Post-vacation - Friday December 27, 2013:

Today, we’ll be checking out of the Comfort Inn.  It’s been fairly comfortable staying here, except when we had a day-long power outage yesterday until about dinnertime.  However, the power came back on and I am settling in for the evening, alone for the night.  Thank God, Dave went home early because he was starting to get on my nerves, big time!  You can always spend too much time with your roommate…..maybe that’s why I still want to work for a living.  Otherwise, we would drive each other nuts in no time at all!

I talked to my long-time girlfriend, Gerry Lenaghan, who lives in Brampton, Ontario.  She has also been affected by this massive power outage, but she seems to be coping with it alright.  Yesterday, I talked to my also-long-time girlfriend, Dale McDonough, who lives in Sudbury, Ontario.  She, unlike us, was not affected by lack of power and heat.  Good for her because Sudbury is definitely not a place where you’d want to be without utilities like power and heat!

There are some great TV movies playing at this time of year on the “W” channel, mostly to do with love themes and families.  This is the kind of stuff I love to see, hear and write about because I’m still a romantic at heart and would like to believe in “forever”.  Thank God though, Dave is not here to argue with me today anymore about god-knows-what.  He can be a little hard to take sometimes, even at Christmas; despite that, I do care about him.  His daughter, who just moved to Whitby, close to us, lives with her in-laws (Yuk!) who have decided that I am much too opinionated for them because of something I said about a certain member of their family.  What I said about him is the absolute truth, but that doesn’t seem to matter to them.  According to them, he is not the kind of person I said he was.  What I really meant is that he is not what I would consider a “forever” type of guy.  In other words, he’s the kind of guy who’s here for a good time, not a long time.  However, I am not one to keep quiet whenever I have an opinion about anyone or anything, so when someone tells me I am not welcome at their home because of a particular opinion I expressed, I feel that I do not want to have anything to do with those people.  This does not, by the way, include Dave’s daughter or her two little girls, who are little darlings that love me as much as I love them.  Somehow, I’m just going to have to develop a thicker skin from now on.  Those morons’ opinions of me don’t ultimately make any difference to me.  I intend that my narrative here will make it into my author blog one day in the not-so-distant future, but for now, I’ll just have to keep my thoughts to myself.  When the time is right, I will post this entry, along with my other thoughts about this particular December and people everywhere will just have to accept that I will always have my own opinions and that I live to write about them!

Stay tuned for my next great adventure - probably in Canada during 2014 - but, there will be more international adventures too!