Beat soup

I just finished eating some beet soup that Laura made. It was pretty tasty (good job Laur!) and filled the spot. I liked it. Laura just turned on her Dirt Devil that she got at the Thrift store at her work. She has the patience to deal with that thing but I don't. I would rather sweep the floors and then mop but it isn't my turn to do the floors so she can do them her way. Fly at 'em I say, fly at em!

Heather took me to STarbucks today for a drink. We first stopped in at the Pet store that is going out of business to see if there was anything decent but all of the good stuff had been sold and I ended up taking a free pamphlet about how to look after your cat. We then stopped in at the Sally Ann because they are having a renovation sale. They had this deal where you could get as many items in your hand as you could carry and only pay $5.00 for the whole lot and it was funny because every couple of minutes an East Indian lady would come on the speaker phone and clarify that you can only carry the items in your hand to get the $5.00 deal and NOT use baskets or trays to carry your items and that this was a way for them to say thank you to their customers. Heather and I kep laughin every time she came on to say this.....people will try anything...even at the Sally Ann! I ended up getting two novels and the lady only charged me 50 cents and Heather 25 cents for her book. Nice!

We then headed to Starbucks and Heather treated me to a cranberry soda and an oatmeal fudge bar. They were both good. WE sat there for a bit and chatted and then headed back home. On the way home we saw the Homeless man that I mentioned in my last blog and he was holding a coffee cup and Heather put two coins in...and then she said "oh, did I put in your coffee? Sorry!" The man didn't say anything but I gave him two coins two only I put them in his hand. There may have been some coffee in the cup but it was hard to tell and then man didn't say anything. Oh well, an honest mistake if there was.

I noticed that this man has really nice green/blue eyes. I always wonder what / how people become homeless. I imagine them as little babies and I think that they must not have been homeless then so what circumstances made them homeless? Don't they have any family? It's sad. Why can't our society be such that we take care of these people? These are just things that I think about sometimes.

I have been thinking a lot about Ann today. I think that I still have her phone number somewhere around here but I am hesitant to call her. Do I really want to have that friendship (or whatever it was) again in my life? Maybe she has changed and maybe she is more "together" but I don't know....I've known her a long time. I just think of all of the times when she wanted me to come and visit her or help her with stuff or hang out and most of these times involved hanging out with questionable people (undesirables as my mom would say) and I always felt like the tag along. Like when she was "friends" with this guys named Kenny and ended up taking me with her to his house and they were drinking and we ended up spending the night and she was with him in his room and I was stuck hanging out with his two buddies. Or when she wanted me to come and visit her in Bassano and she was in a bad part of her relationship with Kirk and it felt like were hiding from him and we ended up staying in this dive of a motel and she and her "friend" stayed in one room while Katelyn and I stayed in another.

Anyways, the point is that I don't want to be in these types of situations with her again - situations where I feel like I am comprising myself and where I feel like I have to lie to people. I mean she chose to just "hide out" for like 4 years and then all of the sudden she is back and wants me to call her. I hope that she is doing well but I question why she even wants to get back in touch with me. Anyways we'll see.....we'll see.

Two more days of vacation and then back to work. I am kind of looking forward to it but also a little stressed about it. Deep breaths....deep breaths.