December 12th - busy busy busy
Wow, finding it hard to get a regular entry done lately with the combination of the new job and the holiday season. Busy busy busy. Thinking that I'd really like to do a photo shoot soon to and have some new pictures going up. Still deciding what I'd like that to center around.
Visited
my family over last weekend in Victoria... nice city over on Vancouver Island
just off
the mainland. It's an enjoyable ferry trip. Was nice to have a
chance to have a ride
over with Ty and bi-boy who were also over for the weekend visiting with
friends.
I
mostly spend my time hanging around with my parents, and my sister with her
kids, and enjoying the time of year, walking in the crisp air, looking at all
the Christmas lights. When my family gets together we always have a big sushi
feast where we buy all the supplies and then roll your own at the table.
So had the big roll your own sushi dinner and then roasted marshmellows in the
fireplace with the kids after dinner. I always feel a bit sentimental
when I visit Victoria, it's where I grew up.
Also got to meet more of Ty and bi-boys great friends at brunch over the weekend. Which was nice, but also really really filled with memories. Brunch was at the Herald Street Cafe, which I haven't been to in years, but used to spend a lot of time at, knowing someone who worked there once... My highschool best friend, who has had an impact on who I am, in many ways, but who I no longer really keep in touch with. I kept on expecting her to appear around the corner with an extra large serving of black bottom pudding/pie filched from the kitchen for us. I think she was the first women I was really in love with, and in some ways, it's probably good for me in retrospect that unlike me, she wasn't interested in taking our relationship above the level of best friends and into lovers. Though she knew of my feelings for her. I think our relationship over the years was complicated enough, that it would have been a mistake, had we gotten involved.
Later
as friends, she 'broke up with me' over a bizarre set of circumstances, and it
was a very painful and pivotal moment in my life in some ways. I still refer
to the letter that she sent me at the time as 'the bomb' .
We've
since re-connected enough to be on talking terms.. aquaintances, but living in
different cities, and all this was so long ago now.
Though some people, and some events, are always connected to who you
are.
Sometimes I wish I could play the past like a movie, at least the highlights, and show them to people who could benefit from the information and insight, people in my life now. Likewise, I'd love to be able to step back into the past of the people in my life now, the people I love, and see where they've been. Some of my favorite moments with Ty have been about sharing stuff that is about who we are, that's connected to the past, who've been, where we're coming from. When Ty and I connect it seems that we do better looking to the past sometimes, than maybe we even do in looking to the present.. and certainly better than when trying to look to the future.
Reading
a great book right now, 'Memoirs of a Geisha', which I'm enjoying very much,
It's going to be one of my favorite books, it reminds me in some ways of one
of my other favorite books 'Pavillion of Women' by Pearl S. Buck. I
think they will find themselves side by side on my book shelf when I'm done.
Have to run now, off to the store to buy laundry detergent, hand lotion, hair dye, cat litter, and maybe something for dinner... hmmmmm...
XO
Katt