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Lucretia
{Lucretia2000} {at} {hotmail.com}
Likes puddy tats, the smell of fresh rain showers and reading true crime.
Hates liars and phoney people who put on airs!
Character most like-Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh.
Collects small ornate boxes and puddy tats made from a variety of materials.
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Friday January 23, 04
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07:14 PM - To move away from those younger years
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I've been thinking of simplier times and to me those times are in my youth. I feel I've romanticized those times to even smile at the bad times I lived through. There were a lot of tough lonely times. Being a Jehovah Witness as a child and missing out on all the festivities of holidays. This also meant no photo opportunities at home for such occassions and feel "lost" of self as I have no pics of me from the ages of 9-12.
Birthdays weren't as tough as we always had the Spring Break Week during my BD so I didn't have to face school on that day. I remember my 9th BD as it was shortly after I had my tonsils out. My mother delivered The Evening News to stores and rural mailboxes for a living then. So this BD had a forced friend, (a friend my mother made for me that lived in another town), my step-dad (as he was out of work at the time), myself and mother all piled into the Bronco helping her this day. Hilda and I were sitting in the back on top of all the papers and mother and John were in the seat up front. We had just finished delivering some papers to the Scot Paper Mill and I ended up throwing up in a paper bag from the smell of the pulp mill. Our next destination was Pictou and we had to cross a causeway over water to get there. So being mid-march in Nova Scotia had us in the middle of one heck of a snowstorm. We ended up stranded on the causeway with numerous other vehicles as it was a total whiteout for about 4 hours. The local RCMP would come by and check on everyone every so often to make sure vehicles were running and no was was getting too cold. I remember we sang a ton of songs and retold happy memories and mother would say every so often "well you certainly won't ever forget your 9th BD". Which was gonna be a tough one as it would be the first one I wouldn't be celebrating now being a JW.
I loved being totally enclosed in this white-out where we couldn't even see the vehicle in front of us. We had no inkling of the world around us just the one we made for ourselves in that Bronco.
I'm going on about this as I've been dreaming a lot about NS lately as we recently got our tax bills for the property we still own down there. I'd love to go back and built a home on the old homestead of my stepdad's that he left to us. We also have other property mother bought where her mother last lived. I could put an offer to transfer my job to Halifax but would have to wait for an opening and Halifax is about 200 miles from where our property is located. Our house here has risen in value by 40% since we bought it in '96. Mother has vowed she would not move back there but I long for and miss terribly the simplistic lifestyle in those communities. I know it has grown terribly since I left but it would still be much cheaper to built and live there but it would also mean a cut in income.
I feel I don't use the advantages of living in a big City as I once did and feel I'd be more comfortable in a smaller community. I know all this reminiscing has come about from watching "Quest for the Sea" the last 2 weeks. I just miss the Atlantic Ocean soooo much.
My Love Life: is happening without too much effort on my part. Michael called me at work today to see if I'm up for a play tomorrow as a co-worker gave him some tics from his seasons pass that he can't use tomorrow. The play's about 2 Psychiatrists and a patient at an asylum. My tongue is in my cheek as he doesn't know I'm currently seeing one myself. lol He's also going to cook me a seafood dinner before at his house. I'm nervous about being alone with him at his house but since it's before the play it should be ok.
So I decided to try my little pill this evening hopefully I'm not still comatose tomorrow. I just finished doing all my snow, it's a corner lot and there was a ton with the 2 patios and garage pad. I'll probably be passed out by 10. :-)
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