I had a wonderful day last Tuesday. Wonderful, because I spent it with my friend Rob Pollock. Rob's living with incurable colon cancer. The treatments take their toll on him for sure, but this week he was feeling good, eating and enjoying a Guinness. Rob lives in the west end of Vancouver so we met at the Sylvia Hotel
for lunch. There's free parking underneath and the food was delicious. Then we went for a walk along the beach and into the park. Rob was a forester before he was a minister so he knew all kinds of cool stuff about the trees. I just knew they were beautiful. The sun was shining, the leaves crunched under our feet and the soft breeze off the water made everything smell fantastic.On one of the pathways we met this little fella - tame as could be:
I just walked right up to him and took his picture. Rob had the energy to walk for hours! It was awesome. Great conversation too. I took this picture of us and it's probably the most hideous picture of me, but our smiles are so indicative of the day!
It was a weird coincidence but I got 3 new clients via Skype this week - one from Finland, one from Sweden and one from Norway. All three are lovely women - intelligent and attractive. They're all suffering from emetophobia - one is so severe she hasn't left her house nor eaten anything in 2 years. Every day she drinks 4 "Boost" drinks and nothing more. She's too terrified of germs to go out or have anyone come in hence the Skype counseling. I hope and pray I can help her.
Since I'm doing almost all my work via Skype I decided to invest in a new webcam. The microphone on my computer isn't great and the camera is meh. I didn't buy the computer with that in mind. So it's a business expense. I also hope to do some "webinars" in the near future. I've discovered there are all kinds of ways to make money from home these days. Hopefully I'll get my new camera before I'm scheduled to give an internet lecture on leadership at Atlantic School of Theology (AST).
Charlie's away on business this weekend and Alvin is in Leduc with Alex, so no Skype calls with her either. Guinness is guarding the house! Oh ya - Alex took some hilarious pictures of Micah for "MikeyTheBrat" Christmas cards I'm making. Speaking of Mikey - read his blog this week and find out how he reacted to Guinness having to wear the "cone of shame."
Katie phoned yesterday and she's doing great at SFU - getting good marks. She'll be busy this weekend doing ballet rehearsals and studying for a midterm. Good luck Katie!
I found a friend on Facebook this week I haven't seen for 15 years. We both worked at Ballet Classique - when I had cancer I worked there in exchange for Katie's ballet lessons. She was an amazing and really fun modern dance and jazz choreographer from NYC. She lived in Vancouver that year, then returned to New York. We had some good times. Gotta love Facebook!
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