TLW

Oh my boss's boss. You like basketball?  Wow, we have so much in common. I love basketball.  Oh you like history?  I find it just thrilling, don't you? 


* i don't actually like basketball or history.  but. i do like business men. 

A bargain

So, it's been a while.  March 24th my mom and i went to see the hunger games at the movie theatre.  my dad was sitting at home alone eating a sandwich. He has no recollection of the day but he got up mid-lunch, went for a walk toward the main street (the opposite direction he normally walks)  and just dropped dead.  An EMT happened to be driving by, he saw my dad collapse, pulled him out of the street, and did cpr for 6 minutes until an ambulance arrived.  They shocked his heart three times and got it started.  The concern at that point was brain damage so they induced a coma and did a cooling therapy on him for the next 36 hours.  It was a waiting game to find out if he'd wake up fine, wake up with brain damage, or not wake up.  once that 36 hr waiting period was passed, he began to wake up slowly over the course of  the day. he had signs of brain damage the day after that. and he was fine, except totally uninhibited and nothing like his usual self, the day after that.  He had minor heart surgery two days later and is perfectly healthy and back to normal now.  He's also lost lots of weight since being released and cared for by his wonderful daughter!   Ask me the nutritional information on anything.

So.  Now.  Let's talk a little more about that two week period of time post coma when he was physically ok but mentally a weirdo.  The doctors said that all of there patients who have had that cooling therapy are kind of wild for a while after.  They said a lot of those patients run around the hospital totally unashamed and naked and are often trying to kiss the nurses.  My dad was a milder version of that.  But he got strange ideas in his head and couldn't let them go.

My favorite was that God couldn't let him die because I'm still single.  He decided that his nurse was the man for me.  My dad asked him a lot of invasive questions and made eyebrow-raising faces at me.  He asked all the other nurses about him and if they thought he would want to date me.  He told me to go home and change into a shirt so my tattoos showed so that the nurse (who had sleeves) would know that I'm into similar things as him.  He wrote me a three page letter explaining why I should date him.  He included coupons I could use on our (theoretical) date.  He asked another nurse for her phone number in case he needed to get more information about him after being released.  And about a week after being home from the hospital, he wrote a letter to the hospital, telling them to tell this nurse that he had a single daughter he could have for one goat and two chickens.

Super Fun

Everything's been super fun lately.

1. Vacation to canada!  it was nice to be around an old friend. nice to drink drinks and make new friends. And two near engagements reinvigorated my canadian house wife dreams. 

2. This week the weather has been beautiful (although today it was a little warm at 79) and I've been given the keys to the SUV  (don't worry, it's a hybrid)  to enjoy it.  I guess most people like walking and sitting in the sun but i don't like being hot - so i like driving with the windows down, music loud, and trying to find waterfront.

3. Buffalo party.  My friend Jamie from philly! and korea! and hong kong! is back in america.  She's doin' her rounds and wants to see herself some niagra falls.  So next week i'm picking her up from the airport and we're going to spend a few days watching water fall, staying up till 4am, eating delicious foods and reliving my life circa 2002.

4. Upcoming train rides to visit everyone coming soon.

Memory

In all seriousness, both uncles of my mother's and her own mother have been diagnosed with Alzheimers.  Her memory has progressively gotten worse and worse and we're all a little leery that she's headed in that direction.  This memory issue is no good for her, obviously, but it's also caused a lot of conflict with her giving me the same advice over and over and over again. And with her sending me the dumbest email forwards multiple times a week/month/year.  Unlucky me, I know.

So today, in reference to my trip tomorrow:

Mom:   Is there anything possible between you and this boy in Canada
Me: No mom, you asked me this the other day.
Mom: I did?  What did  you say
Me: I said no.  We're just friends
Mom:  Well sometimes friendship turns in to something more...
Me:  *laughing laughing laughing*  i love you mom.

oh canada

Me:  Mom, do you think you could drop me off at the greyhound station friday? i'm gonna go to toronto for the weekend.
Mom: Sure sweetie, who are you going to see?
Me: My friend tyler who i taught with my first year in korea
Mom: Is tyler a boy?
Me: Yes
Mom: Do you like him?
Me: Not like that, we're just friends
Mom:  Ok, just keep an open mind...wink wink..
Me: You don't even know him. What if he's awful?
Mom:  Well...

Blogjects

I've got so many blog ideas.  I need to treat them like a job and start making them happen.
I want to do three things.

1.  start back up on my list blog.  i need to start making more lists.  which means i need to start socializing to get inspired.  today i hung out with an old friend.  it made me excited to do things.  good hangouts are like dancing in your room to good music.

2. turn this into a blog that predominantly tells of the dating advice i get from my parents.  cause it's pretty on the regular. and stupid.

3.  if  the show "to catch a predator" and  "punk'd" made a baby it would be my craigslist internet hobby; which i really should start blogging about so the world can see how creepy and awful everyone online is.

3.5  i need a good blog name for #3

my mom just woke up

I can't sleep.  It's 5am and I haven't been to bed yet.  This might be the fourth day this week.  Probably the 20th in the last month.  I can't wait for health insurance and ambien.
I've spent these quiet hours looking at teaching jobs in korea and they are looking good right now.  This tends to happen after spending some time on fb looking at people's vacation pictures. oh, you got your scuba certification on holiday in the Philippians? how nice.  oh you guys got engaged in Thailand.. there? on that so-beautiful-it-looks fake-in-the-pictures-island?  cool.  Oh that's you on a train in india with jokes about that movie?  funny.  Yes, Bali does look wonderful, how nice for you.

I think it's time to get serious about some pros and cons lists.