Thursday, June 29, 2006

Uh-oh

Is it starting again?

Okay, I could pretend to ignore the tingles and numbness on the weekend. But then the foot jumping/twitching started up again, and the tired arm and leg too.

But maybe it's just migraine. There's been a lot of storm activity these days, maybe it's just that.

Though I'm writing this here to remember the date, just in case.

Wednesday, June 28, 2006

Significant People

I've noticed throughout my life the presence of what I've come to call "significant people". These are people who even while strangers to me, for some reason make themselves known to my eye and my mind. I can go back to high school at the least to find some of these. I can remember sitting in a study room doing homework and knowing that those guys in the room with me would play some significant part in my life, and of course they did. It was Kevin and Richard who are still good friends to this day, but they didn't become friends until almost a year later.

Another was Helen. I can remember seeing her wandering aroudn school with her "Snowy" art case with the feathers trailing off it, and knowing that there was a reason why I noticed her, why I felt that she would be important to me. Years later, after many nights watching movies together, eating her home-made chocolate chip cookies, drinking tea and doing tarot together, well, she was important to me. Still is, even though I've not seen her in must be going on ten years now.

J, my ex, was someone with the glow about her. In the middle of a crowded lobby, when I was only interested in seeing my friends and eating free pizza, she stood out. And also, even after she rejected me, there was that feeling at the back of my brain that said "nope, don't count this one out just yet..." Guess 10 years of marriage proved that one right too.

E was another person who, from the first moment I saw her I knew she would play a key role in my life. And that certainly has been true. I first met her and the other student (Amanda I think her name was) at the same time, and while Amanda basically barely registered (will quickly move on, my internal radar said, and I was right too), E just seemed "brighter" or "stronger". Almost like she was more "there" if that makes any sense at all.

For some reason, I feel that A has a sort of "significant person" glow going on. I'm not sure why, but I really do have that feeling. And I've bumped into her at the strangest of times, when there was no reason, or even likelihood that I'd see her. But yet, there she was. I suspect that A has a role to play in my life in the next little while. I'm not sure what, or why, or how, but I can't shake the feeling.

Guess time will tell.

Monday, June 19, 2006

Minis II

Finished:
3 19th Light Dragoons, 1812 uniform (with tarletons)
1 Boxer chinese (with a dragonfly image on his back)
1 Royal Marine in havelock to replace the one that vanished while on vacation last spring (somewhere between California, Vancouver and home, *poof* I had a marine disappear! It's Magic!)