6:00 in Vancouver .....
Might as well get up....I feel refreshed and energized.... until I notice that my back is acting up (bloody snow shoveling)....and that I haven't heard from Phap since that video call.... and that was almost 2 days ago.... oh PLEASE..... don't let me down...
7:00
I can hear Agnes puttering in the kitchen...
7:15
It never ends: Some idiot had activated the garage door opener... there is a 10cm gap at the bottom of the door.... the wooden stick stopped it thankfully, but that one is now almost impossible to get out..... but I manage.... and pushing the operating button actually closes the garage door..... THANK GOD...... but what the hell were the caretakers doing with the garage door?
8:00
Sardine, mandarin, and cheese on ciabatta.... YUM....
8:15
A Zalo message.... "Have a good day.: ... disappointing after 48 hours of silence ....but I reply "I miss you lots ;-)". This will have to do.... getting ready to dump him again.....
9:00
I'm trying to get the vehicle papers out of the Mercedes.... I actually have to open the garage door and access the car from the outside...... and in the insurance papers the car is still in HIS name.....where the fuck did Grandma put the new ownership papers?
There are 25 pens in a glass next to the phone and not a single fucking one actually works......
10:00
It's snowing again.....
10:45
Basmati with home-made curry
.... healthy and not fattening....but it's missing something....fish? chicken?....
1n the news..... Yes, CoVid is turning into a pandemic of the STUUPID, as I always had hoped...
within one month, I should be quadruply vaccinated....and will get a booster shot in half a year.... ;-)
11:30
need a nap
12:30
Miso soup and empty more rotten jars of candied fruit into the compost.... Worrying about the Phap thing again ....
Marigrace is about to leave but Grandma is awake...... she signs the PoA..... with Marigrace as a witness.... Cora signs as the second witness 15 minutes later..... DONE
While she managed to sign the PoA, she fails 3 times at signing a cheque.... try again tomorrow.
14:30
Start cooking another curry..... this time with the rotting papaya (it's too cold to eat tropical fruit for breakfast) and with shitake mushrooms ($5 robbery at Safeway)......
15:15
Rice with veggie curry
Not bad.... but it's missing a bit of firm fish....red snapper or tilapia....
16:00
where does the time go?.... That printer STILL is not here....maybe Monday?.... good thing I have until February 12 to return it.
16:45
Ciabatta bun with ham, pickle, and cheese..... I'm eating too much ....
going through more crap, I find a picture...
.. I'm about 23 years old....and fucking gorgeous..... only I didn't know it at the time .....
18:30
Drunk and need a nap
19:45
An Eggo with cherries....
Checking online banking....another 15k evaporated....down to 65k.....
22:00
worn out..... but I can't sleep...
I end up getting treasures from the safe and sorting native jewelry and watches ....
In the news:
OMFG !
23:15
Neither London Drugs, nor Nordstrom, nor Hudson Bay sell Jean Paul Gaultier's Ultra Male....only the vanilla Le Male.... I'm living in the boonies !!!!..... I order it from FragranceBuy.ca..... let's see how that goes.....
But I know that smelling myself after I get it will make me feel better ;-)
0:30
My mind wanders.... where did the leather pouch with the gold coins go?... I actually get up and check the safe.....it's no longer there.... but I saw it two weeks ago !..... WHAT THE FUCK? ....another $1000 ended up in dishonest hands?.... while I am living in this house????
1:15
I'm wide awake upstairs....probably keeping Disha awake.... her fault for sleeping in the living room instead of the Grandma-monitoring room.....
1:25
Disha is awake too.... Grandma is whimpering....Disha brings her juice....then Grandma starts SCREAMING......
just luvely .... :-(
2:00
sleep
7:30
The missing coin bag and the opened cabinet doors are still worrying me..... it's one thing being robbed...but it's a completely different thing being robbed and having to let the robbers back in the house.....
9:00
unmotivated.... and pissed off.... bureaucracy, thievery, Phap,
9:15
sardine, mandarin & cheese on toast....
10:00
When they stole the Native jewelry, they dropped one....
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| a cheap imitation of the real thing |
..... a lot of the really NICE stuff is GONE .....
10:30
nap
11:30
need to put the watches in the safe again.... but first I play with some of them... the Mido needs a new wristband ...
12:00
The garbage bag on the balcony is full...move it out to the bin.....
12:15
Homesickness is getting to me.... I order TWO Vietnamese flags on Amazon ;-)
12:45
Procrastinating....watching Netflix.... but I found this beautiful movie ......
.... Alaska is a drag...
14:30
I scanned the 25 year old Chantal polaroid....
14:45
food.....
.... stuffed baked chicken with basmati rice and pickles...
15:30
Call Chantal.....she's walking through Central Park.... I tell her to stay away from the woods next to the parking lots ;-)
16:15
putter putter putter....
17:45
Phap wrote..... his life is 50/50....but he thinks about me and misses darling Han..... I can live with that.... LOL.... Finally I start grinning again.... the kid makes me HAPPY...
18:15
I find old pictures..... Kim & Bridget playing in the garden here..
.. that's the one that Grandma found and freaked out about decades later....BITCH !
7:15
I send a supportive loving email to Phap..... probably won't hear from him for days now, LOL.
19:45
Move bags with books into the car....
Agnes (the young one) arrives..... I rearrange the kitchen counter...that old breadbox only contains rotten raisins.... AWAY.... need counter space ....
Amazon is not going to deliver my phone batteries today :-(....
ah well....tomorrow is good enough....
The salvation army box is filling up... 2 matched sets of spike and carve a roast, seven bread knives, etc etc etc.....
20:45
DOUBT is hitting me again.... maybe that was a Good Bye email from Phap....with him I never know.... LOVE HURTS....
nap
22:30
awake again...
watch a Vin Diesel movie....
8:00
Phap wrote.... being supportive but only that ?!? I should be easy on him....he is 50/50....but I'm ALWAYS afraid that I'll get DUMPED again ....
The Monkey wrote
The birth certificate agency wrote ....progress
My fragrance is shipping... progress
My Vietnamese visa expired 2 days ago.... and now VietNam no longer automatically renews the visas of foreigners ... I left just in time ......
9:15
Sluggish..... unmotivated....
Eggo with sour cherries
A blast from the past...about 35 years ago..... I still had some hair ....
10:30
It's dark outside.... and raining at 3 or 4 degrees ..... I preferred the snow :-(
I started watching Green Book....
more throwing out Grandma's junk stuff from downstairs
11:45
The printer from Best Buy and the phone batteries from Amazon arrived
Kanika notices the big old candle burning outside.... I offer it to her as a gift..... she mentions that dead ugly lamp in my former bedroom that is now 'broken'... I fix it within a few minutes and offer it to her.... "sometime later"....she really likes that atrocity of taste....
12:30
rinse some rice....
13:00
Caregiver Nadine shows up.... Caucasian and TALL.... she is CHATTY....
13:30
nap
15:00
I start the rice cooker.... and keep organizing
15:30
A pasta/cheese roll with rice and apple sauce....
15:45
A good morning email to Phap..... "Don't worry ...I'll be fine.. Westerners always whine more than Vietnamese....I am still learning....Have a great day"
I finish watching Green Book....LOVE IT
17:00
Amazon delivered the curry spices and rice & saffron ....
I drag blue boxes out of the garage, empty, toss, recycle their contents..... resurrect the espresso machine in the kitchen.....
17:30
Shite.... I missed a phone call..... Montemuro..... doesn't work next Friday..... so Thursday same time instead...a day earlier... might save me $1000.
18:00
nap?
19:30
restless all evening.... I try to sleep again.....NO....
eat toast with sardine/mandarin/cheese
21:30
Exhausted....probably more mentally than physically....
CAN NOT SLEEP...... another toast with sardine/mandarin/cheese...
22:30
Another worrying Monkey email .....he is killing my lead-acid batteries
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