Day 48....and the writing has begun.

Day 48....and the writing has begun.

3 Girls and 4 Suitcases.

On schedule but experiencing a little bit of resistance, the writing began, yesterday.  After my meditation, I decided that it was the screenplay that was to be worked on and not the book. My notes were pulled out, as was my copy of Dibs and with notepad ready and laptop open I started.......only to discover that the notes I had were not the full notes that I had done last year but a mere 3 or 4 pages-ugh.
After reading through the notes, I decided to look up some screenwriting sites and get some format tips.....wow, there are a lot of rules to be followed in the screenplay world.....another ugh.
After sitting for a couple of hours, jotting down different things, I decided that the library may be a good idea so that I could physically hold a book of advice. I prefer an old fashioned book you know.
So, the afternoon held a visit to the library and I came home with 3 books. One on scriptwriting, one on compassion and one about alzheimers. (I always thought that it was spelt altzheimers but this book spells it that way). I haven't opened the first two but the third one held some interesting reading for someone who doesn't know a lot about the disease. My new wee job (very wee but may evolve and grow) is to spend time with a friends husband who suffers from this horrible illness.
Mary was the lady that I was a 'Mothers Helper' for from 1985-1987, my first 2 years in Toronto. She still has the filmstar smile that she had then and is a kind and very generous soul. Whilst I know that I will be doing her a favour, helping out with Ross, she is doing me a favour by giving me a bit of income which can be put towards the expenses here.
I spent a lovely day today with her. She picked me up and we went up to see Ross, in the supported accommodation he now lives in. It's a beautiful place and he has his own little 1 bed apt which has everything he needs. He's a lovely man and we had some giggles this morning and I think that he and I will get along just fine when I visit. The plan is that I will do a bit of tidying of his place whilst chatting and keeping him company.....I'm looking forward to it and also to trying a wee bit of meditation, Bach and Reiki with him.
OOPs-that's today and I'm supposed to be telling you about yesterday-lol....where did I get to? Oh yes, the library :-)
So, after a yummy dinner of Thanksgiving leftovers, I had a 45 min walk up to Walmart to buy myself a hairdryer. My hair had been getting ridiculously unruly with each days growth and the hairdryer is a cheaper solution than a cut and colour.....for a while. Having used it this morning to make my hairdo pretty decent, it was a great buy. The one that I brought from home wouldn't work here and went home again in Bills suitcase.....as did the curling iron that the girls brought and the styling brush that I brought. Power is different and my hairdryer just made a kind of sad droning noise.
Walking up there, I had to stop to take some photos of the tree colours (I will try to post them, if I can find a way to get them off my phone) which are truly spectacular just now. Walking back through the beautiful, huge houses I had to smile at all the ghostly halloween stuff that is up already. One house in particular, which is across the road from a primary school had huge blow up dragons and all sorts of other stuff. I will try to go up there with Ali and get her to snap some pics for me to post. Loads of houses have pumpkins outside, if nothing else.
Another thing that I noticed, in the dark, on my way back along Bloor Street (main street just around the corner) was that one of the fruit/veg/flower stores was closed but all of their plants and flower pots and pumpkins were still outside. All they had done was put a line of huge potted 'mums' along the front of the shop, around the door and that was it. I can't imagine any shopkeeper in Edinburgh happily trusting that his stuff would be there in the morning...wow.
There is a huge amount of trust going on, over here. The postie left a package just sitting on my porch...I think that's the norm'
People leave their open-backed trucks full of stuff and nobody goes near it.
The library does a self checkout of its books and dvds......all 50, if you want them.
Did I say that I love it here?
And that's it for tonight folks. I know that I dropped in, some of today because it was relevant but I'm tired as it's 2305 so I'm going to head to bed.
Sending love out to you all, by the bucket-load.
Lxxxx