My sister who we shall call "Rosebud" is 2 years older than me, she couldn't be more different in so many ways, for example: She is tall, I'm a pixie. She is thin, I'm whalelike, She has beautiful hair, I look like an African Bushwoman. You get the general just here? lol, well, we are the closest in age out of all the sisters and we had our fair share of battles when growing up. I possibly won't be forgiven or could even be battered for mentioning some of those, but what the heck! Life is far too short.( she says, looking out her passport and case! lol )
I remember the two of us, sliding down the stairs inside sleeping bags, sitting on bed pillows. On one occassion, madam pushed me from the top of the stairs, deliberately, so I faked death at the bottom, a very brave move on my part, as there was the inevitability of agood old fashioned beatingwhen I was rumbled. I kept it up for ages, lying as still as possible while tears dripped on my face and I could hear the wails of "Oh no" ," What have I done?" and "I'm so sorry, "Please wake up". When I braved it and opened my eyes laughing, I, took a rather severe beating!
Rosebud just loved to persuade me to climb on the handlebars of her bike and pedal like mad towards the biggest hill in our street. I remember screaming as the bike tore down hill and eventually crashed into the old stone causeway wall, as I flew over it at top speed! Ahhh the good old days! lol. Hindsight is a wonderful thing. We got in all sorts of trouble, always blaming each other. An all time classic was an altercation after a saturday afternoon lunch.
We were sat at the table, just the two of us, always a recipe for disaster. Can't remember how it started exactly, but I do, however, remember reading the paper and being bugged to "look", when I lowered the paper, I got a spoonful of jam flicked in my face, followed by very loud laughter! so I threw food back and ran round the table several times being chased, when I ran out the front door, I pulled it shut behind me! oopsie! I heard her foot go through one of the several small panes of glass. My poor dad had got such a fright when he heard, as he thought we had smashed the two enormous glass patio doors! lol.
My all time favourite story involving us both, was one of my dear old Aunts. To put you in the picture, our Auntie Mabel had a very deep, husky and slow, extremely well spoken voice. She wasour poshest relative! It was around Teatime at my parents' when the phone rang and I answered to disgusting heavy breathing. I kept saying "Hello"? "Hello"? "Who is that"?. After no answer, I hung up. It rang again. The same thing happened. I said "Please stop phoning" "Thats disgusting" I told Rosebud, as I was upset and she reassured me it was okay, she said if the phone rang again,she would deal with it.
The phone rang 10 mins later and she twirled the phone lead round the door into the bathroom and said some very, very, bad and threatening words to my mystery dirty phonecaller.To our utter horror, the phone rang again and our mother answered it saying " Oh Hello Aunt Mabel" "Are you okay?" Apparently she was pretty shaken up after phoning a "wrong number" and getting loads of abuse!! Oopsie! Aww Rosebud, we had a lot of fun.
We topped and tailed for years, I miss that sometimes,especially, If I feel really sad, even now, at 37! lol. It's hard to believe you will be 40 really soon and I wish you a very happy day. I Love you very much. Thanks for the laughs and for being my big sis. xxxxxxxx
Got my teeth cleaned recently... I was kinda having problems with #14 (top left second from the back). It felt like the floss would catch on the tooth but it never hurt. They said I had to get the old filling taken out and a crown. So, today I had to get it preped for a crown! I was very nervous and didn't want to do it! It wasn't that bad and I got a temperary crown until I can get mypermenant crown on the 21st.
CN and I don't seem to be getting along so great. I mean things "seem" fine but I have been super bitchy to him and he hasn't been too lovey! Sometimes I wonder if we are really meant to be! Maybe I am starting to take him for granted! I am still working on the house plans and trying to get my house ready to sell which he has been a big help with my house. He painted Oakley's room and did a great job! I need to be more grateful to him! I feel like he hasn't been talking to me about what he wants as far as this merge! who knows maybe he does't want it all and just won't tell me. Our communication isn't so great right now!
Ok, so what to write about..I have no idea, lol. A lot has happened since my last journal entry of course and I always tell myself oh, I'll write one later but always put it aside. I like going back and reading what I wrote because I see how I develop...it's pretty neat. I wish I would've wrote since like 7th grade or something, that would be fun to go back and read crap from back then. Bet my grammar would be horrible though, lol. Using all the wrong words (there, their, they're...and can't forget too & to) Ok, well anyways, let me see. As you know, if you read my other journals, I did finally quit Kroger's and I have already started working at the plasma center. I like it a lot more than Kroger's and it's crazy because they tell me about all the people who have worked there for a couple of days and then they just up and quit, it's just crayziness! I like really like it, not having to deal with all the bs of Kroger's and plus just had an awesome ass day today! The computer systems went down and I ended up going home like 4 hours earlier than I was supposed to after doing practically nothing. It was great, plus I got paid for the 8 hours :D And my manager even bough pizza :D Yum! So anyways, that being said...there's like no hotties that work there so that sucks...not one other person I work with is hot...grrr. But some of the donors, mmmhmm, but even then you know they're probably jobless like most of the donors. And yes, I know there are some plasma donors who have a job but I'm sure most of them do not. I had a job and still donated so I'm not saying that all of them are jobless..just some. Anyways, yeah, one dude was Mexican and looked a little thugish, my type! And the other one was a light colored black dude, really, really, cute. Pretty eye brows, pretty smile, and nice cut hair...he was really cute, oh, and had really pretty brown eyes. And what was funny was that I saw him and was like, dang, he's really cute. Then one of the girls that I work with was just like "OMG, why did they put him in front of the window!" And I was like why, and she said that she had a crush on him...I was just like, damn bitch, me and you got the same taste :D Haha. I didn't say that of course because I'm not out but yeah, it was funny. Umm, let me see what else to talk about. Umm, yeah, I have no idea what to talk about. So yeah, this was probably the most boring entry I have ever written but oh well, at least I wrote it :D
陈太
老公告诉我，他昨日凌晨五点在北京接到陈太从伦敦打来的电话，老人家有些着急，说是她前一阵子回大陆，给我家的电话打不通，没能联系上。老公立马又将家里的电话告知。
陈太是我在伦敦勤工俭学时，'take away' 的老板娘，广东人，30 几年前，年轻的陈太万里迢迢，带着5个孩子从广东乡下到伦敦跟在餐馆打工的老公团聚，几年后，他们终于盘下了一个'take away' ，遗憾的是在好日子刚刚有盼头的时候，老公一天出门办事后就再也没有回来，这个辛苦了一辈子的汉子不幸脑中风，撇下了陈太和5个很小的子女。
几十年风风雨雨，世态炎凉，性格倔强的陈太靠自己勤劳加上朋友的帮助，艰辛地带大了五个孩子。往事不堪回首，那个年月，陈太常常一个人流着泪拖着车去进货，每天都工作到凌晨。
几年前，陈太退休了，一个人住在伦敦，虽不富裕但也衣食无忧，我告诉她我会带敦敦去游伦敦，顺便去看望她，她希望我住到她家里，我知道老人是真心的，没有拒绝她的好意。
电话里说好，陈太在中国城的'麦当劳'等我们，15年前我是孤身一人的穷留学生，十五年后，我混得还不赖，身边有了个十岁大的儿子，伦敦的重逢不容易，老人拉着我的手真是喜笑颜开，我问陈太，当年给她打工的很多人如今都是有出息的大老板了，有没有人带着孩子来看她，她说这多年来没有过，你是第一个。
在伦敦的半个月，我跟敦敦每天吃完早饭轻松出门游玩，晚上回来享用陈太准备好的热乎乎的中国家常菜。陈太做茶楼30几年，会做很多的菜，她看敦敦因天气干燥流鼻血，很心痛，第二天我看到她泡了一盆黄豆，晚上专门给我们做了鲜嫩的豆腐，又听敦敦说喜欢吃咖喱，陈太拿出看家的本事做出很好味的咖喱鸡。蒸排骨，炒饭，烤鸭，靓汤应有尽有。饭后，我一边洗碗，一边用生硬的'普通广东话'跟陈太聊天，老人一个人住很寂寞，讲起15 年离别后的喜怒哀乐自然滔滔不绝。
喜，陈太的屋后有一个很大的菜园子，她每天早上花时间伺候菜园子，蔬菜不仅能自给自足，还经常分送给朋友们吃。每天陈太都去伦敦中区的中国城，那里是她感情的寄托，跟老朋友们饮茶吃饭聊天。天黑之前赶回家看中文电视节目。
怒，邻居见陈太一个老人独居，又不懂英文，欺负陈太，左边的邻居是个失业汉，他偷了陈太修菜园的砖头，在花园里明目张胆地砌起了个吃饭用的台子。还故意把自己的大破车停在陈太的大门口。右边的邻居是个意大利坏老太太，她不理解陈太为何要把花园改成菜园，就把死老鼠扔进陈太的菜园，变相地逼陈太搬家。我听后很气愤，问陈太要不要我跟他们论理一番，讨个公道，陈太摇了摇头，她说，连她儿子都不敢那样做，因为你们走后还是剩下我一个人对付他们。
哀，陈太也有苦恼，几十年熬夜劳作使她患上了失眠，有时整晚睡不着，只能楼上楼下走动和坐在在电视机前消磨时光。有一晚，我带敦敦看歌剧，看到半夜，回家很晚，老人很担心，当晚没睡好，事后我也很内疚，老人的担心是有道理的，因为深夜的伦敦并不安全。
乐，陈太如今儿孙成群，儿女们都很孝顺，给陈太钱让她出国旅游，老人辛苦一辈子，到了应该享受的时候了。去年玩法国耍意大利，今年就要走葡萄牙逛西班牙。
今年69岁高龄的陈太，走起来一路生风，跑起来比年轻人还利落，她高声地回顾自己的坎坷人生路，没别的，就是一切靠自己。中年丧夫的伤痛触发了这个农村妇女坚韧的求生力量，外在的弱势成了内心强势的条件，咬牙吞泪携子立命。她的艰难经历，在60年代的第一代中国移民中是很典型的，为孩子们的生存，别无选择，只有顽强地付出。我问敦敦如何看待陈太坚强的性格，敦敦来了一句，我倒觉得陈太很可怜，她并没有选择坚强，而是在恶劣的条件下不得不变得坚强起来。
临别前，我想留给老人一些英镑，老人执意不肯，还严肃地说：你是我的好朋友，你这老远带孩子来看我，我又没特意招待你，怎能收你的钱。我太了解这倔强的老人了。只好邀请年底她回国时，来我在上海的家小住，享享福，我留下些礼物和她需要的补养品。陈太一路送我们到'大象城堡'站，眼湿湿地拥着我们娘俩依依不舍。后来朋友来电话告诉我，在我们走后的一段时间，老人家很不适应。没完没了地唠叨我和敦敦在她家的好日子，巴不得我们不走。
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