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October 06, 2003
My mom is going moose hunting
Thanx Kathryn for fixing everything, I haven’t written for a while, I've been hiding from all the people. It's nice to have my apartment all to myself again.
Yesterday I stayed home all day and didn’t change out of my flannel pajamas. It was the best. I actually got my room cleaned up too. I don’t think my room has been this clean ever. To understand the kind of mess that can develop in my room is to understand that I have that strange urge to keep EVERYTHING. Over the last year or so I have been throwing out so much stuff it’s hard for me to fathom how many things I have actually owned. I guess I’m trying to train the pack rat out of me. So far, I think it’s working.
I feel kind of stuck in the middle of the semester now, I just wish I could make it done and over with. I’m so excited to start a new year, have my diploma done and over with.
It’s also starting to get really cold here. I’ve already seen flurries once, and we have had a lot of freezing rain. I’m not a fan of fall and winter. But I’m intent on finding ways to enjoy both. At least in St. Catherines we keep all our leaves 3 weeks longer than Burlington and get them in spring three weeks sooner.
Drew’s Birthday party is going to be this Friday. He can’t wait. It is going to be costume themed because we ( our group of friends) usually have an elaborate Halloween party, but we wont be able to all get together at the end of the month. BUT everyone is coming home this weekend for thanksgiving. So we melded the parties together. I have to remember to take lots of pictures.I don’t know what I’m going to dress up as yet. I’m welcome any to ideas .
As for Thanksgiving dinner with my family, I don’t have a dinner this year. My mom has decided instead to go moose hunting up another 6-7 hours West of Thunder Bay.She uses a crossbow, al her buddies use guns. The way I understand it, all her hunting buddies will already be out there. She has arranged the train to stop in the middle of nowhere, where she then will hop off the train all be herself and she has to use a topographical map and a compass to find her buddies. She has never done this before, my sister and I keep telling her we may never see her again. We keep asking her “Your sure you know how to read that map?” She says sure and the cabin will only be a 10km walk from where the train will drop me off. My sister and I have both done some crazy adventure trips. I have navegated right through Algonquin. My sister has gone snow shoeing for 11 days straight with her only shelter being snow ( it was only supposed to be seven but the blizzards were so bad the bus couldn’t make it in to pick up the class). On one of my sisters camping trips she even had to fend off a bear to save her friends.
We are concerned our mother doesn’t know what she is getting into. The worst we have had to see her do by herself is the trek to the “thunder bucket” at Bigwind lake.
I hope this will be fun for her. Maybe my sister and I have been a bad influence on her sence of adventure.Posted by becca at October 6, 2003 08:45 AM