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| In the most random of ways, I started this day. If you've been following at all, you've probably already calculated out the dates, and are realizing just at this moment that I will be heading to Cancun tomorrow morning. I woke up earlier then usual today, which is giving me one of my first opportunities to journal about events that happen in the morning hours. Despite my strength online this morning, I failed at my first attempt, and as a result I will be putting $10 in the L Jar when I get back to Canada. I've had this happen a few times now: After a shower, or cleaning my ears or something of the sort, I will wind up losing partial hearing in one or both of my ears. Today is definitely the worst it's ever been. I would say that my left ear is hearing about 35% and my right ear 75%. I'm actually having a really hard time hearing people, and have had my fair share of frights walking around town. One thing that I'm finding really unusual about this, is that generally when you your hearing is weak, you talk louder as to over compensate for not being able to hear yourself talk. I've been the opposite, and have had to repeat myself 3 or 4 times to people. Despite these hassles, it's actually been comforting to be blocked out from alot of the noise in our world. Melissa Etheridge last night was actually quite choice. We arrived about 20 mins before the show was meant to start. I was wondering what was going on because the stadium was empty. It would have been embarrassing for Melissa to come out and have only a few hundred people in the stands. Come to think about it, embarrassing for those few hundred people as well. At show start though, their was a number of rodeo events. Calgary stampede and Cochrane didn't make me feel wet behind the ears with the rodeo, but it was the first time in my life that I'd actually seen with my naked eyes bull riding, calf scrambles and the like. I was stunned to see some of it. I cannot wrap my head around people riding those crazy two ton bulls. It must be extremely hard on the back/neck,etc., let alone the guy that we saw get stepped on. I can't say I was into it, although their was a cute girl doing handstands on a horse at the end. During the Rodeo the stadium did fill, and Melissa came on. She has Roxette style hair at the moment, as she lost it all with breast cancer. She played a couple of her biggest songs right of the go, and then she did a quick tribute to Sheryl Crow. Sheryl Crow's breast cancer was caught early enough, and she is recovering really well(just in case your curious). She isn't even going to lose her hair. She then played a couple more of her songs; before saying: "In case anyone is unsure: I'm not Sheryl Crow!". She then started to play a few of Sheryl Crow's biggest songs. Covers. It was brilliant! If you asked Al, he would wager that she might have even covered them better then Sheryl did the originals. Talented that Etheridge. It's a good thing her show ended when it did, because my leg was starting to get heavy, and I was going to have to ask her to get off of it soon. I haven't read a novel since I read "Lovelock", and that was more than 5 years ago. I'm reading "The perfect mile". It's hard for me to say whether it's the book that I'm into or whether it's the relaxing bronzing in the backyard by the now running waterfall. There has been a fair share of white jokes going around, especially with Cancun coming up. Al, has been reminding me to check the baggage limits with the airline, because all of the sunscreen that I'm going to need. I'd say I'm holding a respectable amount of color from the last few days; but that depends largely on who I'm standing next to. Al left this morning for Oklahoma City where he is attending a black tie dinner with Hugh Heffner, and my mom. Without guidance for dinner tonight, I started walking down Westhiemer. Un-decisive with myself, I kept walking, and next thing I find myself in the middle of town. You would have seen me looking over my shoulder every couple minutes, as I started feeling a little bit dodgy because of my hearing. Random that, but I decided not to make a big deal about it, and I strolled on: to Farago's. I was hoping for the interesting waitress, whose name I forgot; instead I sat at the bar, and enjoyed a jerk pizza and a couple Stella's, while watching some football (and if you didn't grace New Zealand in 99, or have a talk with Haley tonight - I'm talking about Soccer). Leaving Farrago's, with a full stomach and a fair walk ahead of me, I was happy to have Stella tagging along. After a 'brief' stop at the Aloha Modeling studio, I continued on home, and am now in the midst of laundry and the rest of the preparations for tomorrow. I have yet to tell you about my visit to Nasa, and the last day of house shopping among others, but. It's getting late and I still have to find my leopard skin thong, and pack my bag. - I'm kidding about the Aloha stop, and that concludes the thoughts of the day from the younger one. |
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