Thursday, February 07, 2002 :::
 

so it's wednesday night, at like 11:50 pm or so... I have terrible hiccups and shitty connect speed, so it's bee na banner evening all around. oh, and i've been crying too. last monday, the day after my car break-in i go to work, where Themis, a girl i work with, tells me that her adopted mother is sick with cancer. just discovered, and now she's in hospital. i feel terrible, for liza,and her kids, pahos, tashubi and tawasi (wacky indian names, i know) by friday themis knows it's terminal, lung, liver etc... and makes plans to go to oregon saturday. i went to store and got this card to send w/ themis to give to the family. it had this still life of some fruit and like a pitcher of water or something. it just totally reminded me of hot texas afternoons, sitting in the small lean-to kitchen at scarborough faire, making nachos or tea or just talking, with liza in the other room, her work area, making beautiful silver and gold hand made jewlery. she made puzzle rings, all were beauriful and i used to earn them by helping around the shop during the week. i wish i'd have known her more, and i'd just started getting sporadic emails from her this past fall. it seems that themis or someone gave her my hotmail address, and so we exchanged afew letters, sporaidally. as i harly use that one anymore. I miss her, and am just glad, i guess to know she's not in any more pain, tho i grieve for her children, who are all in their early 20's...still too soon to lose a mom, tho i lost mine at 28.
called josh, the infmaous dr yoshi, a friend ofr beau's, who didn't come to the service, to try and get info about oregon, and he dind't have any numbers, but said he'd call me back. i am going to call themis' wife amanda, and see if she knows anymore as to what's goign on. some of us from work are going to take up a collection for flowers for the family/themis...
and sunday is a sort of memorial here when she comes back.
i am all worn out, and seem to have stopped hiccupping for now, so am goign to go to bed, and watch more of season one of buffy that i rented last night.
peace out.
~holly

::: posted by Grendy at 2/07/2002 01:04:00 AM

Monday, February 04, 2002 :::
 

ok.. it's Feb 3.. i've not written for a long time. things, as usua are hectic.
let's just go with New Years Eve. ... start from there. Went to DGTC after re-dying my hair all freshly purple again. hung out with Liz and the jr. Faughnan, her son, Allie... was fun, stuck around a little bit after, then headed to Rob's house. it was a smallish thing w/ him and his wife and a few other people. she did a tarot reading for me, but as she was 'really baked' i don't know how accurate it is/was.
ended up in the hot tub w/ darcy, rob and pam, it was amazingly hot, sheesh! hot...
went home after that, alone, sadly enough...

went to work two days later, as closed for the first... so that was nice.
sometime in early jan, Linda, my boss finally got around to doing my evaluation, said i deserved a raise/promotion. i agreed (duh) however, in true SLACK ASS Sevananda fashion, it was not 'til this past friday feb 1 that it actaully went into effect. I had somewhat planned to go visit James in LA and Christie in Minneapolis... but I have to put those on hold til at least when Justus comes back after maternity leave. she goes feb 17, and is out 6 weeks.

so work is going okay.. still haven't been back working at Dad's Garage since before thanksgiving. Feel like i am being punished for some reason, tho i did nothing wrong.
on the other hand, it's left me time for stuff like, movie watching, friday night dinner w/ marisa and movie watching, and for a change of pace, watching movies.
i am not caught up, but have borrowed a bunch from andy, as well as the $.99 rentals at the store nearby work. am obsessed w/ Moulin Rouge, need to buy the DVD. tho in a pinch, will put on MATRIX on fall asleep to it, which is probably not good for my psyche, but fun to watch.

cats are good, tho bitty had been peeing on the shower curtain and not the catbox... problem solved by getting another catbox..yay me.
Hipo is such my bitch, tho.. .he's so attached to me. just mews to tell me hes there, then jumps on my lap to sleep while i am trying to type.
it seems i sometimes get stuff in the 'only happens to me' category... last friday, while getting gas to pick up marisa to see Brothehood of the Wolf for the 2nd time, i go to put my visa checkcard in it and it didn't take it i tried agin, but nothing, so i figured that i would just have to go in and pay i put the nozzle in the tank, make it go on it's own and wait.. at $679 gas starts pitting oput of the tank, and i go WTF? just as i am putting the nozzle back in, chalking it up to wierd pump-ness at the BP a tall guy in a big shiny black Tacoma pulls up, gets out and asks ' excuse me, do you have any spare gas?'
I go (cleverly) 'what? huh?' turned out he'd pre-paid for $10 of gas, and drove off w/o getting it
while nice looking and all, but kinda silly i think, for forgetting the gas so we go to the inside, and i explain to the girl there what happend.. she had to charge my card $10, but gives me the change back in cash, i go 'well this is good, as i am going to the movies tonight and now i'll have popcorn money' thank her, and walked out the guy follows me out, asking what movie i am going to see,. and i tell him he asked what it was about and stuff, we talked movies for a few minutes he then asked where i worked, and i told him, and when i got to DGTC he was all. 'oh wow, i went there for first time a few weeks ago!' ..all excited
he gave me his card ans said he's a web-developer and if anyone i know needed a site built. to give him a call. ans said he'd buy me a drink at dad's next time i was there I got in my car and drove off. after saying goodnight etc.
the next day, at the plaza job, aaron told me that guy was hitting on me, and i go WHAT? - as i totally didn't notice, and acoutally wondered why he started talking about movies with me in the first place.
shows how dense i can be sometimes.

so i went to movie w/ marisa... and had dinner first, yummy italian food.
sat worked at Plaza... came home, i think i went to theater for a bit
sunday, came out of house to go pick up Rob (2nd of 3) to go see BOTW as i'd promised him i'd go with him and i go out to find my car broken into AGAIN!
this is time #4 in 4 months. drivers window is smashed, and $15 radio stolen from plug in lighter. i was pissed .come back in and all casual say to josh ' so, my car's been broken into again' I called Rob and asked him tp pick me up, so i could bring jumoper cables to start his old car he's tryingto sell go to his casa get car started, get new battery and wipers at store go to BOTW and then on to veggie burgers at cabbgetown grill. it was good convo, he told me he's on zoloft fro depression and ego problems. i found that it was interesting he told me that i told him all about what happened with beau, and how he died, etc cried a little bit, but not too badly.
he paid for dinner, for my help w/ the car. which was nice. and drove me home i am still not sure if it was a date or not, we saw a movie, he drove and paid for dinner
so monday Themis at work tells me Liza, whom i've know for 10 years is sick. really sick , with cancer.
in hospital her kids, Tashubi, Pahos and Tawasi are there I belive, in Oregon with her by friday Themis knows she's going saturday morning to oregan, and her ticket is $1600.. I don't know if i can go, or if it's right for me to do so at all themis has known her since she was 16, and liza helped raise her and her brother, rainbow
I got a card friday, that reminded me of hot afternoons in texas, sitting and drinking tea, and making nachos and liza working nearby. liza is a silversmith and jewler, making beautiful puzzle rings. in it, i sort of said good bye to her, tho i don't want to think of her not being here a missing hole in my memories of scarborough faire, which i treasure so much
i cried like hell while writing out what i said in the card, and gave it to justus to give to themis to take with her i can only assume that she got it i slept a good part of saturday, did soem howsework watched part of my kitechn wall soften, as i think the hot water heater is fucked up, and steaming thru the walls josh was in new orleans, so i didn't have the landlady's phone # to call her. i got two dvd's to rent, ginger snaps and in the mood for love watched GS, it was okay. slept thru most of sunday, took a nice bath, and went to work at the plaza.
thats it for now
more later
---H

::: posted by Grendy at 2/04/2002 02:01:00 AM