Action Movies

Sunday Mornin' Coming Down - A post about my Dad each Sunday, named after a song that he loved.

I missed my dad a lot this week. I keep hearing radio commercials for Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, an action movie that is in theaters right now. It is the most recent movie featuring the Jack Ryan character created by Tom Clancy. It is the fifth in the Jack Ryan film series. Chris Pine stars and is the fourth actor to play Ryan, following Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, and Ben Affleck. Dad liked Tom Clancy, he even read a few of the novels. I am sad that he is going to miss this one.

Kitten Tomorrow

Mom is coming to Toronto tomorrow because we are going to James' shower. She is having a little girl and I am so excited for all the pink. Everyone has boys (Taylor, Kiyomi, Kristen's sister, Jason's sister has 3). So happy for James and her husband and looking forward to seeing lots of tiny girly baby clothes tomorrow.

I know that it is Caterday but tomorrow Mom is also bringing Rasta! So, I will get some good pictures of him, hopefully introduce him to Two and report back next Saturday.

I Just Feel Like It

Tonight I want to write. Fiction. Just a short piece that maybe I can lengthen later.

There are so many other things that I should be doing instead:
- applying for jobs
- sweeping the living room
- putting away laundry
- cleaning the kitchen
- working out

Strawberry Shots

----------------------  from Facebook
I want to try these! I would probably make them as Strawberry Daiquiri since it is a waste of tequila to put it in jello. Kristen is having a birthday soon and wants to have a couple of people over for a pot-luck - I think I will bring these!

Though, I bet it is like most things on the internet and it looks way easier and prettier than reality.

Questions For Friends

So I had been planning for Wednesdays to be posts with updates about my friends - who are all doing amazing things with their lives and I find that sometimes I slack off with graduation, marriage, baby, and job change congratulations on Always Standing.

Anyway, I haven't started to prepare for doing this yet. However, I plan to email people a list of questions so that I can use their answers to form the posts each week. I would gather the most interesting facts to share to let everyone catch up on what the person has done lately.

Here are some ideas for questions I could ask:
- Current city.
- Current job.
- Dream job.
- Family/relationship status.
- Recent achievement that you are proud of.
- Where was the last great trip taken? When? With who?
- Event in 2014 you are most looking forward to.

Any other ideas for what I could add to my 'friend survey' before I send it out to people?

The New Kitten

Rasta
Mom got a kitten. I thought she was going to foster one so as to not make such a large/long commitment but she went online, found some that were 'free to a good home' and fell for this guy. I can't wait to meet him! He is about 8 weeks old, so we are saying his birthday is November 19. He is pretty skinny at this point. You can see more pictures and read about him on my Mom's Blog.

This Is True

"Did you know? Canada is 50% the letter A."

-------- from Stats Canada: Satire on a National Scale, the very amusing book Kristen gave me for Christmas.

The Last Texts From My Dad

Sunday Mornin' Coming Down - A post about my Dad each Sunday, named after a song that he loved.

Dad was never very good with cell phones and he never got the hang of texting. His phone didn't have a full keyboard so that did make it more difficult. I need to delete a bunch of cell phone conversations and pictures from my own cell, since it is old and doesn't have much storage space. I thought I would put the last texts I got from him up on Always Standing so that I keep a copy. These were sent in October (about a month before he died.) I think it was during the time him and Mom came to Toronto to help Jason and I paint our bedroom. I worked during the day.

Punctuation, spacing, etc. remains intact.
Me: Can you come get me.? Text me when you get here.
Dad: Ok leave in     ten mins. Dad
Dad: Gmm
Dad: Gmm