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We All Believe

Um, the woman who manages my local coffee shop 😍☕️

Spunkie

We All Believe said:

Um, the woman who manages my local coffee shop 😍☕️

Great minds....

We All Believe

Spunkie said:

We All Believe said:

Um, the woman who manages my local coffee shop 😍☕️

Great minds....

LOLOL

Relatively new coffee shop, beans imported from Taiwan, best coffee I've ever had. Friendly with all of the staff.

Manager is super cool, has a little bit of a bad girl attitude. Unprompted, she told me I had great skin lol.

Been flirting for a bit, never worked up the courage to get her number.

Just went there for lunch. The owner, Jason, said Brianna is no longer there, due to a "misconduct separation" that required a call to the local police on Easter.

😭💔☕

Is it weird that I'm more attracted to her now lol?

I don't know what happened, Jason didn't say.

Spunkie

Ahhhhh shit!

PJ_Soul

I'm going to Toronto for the first time on Sunday - goijg for 5 days. It's not for fun. My mother has very bad essential tremors that sre fully ruining her life, and Sunnybrook is the one place in all of Canada that has this new focused ultrasound brain procedure that might help her. I'm really stressed out about it, mainly because there is a large chance that it won't work (let alone the actual risks, which are extremely real). My poor mother has to have her head completely shaved for it too, which she is mortified about, of course. We do have reservations for dinner at Canoe on our last full day there though, so that will hopefully be nice. I also hope to have time to visit the Ontario Royal Museum.

Spunkie

I wish her good luck and glad you have a good time planned with her prior to the procedure she's lucky to get. My kiddo is researching neuroscience as a career. The last time I took a course a few years back the textbooks couldn't keep up with the science. I wonder how it will change in the next 10, 20 years. Maybe that will be a common procedure done by AI by then

HughFreakingDillon

my youngest is headed onto a bus for a school band trip from The Peg to Banff/Calgary/Drumheller. My poor brain always goes to the darkest places in these situations. 

SPEEDY MCCREADY

Where the fuck are the roofers? 

We All Believe

My maternal grandmother (1979), grandfather (2009), and my mom (2016) are all buried in the same plot, 3 caskets.

My grandmother died when I was 2, don't remember her, but we lived with my grandfather for a bit when my mom left my dad. Was very close to him. Gave his eulogy.

***

My aunt, my mom's sister, my Godmother, died in September of last year, cremated.

Without telling any of my uncles, or me, my cousin buried his mother's remains in the plot yesterday.

Legally, he had the right to do so, as my aunt is obviously a direct descendent of my grandfather.

When I asked if our uncles knew: "Instagram told them."

He checked in at the cemetery and posted an IG story, with a picture of the remains and the plot.

***

He's had issues with our uncles for years, and his anger is justifiable, but IMO, they deserved a phone call.

And our own issues notwithstanding, I feel like I deserved a phone call. He was always like an older brother to me. We stopped talking after the election, when I (as he put it) "disowned the entire family". 95% of my family is Republican. We only started talking again because I had a heart attack in January.

And now he wants my Godmother to be at peace, when he left her to rot in a nursing home for the last 2 years of her life, while he sat in his multi-million dollar house at the top of the hill in New Jersey.

When I told him that he could have gone about this in an infinite number of ways that would have been more respectful to not only the deceased, but to those who miss them:

"I'm not seeking perfection or permission at this point of life."

And there isn't enough room for my aunt's inscription on the headstone. To remove it, he needs my 3 surviving uncles to give permission.

I have the deed to the plot, but it's essentially useless.

I don't trust him to do the right thing in terms of my mom's inscription on the new headstone.

This all makes me sad and angry. Selfishly, I wanted the 3 of them to remain alone, but I can't really deny my aunt a proper final resting place, at peace with her sister and her parents. And while I loved my aunt, and while I miss her terribly, I feel like her son could have handled this better.

PJ_Soul

Spunkie said:

I wish her good luck and glad you have a good time planned with her prior to the procedure she's lucky to get. My kiddo is researching neuroscience as a career. The last time I took a course a few years back the textbooks couldn't keep up with the science. I wonder how it will change in the next 10, 20 years. Maybe that will be a common procedure done by AI by then

Thank you so much Spunkie. We are home now, and the brain surgery was an incredible success!! I'm not exaggerating when I say it was like witnessing a miracle. We went into recovery, they pulled back the curtain, and my mom was lying there holding a cup of water in her right hand, totally steady, with a huge smile on her face. My sister and I yelled out in glee and danced, lol. I was literally feeding my mom before the surgery because she couldn't keep her hand steady enough to do it herself. After, we filmed her eating a couscous salad without spilling a single grain. 

It was absolutely stunning that a procedure could so effectively and quickly change a life like that. They did the right side this time. The left hand will be fixed in about a year. But man, even with one hand now able to take on fine movements, her life is so much improved, I am beside myself with happiness for my amazing mother!! And that doctor who developed this incredible new surgery, and who also performed it... as far as I'm concerned, he deserves a Nobel prize.

Also, Sunnybrook is an incredible hospital. I've never seen anything like it. It reminded me of those hospitals in the TV hospital dramas, where they have the best of the best.

Finally, I found the people of Toronto to be completely amazing. Everyone was so nice, and they have a liveliness to them that you don't really find in Vancouver, where everyone is arguably too chill.

But the traffic was fucking appalling, lol. And the air there really fucked me up. It wasn't hot, but there is a disgusting humidity and heaviness to the air, it actually kind of messed up my whole system in a way,, like it made me swell up, clammy.... plus my hair hated it, haha. I missed the Vancouver air badly the whole time I was there.

SPEEDY MCCREADY

Nobody likes a braggart 

cutz

PJ_Soul said:

Spunkie said:

I wish her good luck and glad you have a good time planned with her prior to the procedure she's lucky to get. My kiddo is researching neuroscience as a career. The last time I took a course a few years back the textbooks couldn't keep up with the science. I wonder how it will change in the next 10, 20 years. Maybe that will be a common procedure done by AI by then

Thank you so much Spunkie. We are home now, and the brain surgery was an incredible success!! I'm not exaggerating when I say it was like witnessing a miracle. We went into recovery, they pulled back the curtain, and my mom was lying there holding a cup of water in her right hand, totally steady, with a huge smile on her face. My sister and I yelled out in glee and danced, lol. I was literally feeding my mom before the surgery because she couldn't keep her hand steady enough to do it herself. After, we filmed her eating a couscous salad without spilling a single grain. 

It was absolutely stunning that a procedure could so effectively and quickly change a life like that. They did the right side this time. The left hand will be fixed in about a year. But man, even with one hand now able to take on fine movements, her life is so much improved, I am beside myself with happiness for my amazing mother!! And that doctor who developed this incredible new surgery, and who also performed it... as far as I'm concerned, he deserves a Nobel prize.

Also, Sunnybrook is an incredible hospital. I've never seen anything like it. It reminded me of those hospitals in the TV hospital dramas, where they have the best of the best.

Finally, I found the people of Toronto to be completely amazing. Everyone was so nice, and they have a liveliness to them that you don't really find in Vancouver, where everyone is arguably too chill.

But the traffic was fucking appalling, lol. And the air there really fucked me up. It wasn't hot, but there is a disgusting humidity and heaviness to the air, it actually kind of messed up my whole system in a way,, like it made me swell up, clammy.... plus my hair hated it, haha. I missed the Vancouver air badly the whole time I was there.

That is GREAT news , A.

BAD news  about your hair =LOL 

Asterisk on the Street

PJ_Soul said:

Spunkie said:

I wish her good luck and glad you have a good time planned with her prior to the procedure she's lucky to get. My kiddo is researching neuroscience as a career. The last time I took a course a few years back the textbooks couldn't keep up with the science. I wonder how it will change in the next 10, 20 years. Maybe that will be a common procedure done by AI by then

Thank you so much Spunkie. We are home now, and the brain surgery was an incredible success!! I'm not exaggerating when I say it was like witnessing a miracle. We went into recovery, they pulled back the curtain, and my mom was lying there holding a cup of water in her right hand, totally steady, with a huge smile on her face. My sister and I yelled out in glee and danced, lol. I was literally feeding my mom before the surgery because she couldn't keep her hand steady enough to do it herself. After, we filmed her eating a couscous salad without spilling a single grain. 

It was absolutely stunning that a procedure could so effectively and quickly change a life like that. They did the right side this time. The left hand will be fixed in about a year. But man, even with one hand now able to take on fine movements, her life is so much improved, I am beside myself with happiness for my amazing mother!! And that doctor who developed this incredible new surgery, and who also performed it... as far as I'm concerned, he deserves a Nobel prize.

Also, Sunnybrook is an incredible hospital. I've never seen anything like it. It reminded me of those hospitals in the TV hospital dramas, where they have the best of the best.

Finally, I found the people of Toronto to be completely amazing. Everyone was so nice, and they have a liveliness to them that you don't really find in Vancouver, where everyone is arguably too chill.

But the traffic was fucking appalling, lol. And the air there really fucked me up. It wasn't hot, but there is a disgusting humidity and heaviness to the air, it actually kind of messed up my whole system in a way,, like it made me swell up, clammy.... plus my hair hated it, haha. I missed the Vancouver air badly the whole time I was there.

That is truly amazing! I am so happy for your mom! This is life changing.

Pap

I'd like to see Eddie wearing that hat again

23scidoo

Euroleague's final four.. back to back challenge!!..

Pap

Happy World Turtle Day! 

hauntingfamiliar

Pap said:

Happy World Turtle Day! 

I'm not sure what this is.. but I like it!

HughFreakingDillon

hauntingfamiliar said:

Pap said:

Happy World Turtle Day! 

I'm not sure what this is.. but I like it!

It’s when all the men do a polar bear dip

hauntingfamiliar

HughFreakingDillon said:

hauntingfamiliar said:

Pap said:

Happy World Turtle Day! 

I'm not sure what this is.. but I like it!

It’s when all the men do a polar bear dip

Ha!!

Pap

hauntingfamiliar said:

Pap said:

Happy World Turtle Day! 

I'm not sure what this is.. but I like it!

The Great Turtle Race Starts Today & Cheer on Pearl Jam’s Turtle, Backspacer! (April 16th, 2009)
4 Years Since 'Backspacer' Won Conservation International's "Great Sea Turtle Race" (April 24th, 2013)

Backspacer = The Turtle Album