Hold My Hand, And I’ll Walk Again
Posted on July, 13 at 12:55 pm
I just saw on Melinda’s facebook that Daisy has cancer again. My heart just sank. This little girl is six years old. I went on to the website that her parents do, Pray for Daisy, and I watched the video that they made at what they thought was the end, and I cried through the whole thing.
Even though I feel awful for the Merrick family, it also made me think – what if that happens to us? July 30th is Mommy’s next appointment to hopefully find out some results, and just the thought that this might not be over is killing me. I don’t think I’ll survive. She’s getting so much better, and can do so much more now…I don’t want it to change back.
And then I do think about Daisy and her family…she’s so young, and she seems so strong and trusting. I’m embarrassed that I’m less. It’s a miracle to me that they are still trusting Jesus and now I realize that that is how I will survive, isn’t it?
So…I don’t know…just pray for them, pray that they get a miracle. I want that strong little girl to live a long time.
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Lord Stanley
Posted on July, 13 at 12:41 pm
A lot of things have happened since my last post…including Mommy starting to post more frequently, which I guess means that I am no longer off the hook.
Most of it is just boring and everyday stuff so I’ll start with something big: On Saturday, I woke up at six (AM!) with Emily and Hannah and we went to the Fort William Gardens to wait in line to meet Patrick Sharp of the Chicago Blackhawks and the Stanley Cup. We waited for five hours, so really, not that much different than when I met the Pioneer Woman, except, instead of being surrounded by women, I was surrounded by men and little boys in hockey jerseys. I spent the five hours finishing the seventh Harry Potter book, and was thankful that I didn’t cry (because that would have been embarrassing) considering I cried through a lot of the beginning of it.
Anyway, we finally got there, Mary and Tony joined us, and “Pat” came out and held up the cup and everyone went crazy. I got to take a single shot with him, and he asked me how I was, and touched my arm, and then he said I could touch the cup if I wanted to, so best friends now, pretty much. It was definitely an experience, and I’m glad it got to happen. Then I went home and slept until like five. Haha.
Lord Stanley was cold, and not as shiny as I thought it would be. Patrick Sharp is def the best looking person I have ever met.
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Quiet Riot
Posted on June, 26 at 7:52 pm
Hey. What a crazy week in Canada, eh?
First, there was an earthquake on Wednesday. I was hanging out with the F’s, and Melinda called as was all “Did you feel the earthquake?”
“Umm…no.” I’m in Ontario??
“Oh, there was an earthquake between Ontario and Quebec, they said people over by you could feel it.”
“Oh…no, I didn’t feel it.”
“Okay. Gotta go.” Click. Uh…okay?
But sure enough, Sarah felt it in Ottawa, so who knows. Hopefully there won’t be any tsunamis on Lake Superior or in that canal I once heard about but am now too lazy to look up.
Then, today, everyone in Toronto LOST THEIR MINDS and all the hippies and anarchists started a protest over that G20 summit and set a police car on fire. Um, Canada, what the heck? We’ve been watching the news all day and it’s pretty much the same footage, but the protesters are like crashing windows of malls and banks and (gasp) Starbucks. Not cool.
Oh well…other than that, life has not been too exciting. We did a scan on Thursday and drew some blood on Friday. I don’t know when we get the results, but I feel like they’ll be good.
Oh I forgot to say that I love shower radios. Happy Summer 
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Can Anybody Find Me
Posted on June, 22 at 6:42 pm
These are just a few things that I love these days:
1. Oreo products (self-explanatory) Must. Have. Milk.
2. My Tribe on facebook
3. Google Maps
4. The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis
5. Queen (more specifically…Somebody to Love)
6. The Closer
What do you love? Lorraine was over today and she leaves tomorrow (!) and a few of us are going to the movies tonight to see Toy Story 3. Pe-ace!
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you’ll always be my best friend
Posted on June, 16 at 2:08 pm
This post is a little personal. It’s about my best friend, Lorraine. I met Lorraine in grade 9 and we weren’t friends right away. In fact, we were pretty jealous of each other because we were vying for the attention of a certain boy…unbelievable, I know…but I have it on good authority that she thought I was “really insanely cool” (which I was, clearly).
A couple years later, we had more friends in common, that boy had moved away, and I posted as my msn (oh the days of msn) status a lyric from Relient K. I believe it was “we’re going to make it after all…” and she IM’ed me and said “where’s that from?” Now, I was pretty used to by now the fact that NO ONE knew who Relient K was. So I said it was from the Mary Tyler Moore Show (which obviously more people my age know?) but that it was also a RK lyric. Lo and behold, she knew who they were. WHhhaaa?? I’m not entirely sure what happened next, but here I am, a few years later, too much life packed into too little, writing a post about her.
I didn’t even know what a best friend really was until I met her. It’s so much more than who you eat with every day, more than who you tell your secrets to, who you get into trouble with. It’s more than who you let copy your homework, whose house you sleep over at the most. It’s more than who you talk to the most outside of school, who you hang out with.
Because, in all honesty, Lorraine and I don’t talk on the phone that much, and we don’t really get into trouble, and I’ve never even been inside of her house in the country. But I love her. I love her so much. And she loves me, and I know how much she loves me. She doesn’t know everything about me, but she knows the really bad, hard stuff about me. Does she know my deepest, darkest secret? No. But she does know some pretty embarrassing stuff about me, and she loves me all the same.
She’s funny, she never doesn’t make me laugh. When she’s being funny, I laugh. When she’s being serious, I laugh. When she’s playing wii tennis, I really laugh. When she’s making fun of me, when I’m making fun of her, I laugh.
Lorraine is incredibly loving. Her heart is so big. When she became my best friend, I’m not sure that she knew it came along with like the world’s biggest family, but she made room in her heart for all of us. When I first went away to school, she kind of adopted the role of big sis in my place, and I was admittedly a little jealous, but there wasn’t anyone more perfect for the role. She has been one of the greatest friends to me and my family in this past year. I wasn’t the greatest of friend this year, but she never let me know.
She has grown so much since I met her. In a week, she is going on a missions trip to Uganda. Africa. I think she first talked to me about it maybe a year ago, and I’m sure she was thinking about it for a while before that. That’s another great thing about Lorraine, she hears God because she wants to. She seeks it out. She has been writing a blog about it, and she’s just so excited about it. I’m sad that after a year of being in separate countries, she’s spending the summer in AFRICA, but I’m excited for her, and I am so proud of her. I know that she is going to do amazing things over there. And even though she won’t come back unchanged, I know she will still be the Lorraine who likes coming over and cooking with me, playing wii with my sisters, the Lorraine that loves me more than I deserve.
I would encourage you all to pray for Lorraine – that she is able to do all these amazing things for God and that she stays safe and healthy.
“Every time I think of you, I give thanks to my God. I always pray for you, and I make my requests with a heart full of joy because you have been my partner in spreading the Good News about Christ.”
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i dont know
Posted on June, 8 at 1:14 pm
So…I don’t really have anything to say, but I keep seeing that post up and I’m like “blog something else!!” so this is that.
Mary made me watch Harry Potter and I’ve been trying to keep an open mind and stuff and understand all the workings and what not of them. Now I know what “Gryffindor” means. They’re good movies.
Now we’re watching Glee…in preparation for the finale tonight!! So. Excited. Emily didn’t want us to miss the hockey game tonight but I explained that we would have time after Glee to make sure that we caught the game.
Um…but other than that, not much is going on. Mommy’s final chemo will hopefully be on Friday, provided they don’t find another reason to delay it.
I hope you guys are having a super great summer and that it’s really sunny with only a few days of rain…Have a Happy Tuesday
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Twi-Hard
Posted on June, 5 at 6:24 pm
Can we just call a truce?? Like, for this post at least, can we just pretend that I’m smart and I might know what I’m saying?? Because I am fully aware that I don’t know everything about what I’m saying, and I can already see the backlash from this post, and I just want to pretend.
I was perfectly content to go to my grave without the entire world wide web knowing just how much of a freak I am…the truth is, if you don’t spend a lot of time around me, when I have free time, then you wouldn’t know this about me…I read Twilight. And I say “read” as in the present tense. Like, continually. I have read each of the four books of the Twilight saga multiple times (more than twice each), I’m currently reading Breaking Dawn again (pg 561), I finished Eclipse a day ago, and while I have no intention to right now, I know it’s only a matter of time before my fingers find themselves back in the comfortable pages of the first two books again. When I’m done reading about how it ends, I’ll want to relive how it began…
I would have liked to pretend that the books did not have that kind of hold on my life, or that if I was going to defend a hold like that, it would have been about a pile of books a little more prestigious…I mean, if you were in my close circle in high school, you already knew that I spent a good chunk of senior year with one of the books in my desk. Or if you lived any short amount of time in my house, you knew that the books were on the shelf above my bed. But it would have been nice to hide the…let’s say friendship, rather than mere acquaintance…I have with the books from the people who didn’t already know.
But…here we are. Are you confused? Emily started reading the books recently, which is why I restarted reading them. We rented the movies, and now Hannah is reading one of them. It’s actually pretty comical. Three girls glued to a bed, to a book. It might even be a nice change of pace from the TV or computer we’re usually glued to. But it’s sort of rubbing some people here the wrong way, people who voice their objections, which rub me just a little bit the wrong way. Pair this with the movie coming out soon, and it’s like I can’t escape people hating on Twilight.
But these people are my friends, so I feel like I have to defend them. I think we have all grown accustomed to how I frequently consider my favourite TV characters as my friends, people I watch because they feel familiar. But it’s different when it’s in a book, you know? The characters are described to you, but you make them your own. My interpretation of the book is different than Emily’s. The people in these book are mine…they feel familiar to me.
There’s also the fact that any kind of reading is good for your brain. I looked for the source without luck, but I distinctly remember that stat. So reading any kind of book is good for your brain. And Emily and Hannah feel proud of themselves that they’re tackling books in the 400+ pages department.
Then there is the issue of “ruining mythology”. I realized today that the mythology in the books is actually one of my favourite parts. Firstly, the books look at werewolf mythology in a really interesting way. And werewolf mythology isn’t really something that I’ve looked into, but it’s interesting. Secondly, Stephenie Meyer was not the first person to re-imagine vampire mythology. The original vampires were cruel monsters, and then in the 80’s Anne Rice turned them into these brooding creatures, and then there was Buffy. So let’s face it, vampire mythology is not some sacred, untouchable subject. And I got that from my mythology professor, so it’s not just garbage from Katherine’s brain.
And something, no matter how juvenile or silly, that brings me Emily and Hannah together laughing and joking, can not possibly be horrible. I think we have spent more time in the same room together talking this past week than the whole beginning of the summer. And they bring more than just family together…they have brought me quite a few friends and fun experiences. They’re important.
I know I don’t exactly get a lot of say here…I’m the kind of girl whose highlight of the 2008 year was screaming alongside of hundreds of younger girls at a Jonas Brothers concert, who sings Justin Bieber at full volume, who watches Hannah Montana…but just maybe this once pretend I know what I’m saying?
Don’t get me wrong…at the end of the day, it’s still about a human girl who fell in love with a vampire who wants to suuuck heer blooood (said in Transylvanian accent of course), and don’t even get me started on the abomination that are the movies, but I think it’s also an interesting mythological story. One that shouldn’t be so easily dismissed because of how horrible it sounds.
That’s it…I’m done, haha.
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Idol Withdrawal??
Posted on June, 1 at 11:05 pm
Well I appear to have started June off with a bang. I was incredibly sick all day…I’m serious, everything hurt. From the top of my head to the bottom of my feet…I was a fever-ish, puking machine. I threw up three times in six hours. I felt like I was dying. It was horrible.
Luckily, I have the best family in the world. The first time I threw up, Mommy watched (from a careful, non-threatening distance) and sent me upstairs to my bed. Mary took over for me, and did all the work today, for which I am incredibly thankful. She also brought me my favourite drink in the world (excluding Coke of course) when I could muster it, and got not one, but two kiddies off to school today, which believe you me, is no easy feat. Then there is Grandma, sweet sweet Grandma, who was born to nurse the sick. She brought me ice packs, cold rags, washed buckets out for me, and checked my forehead (and feet) for signs of the fever breaking. She brought me soup three times and each time it was better than the last.
And you know what I kept thinking all day? Oh gosh. What if I was at SCHOOL while this was happening?? What if I was 529 km away from these people and feeling this miserable??
Let’s just say…I’m very happy I’m home.
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the sun is up, the sky is blue
Posted on May, 31 at 5:08 pm
Hannah and I were driving home from Blockbuster (where we picked up “The Joy Luck Club” – part of our Japanese-themed dinner tonight…more on that tomorrow?) and I happened to have the camera in my purse. I love Vicker’s Park because I have spent a lot of time with people I love there, but also because all the different people that meet there blend so nicely, and the way that people find solace under neath the shade of the trees, and radiant light in the sunshine.
I pulled over and told Hannah to stand there and let me take a picture of her, and naturally she asked why.
Because I don’t want to forget how unbelievably blue the sky was today, how white it made the clouds, how the wind blew through the green leaves on the tree and you could hear it all – the laughter, the swings, the playing. I just didn’t want to forget how beautiful the day was.
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Absence makes the heart grow fond(er).
Posted on May, 28 at 2:01 am
And to prove my point, three stories for evidence:
These girls:
They are my best friends in the world. They make me laugh, they never make cry, and I am more of the person I want to be all the time when I am with them. Free. We made plans to talk about our year away from each other, but that was rarely brought up. Sure there was the odd mention of this or that from our respective years, and we explained our relics from the year, but mostly we just talked and laughed with each other and it felt really good. Someone told me recently that the best kind of friend is the one that you’re not friends with because of convienence. I love that we no longer talk about our class or our homework or band and we still have hours worth of conversation. (Although, a good chunk was Lorraine talking to herself through facebook…)
These lil’ guys:
Seven hours is a long time to spend with anyone, let alone three boys under five. I haven’t seen them since like March or something, and when I first got there they seemed a little shy. But then as soon as their dad left it was all “you’re my best friend, Katherine!” Yeah, yeah yeah. I love them. It was a very fun day, and if I had to choose three people to spend seven hours with, they would be high on the list. They’re cute and super precious.
This “yittle” guy:
Blade went missing for a few hours last night. The little girls were beside themselves and I was pretty worried myself. I just didn’t want to find or smell something dead one day. Our house would be like a carnival fun house for a hamster. Plus I hate bad smelling things. It’s why I don’t eat fish. Oh we could dance around this forever, but there were heart strings tugged when we finally found that little guy and his cute little head was poking around, I still dont want to touch him or smell him or think about his feces, but he’s alright to look at. I guess.
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