Old Friends 2.

My friend P(from grade 5) posted this photo on her Facebook page of her and her mother( who just recently died and her father was already dead) and it surprised me as she looks exactly the same  as she did back then as a kid! it's like she never even aged at all! All the rest of us have gotten older and look older, with grey hair, wrinkles, etc. but not her; she still looks like she did when we were kids! Wow! She now has 2 adult girls of her own in their 20's. When I first saw this photo it tricked my mind; I was like, How can this be? She's still a kid in the photo yet her mother is old. How can this be? She still looks the same as when we were kids but I remember her mother as being young, thin, with long dark hair back in a ponytail, smoking Belvedere cigarettes.My other friend P (from grade 6 who has 3 kids) also announced she's going to soon be a first-time grandmother; her son and his fiancee are expecting a baby,and my friend V( from grade 6,who has 4 kids and  who I named my second-oldest after because I always loved her name) also came back from Arizona( she has family there) with a completely different looking face and boobs at least 3 times the previous size; she very obviously had major surgery, incl boob implants and a facelift, but I think she looked better before; now her face looks all weirdly stretched and pulled,taut, and "tight" and she now has these strange "slitted" squinty eyes like Melania Trump and it just looks so fake and phony, like those Beverly Hills Housewives.

The 21st was also my old friend J's(grade 6-10) birthday and I always remember even though she badly used and betrayed me even though I loved her like a sister I still choose to remember the good times and still hope she had a good birthday and still think about her from time-to-time and wonder what she's doing now and what her life is like, and the 27 YR old's ex- GF's mother( I'm still friends with her and have her on my Facebook) said her father turned 90(she's 60) and for his present she gifted him with a private flight over Ventura County(they live in California). That's amazing and it must be nice to be rich( and they're like really rich rich!)  and tonight 2 of the girls arrive for a visit from BC and the boys did a super cleaning of the house too since they always complain how "filthy" it is but I bet it still won't be "good" enough for them and they'll still complain and I bet they'll sleep in late here as well as we're 3 HRS ahead of BC and they'll have to adjust to the time change.The radio DJ also said it's Labour Day in just 2 weeks and I couldn't believe it we're at the end of summer already but it makes sense as the CNE is open and it always signals the end of summer(I always hated as a kid as it meant school goes back in 1-2 weeks) and I used to go 4-6 times every summer when I lived in Toronto and this year I plan to get the usual stuff; clothes, jewellery, crafts, insence, bath bombs,etc.

Yesterday I also sat out on the front veranda watching it rain( and I just love a good summer thunderstorm) and it's been raining heavy for days now I think we're going to have to start buiding an ark(and today's going to be another shit-in-the-house day for Buddy; he 'doesn't do rain."), and my mother said to me, You weren't a stoner when you were younger but you're a stoner now! and I told her, It's medicinal and at least I don't have migraines anymore!  and she goes, But you're still a stoner! and I told her, I'd still rather be a stoner and be pain-free and NOT have migraines!  and apparantly the 23 YR old has also "inherited" my migraines as well and has a really bad one now as well and I also remember mine were extra bad when I was prego, probably because of the hormones, and I wonder too if there's any connection between migraines and our ability to know and see things ahead of time, such as warnings and revelations in dreams and such; if it goes along with the gift? I also think it would be funny too if I died wearing my frog shirt I'm wearing now: frog....croak....die....get it? The cruiseline also e-mailed me saying they now welcome back unvaxxed passengers but you still have to wear a face-diaper( mask) so I'm still NOT going back until I can truly be free and enjoy it, and I wonder if the reason my hearing is so bad too is listening to loud head-banging music for all these decades?

You know I'm still standing better than I ever did Looking like a true survivor, feeling like a little kid.-Elton John