the waterline, Puppy comes running, all happy to see me. But somehow that triggers another action....
YUK! I walk down the beach for a bit before I enter the water ....
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| January 2018 |
It's time to get a haircut again. Whatever hair there is left is getting too long. Coming out of the water gives me not a comb-over but a wash-over. Can't have that!
So I hop on the scooter to ride to my coiffeur, this will be my 3rd visit to this handsome, efficient, and cheap master of the art of sculpting head hair.
Oh, NO, are there really THREE people in front of me? NOPE, let's try again later....
WHAT to do? Easy: Just grab the little trashing fish in your hand, run the 20 meters to the water and THROW it back, lOl.
There is more stuff in the water.....
That's a nice shopping bag, LOL, someone will be happy to have it !
14:30
Time to try the barber again..... OH, NO!..... They're sweeping the floor. A right hand waved side to side, Asia's universal sign for NO, indicates that the shop is now CLOSED. Darn. That means I'll be shaggy for another day......
The ride back is interesting...... What happens when you have a flooded road without a storm drain left to dry up on its own?
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| GREEN SLIMY STUFF ! |
Seems she & Q. applied for a building permit for my property. ONLY.... they didn't ask me WHAT exactly I wanted to build there......and WHERE the foundation is supposed to be on the property.....
I'm sure they meant WELL, but... I point out to them that it would be more decorous to ask ME first, lOl.
16:30
Pierre wants to borrow my terrace to conduct his French online classes at 18:00.
Oh, NO, just take my room; I'm going to be eating out at that time anyway..... This response gets me an invitation to a Gin & Tonic in Sweden, lOl, GOOD DEAL.
Naturally, what is MUCH MORE important is having a conversation over a drink with a social, intelligent and insightful person......there are so frighteningly few of those where I come from!
Back to Sweden for the usual dinner: com va trung va rau ;
Dinner (read: drinking wine) on the kitchen terrace is GREAT. Conversation just flows. This is 'traveling' at its greatest: Meeting people twice or half as old as oneself and discovering that you have more in common with them than with your same-age-peers from your own background.
Want to know what that feels like?
Just listen to this: La Vie en Rose and look at the picture below, lOl.
Toi vui (and drunk of course ;-)
