04-15-21 Happy Birthday Mrs. B
Today is the 80th birthday of my second step-mother or as she coined herself, the WSM – Wicked Step Mother. I have known her since I was 12 or 13, her first husband and my Dad were best friends. George died from heart failure, my parents split, Dad and Donna got together in my late teens and the rest is history as they say. She is his widow. The day he crashed his plane, May 8 2004 was the day that ended life as she knew it and she would never be the same. Her grief somehow along the way blended deeply into the depression she already experienced. In many ways I lost her along the way. We have had at times a glorious fulfilling relationship full of long hours of intelligent conversation and at others a distance that is so real I think I will never have relationship with her again. Now I fear that she is lost to me but every few months I send a card or a note and hope she gets them and knows somewhere inside that she is loved. I do miss her, she was never a mother to me in her mind but she was generous and loving in her own way. I think she just had so much sadness in her life that she fell into the love of my father and never recovered from his loss. I wish her all the joy she can muster on this day. It is just so sad to see such an incredible mind turn on itself. She was an International Baccalaureate English and Latin teacher at a prestigious school in Vancouver, well recognized by her peers and students. I sometimes wonder and fear if a big brain has a shelf life.
Picked up a new client today and it was so strange talking to him on the phone as he sounded exactly like my friend Kelly on Salt Spring Island. He came to sign some papers and even looked like him! I am grateful to the other bookkeeper in the co-working space for referring him to me. I see myself working with his family for years to come.
I was meeting with a client when a friend came in that knows her as well. She automatically hugged her and then me while I had my back turned at my desk. I literally flinched. We aren’t hugging and it caught me off guard. I think it was just her usual exuberance but I was surprised especially since the client was not wearing a mask. It surprises me still how lightly this is still being taken even though we have 23 cases currently in Cranbrook including a Varient of Concern at our high school. I do feel bad that I responded as I did without saying anything though. I am honestly too tired to filter these days.
Sidebar: my cat is currently stalking imaginary things and racing around the house like a kitten even slamming into furniture. It is quite amusing.
My lovely first step-mom, the woman I call mom, sent me a birthday card with a cheque that nicely covered my manicure today. It was well needed as I had to get it done before I started keying wrong because they were too long. The woman who does my nails was actually chatty today and it was nice. I think I am usually there towards the end of her peopled out day. Today I went on my lunch and that was a nice break in the day.
I had a MusicFest moments type of day as I was musing how handy all my lanyards have turned out to be. I can find one to match every mask and outfit and mood. I use them to hold them around my neck so I am never caught without. Part way through the day I saw the notification that the band of a woman I have known for years as the emcee at VimF had released their single We Were Young. Big Little Lions reached out for pictures of people from their past and I happened to see it and sent along 4 from the 60s and 70s. They used them all!! Check that off the bucket list! I am in a Music Video, lol
Big Little Lions – We Were Young
I you know me I have no doubt you will spot me, if not enjoy anyway, it’s lovely.
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