Civic Holiday.

It's a long holiday weekend, the second-last of summer (Labour Day is the last long weekend of summer next month) and I think someone just decided to invent a holiday and call it a "Civic holiday" because August is the only month I think that doesn't have a holiday. Yesterday I could hear the cicadas and the crickets and smell clovers and wildflowers and that's what I love best about cottage country in the summer. It's also been so oppressively hot I even have to run the A/C all night lately but this upcoming week we're supposed to get a break and just be in the mid-20C's and they said we were supposed to get between 30-60 mm of rain yesterday( that's alot) and it never even rained! The 29 YR old's boss also told him that he's not obligated  to pay him for the civic holiday off but he's still going to anyway because he's "such a good employee" and he has a good employee and the 29 YR old has a good employer! Last night he also went to a swanky party at the art gallery where he wore a salmon-coloured blazer that the guys from that 80's show Miami Vice  would wear and he also has 2 more upcoming fancy parties,too: a masquerade ball and an "All-White"  charity event which worried me at first I thought was some sort of White supremacist thing, only allowing White people in(and not Black people,etc.) but they just meant that you have to wear only all white.

Whew!!

I also took this photo of a plane flying above our house yesterday and of the 5 most recent kids on my Prayer List the 4th one just died; a 5 year old boy who had DIPG( a brain tumour) and it just breaks my heart so now that just leaves one out of the 5 still left alive,and a week today the 29 YR old's ex-GF in California gets married and it makes me feel sad as I was hoping one day she'd be my daughter-in-law, and it's the Caribbean Carnival and Grand parade today in Toronto as well, the biggest Caribbean carnival in North America, in fact, and people come from all over( some 2 million visitors!) even  all the way from the *Caribbean* to see it, and they always have such beautiful, elaborate costumes,too, although waaay too "skimpy" for my taste, and I'm just glad the Billy Idol concert is next weekend and NOT this weekend with the long weekend and the carnival and parade this weekend and with so many streets blocked off and all the traffic( even worse than usual) I can't even imagine trying to get around Lakeshore Blvd. and downtown this weekend! Ugh! My hubby says *I* have to pay for the 30$ or so parking,too, the cheap-ass bastard.I laugh too remembering one of the biggest things the Jehovah's Witnesses had with me was that I was always too "individual" and that I didn't "conform" and that I had my OWN opinions, incl. about politics which they say you can't; you have to be "neutral" but I just won't keep quiet whenever I see injustice and I have to speak out against it and it was always getting me reprimanded by the elders until I finally just left, tired of being scolded for being me.

To impose uniformity would deny us the rich experience of discovery.-Tessa Lynne

I also found this photo of the original Toronto streetcar (on the right)and the model they put out in the early 80's that I always took to school, and I'm looking forward to going to the CNE (The "Ex") later this month too even though it also signifies the end of summer; it's my yearly pilgrimage and I always look forward to(even though I get so exhausted and my legs and back hurt for an entire WEEK afterwards!) and the highlight of my year and I always feel so free and like the Old Me back in the city again and it's like I come out of my shell and come "alive" again and yesterday I had this blinding headache too that felt like a thunderclap upside the left side of my head and Buddy does nothing but sleep all the time now too and I worry he's dying soon but I just hope the both of us hold off until at least until after the ELO concert next month(after that there's nothing left to look forward to,anyway) and I wonder too with the cysts the scans found years ago on my kidney, ovary, and bladder if they really are cysts afterall or actually tumours they misdiagnosed and I have cancer( which would explain my fatigue, pain and other symptoms and why I've aged so much even in just the past 5 years) and yesterday I felt really restless, agitated, and anxious,too( esp. my legs) like I do before a seizure( although I usually have those during my sleep) so I wonder if one is coming...

Nobody apologized for how they treated me, they just blamed me for how I reacted..